XNI-02 Kameleon

[maxmwill]

I got a package yesterday from the Ukraine.

Xmas came early for me.

Among the models in the package, was a small kit for an XNI-02 Kameleon, which was supposedly something of an All Fools Day joke in a Hungarian airplane magazine.

This was a hybrid of a P51B fuselage, the wings and stab(bolted to the ends of the wings) of a Ju87, and the stab and nose(with guns) of a P38, power being supplied by a pair of BMW 003s mounted on the fuselage just aft of the cockpit.

As the listing did not specify which mark of the P51 was used, or the parts of the P38(I'll have to mention that to Igor really soon), I went ahead and scrounged a couple 1/72 kits of a P51D and a Ju87.

Here is a link from Wings Palette which has the profile:

http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww2/f/1556/13/0#1

So far, it is going together fairly well, and I think I can scrounge the other parts I'll need, as I trundle along with this.

[Old Wombat]

Actually, the article says exactly which mark of P-51 was used (P-51B), what it doesn't tell you is which marks of Ju.87 & P-38 were used, however I'm not sure if it really matters for a whif.

This plane (model only) was built from model kits: French liner Caravelle for the two motors; Ju.87 - Wings (+ the tail wings used for the end of the wings); P-51 - all the fuselage (P-51B); P-38 - the tails wings and the nose (with the guns).

[maxmwill]

Not the description that is in Unicraft for the model. Here:

This weird aircraft was built at the end of the WWII in Hungary. An odd hybrid of P-51 Mustang fuselage and Ju-87 Stuka wings/stabilizers was powered by two German BMW.003 jets. The formidable armament consisted of two 30mm MK.103 guns in the front of the fuselage, two 12.7mm machine guns in the former radiator air intake in the belly, four bazooka rockets or two 250kg bombs under the wing. The front portion of the fuselage, tail unit and landing gear were considerably modified. The aircraft flew its maiden flight probably at the end of 1944. All the rest information about this interesting plane is unknown.

http://www.unicraft.biz/on/kameleon/kameleon.htm


I realized that something was a bit off when I was comparing the model P51 I got for this with the 1/72 three view that showed the complete craft.

It was afterward I discovered the differences.

And realistically, I doubt that it really doesn't matter very much, as this is a purely fictitious flying machine, like the Sanka fighter in Skycrawlers when compared with the actual J7W Shiden, so even if I have a D model P51 to use, it'll still build into an acceptable model(acceptable to me, seeing as I'm building the model anyway).

Still, some people might get a tad upset, or more than a tad as seems the case with some people.