British "Wyvern" S.4

[Peej]

Just finished my 1st Trumpeter kit. 1/72 British " Wyvern" S.4.
Enjoyable kit to build. Brush painted with acrylics. A couple of decals missing due to crumpling and tearing. Overall went together very well. A smidging of filler in a couple of places.

[Guest]

Very nice!

[Steven000]

Nice model Paul :thumb2:

[Mini Me]

That's very nice indeed, Paul
Rick H.

[Guest]

Nice-looking model, but what an ugly plane …

[Guest]

Out of interest, are there any details in the kit for the insignia?
AFAIK deck code ‘O’ is HMS Ocean, which according to wikipedia was launched in ‘95.

[stillp]

Very nice Paul, and an unusual subject.
Pete

[scottie3158]

Paul,
A nice result of an interesting aircraft. I was surprised given the power of the engine how slow it was.

[Peej]

Out of interest, are there any details in the kit for the insignia?
AFAIK deck code ‘O’ is HMS Ocean, which according to wikipedia was launched in ‘95.

From what I can see it entered service in 1953 with 813 squadron. Other wyvern units were 827, 830 & 831. November 1956, 830 & 831 took part in the Suez campaign. Only 830 took part in combat flights, losing 2 aircraft in 79 sorties.
813 was the last squadron to be disbanded in 1958.
Hope this helps. Also included a picture of the painting quite I used.

[Guest]

Thank you! Very helpful.

[Peej]

Thank you! Very helpful.

That's ok. Something else that's I thought was interesting that I've just found out, only 127 were built.

[papa 695]

Cracking work Paul.

[Richard48]

Wow thats a cracking model.I know little.about the machine.Very nicely done.
Richard

[adt70hk]

Paul

Nicely done and an 'Interesting' looking plane as Jakko said.

Not come across it before and so had a look online for info. it appears to have been a pretty unsuccessful one at that and also be pretty dangerous for the pilots, judging by the number of accidents quoted on Wikipedia.

Thanks for sharing.

Andrew

[colin m]

Nice job Paul , certainly had looks only a mother could love. I want one.