JSF in RN Service

[gengriz]

So which one would you have preferred to see?

F-35 "Lightning 2" - 801 Sqn HMS PRINCE OF WALES

F-32 "Sea Cobra" - 892 Sqn HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH


(Both are older builds that have received the Photoshop treatment).

F-35 - 1/72 Italeri X-35
F-35 - 1/72 Italeri X-32

FredT

[lenny100]

nice aircraft.
But by the time these aircraft get to sea there will only be a single squadron of raf aircraft from no 1 squadron (the first squadron in armed dervice in the world and origonaly a royal navail air serive squadron untill 1918.

[nev]

I've always preferred teh look of the F-32, since it has "character"

And Radish has always had the names of the carriers down pat - HMS Improbable and HMS Unlikely

[PR19_Kit]

We're all different, thank goodness. 

To my mind that Boeing 'thing' is a total aerodynamic and stylistic disaster. I was never more pleased when the F-35 won the contest.

[Captain Canada]

I'd take the Sea Cobra...name and all ! But I'd rather see it in the colours of your F-35. Nice builds, btw !

[Taiidantomcat]

I didn't realize those were models until i saw Cpt. Canada use the word "build" i thought they were photoshopped versions of the real deal!! Excellent Job!!

[AeroplaneDriver]

Based on looks alone I always preferred the MDD/BAe contender...

http://www.jsf.mil/images/gallery/cddr/mda_ngc_bae/cddr_mda-ngc-bae_006.jpg

Those are two great builds though...the F-35 in particular looks like a publicity shot from LockMart.

[Weaver]

I always prefered the X-32 because of the way it worked (true to the single-vectored-thrust-engine  principle) and in spite of it's looks. I have to say though, that until I bought a kit of one recently, I didn't appreciate just how strange it is! Name-wise I found a post by someone on another forum slagging it off as "looking like a demented bullfrog", so that's it for me; it would HAVE to be the Boeing F-32 Bullfrog.....

Nice builds and good photoshop Gengriz!

[philp]

Think I have seen the name for the F-32 as the Monica 



I'll get my coat...

[AeroplaneDriver]

I kinda have a soft spot for the X-32, and I think the final version of the X-32/F-32 looked a lot better than the one that actually flew.  One of these days I may try to convert the Italeri kit to the revised version.

[PR19_Kit]

I also admit to a certain pro-F-35 bias here as I helped install and maintain the monster welder that makes the front lift fans for the JSF.

It welds the fan blades onto the hubs by rubbing them together, a bit like starting a fire by rubbing two Boy Scouts together......  

[jcf]

I always prefered the X-32 because of the way it worked (true to the single-vectored-thrust-engine  principle) and in spite of it's looks. I have to say though, that until I bought a kit of one recently, I didn't appreciate just how strange it is! Name-wise I found a post by someone on another forum slagging it off as "looking like a demented bullfrog", so that's it for me; it would HAVE to be the Boeing F-32 Bullfrog.....

Nice builds and good photoshop Gengriz!

To be fair Italeri hosed the kit on a few points, the vertical fins are incorrectly positioned and the belly bump is exaggerated,
the X-32 wasn't quite as strange as the model appears. 



The production design does make for an interesting comparison.


Jon

[sideshowbob9]

Great models both! 

My choice would be the F-32. The F-35 looks right but the F-32 is funky