Spitshort Mk.1

[Tophe]

Ahem, feminine cleaning and changing places, for decoration... I found the 1/32 T-tail Spitfire of mine (http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,26127.html) with no tailplanes anymore... and there is no more place on the wall for it...
Well, I may try to save it: making it short, small (like Me 163 for tail-less fuselage, truncated wings, removed propeller)...

[Tophe]

Truncation has occured...
Now I just have to make it an airplane again somehow...

[Tophe]

(after puty and sanding, this turns to be an actual rocket-plane, with big black canopy, just the tail remains to be done)

[Tophe]

This is the project principle: the Spitfire hero was facing the Me-109 piston, the Spitshort candidate could have faced the Me-163 rocket...

[AXU]

I'm quite curious how would look to the final.
Symmetric,or...? 
Alex

[Thiel]

I don't think Tophe knows how to do symmetric. I wouldn't be surprised if he wore different shoe on each foot.

[Tophe]

Surprisingly, this one will be symmetric: the main issue was size for this 1/32 model, far too big. So it is mostly a very-shortend one:

(the rocket exhaust is the previous filler-tube plug... )
I will paint it, and it will be finished. Will this be enough to avoid the garbage can

[AXU]

 

Surprisingly, this one will be symmetric...

I had a feeling that this Spit will be symmetric 

[Brian da Basher]

Talk about taking lemons and making lemonade! Excellent save, Tophe!

You've got some serious putty-fu there my friend.

Already looking forward to more,
Brian da Basher

[Tophe]

The Spitshort Mk.1 is finished:

If you look closely, you will notice this one is not completely symmetric: the fin is not vertical!
2 hypothesis for that:
1- I am a bad modeller, particularly bad for cyano gluing/handling
2- This angled fin came from the Spitfire² basis that was used for the Spitshort rocket-Spit: with a huge piston-engine and dangerous torque needing to be compensated somehow...

[Tophe]

Other angles of this Rocket-powered Spitfire, inspired by the Me-163 Komet:

[Brian da Basher]

This looks like the British reply to some of those late-war German rocket planes. Very plausable indeed!

Nice work, Tophe!

Brian da Basher

[Slerski]

It can be a nice example of 40' space fighter

The Spacefire, for the Royal Space Force, facing Space Bf109 !!

[Pablo1965]

wow! Heavens another Spìt Icon.