F-104EZ Egg-Zwilling (finished page2)

[Tophe]

it would resemble those little two pod fighters from the cloud city in the Empire Strikes Back.

Yes, thanks! hehehe...
https://www.thelogbook.com/toybox/twin-pod-cloud-car

[ericr]

 

[Tophe]

Thanks!

Ahem, the F-104EZ prototype has been born, unperfectly, but this is ready for paint :

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_5257_104ez.jpg

[Tophe]

Starting to paint the underside. And from this angle, with the wings not hidden by the round fuselage, you can fully see how "big" they are!

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_5267_104ez.jpg

[Tophe]

About micro-wings, remember that the F-104 was not a sailplane but called "the piloted missile" (I have heard that, I do not guarantee this is true)

[Tophe]

Painting the side above into a true airplane, not bi-color anymore (putty+plastic)

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_5273_104ez.jpg

[Tophe]

Nobody asked but I imagine your question: "what is the thing between both tailplanes?". Ahem, there are two levels of answers, very different:
1/ What-if imagination.
   The true tailplane below is there for solidity and aerodynamics. The false tailplane above is a top secret device, supported by something impossible to describe (without being killed by secret agents)...
2/ What-if practice.
   I am an unrealistic modeler and I was tired feeling painful (from my illness) when I glued the fuselages together, and I included the tailplane to join solidly; this tailplane had too much span, destroying parallelism, but I was feeling so bad, I let it like that and went to bed. The next day, I did not destroy all to glue that in a better way after reducing the span of the tailplane. I decided to glue the upper tailplane above on a support without touching fins (too far). A pylon would be very fragile, so I used instead an air intake, half round with large basis, solid yes while surprising/as an unrealistic joke.

[Tophe]

The model is now finished!

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_5276_104ez.jpg
More pictures later (I hope the flash of my camera will work again...)

[Tophe]

The flash of the camera still doesn't work, but I think there is enough light today to take photographs of the finished models.




= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_5288_104ez-6h.jpg
+ http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_5284_104ez-x4.jpg
+ http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_5292_tfm.jpg
+ http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_5295_tfm-x4.jpg

[Tophe]

With mirror copies, I may add tri-fuselage versions, even more unreal (whif-way):


= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_5288_104ez-6h-x2.jpg
+ http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_5292_tfm-x2.jpg

[ericr]

trillings ?

[zenrat]

Very good Tophe.

[kerick]

trillings ?

That's the word for it! Well done, again!

[Tophe]

Thanks!

For the word Trilling, I am not sure. Zwilling is a German word, good for its unusual abbreviation Z, while T for Twin could be T for T-tail.
And in German 3 is Drei so Dreilling maybe.
With Google Translate: triplex brothers are called drillingsbrüder, so Drilling more than Trilling?

[Tophe]

About scale, it was not written on the kit box, of course as this very transformed and not exact copy
I think the canopy height is something as 1/32, canopy length as 1/48, fuselage length as 1/72, span as 1/144 (as can be shown on the TFM double-wing in my hand):

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_5316_tfm.jpg