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After a 6 year break I have decided that this year is the year to finally get the valiant finished and flown , my aim is for cosford model show where I hope we will get the 3 V bombers up together . The fuz has been built for a number of years but I never got round to building the wings . Steve Holland kindly offered to help and design the wing and cut all the ribs on his laser cutter for me , I started 3 weeks ago by finishing the tail and covering it in white Hobby king film ,the film is quick to do and will help to keep the weight down .I hope the model will be under 40kg and will be powered by 2 wren 80 turbines .

keep it up andy looking great, ar you looking to get this ready for cosford??? or sooner

Interested to know which colour scheme you are going to use Andy.
The Valiant being the first of the V bomber Nuclear fleet. was also in anti flash white
Also the only one of the three to drop a nuclear weapon.
What a fabulous sight to see the V force fly in formation.
Tony

Great work Andy I am following it on Facebook, and it is coming along nicely. this will be the ultimate camera shot with all three V bombers together. Every Model mag will want that shot, no pressure.

With both wings now up to the same stage I have fitted them both to the fuz and have now sheeted the top of the first wing , people will see i butt join the sheets and glue 3/32 strips under each joint to give a larger gluing area for strength .[attachment]*

getting there nice to see progress.

Bang goes the rain forest....be nice to see them all fly together, thought it might happen with the last Valiant, but that was an ignominious ending!

7 update of the bottom of the wings , now working on the intakes .

bbest thing you can do is hit the workshop on a wet weekend, i did,

nice work

Hope to see it fly at some point Andy.
Dad was going to join me for my first Cosford trip, but I'm now heading overseas on another judging assignment.

Hope to catch it later in the season.

The building work is almost there now with just the flaps and wing tips left to do before I start covering

Its looking great Andy, a lot of time and effort gone into this in a very short space of time. Can't wait to see it in the air. Camera is ready.

The valiant has now flown , I still have retract doors and detail to go on but I wanted to see it fly before doing anymore work . It flies as good as the victor in every way without any alterations its been a lot of hours over the past 6 months but worth it when it flew so well .

Fantastic news Andy, sorry I wasn't there with the camera to capture it, but hey there is Cosford.

It was and still is my favourite V Bomber. Hope to see it soon. Looks good.