The F-7 T Warthog Stolen Technology

[sotoolslinger]

1941
The 5 inch shells splashing in front of her bow finally convinced the captain of the Trimson Grondag II to heave to and be boarded. The royal commonwealth marines quickly swarmed the Norway flagged freighter and secured it for the combined allied intelligence  team. The team, consisting of Austrailian, New Zealand, and British (and some guy from Texas, definitly not an American mercenary) intelligence agents quickly discovered that the " Norwegian" crew barely spoke the language and that the two Japanese officers and two German scientists definitly did not belong on this civilian freighter.
An accident occured with the Japanese officers somehow going overboard and the two Germans became very forthcoming. They explained that they were advisers and that the hold of the frieghter was filled with German aircraft technology being shipped to Japan . With somewhat more persuasion it was discovered that one was an aircraft designer with Dornier and the other was a jet engine designer.
Onboard the ship was a nearly complete although unengined Dornier 335 prototype and several different jet engine designs.
1943 ,200 miles west of Pearl harbor, 5:30 am
This would be a great victory for the Axis against the American liars. The simultanious attacks against the US pacific fleet and their forces in the Aluetians would show the Americans that the Axis would no longer stand for them supplying the Allies with planes, ships, factories, supplies and mercenaries while swearing that they were not participating in the war.
The Japanese commander watched as a massive number of fighters and bombers began to take off from his carriers to attack Pearl.An officer was running at top speed across the deck towards him waving a dispatch, he began to hear an odd screaming roar over the sound of the launching aircraft, the Betty dive bomber taking off from the carrier exploded in flames and cannon shells slammed into the deck. The commander never  got his dispatch about the unbelievably fast flight of unidentified aircraft heading for his taskforce.15 seconds later he was obliterated by a 1000 lb bomb dropped by an F-7 T dual drive attack craft.

The Allies made the best use of the captured German technology by combining the jets with the Dornier airframe.

Supercharged Allison engines were installed in the Arrow fuselage, the rear engine with contraprops

The forward engine was adapted from the P-40  as this tooling was widely available

The upper deck guns were retained and Kiwi Power & Electric installed their new high velocity 30 mm cannon they had developed for the P-55 F. The long nose and added weight  required the installation of  forward canards to add lift to the nose and shorten the take off run. The canards were fully articulated and this also made the huge plane suprisingly manuverable.

The 1200 lb thrust jet engines were mounted in twinned pods to maximize thrust and minimize the plumbing needed to feed them.



This model is a later, radar and mad equipped, land based , model with the bomb bay replaced with radome and twin 20 mm cannon pod.

Here you can see the mad pod


This is one of my most detailed models as far as the decals go

I tried to use logical decals  that actually made sense



I figured the craft would need lots of gas

I knew with the jet engines it would need more wing so I extended the tips.

I also wanted to personalize the aircraft. This pilot has used his planes letter designators to spell SCHIZM

The planes VMFA markings were battle damaged on the port side and field repainted in a different color



1943 , 200 mile west of Pearl harbor, 7:30 am.
The Japanese attack force burned. The combined force of F-7 T's that launched after the torpedo and dive bombers had burned their jet fuel to catch up and overtake the conventional aircraft. The dual drive planes raced in at their top speed of 585 mph and made the initial attack just ahead of the standard planes. They then switched to their props and flew fighter cover at over 400 mph while the coventional bombers devastated the Japanese ships.
As they landed at Hawaiian airfields they received word that another Axis force had attacked the Alaskan island chain and cut off the supply lines to Russia. The next day America declared war.

[GTX]

Well that's different .

Regards,

Greg

[Brian da Basher]

That's truly a wonder to behold, sotoolslinger! I love how you've blended all these diverse elements together so well that one would think this bird really existed! Your masterful paintwork makes this even that much more convincing and the backstory is a perfect compliment. Two thumbs up!!!

Brian da Basher

[puddingwrestler]

most interesting. most interesting indeed.

[Eddie M.]

Where have you been hiding this stuff! This is a jawdropper for me. Outstanding presentation!! don't look over your shoulder, because I'm stalking you now.
  Eddie

[sotoolslinger]

Thanks ya'll . I  am in Austin TX. now for my job,  on about 5 minutes notice. I had to run down here cause one of our other lead men had a death in the family so I just grabbed what I could. Since I didn't know what kind of time I would have to build I grabbed  the F-7 T since I knew I hadn't done a thread on it. I am rebuilding the Avenger/ Skyrocket and hope to be able to work on it soon.
Eddie, couldn't think of a stalker I'd rather have.
BDB I wish I  had your imagination.

[John Howling Mouse]

Holy Keerap, man!  Talkin' about no boundaries----another example of absolute Gung-Ho-ism applied to styrene!

This one just screams off the screen-----it's like my stuff is golden <yawn> oldies music and you're bringing on the speed metal.

Very inspiring.  I've got to start taking more risks like you, Eddie, and tanktastic43 and puddingwrestler...and...

Is that a pod from an A-10 Warthog or an F-14 Tomcat you have on the starboard fuselage, too?

[Eddie M.]

Thanks ya'll . I  am in Austin TX. now for my job,  on about 5 minutes notice. I had to run down here cause one of our other lead men had a death in the family so I just grabbed what I could. Since I didn't know what kind of time I would have to build I grabbed  the F-7 T since I knew I hadn't done a thread on it. I am rebuilding the Avenger/ Skyrocket and hope to be able to work on it soon.
Eddie, couldn't think of a stalker I'd rather have.
BDB I wish I  had your imagination.

I'm about 70 miles east of you on HWY 290 in a little one horse town names Burton.
You ought to go down to 6th St. and take in some live music.
   Eddie

[Eddie M.]

Too much Red Bull

[sotoolslinger]

JHMouse, high praise coming from a modeler of your caliber. Many humble thanks. That is in fact a pod from an A-10 .I hope someday to equal your skill. Eddie ,thank's for the tip on 6th street, unfortunately I took a spill at work the other day so I now have my right leg in a cast due to a dislocated kneecap. I've been on my back for 2 days and just made it up today long enough to post these pictures. Hey it gives me time to critisize everyone else's work.

[Wyrmshadow]

Interesting. What sort of wings did you use?

[sotoolslinger]

The wings are the standard Do 335 wings with the tips cut off at a compound angle, I then added the wingtips from a 1/72 scale U-2 with quite a bit of anhedral (or is that dihedral?) angle.

[AeroplaneDriver]

needs more engines!!! 


but seriously...hardcore whiffery there!  Nicely done.   

[BlackOps]

Slinger, the first thing that comes to mind is MENACING! That is one mean lookin' mama!  Awesome build 

[Dork the kit slayer]

That is one strange beast.........right out of some "super hero" type mag. You certainly have my attention.