I've got another idea forming for an advanced Avro Vulcan. While chatting with Jeff about the possible purchase of a Vulcan kit or two, I started thinking about what I would do with them and my first thoughts were to do a Vulcan MR.1 variant. My thinking is to attach the long underbody pannier that you find on a BAe Nimrod. This is not too much of a problem because the fuselage diamters of a Vulcan and Nimrod are very close to being the same, 9'-3" (Vulcan) to 9'-9" although the Airfix Nimrod seems to scale out to 10'-2 1/2". Mind you 5 1/2" in 1/72 scale is very small, a tad bigger than a 1/16" so it wouldn't be noticed.
Thinking about how I would cut the pannier off one of the Nimrods I have got me to match up some parts, and as I still have the wings not attached to my Atlantic, made it that much easier. But then I thought why bother cutting the pannier off the Nimrod when I could use the Nimrod fuselage completely, and this is why.
I'm thinking of making a Vulcan which will have the engine bays I'm planning for the Pacific version of the Atlantic, this would have CFM56 engines. And I'm thinking that I really need a bigger diameter fuselage to build a Vulcan like that, not as big as the Atlantic though which is at 12'-6" diameter.
Here's a pic of the Vulcan fan fronts that come in the Airfix kit compared to the engine fronts which will represent the CFM56's