Rear cockpit panels, continued.....

Afternoon all,

I'm finding this quite this quite an enjoyable thing to do-some more panels over the last hour or so. More to come soon!

Sam

Rear cockpit panels taking shape

Well with the brief interlude of GCSE results day, I return to this project. For now, the rear cockpit panels are coming together and the structure is finally starting to take shape! The main additions include the periscope (on the right), the H2S radar unit and the joystick.

Sam

Bomb bay spars...

Just a quick one, been doing quite a bit of research on the bomb bay-making the spars and structure.

Blue Steel Engine (side project)

Well, as mentioned before, to arm a Vulcan you need a weapon! And what better weapon could you imagine than Blue Steel? (Quite a lot actually...)
Thanks to some poking around various sources, I have found many references for the Blue Steel missile. It also helps that I live near RAF Cosford where they have a cutaway of the Stentor engine-something which I hope to replicate in all its detail for this project.

So without further meandering here are the photos:

The adventure continues!

Hi, just a quick one today,

The pilot and co-pilot's ejection seats are being worked on again, the various straps added (but not completed) and the arm rests have been added to the sides of each seat, also note the small oxygen bottle added to each seat. In the next update I aim to have added the remainder of the straps and buckles and to have finally done the upper surfaces of the seat with the ejection handles.

Thanks,
 Sam

Rear Crew Seats

Good afternoon,

Work commenced on the rear crew seats today, the basic shell was first created, with sections of panelling added later-along with the ribbing at the back and the headrest (note:the valve which is modelled at the back of the headrest).

Plan: add the back cushion and the padding to the seats-as well as the emergency "egress cylinder" which was used to push the occupant out of the seat and onto his feet in the event of the aircraft experiencing significant "G" loading.

Thanks for having a look,

Sam

Update #1

Update #1:

The basic "frame" of the pilot's ejection seats has been built, the only other things that need to be added is the top ejection handle and the head cushion. Then it is all of the straps and buckles, etc to add.

Thanks for having a look,

Sam