Sometimes you get it… sometimes you don’t. We’ve all had off days, but it’s one thing to mess up on a model, and another to mess up creating the actual subject in real life! Well, despite their success with the Schneider Trophy races and the immortality of the Spitfire, it seems that, after WWII, the good folks at Supermarine just kind of threw in the towel. They went from creating some of the world’s fastest aircraft to creating one of the slower, more lacklustre and undeniably more porcine jets.

Early jets, of course, weren’t all successes, but the straight-winged, tail dragging, chubby-boddied Attacker is one of the most prevalent losers of the immediate post-war jet cohort. Of course, because it’s such a substandard loser, I love it! It’s not just loser cars that get me going, total failures of aeronautics also make me smile! That’s why I was glad to get my hands on the Trumpeter Attacker! At the time, there was no good 1/72, so I was even willing to go up a scale and out of my normal comfort zone to build one!

Check out the 1/48 Trumpeter Attacker at the link below, and let me know what you think!

https://adamrehorn.wordpress.com/trumpeter-1-48-supermarine-attacker-f-1/

I like it Adam, to me the "Attacker" one of those odd designs that just needs to fill that gap in Naval Aviation. I've had kits before were the depth of the panel lines seemed to shallow but it worked out in the end for you. I'm glad it was not me though!

Brian

Thanks, Brian.

Yeah, the early navy jets are real oddities. The FJ-1 Fury is kind of a loveable loser, but the Pirate... now there's a good one! I have the Admiral 1/72 of that total failure of a plane... I should really do it sometime!

If the panel lines are too shallow, that just means rescribing all of them. I used to dread that, now it's just "another day at the office".