Westland Wyvern S.4 - Complete

[Sherman 18]

Westland Wyvern S.4

Nice!

 

[RichB]

Westland Wyvern S.4

A little more progress. The horizontal tails need to be corrected. Straight from the kit they are perpendicular to the vertical tail as seen on prototypes and early aircraft. Beginning with VW867 a 10[sup]o[/sup] dihedral was added. A little sanding and fiddling and it looks much better.

The kit exhausts need replacing. Quickboost makes a replacement set that require some cuttung and sanding to fit the fuselage.

Main landing gear is on with a brake line added from fine wire. The inner gear doors (forgot to show them) require the hinges removed as the doors cycled closed once the gear was down.

Think we are ready for the paint bay.

Cheers,
Rich

 

[moon puppy]

Westland Wyvern S.4

Nice fiddlin'

 

[Paulw]

Westland Wyvern S.4

Awesome stuff, Rich

 

[RichB]

Westland Wyvern S.4

Got some color on her now. Still need to do some tidying up. The tanks and bomb are just press fit for now to see how she will look.

Cheers,
Rich

 

[phantom II]

Westland Wyvern S.4

Wow , I thought this was 1/48 scale . Surprised when I peeked at the box . Looking pretty darn good.

How was the kit to assemble ?

I always thought this bird had all the beauty of a Lysander on steroids and I do like the lysander . So ugly it's beautiful

Cheers, Christian B)

 

[RichB]

Westland Wyvern S.4

It builds very nicely. There are a couple of things to fix along the way, but not to difficult. Fit all round was very good.

She has the look of something only a mother could love.

Cheers,
Rich

 

[moon puppy]

Westland Wyvern S.4

Dig the stripes!

 

[phantom II]

Westland Wyvern S.4

It builds very nicely. There are a couple of things to fix along the way, but not to difficult. Fit all round was very good.

She has the look of something only a mother could love.

Cheers,
Rich

Yeah, the Dragon's stepchild . LOL

Cheers, Christian B)

 

[sharkman]

Westland Wyvern S.4

Looking good Rich!

i almost bought one of these in 48. Another odd duck that might attract my interest someday! If I get one, I may build it as a what-if scheme, maybe US Vietnam era or something....

 

[RichB]

Westland Wyvern S.4

Took a hiatus from this to build the Harrier for MMM Campaign and to rustle up some new roundels to replace the kit decals.

Got back on track with the decals and weathering on.

And part of the HMS Eagle flight deck.

And now she is complete. More in the completion thread.

Cheers,
Rich

 

[RichB]

Westland Wyvern S.4

Seems there isn't a parking spot yet, so I'll add them here.

Cheers,
Rich

 

[jeaton01]

Westland Wyvern S.4

Nice, Rich. Now you need an A2D to go with it.

 

[moon puppy]

Westland Wyvern S.4

Great job Rich!

 

[Sherman 18]

Fantastic

Looks great

 

[Duke Maddog]

Sensational job Rich! Way to go and congrats on finishing the campaign.