Handley Page Victor Ideas and Inspiration

[JoseFern]

Handley Page Victor Ideas and Inspiration

[M.A.D]

Very clever!!!

Hats off to you!!

M.A.D

[GTX_Admin]

 

[GTX_Admin]

Some advanced Export Victors John did for me a while back.  All crew would have ejection seats + there are uprated engines, external bomb pods and tail gun:

[The Big Gimper]

One more from Sir John .... D-21 Mothership

[Maverick]

A couple of others:





Regards,

John

[tsrjoe]

that Luftwaffe Victor looks soo right, love the low vis markings too 

cheers, Joe

[GTX_Admin]

Original line work for Victor B.21:

[ChrisF]

Ok i think im in the right place... Ive got a silly question... Would i be right in my calculations saying that a 1:144th Victor would be 243mm long ?

Im trying to decide weather i can fit the Anigrand kit in my cabinet before shelling out that kind of money... 

[Cliffy B]

Wiki states its length at 115' so that would be 35052mm in 1/1 and 243.42 mm in 1/144 so yeah, you're right.  Will it fit?

So what do you have planned for the beast?

[ChrisF]

1:700 !?!?

Nothin tooo clever i just have a Op Granby Tornado in there already and a Jag in the pipework... The only british plane left from Desert Storm would be a Victor... I knew 1:72nd ( Like the other models) wouldnt fit and ya cant find the revell and matchbox kits easily anyway... But the 1:144th should fit by my calculations quite nicely 

Im planning a Op Granby shelf in there basically :)

[Cliffy B]

Whoops!!!!  I was scaling a bunch of ship drawings at the time, sorry 

Neat, can't wait to see it.

[Volkodav]

A bit off topic but I have always thought a HP Victor would have made an interesting and in my opinion cool patrol bomber come MPA.

[Dr. YoKai]

 I have a just-started ( two or three years ago ) project using the old Lindberg Victor ( which I think
 is about 1/96th ) for another 'Shado 1960' build. It uses a pair of rockets in the wings, and is armed
 with a re-scaled 'mini-polaris'* firing through a roof hatch along the lines of some Soviet cruise missile
 subs like the Echo class, or the more recent Oscars. I'm thinking of adding a large rocket engine
 to the aft end, but I really like the taper of the tail cone.


 * A 1/144th  scale model from the recently re-issued US/USSR Missile set.

[upnorth]

When I look at the Victor from the side, it just screams out to be an amphibian.

It looks like it was started with the intent to have a planing hull, but then someone changed their mind and the specs along the way somewhere.

It's not that far off in looks from a Martin Sea Master if you think about it.

[finsrin]

Very observant  :)
Anphibian-Seamaster elements are there !

[Daryl J.]

The strange side of me has always seen the Victor as looking a bit like a ling cod with flying surfaces.  And yes, someday, I'd love to make a submarine using the Victor and that ugly deep sea fish as the basis and inspiration for a build.   


But if I had to build a Victor, it would be USAF SEA green/green/tan/black.

[raafif]

this design lost out to Short's Belfast

[Rickshaw]

Mmm, move the wings to the top of the fuselage, put the undercarriage in side bulges for the fuselage....   

[kitnut617]

this design lost out to Short's Belfast

There's only one thing wrong with that graphic, the HP111 didn't have flat sides to the fuselage, it was dead round and 15 feet in diameter.

[Kerick]

Some one did a flying boat version of a Victor, Can't remember who.

Found it!
http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,35740.30.html
http://i1193.photobucket.com/albums/aa360/sandiego89/sv21.jpg

[Rickshaw]

this design lost out to Short's Belfast

There's only one thing wrong with that graphic, the HP111 didn't have flat sides to the fuselage, it was dead round and 15 feet in diameter.

So, which civil airliner do you suggest as a fuselage for it?   

[finsrin]

Much as flyingboat Victor build is cool    Top side intakes, excellent water diorama and all.
I wonder what it does if RW jet?
SAR mission with upper side opening doors?
Drop rafts and survival stuff out of sides?

[kitnut617]

this design lost out to Short's Belfast

There's only one thing wrong with that graphic, the HP111 didn't have flat sides to the fuselage, it was dead round and 15 feet in diameter.

So, which civil airliner do you suggest as a fuselage for it?   

Not sure, the shape of the fuselage looks like the genesis for the Airbus A310/330 line, except it's 30" smaller in diameter (15'-0 as opposed to 17'-6"). Can't think of another --- 767 is closer in diameter (16'-0"), wrong nose and tail profile shapes though --

[Rickshaw]