Saunders Roe SR.53

XD145 - the one that didn't crash, currently stored at Cosford 

It's not often that a completed kit is bigger than it's box. In this case, the Ursus version of the Airfix mould, produced in the 1980s behind the iron curtain 

The kit came with no decals but a minimal number of stickers, so RAF serial and roundel decal sheets to the rescue 

Completed. It's not often I get to model a plane I've actually seen in the flesh 

Head on 

Kit obviously had no stencils, so I approximated 

Not sure if it ever flew with the missiles attached, but it is currently adorned with them in the museum 

Jet and rocket exhausts 

From above 

And below. So glad the underwing serials avoided the undercarriage doors... 

The finished project sitting on its box