AAC Curtis LeMay (Dusting off an old one)

[proditor]

What is an AAC?  An airborne Aircraft Carrier of course.  I started this...ugh, about 5 years ago.  My recent spate of actually finishing things has given me a heady rush of optimism, and as I wait for the decals for my pint-sized Polikarpov, I figured I'd take another shot at this monster.

Donor kit: The old revell ATB, scale-o-rama'd to 1/700.  Airwing is a couple of modified F-15's, and a Vigilante.

Here's the test pic from 5 years ago:



Work resumes tonight.  New pics by the weekend, possibly sooner.

[Tophe]

 
Very funny...
Just a question: your F-15s seem to have undercarriage and wheels still, is that appropriate to stay fixed when the mother-plane is flying? and is there a rolling/"taking off" or something else for children-planes to be released? Tell us: make us dream...

[Taiidantomcat]

Excellent Idea!! 

[Cobra]

Have you played Any of the 'Ace Combat' Games? your project sounds Almost like a Craft from Ace Combat 6!Dan

[jcf]

Interesting, here's a similar critter, The Doom's Sky City from the mid-80s Marvel/Epic 4-part Crash Ryan comic.
The good-guys have a giant twin-hulled flying boat AAC. Very pulpy and fun stuff. 

[PR19_Kit]

Jon,

That's totally bizarre!

How do they get the parasites aboard when the AAC is flying right to left and they are landing ACROSS the wing/deck? The approach must be a tad curved, to say the least.

Having said all that, it does bear an amazing likleness to proditor's model.

[proditor]

Very funny...
Just a question: your F-15s seem to have undercarriage and wheels still, is that appropriate to stay fixed when the mother-plane is flying? and is there a rolling/"taking off" or something else for children-planes to be released? Tell us: make us dream...

I think they still have (reinforced of course) landing gear, as I envision them as not much different than Navy aircraft.  The AAC can "sprint" to locations at 500 mph, but standard flight operations are rarely over the cruise speed of 100 mph.  However, there is a small addition we haven't seen yet.  There might be some sort of crazy strutwork trapeze thing waiting to go in an open bomb bay or something. 

As to Ace Combat, no I am sadly a novice.  Played a lot of the older flight sims, all the way up to the computer version of crimson skies, then I lost interest.  Moved on to Real Time Strategy games.  I think I missed the insane flight control rig I used to have that was obscenely precise (Thrustmaster joystick, throttles, and rudder pedals).

Sky city.  Darn.  Just goes to show that no idea is truly new.  I came up with the first rough plans years before I started, right around the time of the release of the original kit.  It just had this big broad more or less flat section in the middle, and one day while moving stuff, I put one of my 1/700 scale planes on it as I gathered stuff together.  Voila, a dream is born.

[Doc Yo]

Interesting, here's a similar critter, The Doom's Sky City from the mid-80s Marvel/Epic 4-part Crash Ryan comic.
The good-guys have a giant twin-hulled flying boat AAC. Very pulpy and fun stuff. 

There was also a short-lived attempt at revival in the pages of Dark Horse presents a few years later-
a couple of stories in B&W, but it petered out after that. A shame, as Crash was a pretty good character,
the stories were fairly intelligent, and a lot of the planes were cool.

Looks like a promising build, Proditor!

[sotoolslinger]

Now that is one cool idea right there

[proditor]

Allergies are attempting to rip my face off again, so no new pics.  The plane is all together, just needs some PSR before heading off to paint.

Here's one other old picture of the airwing to tide folks over.  The smaller planes are Attack planes, the bigger ones, Air superiority, and the the one with the AWACS dish should be self explanatory.    No, the B-1 is not a mistake.  Yes, it is part of the airwing.

[Tophe]

the the one with the AWACS dish should be self explanatory.  

A supersonic AWACS (without the rotodome not torn away by fast air), this is so ridiculous funny...

PS. Has the B-1 some (wonderful) biplane tailplane or is it (alas) just shadow?

[proditor]

AWACS: They used REALLY strong glue. 

B-1: Unfortunately, your eyes don't decieve you, it is a shadow.

[philp]

So, since you brought this up in another thread, what is going on with this project?

[proditor]

I got it glued together, and primed, and started PSR when the wife stepped on it.   

It's really minor in the grand scheme, I just need to get my head back in the game on it.