Aaahhh de Havilland Sea Venom. Thanks for the inspiration Spiros. The Sea Venom was an inspiration for others early on; The Swiss saw the hook, and were - well - hooked. As they had ordered Vamp's, they decided to trial a wire solution, and used the fuselage of a 109 (I know, some will state they used a 109 for experiments, but the fact remains it was just a fuselage attached to a truck). They abandoned the idea, only to re-visit it in the 90'e when they got F-18's that indeed use the wires in the same manner as RDAF F-16's - to stop at the end of the runway if the brakes have failed.
At "my" airport we even have some foundations to install such a system for emergency deployment of the F-16's away from the main base if needed (alas not in use since the late 90's)
Oh - that was way off the beaten track - see what your inspiration can do 🙂

I hope we see a Sea Venom / Venom build in-progress in this GB too!

This is a kit that can be nicely upgraded. I got some resin MB ejection seats, which made the cockpit 100% improved, and Brengun does decals for Sea Venoms used in Operation Musketeer the late departed "infamous Bondo Phil" took one of these kits and with a lot of scratchbuilding had a fully-detailed cockpit and folding wings. I saw it back at the 1998 IPMS-USA Nats. Very impressive.

Hi Colin @coling!

it is fairly large in 1/32, though it's a small airframe. I loved the sharkmouth Venom once I saw the Revell box art. Combined with the extra dark sea grey over white and the black/red chequered tip tanks, the choice was obvious! I used satin Humbrol enamels and wasn't disappointed: nice, smooth and forgiving (matts tend to"build up", should I be a bit careless during spraying). The only drawback is the white turns "antique white " over the years; maybe it's the satin protective coat to blame...who knows?

I was a bit worried about the conformance of the tip tanks decals, but, with a bit of selective cutting, all went well.

As far as I can recall, cockpit details are ok, but nothing exquisite. Tom Cleaver's @tcinla advice on replacing the seats with resin goodies will produce a nice result, allowing you to pose the canopy open (I go "closed canopies"..."to preserve the A/C aerodynamic lines"...translation: I am lazy detailing the cockpit - lol). In fact, Tom did an excellent 1/32 Sea Venom that you can admire in Modelingmadness webzine.

I will be more than happy to take some more pics tonight and post them here.

Thanks for liking!

Beautiful plane and excellent paint job! Also looks cool sitting next to the P-47. I need to build a plane for this group!