Trident 1c

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I'm not sure where my current enthusiasm for airliners has come from, but I am enjoying building them, even if the large white surfaces are still a bit of a challenge for my brush painting skills, especially over grey plastic like this one.

A British Airways Trident was the second aircraft that I ever flew in (the first was a Wasp), back in 1980. Tridents used to do the shuttle run from Edinburgh to Heathrow, making good use of their advanced zero-visibility automated landing systems ( a world first at the time) to keep running when the other airlines (in those days British Midland and B-Cal) came to a halt.

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This is the old Airfix kit of 1966 vintage (mine was an early 1990s re-issue), pretty much out the box. I altered the nose wheel to be offset to one side and used Krystal Klear for the cabin windows (with a black "screen" behind them), but otherwise, what you see is what you get.

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Cockpit windows are a little dodge, but otherwise it is a nicely fitting kit. Of course it has a number of accuracy challenges, not least the cabin window layout, lack of wing to fuselage fairing and the wings are too straight. But unless you know all about Tridents, you would never guess!

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I am an occasional builder of jet airliners Fred (known as flying cigar tubes to the heretics) and as such I really enjoy seeing them on here. I'm not a Trident expert so the accuracy issues would have gone unnoticed by me had you not pointed them out! What I do know is that this is a really great build of one of the classic Airfix "Sky King" series, very well done with it.
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Love it! Always a graceful aircraft and you've done a fine job on this Fred!
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A great job. Especially having been brush painted the Trident wss a beautiful aircraft. I had a tour of the fire school at teesside airport when there were quite a few of them in the fire pits. A real shame.

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First class job - a really smooth looking finish. Airliners can be such tricky little devils to get right.
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Really nice work. I've tackled a few airliners over the years but none successfully :oops:
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Excellent work. Tridents - remember the one with the fourth engine in the tail!!!

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That looks fine. There are issues with the Airfix kit. The one that stands out the most is how you deal with the cockpit windows. You seem to have sorted that OK.

On 7 May, the Farnborough AIr Sciences Trust are hosting a talk on the Trident at The Village Hotel in Farnborough. I hope to attend.
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dwomby wrote:Excellent work. Tridents - remember the one with the fourth engine in the tail!!!

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iirc the four engined one was the Trident 3b. Can anyone confirm that?

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Gregers wrote:
dwomby wrote:Excellent work. Tridents - remember the one with the fourth engine in the tail!!!

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iirc the four engined one was the Trident 3b. Can anyone confirm that?

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Great model there.

The Trident 3B did have 4 engines. It had 3 Rolls Royce Spey RB163 engines and an additional RB162 booster engine in the tail.
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Cheers Chris. Thought it was. Most of those at Teesside were that version.

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Lovely to see one of these built, Fred.
Top job!

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Looks good. I'm going to try the Kleer and black backing on the Frog Shell tanker if the ports aren't too big - thanks for the idea.
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One of my favourite airliners, even if it was never the plane it should really have been.
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That looks lovely, Fred. Did Airfix provide all the stenciling on the decals, such as the markings on the top of the fuselage?
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