What to do with a Privateer?

[Radish]

Talking "Testbeds", it'd look good in a Raspberry Ripple scheme

And I like the airliner idea too....nice one Alvis.

And the Aussie MR role is good too.....

[The Wooksta!]

Someone mentioned contraprops. Don't stop at the props, find an old Frog Shackleton or one of the eastern European reissues therof and re-engine it entirely.

A Privateer with Griffons and contraprops would look plenty sweet methinks.

Nah, Bristol Centaurus and five blade props from the Sea Fury could look mean enough...

[upnorth]

Someone mentioned contraprops. Don't stop at the props, find an old Frog Shackleton or one of the eastern European reissues therof and re-engine it entirely.

A Privateer with Griffons and contraprops would look plenty sweet methinks.

Nah, Bristol Centaurus and five blade props from the Sea Fury could look mean enough...

Yeah, that could go well too!

[Alvis 3.14159]

Alvis' airliner is not far off the mark of real Convair proposals and a built aircraft:
The Model 39 Liberator Liner which used PB4Y-2 wings, engines and tail mated to a new fuselage.
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,10138.0.html

My lord, that's a hideous nose on that plane! Looks like it had an accident with a hangar wall. It would look good in an American Railroad scheme however.

But yuck..I mean...yuck.
Alvis Pi

[upnorth]

My lord, that's a hideous nose on that plane! Looks like it had an accident with a hangar wall. It would look good in an American Railroad scheme however.

But yuck..I mean...yuck.
Alvis Pi

Bears rather a resemblance to a C-133 without the thimble radar on the nose. Not that the C-133 was much of a looker herself mind you.