The Airfix VC10 makes a very nice model of the BOAC VC10. The weak spot are the engines, and if you don't want the bother of getting them right (it is easy, mind!) Braz Models makes an aftermarket replacement. The kit shows its nearly 50-year vintage in terms of fit, etc, but remains one of Airfix's very best airliners, if not _the best_ in terms of shape fidelity. Plenty of nice aftermarket decals out there.

The civil version of the Airfix is better if you want a straightforward build with clear windows. It will never see production again, having been rehashed into the tanker version. The tanker is fine, so long as you "castrate" it, fill-in the few remaining cabin windows and leave the military bits off.

Through no fault of Airfix, later customers received VC10s that were changed in more or less noticeable ways. Ghana Airways (also leased to MEA) and BUA had changed wing fences, a 4% chord extension to the inner 3/4s of the leading edge (Braz offers this, but frankly it is a lot easier to do it yourself), and drooped dog-toothed leading edges to the wingtips. RAF VC10s had their engines moved outboard by 11 inches (the Braz replacement importantly features this larger pylon), an APU spike added to the tailcone, while the droop/dog-tooth wingtips reverted to the earlier configuration. The Super VC10, of course, had a longer body fore and aft of the wing, being otherwise similar to the RAF examples. Consult photos of individual airframes for the engine beaver-tail fairing which existed in "screwdriver" and "spike" incarnations which sometimes changed on the same airframe with time.

There are two rather expensive alternatives. One is the Welsh Models vacform Super VC10 which makes a superb model but needs more skill. The other is the FROG Super VC10 which is HUGELY expensive and has all kinds of extras that make it more of a collector's piece than a going proposition for model building (battery-powered interior lighting, separate slats and flaps you can build in the lowered position, etc). Also, its sheer shape (nose, engines) is slightly inferior to the Airfix.

In 1/72 scale there is only a very old, rare, and obscenely overpriced Airways vacform and an expensive but entertaining Anigrand resin kit, neither of which I have seen.

Go for it!

I will also keep that in mind. I would like to do a BOAC VC-10 someday.