Done! Done at last!

[Doc Yo]

Soooooo beautiful!

But you know you just have to build a second one. As a high-speed photo recon aircraft.  

True, but everyone would assume it's a Hughes XF-12. Or was it the XF-11? Whichever...


Alvis Pi

It was the XF-11. The XF-12 would have been the Republic Rainbow, a four-engined aircraft not easily confused
with its twin-boomed competitor. But thats of no moment. Its a beautiful conversion, and I'm glad I got to see it.

[The Rat]

You really don't want to be on the receiving end of this, do you?


Alvis Pi

I would almost consider it an honour! 

[sideshowbob9]

Amazing model!!!!

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

How the h*ll did I miss this.....  - well I've seen it now, and let's see if I think of some appropriate words.... No, no I can't. I'll settle for bl**dy fantastic  - that will have to do !!

Ian

[Green Dragon]

Truly awesome Alvis!  Been looking at T-33's & P-38's on ebay since seeing this on ARC. Love it to bits!

Paul Harrison

[Alvis 3.14159]

One thing to watch out for is if you use the T-33 nose, the landing gear bay is too short to accomodate a P-38 length strut*. This only occurred to me long after the plane was painted and I was dry fitting the gear. I *could* have ignored it, or explained it away with pneumatically expanding struts, but in the end, I cut a perfectly well painted model to add a dorr to the nose end of the bay. Dumb dumb dumb, and luckily, I didn't destroy anything in the process. This is actually not an uncommon situation for me, where something crops up I hadn't anticipated, and is one reason I don't do "In-Progress" pics. I hate to be reminded of my errors.

Alvis Pi

* A P-38 length strut is required to give the props clearance, something a T-33 never has to worry aboot!