i kinda wanna join this GB, i have some vacation time coming up in that timeline, so count me in 

Welcome matey 👍 😀

i have a 1/72 Revell Heinkel He70 Blitz in my stash (reboxed matchbox kit), and these come with both a BMW inline engine and a Gnome-Rhone 14K Radial engine. ive been playing with the idea of fitting the radial engine to a FW190, but the difference would not be all that great.
might try fitting it to a Hawker Hurricane or Gloster Gladiator.

I have an idea brewing in my head. It involves the Fujimi F-14 I started some decades ago which comes with a pair of engines on a stand. If I still have those then I can add them to something.

That something could be a small boat or truck. 

Quote from: Spey_Phantom on June 23, 2023, 06:13:56 AMi have a 1/72 Revell Heinkel He70 Blitz in my stash (reboxed matchbox kit), and these come with both a BMW inline engine and a Gnome-Rhone 14K Radial engine. ive been playing with the idea of fitting the radial engine to a FW190, but the difference would not be all that great.
might try fitting it to a Hawker Hurricane or Gloster Gladiator.

A Hurricane with a radial engine is very different and would be ugly as sin I think ..so it's perfect 🥰 

Quote from: Nick on June 23, 2023, 07:15:38 AMI have an idea brewing in my head. It involves the Fujimi F-14 I started some decades ago which comes with a pair of engines on a stand. If I still have those then I can add them to something.

That something could be a small boat or truck. 

Ohhh a twin jet boat or truck or anything which doesn't fly sounds epically nuts ..perfect again     

Real world re-engining project.  Lucy Ashton; a paddle steamer  Single cylinder 150hp  simple   diagonal coal fired steam engine (haystack boiler) .  In 1902 Engine replaced  with a 2Cylinder  compound-diagonal 175hp.    1949, four Rolls Royce Derwent V jet engines, each3,500 lbf (15.6 kN) of thrust   .      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxl8EEvLaqM.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS_Lucy_Ashton

Quote from: Rheged on June 23, 2023, 12:33:42 PMReal world -reengining project.  From a paddle steamer  with a compound-diagonal coal fired steam engine (haystack boiler) to four Rolls Royce Derwent V jet engines.      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxl8EEvLaqM.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS_Lucy_Ashton

Dude   

Quote from: Spey_Phantom on June 23, 2023, 06:13:56 AMi have a 1/72 Revell Heinkel He70 Blitz in my stash (reboxed matchbox kit), and these come with both a BMW inline engine and a Gnome-Rhone 14K Radial engine. ive been playing with the idea of fitting the radial engine to a FW190, but the difference would not be all that great.
might try fitting it to a Hawker Hurricane or Gloster Gladiator.

Alvis had a license for the Gnome-Rhone 14K series and they developed the 14-cylinder 1,000hp Pelides from the 14K. It was first run in 1937 but they couldn't generate any contracts with the Air Ministry or the airlines so the project was dropped.

The base Pelides was medium supercharged with a single-speed supercharger, the proposed Pelides Major was to be fully supercharged. Medium vs. full supercharging refers to the crankshaft to impeller speed ratio. The Pelides passed a 50-hour Air Ministry test in 1937 producing a maximum of 1,065 hp, only fifteen were built before being cancelled.

Quote from: Spey_Phantom on June 23, 2023, 06:13:56 AMi have a 1/72 Revell Heinkel He70 Blitz in my stash (reboxed matchbox kit), and these come with both a BMW inline engine and a Gnome-Rhone 14K Radial engine. ive been playing with the idea of fitting the radial engine to a FW190, but the difference would not be all that great.
might try fitting it to a Hawker Hurricane or Gloster Gladiator.

Radial Hurricane is interesting, tried one working on the concept of the RAAF using common engines for a lot of aircraft to streamline maintenance, so a Pratt and Whitney Twin Wasp.

I like that radial Hurricane, even though I'm a big 'normal Hurricane' fan.

That engine fit would have made a lot of sense in Oz at the time. 

Quote from: PR19_Kit on June 24, 2023, 04:11:05 AMI like that radial Hurricane, even though I'm a big 'normal Hurricane' fan.

OGL did one a good few years back I seem to recall.

That would likely have been the Czech Omega kit. They did various odd Hurricanes, the proposed Hercules version among them. I've a few tucked away.

Radical Radial , that will be the way ....   

Quote from: Spey_Phantom on June 23, 2023, 06:13:56 AMi have a 1/72 Revell Heinkel He70 Blitz in my stash (reboxed matchbox kit), and these come with both a BMW inline engine and a Gnome-Rhone 14K Radial engine. ive been playing with the idea of fitting the radial engine to a FW190, but the difference would not be all that great.
might try fitting it to a Hawker Hurricane or Gloster Gladiator.

It's a really horrible build, trust me. I have one on the go right now and I really wish I hadn't bothered.

Quote from: The Wooksta! on June 29, 2023, 01:09:48 PM

Quote from: Spey_Phantom on June 23, 2023, 06:13:56 AMi have a 1/72 Revell Heinkel He70 Blitz in my stash (reboxed matchbox kit), and these come with both a BMW inline engine and a Gnome-Rhone 14K Radial engine. ive been playing with the idea of fitting the radial engine to a FW190, but the difference would not be all that great.
might try fitting it to a Hawker Hurricane or Gloster Gladiator.

It's a really horrible build, trust me. I have one on the go right now and I really wish I hadn't bothered.

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