When the warp fairies put the kibosh on my attempt to join in the Tornado build I started this.
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Because what everyone needs is a carrier capable bizjet.
I've got the cockpit well under way, have painted the pilot and today cut some windows for the passenger compartment.
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Worthy replacement for the VA-3B, I like it. :thumbsup:
Nice. Turboprops (e .g. from an Hawkeye?) would be an option, too?
Sorry I don't recognize the source: is this a Lockheed S-3 Viking in which you cut windows for passengers inside? (that would be great!) ;D
Yes Tophe. It is indeed a Lockheed S-3 Viking. It's the Revell (formerly Hasegawa) kit.
When surplus Vikings are re-purposed by zenrat industries they become ziking Ragnars.
Today I extended the door opening (boxing it in internally), added a floor & bulkhead and started scratchbuilding some passenger seats. I'll probably make the windows from white glue so not too much will be seen through them but I would like the blurred shapes to have the correct outline.
Of course, if I get carried away with the interior i'll have to cut windows from clear.
Pilot is from the Airfix Stratos IV.
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Progress is happening.
I have painted the interior, fitted the seats, fitted some windows (cut from 1mm clear sheet - not sure what exactly it is or where it came from but it glues OK with Revell Contacta) and closed the fuselage up.
Pic from before I did the last (obviously :rolleyes:).
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Seats are a bit crude but even with windows cut from clear you can't see much more than the backs anyway.
Congratulations! :thumbsup:
It could be kinda like a Tornado if it had swing-wings....
Also, how is the pilot going to be comfortable in that seating position when she's used to one more like a racing motorbike?
She's been to a chiropractor for her neck and is much happier now she gets a proper seat and isn't positioned as if she is about to be violated.
Fit of the fuselage halves isn't brilliant but that is prolly down to the f**king about with them i've been doing adding an interior. The worst mismatch is on the underside where the bomb bays are. This is a Good Thing as I was going to fill the engraved bomb bay detail anyway.
I've test fitted the wings and it looks like their fit is pretty good.
Canopy masked and attached I decided to slot the wings and tails on so I could do a balance test. Weight was needed.
The component between the handles of the sprue cutters should have been attached to one fuselage half before they were closed.
Oops.
Luckilly there was a gaping hole behind the undercarriage bay through which I could insert it.
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The fit of the part I left off (arrestor hook bay), wings, nose gear bay and the panel behind the undercarriage are, once slight flash is trimmed, very good and minimal or no filler will be needed on them.
:bow: :bow: :bow: This is the best! :wub:
I'm at the fuselage PSR stage. This is complicated by the fact i've sanded back the windows, filled around them and will be polishing them.
Canopy fit isn't all it could be so I cut my own canopy mask and have blended the edges. I probalbly shouldn't have peeled one corner off to check the cockpit was dust free as it won't now stick back down.
A "proper" canopy mask is on its way.
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Only just seen this Fred, I am liking what you are doing to the s-3. I am wondering if one could be stretched a bit also if being flown from land
Chris.
I don't think stretching one would be simple due to the cross section of the fuselage not being constant.
You'd need two kits.
However, if you had two kits then making it a 4 engined aircraft would be a doddle.
This is awaiting the arrival of a canopy mask.
So, after, what 3 months, i've made progress on this. I got the canopy mask a while ago but then I pushed one of the windows into the fuselage which pi$$ed me off so I put it aside.
I glued the window back in a week or so ago and then yesterday sanded and polished it back smooth before masking everything and slapping on a coat of primer.
I just hope I have better luck painting this that I had with the 'dyne.
Bonne chance!
Paint!
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I have yet to come up with a scheme or an airline but I have some ideas bouncing what passes for my mind. Green perhaps.
Quote from: zenrat on June 17, 2019, 02:48:20 AM
Paint!
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I have yet to come up with a scheme or an airline but I have some ideas bouncing what passes for my mind. Green perhaps.
Make up a contractor that took over COD duties ... for example "COD Unlimited"; "Personnel Carriers Ltd" . Or you might go with a real one ...
My brother-in-law has talked about starting up his own small airline flying cargo into PNG. I may invent a scheme for that.
However, one of my ideas was an aircraft used for flying gamblers to casinos based on decommissioned aircraft carriers sitting just outside of territorial waters. If I combine that with flying to still commissioned carriers then I could call the airline COD and chips.
