Twin-boom Mirage-5 (finished page 3)

[Tophe]

Thanks!
I will not fill the fuselages: these are not aircraft to fly, they are objects for shelves to be seen from above
(I know this is heretic for "serious modelers", but what-if spirit is not serious, often)

[Tophe]

(My wife has changed the workbench position and the 4 "special devices" replacing fins seem to have been lost. I will look for them again but I am not sure I will find them, maybe this little part of the project will disappear.)

Miracle! The "secret devices" (to replace fins gone on the twin-boomer) have appeared again, from nowhere (they were with the tools not the parts!), now ready for painting the side above when the glue is dry:

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_4823_m5bp.jpg

[Tophe]

The side above has been painted now. Just the canopy to make black and this will be finished:

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_4832_m5bp.jpg

[Scotaidh]

That certainly looks like trouble for someone! 

[Tophe]

Yes I fear there is trouble because I am almost like a what-ifer! What a shame!

Now the Mirage 3 V-V and Mirage 333FW models are finished:


= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_4835_m5bp.jpg
+ http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_4833_m5bp.jpg

[Scotaidh]

Very nice! 

Qu'est que c'est, "almost like a what-ifer"?  You are one of us, Tophe, and we'd all be a lot poorer without you. 

Poorer in imagination, in non-centrist thinking, in courage to do something no-one else has ever done before, & in vision of what's possible - or impossible.

You're an important part of this jigsaw puzzle we call What If?   

Please don't forget that. 

[Tophe]

Thanks for your support (psychological assistance)! My skills are poor and I am not as good as most ones here, just trying to build something not just to draw and transform pictures.
And my word "almost a what-ifer" was a joke like talking to normal realist dominating modelers (for whom what-ifer is an acute insult like childish stupid evil !)

Now, I can present each model separately :





= links http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_4800_m5bp.jpg
+ http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_4805_m5bp.jpg
+ http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_4806_m5bp-x4.jpg
+ http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/r_IMG_4843_m5bpt-x4.jpg
+ http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_4839.jpg

[zenrat]

Excellent Tophe.


This...

...looks like an Ekranoplan.

[Tophe]

Thanks!
You are right that flapping wings in low position look like the strong anhedral of several ekranoplans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFB_X-114
(for my model, the things at wingtips are not floats but help to make the model stand without inverted delta that would bring wingtips near the center of gravity...)

[Tophe]

With Corel PhotoPaint (software from Canada) mirror copy tool, I can complete further the Mirage family (both twin-boom part and flapping wing part): :


= links http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_4833_m5bpx2tb.jpg
+ http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_4833_m5bp_x2fw.jpg