Help Me Decide What to Build Next...

[Hman]

I haven't built anything for a long time, and I am lacking any inspiration (), so help me decide...the options are - Airfix 1/72:

• Harrier GR3
  
• MIG 21
• Northrop F5

Post your preference (and even suggest a 'whif'  if you want...)

[pyro-manic]

Bash them together! F-5 with the 21's delta wings? VTOL Mig?

[Army of One]

GR3 in Finnish colours with soviet type weapon load out   

[Weaver]

If you put the F-5 wings onto the MiG-21 fuselage, it would be not unlike some real proposals. You could probably add the F-5's canopy too.

For the Harrier, why not do it in US Army markings, as if they won their battle with the USAF to get control of CAS? Alternatively, give it to the Luftwaffe who really should have bought it for real...

[B777LR]

Swiss, Austrian, German (Following reuniting, but lets say it stayed in service today ) or Swedish markings for the MiG-21.

Indian, North Vietnamese, Israeli or Danish markings for the F-5.

Indian, Zimbabwean, Rhodesian, South African, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swiss, Canadian, Argentine, Brazilian, Australian, South Vietnamese, New Zealandish or Chilean Harrier

[Hman]

Thanks for the ideas...

hmmm... a Finnish Harrier and a 'Mig/F5 combo'...hmmm 

[Dork the kit slayer]

Whatever you like but if the F5 is the original F5A...stay well clear as a build...parts yes,build no.

[Hman]

Whatever you like but if the F5 is the original F5A...stay well clear as a build...parts yes,build no.

The kit is not a good fit?

[JayBee]

Whatever you like but if the F5 is the original F5A...stay well clear as a build...parts yes,build no.

Ah but if you are making it as a canard for the Navalise It GB, where is the problem?

JimB

[Dork the kit slayer]

True.........you pays yer money you takes yer chance.

[Gary]

I read a while back that the U2 wasn't a completely clean sheet of paper design, but in fact the F-104 fuselage modified a whole heck of a lot, and a pair of glider wings strapped on.  Based on that I started a Mig 21 (the Russian Starfighter) along that path but I used the A-model Mig  and a set of H-Craft Dash 8 wigs but I couldn't get them to hold together no matter what. The project got tossed in the bin. However, Dork, you have a lot more skill than I. My mistake was working with poopy items. I should have scratch built the wings (If I knew how) and used two better quality Mig 21s. In the end I think she would have been a cool project.

[B777LR]

I read a while back that the U2 wasn't a completely clean sheet of paper design, but in fact the F-104 fuselage modified a whole heck of a lot, and a pair of glider wings strapped on.

It actually bears a lot of resemblance to the P-80 too.

[Hman]

I have started a build - see the "Committee Build" in the build thread.