Your daughters got good taste  and happy birthday 

It's nice when your children buy what you want, not what your wife thinks you should want, for your birthday/Christmas/Fathers' Day.

Quote from: Old Wombat on June 16, 2022, 06:40:57 AM
It's nice when your children buy what you want, not what your wife thinks you should want, for your birthday/Christmas/Fathers' Day.

Indeed 

Quote from: NARSES2 on June 16, 2022, 01:22:11 AM
Your daughters got good taste  and happy birthday 

Thank you 

Happy Birthday mate.

Cheers 

Quote from: Flyer on November 09, 2020, 02:21:33 PM
Elecrajet mixed power electric and jet factory or homebuilt sport plane 1/48 (unfinished)

Started life as a Heller P-39Q, V-tail is Grumman Panther tailplane halves, canopy also from a Panther I think. Concept being that it would use both forms of power together for take off (and climbing or maneuvering), then for cruise it would use only the electric motor with the turbine at idle running a generator to supply a on the go trickle charge for the batteries to extend their run time, when the charge of the batteries gets too low the electric motor would be shut off and the prop feathered and the turbine would provide all propulsion for flight while also recharging the batteries, when the batteries are charged enough the electric motor would be restarted again. The red lines around the cockpit area and down the fuselage sides are the breakaway points for a parachute fitted escape capsule (similar to what a F-111 uses) for if there is a inflight emergency so that the pilot can safely get away from all the flammable stuff (lithium batteries, jet fuel, turbine etc...).

Seems like I am onto something with this, not exactly the same as what I have in mind for my concept but similar being developed by Rolls Royce:

https://interestingengineering.com/rolls-royce-turbogenerator-engine

Great minds   

You have a good eye for proportion BradF.  This looks "right".

Thank you

Personally I think it looks a bit long in the nose area, but it would need to be as the turbine and generator would be behind the cockpit area so the electric motor and some of the battery cells would need to be quite far forward to balance it out. There would be more battery cells in the wing's near the root and possibly around the main mono-wheel. Fuel tanks for the turbine would be just outboard of the wing battery cells.

A trip to a local second hand shop where I've found kit's failed to provide any more kit's but got these three books that may provide some tips that I don't already know, and if not at least I have some fresh material to read. The shop is closing down so everything is half price, these were $1.50 each.

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If nothing else they will provide inspiration.  Good score.   

I posted the magazine yesterday BTW.

Thanks Fred  

I've still got that Airfix Magazine Guide 

All three of those books were written by masters of the art in their time. 

I'd venture to suggest that the word 'airbrush' doesn't occur in  any of them 

Quote from: PR19_Kit on January 11, 2023, 08:53:26 AMAll three of those books were written by masters of the art in their time. 

I'd venture to suggest that the word 'airbrush' doesn't occur in  any of them 

Probably not the words photo etch either.