1/48 Attacker - Trumpy's take on a fat, slow bird

Sometimes you get it… sometimes you don’t. We’ve all had off days, but it’s one thing to mess up on a model, and another to mess up creating the actual subject in real life! Well, despite their success with the Schneider Trophy races and the immortality of the Spitfire, it seems that, after WWII, the good folks at Supermarine just kind of threw in the towel. They went from creating some of the world’s fastest aircraft to creating one of the slower, more lacklustre and undeniably more porcine jets.

Early jets, of course, weren’t all successes, but the straight-winged, tail dragging, chubby-boddied Attacker is one of the most prevalent losers of the immediate post-war jet cohort. Of course, because it’s such a substandard loser, I love it! It’s not just loser cars that get me going, total failures of aeronautics also make me smile! That’s why I was glad to get my hands on the Trumpeter Attacker! At the time, there was no good 1/72, so I was even willing to go up a scale and out of my normal comfort zone to build one!

Check out the 1/48 Trumpeter Attacker at the link below, and let me know what you think!

https://adamrehorn.wordpress.com/trumpeter-1-48-supermarine-attacker-f-1/

Beautiful job on that old bird.

Damn, that looks great! Can't be too many tail dragger jets ever built. Only other one that comes to mind is the very early Me 262 prototypes.

There were a couple of Russian ones, too. the Yak-15 for sure, and their rocket plane was one as well.

It's not a very common configuration, and for good reason! :)

Lovely result

Adam you did a fantastic job on that, nice going dude! Scribing is an art form, you did a real good job.

Thanks guys!

I appreciate the feedback.

Man, you wanna talk scribing... check out some of the old Farpros (Norm and Myrt) on my site. Now THOSE are scribing nightmares!!!

Lol, nope you couldn't pay me enough to do those lines. I want/need to get some, actually I should make some tiny straight chisels for cutting the corners of panel lines. Those areas always seem to be the toughest to clean up and or to scribe new.

Tip top job Sir...

Faust wrote:Thanks guys!

I appreciate the feedback.

Man, you wanna talk scribing... check out some of the old Farpros (Norm and Myrt) on my site. Now THOSE are scribing nightmares!!!

My current C-130 build and a 1/48 B-29 come to mind, just in sheer size. I use a dedicated scribing tool from the good folk at BMF.