Crappy teaser pic...

[rallymodeller]

Thought I'd post a pic of a project I've been working on:



Okay, so the pic is bad. But the model depicts a Falcon IV "turboram" fighter from SM Stirling's book "The Stone Dogs", part of a really good series of alternate-history books.  Will post more as I get it further along...

[cthulhu77]

Nice one!!!!  yep, keep on posting pics (even blurry ones) that is one hell of a cool looking jet!

            greg

[Tophe]

the model depicts a Falcon IV "turboram" fighter from SM Stirling's book "The Stone Dogs"

Great!  Could you tell us which kits did you use, mixing/adapting, or did you scratch build all from plastic card?

[rallymodeller]

Thanks for the kind words...

It uses the fuselage from the Monogram "Young Astronauts" X-15. The cockpit, tailcone and horzontal stabilizers are carried over unmodified from the Italeri 1/72 F-16C/D kit. The vertical tails are the F-16's wings cut down, the fairing between the vert. tails is the base of the F-16's tail, and the wings are the tailplanes fron the old Hasegawa RA-5C kit. Underneath is the bottom of the F-16's fuselage with air intake (the intake starts about where the wing leading edges meet the fuselage).

Dunno if anyone else has read the Domination books, but there are a lot of cool vehicle ideas in there. I also have the opposing Alliance for Democracy P-79 on the go, based on an ancient Bomarc model I got in a box of junk.

[Radish]

Haven't read  "Stone Dogs" yet....I've got it, but my favourite has to be "Marching Through Georgia"....read it 3 times so far.
Really fantastic books.  

[Jschmus]

I haven't read any of the Draka stuff in years, and much of my knowledge of their tech is limited to the Eurasian War stuff, so I went hunting, and found this chronology:

Post-War Domination Timeline

Scroll down to 1973 for this reference:

Falcon IV turboram fighter, Mach 4, virtual control panel and crystal-sandwich displays, computer intercession on maneuvers with pilot override, integral medicomp with pilot monitoring and medication injection, two 30mm gatlings (not primary weapons system), simulated weapons employment and AI override of pilot for training "kills," hydrogen compound (hydride) fuel. Trainer cost 1.75 million aurics.

and 1976 for this:

Falcon VI-a turboram fighter: canopy opaques automatically to shield against space-based optical-frequency lasers, Skorpion AAMs and 30mm cannons, electrodetector not capable when entering lower altitudes (ionization), radiation detector, 7 g capability, Mach 1.7 to 3, for high to medium altitude. Ground kit includes night-sight helmet with jamming detector, anti-dazzle. Flight suit includes radiation detector.

I can think of a few air forces that would love to have something like this.