Although the Sea Venom has very little credit in my self concocted recipe on the history of military aviation; however … the 1/72 scale kit of this aircraft is a fairly important piece in this line-up, not only because it was given to me by a cousin from a tour abroad, but it always seemed to stand out from the rest of my collection due to it’s uncommon Australian markings which is a soothing visionary deviation from the usual US, German, British and Japanese insignias; and this recently – its brand “Frog” added the rare value of variety for this blog.
My kit of this warplane lost one of its distinctive twin tail boom and landing wheels long - long time ago so I have to cut-out a crude polycarbonate plastic mock-up of the missing boom to give some visual uniformity to the images. The piece is un-painted…
The de Havilland Sea Venom is an early 1950’s warbird, compared to standard jet fighters of today it may look flimsy and tame maybe because of that thin tail-boom configuration. Historical records revealed that it saw mentionable action during the Suez Wars in the Mid 1950’s, more extensive Websites featuring the Sea Venom define it as a Night–capable, all-weather fighter and support bomber, the once prominent user nations are United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
