Raf Sanger Spaceplane

[Nick]

If you remember the Revell Sanger Spaceplane I picked up at a model show some time back (Perth?) I've finally dug it out to finish.

Now just working out the details such as paint-scheme and backstory....

Anti-flash White with pale blue roundels, UK flags on tail and pale blue codes. Bit like the TSR-2 markings!

Story: This 21st Century satellite launcher is used by many countries around the world. The aircraft was fully designed and mocked up by British Aerospace in 1987 after the Space Shuttle disaster and partially funded as a replacement by a NASA/ESA consortium.
First flight was in early 1992 and many orders soon flooded in as the new Space Race took hold!

You have the standard Spaceplane (bigger than Concorde) which carries a range of launchers on her back into space and releases them then returns to Earth unladen. The payloads, either a new Shuttle visiting one of the several space stations or a cargo pod launching satellites, then carry out their missions and return to Earth separately.

The RAF operate 4 machines for the British Government in conjunction with the British Space Agency. There are nearly 200 more around the world, operated both by nations and large corporations including Disney Space Hotels and Pan Am.


Thoughts please?

Nick B)  

[Howard of Effingham]

i can help you out with a sheet of pale blue codes in 1/72 nick, if you haven't got them already.

if you are coming to the show at coventry on 23/9, i can give them to you there.

trevor

[TsrJoe]

sounds neat, how about grey thermally protected leading edges too to break up the finish? im loking forward to seing this one completed...shades of Chris's cover art on 'BSP. hypersonics' !!!

cheers, Joe

[Nick]

Nearly finished! Photos available when she makes her first appearance at Telford!

Quick questions:

Should I look for a suitable RAF squadron badge to use on the tail or just leave her in the outstanding (if I say so myself!) RAF Space Command scheme?

What would be a suitable squadron?

Nick B)  

[NARSES2]

Nick

I think the RAF motto is totaly suitable for Space Command