Lockheed XFV-1

[zenrat]

I just ordered the Valom kit of the Salmon (stupid name BTW IMO*).
I've done a thorough search of the forum and while a number of people appear to have bought a kit and announced it to be ideal Whiffing material, and others have written detailed alternate histories there seems to be little in the way of actual building that has gone on.
Anyone got anything they haven't shown?

I'm thinking of a CAS bird retaining the VTOL aspect and operating from small forest clearings.

* although it does look a bit like a fish - how about a "Nemo" camo job?...

[kitnut617]

I just ordered the Valom kit of the Salmon (stupid name BTW IMO*).

It never had an "official' name so it got it's name from the test pilot who flew it, Herman Salmon

[chiglet]

 although it does look a bit like a fish - how about a "Nemo" camo job? Speech, from test pilot no2...Ne more am I gonna fly that thing 

[PR19_Kit]

The Valom kit is by far the best of the XFV-1s out there. The Airmodel vacform is almost unbuildable, although it does have a good rendition of the injected 'standard mode' landing gear, and the Pegasus kit is seriously hard work, even though I'm biased toward it as it's the only kit of any type that carries my name on the box. 

[zenrat]

Lying in bed last night I was thinking about making it a tail sitting VTOL floatplane...

[McColm]

Will the floats fold during take off or inflate and deflate?

[Dizzyfugu]

Or rotate? Mounted on the wing tips...?

An inflatable "swing ring" would also look nice/weird/sick... 

[zenrat]

Seeing as it would take off and land from and onto it's tail the floats could be streamlined pods like wingtip tanks.
I do have a collection of 1/48 drop tanks which could prove suitable as it's a 1/72 kit.