vickers vampire

[wayne57]

does anyone make a kit of this aircraft

vickers vampire

thanks
wayne

[Ross_Moorhouse]

Originally Posted by wayne57

does anyone make a kit of this aircraft

vickers vampire

thanks
wayne

I believe there is a 72nd Vac of this kit. E-Bay might be your best bet to find it.

[bshatzer]

John Burn's book lists a 1/72nd vacuform by a UK company called "Scaleplanes", circa 1983-1990.

Never heard of this outfit before nor seen any of their kits so I've no idea of their quality. Kit production numbers were presumably low so locating one might be difficult.

Cheers,

[Flute]

De-lurking.

Scaleplanes and Libramodels were versions of the same company, eventually sold to and produced by ED Models in Birmingham, UK. The latter have ceased trading a couple years ago, but passed on some lines (e.g. Airwaves) to Hannants. The vacs, though, are long defunct. The patterns were mostly made my Joe Chubbock and were very accurate and well thought out, given that this was the '70s and '80s. Most of their kits are still worth making if you can find them.

A lot of subjects were kitted twice. Scaleplanes was the basic vac and an instruction sheet line, Libramodels often had decals, white metal by Aeroclub, and PE by Akita. Some kits were specially produced IIRC for Southern Expo. I've seen the vampire under both labels.

At one time they did a really fine double kit of the F2b with loads of alternative parts and a huge decal sheet, not superceeded until the Roden kit.

1/72nd scale only. Sorry for the long post but I really like this line.


HTH. Re-engaging cloak.


Paul T.

[Tripehound]

I found one of the Scaleplanes vac kits to help create drawings for a 1/48 scratchbuild project. The numbers didn't work right, so some figuring showed the kit is actually 1/76 scale. The kit is also somewhat crude. I hope a 1/48 kit appears before I start the scratch project! There was three versions of the Vampire.

[brian riedel]

Howdy,

I'm no expert, but, if your looking for a 1/48 kit, maybe you could start with the Lone Star vac kit of the Vickers Fb 12c. It is no longer in the catalog, so you might need to go e-bay. It was released in 1990.

Also, here's a little link with a couple of profiles for you.

http://worldatwar.net/chandelle/v3/v3n2/ww1-arcana.html

Brian Riedel

[Tripehound]

I've seen the link, have the J.M. Bruce book, and an older book on the Vickers company from the beginning to the jet age. They both have some info and drawings of the Vampire. I did an AutoCAD 3-view to build from. To take the coward's way out, Roden 1 1/2 Strutter wings will work real well if you don't look at the rib spacing! There's an extra top wing in the kit. I also have the FB12C vac kit waiting to be built. Lone Star does real good vac kits, but their resin stuff is terrible.