Snacso 4050 Vautour 1:48 scale - YOAVHOZMI designD

[hyair]

Dear All ,

Attached here are photos of the french Vautour.
The Vautour served only in France and in Israel.
Only with the IAF it saw operatinal combat.
The peak point of the service was in the six day war in 1967.
The Vautour was the only plane who could reach targets as
far as Luxsor in south Egept and destroyed the TU-16 bombers
that were parking there among many other missions including a
kill of hunter above H3 airfield.
The model represent the fighter version. There was a bomber
version with a glossy nose were the bomber had an ejection seat.
Also , the 3rd version was the two seater all weather
interceptor that from 1964 was converted to a fighter
bomber when the mirages came into service.

Yair

[chaparral2d]

Yair,

Well done! Well done, indeed!

Dave

[Isaac]

I always liked the Vautour. Elegant looking.


I scaled this model up to 1/33 scale. It was a great build.



here is the link to my build
Vautour IIA repaint -IAF colors in 1/33 scale

There is a 1/33 scale Vautour in the download section here as well.


Thank you for posting. Nice work.


Isaac

[hyair]

Hi Isaac - I agree with you that the Vautour is a cool bird !
The name Vautour came from Vultre which is eagle in French. The Vautour was a very special aircraft and even
the americans didn't have a direct answer at the time.
The A-6 Intruder flyed 10 years later in 1963 compare to 1953.
The Vautour had an internal bomb bay and therfore could
release bombs at supersonic speeds of course in a shalow dive.
Your 1:33 model looks very accurate and impresive.
Because of limited space I confined myself to 1:48 scale
which I can put inside glass vitrine. In this way if the models
are in a shadowed room they can last much longer!

Yair

[YOAVHOZMI]

i also like the Vautour.

YOAV

[paperengineer]

Very nice yair! All of those details on the wings must have gotten repetitive.

[hyair]

Attached here some more photos of the Vautour .

Yair

[milenio3]

Originally Posted by YOAVHOZMI

i also like the Vautour.

YOAV

Really? I bet you do, since you re-designed it!
(Thank you for that!)

I loved the result on this bird. Never heard of it until today though.
The things you learn along the pathway of paper modeling!

[YOAVHOZMI]

Originally Posted by milenio3

Really? I bet you do, since you re-designed it!
(Thank you for that!)

I loved the result on this bird. Never heard of it until today though.
The things you learn along the pathway of paper modeling!

thanks man.

you never get the files of my Vautour?

YOAV

[milenio3]

I just found them, YOAV (thread from 2013).

Thank you for sharing!

Shalom!