;D
I'll get me coat...
Quote from: zenrat on June 17, 2019, 03:56:24 AM
If I combine that with flying to still commissioned carriers then I could call the airline COD and chips.
;D
Total hilarity mode full ON! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Quote from: zenrat on June 17, 2019, 03:56:24 AM
If I combine that with flying to still commissioned carriers then I could call the airline COD and chips.
;D
I'll get me coat...
:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: That's straight out of the Beano back in the 50's ;D
Hmmm, I think i've been posting pic in my blog instead of here.
So here they are.
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And now with engines...
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Pretty! :wub:
Brilliant , I wonder if that would work on the Grumman E-2 :banghead:
It does look good :thumbsup: Reminds me of a cartoon character, but I'll be blowed if I can remember which one ?
Quote from: McColm on July 25, 2019, 03:44:03 AM
Brilliant , I wonder if that would work on the Grumman E-2 :banghead:
That is commonly known as the Grumman C-2 Greyhound
Damn, I love it!!! Glad you went with the green. A bit under served in the airlines and racing.
Quote from: nighthunter on July 25, 2019, 09:05:31 AM
Quote from: McColm on July 25, 2019, 03:44:03 AM
Brilliant , I wonder if that would work on the Grumman E-2 :banghead:
That is commonly known as the Grumman C-2 Greyhound
The Greyhound has a much deeper fuselage. I'm thinking feeder liner.
Quote from: McColm on July 25, 2019, 11:29:31 AM
Quote from: nighthunter on July 25, 2019, 09:05:31 AM
Quote from: McColm on July 25, 2019, 03:44:03 AM
Brilliant , I wonder if that would work on the Grumman E-2 :banghead:
That is commonly known as the Grumman C-2 Greyhound
The Greyhound has a much deeper fuselage. I'm thinking feeder liner.
E-2 Hawkeye fuselage is far too cramped to accommodate passengers in any real comfort, even by light aircraft standards.
Note the lack of space for the crew:
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The equipment takes up less than half of the hull volume, & their seats & desks fold out of the way to allow access fore-&-aft.
C-2 Greyhound on the other hand:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/C-2A_interior_DN-SD-03-16988.JPEG)
However, this is really a discussion for elsewhere.
That's looking very good in those bright colors. :thumbsup:
Quote from: TheChronicOne on July 25, 2019, 09:15:46 AM
Damn, I love it!!! Glad you went with the green. A bit under served in the airlines and racing.
Some perceive green to be unlucky. Indeed, I have a friend who will not ride a green motorcycle or drive a green car for that reason. He thinks he will crash if he does.
I think he's being foolish and have owned two green bikes (which I crashed no more or less often than I did bikes of other colours). All my cars however have been white.
I chose green because then I can say "Air Gully International - flying under the Great Green G".
This evening I painted the undercarriage & hook wells and the inside of the doorway.
I never could figure out why that was?? Green is one of my favorite colors... it's the color of plants and money.... the opposite of unlucky for me so I never understood the superstition. ;D
Red is an unlucky colour for me, saying that, just about every vehicle I have owned in the 30 plus years of riding/ driving has been an unreliable pain in the proverbial.
Chris.
P.S, nice build Fred ;D :thumbsup:
Thanks Chris.
I am ignoring this while I get the 'dyne 2.0 finished. Shouldn't be too long and then I can polish the Ragnar off. It just needs undercarriage, doors and the hook painted and the missing window sorted out.
Progress now the 'dyne is done.
I have made and painted an escape hatch to replace the missing window and also painted the the clear areas above the front seats as escape hatches.
As it is a civilian aircraft it has the bang seats disabled but the fact that it still carries out carrier landings means there needs to be some means of emergency pilot egress.
Escape hatch fitted and painting of fiddley bits and flaps has commenced.
She's on her legs.
Waiting paint on UC doors and flaps.
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Seeing as these are built for arrested landings and catapult launches then it strikes me that it would be feasible to operate an air service flying them off a city centre rooftop deck...
Until one goes through the barrier and into someone's living room...
Quote from: The Wooksta! on August 11, 2019, 03:59:10 AM
Until one goes through the barrier and into someone's living room...
