Who makes an Avro Vulcan? What scales?

AirFix just recently re-released their 1/72 kit of the Avro Vulcan. I't a pretty good kit overall. About $40 in the US.

At one time I had an Avro Vulcan that was done by Lindberg. I don't know what scale it was, but it wasn't incredibly big.

The Airfix Avro Vulcan in 1/72 comes and goes from their catalog. I've heard its origins are in older MPC molds but I can't say for certain. I do know that many years ago a 1/72 Vulcan came out in MPC packaging

If you've got the space and vacuum form kits aren't a problem for you, Aeroclub makes a 1/48 Vulcan

Thanks for the info. I will go the airfix route. It is one of my most favorite airplanes. I always thought it was an airplane that looked like something Batman would fly. I cannot imagine a 1/48 scale Vulcan. That has got to be huge!!!!

I saw it once unbuilt and it was big, REAL BIG!

Meteor Productions had it in their catalog for a while and made the joke: "Doubles a a coffee table!" After seeing it, I'd believe it.

Coffee Table!! LOL!!!

I'm sure those 1/48 scale delta wings would hold many slices of Pizza and many cans of cold beer...

I said this in another thread... but I got to sit in th eco-pilots seat of a Vulcan at the Paine Filed Air Fair north of Seattle in 1972 -- about 2 in th emorning...

Anyway... the planes crew referred to the Vulcan as the "Aluminiun Overcast".

I've also heard it refered to as the "Iron Triangle"

The Lindberg kit was, as with so many kits at the time, made to fit the box. They also did a Victor, I think. These kits (unbuilt) are now worth a fortune to collectors. They were probably around 1/96th scale. In the UK at a place called Bruntingthorpe, there are plans to try to get a Vulcan airborne again. Try going to Aeroplanemonthly.com for details/pics. It was an awesome aircraft to see at displays, and won the red flag competitions for years in Nevada!

Here is a nice pic..

Back in the distant years of my youth, I saw a Vulcan fitted with a Concorde style nacelle under it's belly with a singleRR Olympus on addition to the 4 standard engines. I know the standard engines are Olympus too but the Olympus designed for Concorde was an entirely different engine, and this was the flying test bed. Would you believe the damn thing went vertical with the normal 4 engines at flight idle?!. Vulcans were always VERY noisy, and the sheer size of the shadow it casts gives at a presence in the sky which as far as I know is unmatched. There is a "live" Vulcan at bruntingthorpe which is regularly fast taxied almost to the point of unstick, (how can they resist the temptation to pull back just a little) and there are hopes of returning the last service example XH588 to the air, but funding is proving a problem.

The Airfix kit of the Vulcan is currently available and its not too bad. Decals are not so good though tend to be out of register.
It include the Blue Steel stand off nuclear missile. And, you might want to add Flightpath's photo etch set which include deployed air brakes.

I have the kit in MPC's box. I think I bought it in '88 or '89. It's 1/72nd scale, very large and seems to have pretty good detail.
Got lucky and found a small card shop/hobby shop that was going out of business. I bought a lot of their models for literally pennies
on the dollar.
Ray

the Lindberg Vulcan is 1/96 and is the only kit that had the straight wings and short tail of the first B1's ...Gregers