SPA Modeler

Here's the kit sprues and box art. The box art with the Arrow going to the right is the old kit, the other is the new kit. It looks like they made some improvement to the cockpit but the major parts of the two kits seem to be the same. The new kit has two clear sprues, so with some cutting it might be possible to pose the canopy open.

Older kit:



New kit follows:

Nice choice John!

The Arrow is a great looking aircraft, one of the aviation worlds 'might have beens'.

Big and beautiful!

Beautiful choice man I built one of those in 1/72 scale before. Man, it's too bad they didn't go forward on that. I would have loved to have seen it in operational colors, and see what kind of a load out it would have had.

Looking forward to seeing more.

Very cool!

Aaah the great Canadian experiment
Truly a cool aircraft, too bad Canada wasn't rich enough to get them to production.

That's gonna be so cool John. I don't think I've ever seen that HC kit before; if I have, it was really long ago now. She's pretty big isn't she?

Thanks for the interest, all. It turns out the intakes are a blank wall 1/2 inch from the front, so I am exploring ways to fix that. So far all of them are complex. I have two good references on the Arrow so I'm good there.

I and I am sure a bunch of others would like to see how you think through adding missing details. That’s certainly a challenge at this scale.

I found some resin parts at Hannants for the canopy, wheels, exhausts, and ejection seats. The resin parts were not too expensive, but the shipping was $20 for a rather small package. Welcome to the modern world. Also, I started on making a master for the inlet ducts, carved from balsa wood. In the photo it has just been coated with extra slow drying CA. Only one master should be needed as the left will be the same as the right but rotated 180 degrees on the long axis.