ONE FOR TOPHE

[NARSES2]

It is a nice little kit, isn't it Tophe

Would have mad an interesting Air Racer ?

Chris

[Dork the kit slayer]

Just spotted on Hannant's future arrivals page, by RS

Its another push me pull you..........only with twin booms........a wif for all seasons.

Anyone else see the"Shinden" family in this?.....no?....oh well back to the pre afternoon session drinks.  

[Tophe]

Would have made an interesting Air Racer ?
Chris

Yes, a push-pull twin-boom twin-DB605 racer, like the one I was showing in the twin-tail topic http://www.whatifmodelers.com/forum//index...?showtopic=6671 ...:

Thanks to P1127's discovery, I can present a true addition to my collection: Messerschmitt/Millette Me 109ZX, contemporary of Shinden, Yak9, P-51, Ho 229 etc, so dated 1945 somehow, even if famous for a later race.
This push-pull Me 109 could have been truly considered vs the Bf 109Z way... preferred at last for bigger size/room thus load/range.

Besides, as the XV-01 order did not reach the minimum £ amount for an invoice abroad, I had added a paint-can, and do you know what colour I have chosen? Not a green-grey-blue for military camo but bright orange to please my wife and... create a bright racer . But Chris, tell me, how did you know? I will check where my wife is actually going when she pretends going to work...  

[NARSES2]

Great minds think alike Tophe    

[Tophe]

Thanks to http://www.airwarfareforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=5182 I may add a view of this Marton twin-boomer. Though it seems very close to the Daimler-engined Fokker D-XXIII (or maybe an artist used the D-XXIII art as basis to ease his own work).

(on the picture, the Marton is above, the standard D-XXIII is below)

[Tophe]

One RS model has been built and displayed at
http://rumodelism.com/samizdat/page.php?id...to%20desc&cat=1
and http://rumodelism.com/samizdat/page.php?id...to%20desc&cat=1
So nice !
(and for the scale 1 prototype, there is the first photograph I have ever seen, great ! ...while this is a Photoshoped fake from the resin model said the modeller from Belarus at http://www.airwarfareforum.com/viewtopic.p...f930897216efd4e )

[Tophe]

Thanks to http://www.airwarfareforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=5182 I may add a view of this Marton twin-boomer.

Recent updates on the same site, by Mrys from Poland and DogsbodyMk2 from Canada's Alberta (our JHM? or his neighbour?) provide a far improved 3-view source, that I have turned into a kit box aspect:

Belated Edit after a new update: "It would be fair to mention the original Hungarian artist's name: László Benczúr, and the book's title the drawing was scanned from: 'A Magyar Királyi Honvédség Fegyverzete', by Bonhardt, Sárhidai & Winkler, Zrínyi Publ. House, Budapest, n.y".

[Tophe]

Hesham, of http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/ fame, told me the Marton X/V was also called Varga RMI-8. And at http://www.airwarfareforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=6404 Jemiba (with a smile then Toon seriously) suggested that this X/V was a Hungarian try to build the old Fokker D-XXIII with new Daimler-Benz engines, DenesBernad adding "The semi-finished prototype was destroyed in a hangar at Ferihegy airfield, near Budapest, along with other prototype airplanes, during the April 13, 1944 USAAF bombing raid".