Blackburn Buccaneer S.2C XV154
Airfix - R021/XV154 809 Squadron - HMS Ark Royal

This is my entry build into the UAMF.org.uk Buccaneer Group Build.
The weapons set added will actually be a set of WE177B thermal nuclear bombs cast by a friend a few years ago.
They were intended for the Vacform Nimrod I had but once my wife bought me this I really couldn't resist using them.
A friend of mine sent me the new Freightdog WE177A and bomb bay fairing set as a surprise but I had already painted the bomb bay and added the bulkhead and other bits so I took the WE177 dispensers and mounted them like conventional bombs instead.
The rest of that set will be mounted into the bombay of my ancient Airfix NA39 Buccaneer S.1 as a test bed in Anti-flash White.

Aircraft information:
The Hawker-Siddeley Buccaneer was developed by Blackburn for the Royal Navy in the 1950s and was produced by Hawker-Siddeley after that company was acquired. The Buccaneer was designed to attack enemy ships at low altitudes with nuclear and conventional bombs. The occasion was the Soviet Sverdlov-class light cruisers, which were seen as a particular threat to British trade. Instead of new British cruisers, they relied on aircraft that could attack such cruisers at low altitude from the aircraft carriers. The bomb load was carried in an internal bomb bay. A total of 211 machines were built for the Royal Navy, Royal Air Force and South African Air Force from 1961-77. The Buccaneer flew with the Royal Navy from 1962-78,

The first Buccaneer S.1 had underpowered engines and were therefore replaced by the S.2 version with a more powerful engine with lower fuel consumption. In the Navy, Buccaneers flew from the HMS Eagle, HMS Ark Royal and HMS Hermes . After the decommissioning of the last conventional British Aircraft Carrier, the HMS Ark Royal, all of the Navy's Buccaneers and Phantoms were transferred over to the RAF, They were eventually retired in 1994.