De Havilland Sea Venom FAW22 XG731 of 891 Squadron aboard HMS Centaur in 1960.
I knew about the Sea Venoms being used in anger during Operation Musketeer but it seems that their final combat use was later. Operation Damon was an RAF operation against dissident tribes in Yemen and, from what I've read, HMS Centaur's Sea Venoms participated in rocket and cannon attacks when she passed through Aden in early 1960. So I've depicted her with the full load of 8 rockets en route to an attack. I haven't actually found a photo of any Sea Venom carrying that load but I am sure an obvious one will now, doubtless, be quickly pointed out to me!
This is the old Frog kit. I have always thought it looked pretty accurate but the radome just looked too bulbous to me. So this one has one made from a spare from the MBox Meteor NF. It needed some filler to fair it in and the area between it and the windscreen needed to be sloped down a bit toward the radome.
The decals are a mix of homemade and spares from old builds. Annoyingly, the walkway stencils silvered.
David
