F-86Z Twin-Sabre coming…

Tophe · November 18, 2012, 07:21:57 AM

As Christmas gift from my wife, we have ordered two copies of Trumpeter Sabre 1/144, so cheap...

As I lack skills to build the not swept wing junction between fuselages, I plan to glue one to each other :

Tophe · November 18, 2012, 10:14:45 AM

What to do with the remaining wings and tailplanes? Spare-box? No: maybe biplane...

Sticky Fingers · November 18, 2012, 12:52:34 PM

By pure coincidence I was working on just that idea! Not for actual building, but just as a profile.
It's not really done yet, but this is roughly my idea:

loupgarou · November 18, 2012, 02:46:27 PM

The Bussard is fantastic. Would require a lot of work, flattening the fuselage tops, creating the central wings and nacelle...
I wonder if a Vampire centre pod could be used at least for the nacelle rear.
But it's really worth building.

Joe C-P · November 18, 2012, 03:27:58 PM

Well well, that's promising.

Tophe · November 18, 2012, 04:50:47 PM

The Me-86 is wonderful, and was very possible in outside world

. Thanks.

Ahem, my biplane is simply crazy, for fun, like I did for my biplane Twin-Spitfire (http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,31633.0.html )...
The F-86Z will be asymmetric too: starboard fuselage = jet with nose air intake, port fuselage = rocket with conical nose...

kerick · November 18, 2012, 08:09:08 PM

I will be watching this thread closely. Great imagination.
This would fit in with the collection I saw at a model show quite a long time ago. There was a biplane RN Sea Vixen as I recall. The explanation was that the RN was still cautious about the new jet technology.

rickshaw · November 19, 2012, 01:11:36 AM

Quote from: loupgarou on November 18, 2012, 02:46:27 PM
The Bussard is fantastic. Would require a lot of work, flattening the fuselage tops, creating the central wings and nacelle...
I wonder if a Vampire centre pod could be used at least for the nacelle rear.
But it's really worth building.

I think you'll find he's inverted the F-86 fuselages in that profile.

loupgarou · November 19, 2012, 09:34:17 AM

Quote from: rickshaw on November 19, 2012, 01:11:36 AM

I think you'll find he's inverted the F-86 fuselages in that profile.

Oops, that escaped me, sorry

Tophe · November 20, 2012, 11:00:34 AM

The whole project is cancelled, sorry: Trumpeter does not produce anymore the F-86 144th... So I have changed my order to another one (with the approval of my wife, paying the difference).
$:-\$