MiG-3-47 Thunder-i-Mikoyan

[Tophe]

Opening my old box (1996?) of P-51B with Malcolm Hood, I have been surprised to find a half-completed P-47D Razorback, butcherized in streamlining (flat sharp nose instead of the radial engine big nose). But the canopy and tailplanes are lost, and this big span is too much for a single plane (according to me). So I am going to marry it with a MiG-3 (Cap Croix du Sud, 1/72) into a twin-plane with a single tail. That is the project.

[deathjester]

Who is Malcom Hood, and what has he done with your P51B?!!

Streamlined -47 sounds good though....probably a fair swap...!!

[Tophe]

For the Malcolm Hood, see http://www.gdkits.com/172-p51b-mustang-malcolm-hood-vacuform-canopy-2-for-haseg-p-13592.html
According to books, the Malcolm canopy was a British one (from Spitfire?) accepted by the US, but I will build this Malcolm-Mustang in another topic later. Now: P-47+MiG-3 mix.

[Tophe]

After a few drops of glue (and plastic cutting) on the MiG, and putty and the P-47, one may see better the project of twin plane glider:

[Tophe]

(With the source http://richard.ferriere.free.fr/3vues/p47c_1_3v.jpg )
Here is the transformation I operated (aesthetical surgery):

[Tophe]

Some Eastern observers had said: "American girls are ugly, Russian girls are pretty, so our common twin-plane will be aesthetically asymmetric". Hey, American people know what a challenge is!

[Tophe]

This is finished... (my way): the streamlined P-47 has been saved from destruction