Twin-P39vtol

Tophe · December 04, 2005, 08:36:37 PM

I had bought 2 kits of Unicraft Models' Yuriev Kit-1 (Soviet P-39 VTOL tailsitter), due to bad memory - before and after my 2 years in hospital (1998-2000). Now finding them again, I am going to build them together, as a Zwilling Kit-11Z. Thanking again Glenn, that has invented the Twin-Triebflugel...

With the sad experience of the Replica XP-77 (still not finished, if ever...), I have not at all removed the thin resin cover of the canopy place (normally to remove and replace by the included vacform clear part, for normal modellers wanting a clear canopy instead of my black painted ones), I have reinforced this by internal putty, before gluing the half fuselages. Slightly improving, learning from mistakes of the past...

Alvis 3.1 · December 04, 2005, 11:05:28 PM

Excellent..glad to see the great and intelligent Tophe putting resin to the glue!
Good luck and may all your exacto cuts be in plastic!

Alvis 3.1

NARSES2 · December 05, 2005, 12:00:51 AM

Thats going to be very interesting Tophe - glad to see you've got the enthusiasm back

Chris

Tophe · December 10, 2005, 10:56:12 PM

The main hardwork is done: wings (and the Zwilling stands solid in one piece). A lot remains to do though...

Tophe · January 11, 2006, 10:20:29 AM

Unicraft 1/72 Yuriev Kit-11 on her way to completion...

(there will be no propeller blades - no need of propelling, as this is a desk object, not a flying machine... while I needed a front stabiliser, to reach the twin-boom status instead of twin-pod flying-wing...)

Alvis 3.1 · January 11, 2006, 11:36:20 AM

Looking good!
And of course, it's a twin boom!

Alvis 3.1

Allan · January 11, 2006, 08:00:55 PM

Good work Tophe!

Any progress since the last piccie?

Allan in Canberra

Tophe · January 11, 2006, 08:53:54 PM

Yes, the lower fins are glued. All the side below is painted, just the upper side to paint and this will be all!

The golden colour is intended to be displayed close to my ProTwinUs, another tail-sitter of mine...
The lower fins' flaps are in the wrong direction if this had been a flying machine, but my goal was simply to organize the standing without wheels and gears...

Tophe · January 13, 2006, 10:33:34 AM

Here is, completed, the Kit-11 standing with the ProTwinUs: ^_^

Tophe · January 13, 2006, 10:35:43 AM

Those crazy scale 1/1 not-propelled toys of mine come from the nice 1/72 Unicraft resin models of the airplanes Yuriev Kit-1 and Scaled Proteus. Much better can be done with those kits, concerning true details and serious colours, while I simply build them my way, having fun out of the realist way...
(The ProTwinUs building explanation is the topic http://www.whatifmodelers.com/forum//index...?showtopic=7217 )