City centre, so more likely to end up in an office, shop or bar. But that's why you bribe officials, to make that sort of thing go away. ;)
She's looking very pretty, Fred! :thumbsup:
Neat paintwork mate :thumbsup:
Quote from: zenrat on August 11, 2019, 03:37:10 AM
She's on her legs.
Waiting paint on UC doors and flaps.
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Seeing as these are built for arrested landings and catapult launches then it strikes me that it would be feasible to operate an air service flying them off a city centre rooftop deck...
Be funny if the pilot got confused and picked the wrong rooftop in the fog or at night....
ziking Ragnar
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When surplus Lockheed Vikings are re-purposed by ziking Aerospace they become ziking Ragnars.
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The Ragnar is an eight seat (five passengers, three crew) carrier capable luxury biz-jet.
Modifications made by zA include lowering the cabin floor into what was the bomb bay, turning the nose into a luggage compartment, moving the engines outboard, decommissioning the crew ejector seats and installing escape hatches.
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Air Gully International operate a fleet of Ragnars flying wealthy gamblers from Australian state capitals to the floating casinos built on former aircraft carriers moored just outside territorial waters to avoid the nations gambling ban.
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The Model
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Revell (Hasegawa) Lockheed S-3B Viking.
Home made transfers.
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Great idea well executed.
What does it use the sonobuoy launchers for, though? ;) (The multitude of small round hatches on the underside of rear fuse.)
Cute! Looks great in the civilian livery. :thumbsup:
Cool :thumbsup:
Quote from: Snowtrooper on August 16, 2019, 04:35:46 AM
Great idea well executed.
What does it use the sonobuoy launchers for, though? ;) (The multitude of small round hatches on the underside of rear fuse.)
Is that what they are? I did wonder.
I haven't allocated the space in the back end of the fuselage for anything. Ummmm, toilet could be in there plus cargo space for deliveries to the Casino/Carriers. So maybe they are ejector ports for the rapid unloading of wine and spirits? You want as quick a turnaround time as possible given the limited deck space.
Cracking job there Fred. LOVE the colour scheme! :thumbsup:
Empty beer can ejectors, perhaps?
I never would have thought of turning an S-3 into a civvie plane but that looks really cool. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: Fantastic idea that lends itself to many other schemes like Air New Zealand or Qantas. You could even chuck on another 2 engines and it could be the upgrade to the Whisper jet
Brilliant, bud!!! This is very good, I love it!!! The Viking has always been a favorite of mine and it never occured to me to civilianise one but it is just begging for it, isn't it? :mellow: :mellow: :mellow: :mellow:
:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :mellow: :mellow:
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Is the guy in the yellow suit meant to be Jimmy Saville?
Thanks folks.
Lee - The three guys are from an Elhiem figures set called something like 70's cops. Their names are Big Phil, Bob and Sanjay. Bob is the one in the yellow (bri-nylon) suit. I modelled him on Bob Downe.
Excellent job! :thumbsup:
Quote from: zenrat on August 16, 2019, 05:17:55 AM
Quote from: Snowtrooper on August 16, 2019, 04:35:46 AM
Great idea well executed.
What does it use the sonobuoy launchers for, though? ;) (The multitude of small round hatches on the underside of rear fuse.)
Is that what they are? I did wonder.
I haven't allocated the space in the back end of the fuselage for anything. Ummmm, toilet could be in there plus cargo space for deliveries to the Casino/Carriers. So maybe they are ejector ports for the rapid unloading of wine and spirits? You want as quick a turnaround time as possible given the limited deck space.
They could be ejectable storage cannisters that are hired by the passengers. You hire as many cannisters as you need, load any items into them that you might want to disassociate yourself from, and then your cannisters are electronically linked to a button on your seat. If the aircraft is intercepted by authorities intent on seizing those items, or forced to land somewhere where those items might prove to be an embarrassment, then you just hit the button while you're still over the sea. :thumbsup:
Quote from: Dizzyfugu on August 16, 2019, 05:54:27 AM
Empty beer can ejectors, perhaps?
Yup, or confetti containers for when it's hired by wedding parties as the "getaway vehicle" ? ;)
Cracking job mate :thumbsup: I've sent a copy of the pics to my great niece, she will love it ;D
Thanks guys.
Proper cool that one Fred, i like :thumbsup:
Chris
Thanks Chris.