Models and pleasure to come…

Tophe · July 01, 2005, 01:11:08 AM

I have opened my kit boxes of boxes at last, and it was a goldmine I had partly forgotten... See:

Most of them are twin-tail real planes but I will follow Captain Canada's great Broncobra lesson: put the nacelle of one on the wings of another and vice versa...
Many are also ugly planes in double copy, that I did not intend to twin into Zwillings, but to show next to one another: real ugly vs improved beauty of mine. Now I hope I will be able to join them into couple Zwillings: real ugly = port fuselage, starboard beauty = starboard fuselage... For Goblin, Tunnan, Caudron 714, XP-77, etc.

Hobbes · July 01, 2005, 01:30:35 AM

That Spaceship One/White Knight, is that from Unicraft, or some other company?

NARSES2 · July 01, 2005, 01:56:59 AM

QuoteThat Spaceship One/White Knight, is that from Unicraft, or some other company?

I'm sure it's Unicraft Hobbes

Nice cllection you've got there Tophe - Zwilling Caudron Renault by any chance ?

Chris

Tophe · July 01, 2005, 02:08:16 AM

I confirm: the White Knight / Space Ship 1 are Unicraft. Do you have ideas of more what-if versions of them (not too hard for my modelling poor skills)? Well, I know we could install bombs and guns and military roundels, but I prefer civil ways and shape changes, by far (as far as I am concerned, while respecting the other ways).
The Caudron Renault is intented to be twinned like the one of Nicolas Pug featured in my Supplement 1 to Forked Ghosts, but the starboard fuselage will be different, aesthetically improved, with a bigger spinner and no ugly scoop below...

elmayerle · July 01, 2005, 02:42:53 AM

Well, for White Knight there's always it as the drop test vehicle for the X-37. This weel's AV&ST has pics.

(For those into it, it's also got a pick of the Evergreen 747 Firebomber doing a drop)

nev · July 06, 2005, 03:50:36 AM

Thats an awesome little stash you got there Tophe. I love looking at the old boxings of kits, reminds me of when I was a kid and makes the models seem somehow better.

Tophe · July 06, 2005, 06:07:37 AM

QuoteZwilling Caudron Renault by any chance ? Chris

Nicolas Pug's Caudron-Renault twin C-714TE is illustrated on the cover of my book at
http://www.la-plume-du-temps.fr/2-19.htm

Gary · July 06, 2005, 07:42:15 AM

Amazing stash my friend and I can't wait for the book. You have one presold... to me!

What a cool concept.

Tophe · July 06, 2005, 08:06:02 AM

QuoteAmazing stash my friend and I can't wait for the book. You have one presold... to me!
What a cool concept.

Uh? It is an old book, published in 2003... All is explained on my homepage: the old book Forked Ghosts, this Supplement 1, The end of Forked Ghosts (free, that you got), and the rest on the What-if forum. (If I had known this site before, I would never have made books, it is more pleasant to share freely, and enrich one another again and again...)

Thank you all

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