V – REFLECTIONS
By Tim Skeet
It is quite remarkable that there are now excellent 1/72 scale models of the Valiant and just recently the Victor from Airfix. Of course Matchbox offered the original Victor in this scale, a nice kit but a typical 1980s product. The first injection Valiant emerged from Mach 2 around 2006, a limited run model that needed some work to complete satisfactorily. The modern Airfix kit is excellent. One thing nevertheless marks these models out, regardless of their quality. It is their size. A collection of V-bombers is going to fill a lot of space, impressive though they might be in their appliance white or disruptive greys and greens. But if space is at a premium, the kit producers have now brought us models of these venerable cold war warriors in 1/144. These offer a great space saving way of putting these two machines into your collection.
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