Nuclear Bombs

The Blue Steel missile from the old Airfix Avro Vulcan kit, unused when my daughter and I built the kit, was used as a experimental paint mule for years... 

The Blue Steel missile from the old Airfix Avro Vulcan kit, unused when my daughter and I built the kit, was used as a experimental paint mule for years... 

Three weeks in a bath of IPA (the solvent, not the ale) and well over a decade's worth of paint (including metallics lacquers) came sludging off. 

As it was just assembled in haste many, many years ago, it's not even put together well 🙁
We got better at modelling, honest... 

Partially split the fuselage, re-glued and clamped to get back in shape. 

I want it to be flying, so am putting it on an Airfix stand - and have used magnets. The green sticky-stick up the rear here had placed the interior magnet into place with superglue. 

Tail now a better shape, you can just about the see the magnet up there, and I've added plasticard for the top and bottom fins that were missing. 

Scratch built (plasticard with some bits in from the spares) back end with the twin-chamber Armstrong Siddeley Stentor rocket motor (needs trimming off and smoothing in with putty yet). 

First look at my array of bombs (ignore the photobombing ASRAAMs that I'm also doing, if you'll pardon the term in this context).
L to R: (1:72 ASRAAM, 1:32 ASRAAM), two WE177 B/Cs, Blue Danube, Blue Steel (with Red Snow warhead), Yellow Sun, Red Beard (then two more ASRAAMs). 

Painted 

Decal-ed 

Blue Steel all done (attempted to match the markings on the Wikipedia page, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Steel_(missile) ) 

Blue Steel's twin-chamber "Stentor" rocket motor 

Blue Steel in flight 

Most of the arsenal (Yellow Sun was hiding) 

Left to right: Red Beard, Blue Danube, Blue Steel, Yellow Sun, 2 WE 177 C's 

In their display case 

Various missiles and bombs!