This is the wonderful 1/48 scale Sea Vixen kit from Airfix. The aeroplane featured was flown by the last person to fly a Sea Vixen who also flew them operationally. It's a great kit with very good detail, excellent fit and a good range of options for folded wings etc.
I always love an aircraft with a twin boom - and the Sea Vixen is one of the most interesting, iconic and beautiful. The original DH110 looked set for greatness with the RAF, but was tragically forever associated...
This is the (relatively) new 1/48 kit from Airfix – and initially I wasn’t entirely sure I wanted to make it as the Defiant isn’t really a plane that has ever been on my radar (no pun intended). It always seemed to be something of a Chimaera – the love child of a Hurricane and some kind of bomber with that huge turret behind the cockpit – but as often happens, whilst making the kit I really fell for the plane.
It does have that slightly ungainly quality...
When I was a boy, this kit was my ultimate dream. I read an excellent book (which I still have) called How to Go Plastic Modelling by Chris Ellis – and on the front of the paperback he was sat at a desk painting details on one of these. It looked fantastic, and if I could have afforded to buy one I would have been a happy boy.
Many years later I bought this kit not long after I started modelling again, and because it was out of...
