Vulcan seat saved from the scrapyard

thanks for the info

Exactly the same colour as the identical seats in our Victor. Nice seat!

No looks like aircraft fresh, the STI Vulc incidentally stands for Special technical instruction Vulcan number 387 and is where a modification has been carried out, which will be in accordance with the relevant drawing.

You will see some views of where it would be in the aircraft here

http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/38624-avro-vulcan-xm594-at-nam/

:confused:Has the seat been restored by the previous owner prior to its trip to the scrappies?[/QUOTE]
i have not got a clue? its very dusty ill clean it

I know that thread well. Scary stuff. Life’s too short to get so wound up about things like that.

I wonder what it is about aircraft modellers?

Must be all the fumes.

It could be my monitor. I’m using a dual-monitor setup and I recently did a factory reset on both of them only for them to default to completely different hues when displaying a white testcard.

Olive may be over stating it, but there is a deeper, bluer almost turquoise edge to the colour of the Vulcan seat. For a real laugh, dig up a Britmodeller thread on the colour ‘sky’, and maybe go so far as to claim they got it right in the BOB film. :eagerness:

A wonderful find. The colour looks a little interesting. From spending too much time lurking on the Brit Modeller forum, it would appear that aircraft interiors are commonly painted various shades of Eau-de-Nil or BS381-283 Aircraft Green Grey. This seat appears to have a wee bit more olive to it, though it may be my monitor. Has the seat been restored by the previous owner prior to its trip to the scrappies?

Olive???? Oh Lordy, if some of the colour pedants from Britmodeller see this they’ll go berserk in a cyber kind of way! Seriously though I think it might be your monitor; the colour looks in the right sort of range to me.

By way of explanation for those of a more sane nature who don’t frequent Britmodeller, in that forum there are a number of long and eventually very acrimonious and personal discussions about “correct” colours for model aircraft. It can get very tedious. It’s noticeable that in the non-aircraft sections of Britmodeller such extreme discussions don’t happen. They don’t happen in the real world either. I wonder what it is about aircraft modellers?

I worry because I am one… And I wouldn’t dare post this on there!

A wonderful find. The colour looks a little interesting. From spending too much time lurking on the Brit Modeller forum, it would appear that aircraft interiors are commonly painted various shades of Eau-de-Nil or BS381-283 Aircraft Green Grey. This seat appears to have a wee bit more olive to it, though it may be my monitor. Has the seat been restored by the previous owner prior to its trip to the scrappies?

thanks for pointing her out still poking her nose in

MORE SAVED VULCAN SEAT PICTURES

how much more things have been scraped ? the chap i got the tail wheels from by chance ( car boot sale ) he told me they had taken 4 car trips to the scrap yard months ago when they cleared an old boys garage out after his wife died 20 odd years after him .thats when i went on the hunt but to no avail . it was months later the things they had taken where long gone .thats when i told the chap what i was looking for hence this seat

Nice find, I take it you got it, BTW I’d chuck some more soil over the mother in law, she is starting to show again in the background 😉

Vulcan fans form an orderly queue!

Anon.

Indeed. I’d love one in my collection but lack space currently as I’ve got 2 fully kitted Martin Baker 3KS seats taking up space, and the Bomb-aimers blister and fin RWR antennae dielectric cover from XM571 hogging the garage!

Presumably it’s a rear crew seat…

Anon.

AEO … says at the top 😉

Great contact you have there, well done on a good find.

That’s nice. Presumably it’s a rear crew seat with the swivelling mech on the base to rotate the whole assembly?

Not seen one before. It would restore very nicely, what with all the stencilled provenance too – Vulcan fans form an orderly queue!

Anon.