Vought F5U-5 Half Real Pancake

[Tophe]

GTX looking for a 1/48 F5U-1 kit (at http://www.whatifmodelers.com/forum//index...showtopic=10848 ) made me consider my 1/72 one, Hasegawa.
- The circular wing harmony was difficult to twin into a Zwilling (and I had no second kit),
- The circular wing harmony would have been lost if truncated in the center to get two aft separate tails,
- So I decided to make it asymmetric, with a single fin & single tailplane & single propeller...
The port half-wing will be a pure circle, a Real pancake! While the starboard wing will be its adapatation into an actual plane, with propeller, fin, tailplane...

[Tophe]

a little further, with the spinner and the first putty...:  

[Archibald]

Salut!!! The Flying Pankake looked great, but you do even better
Want to see the result quickly!!  

[Tophe]

(sanding going on and on...)
In the sub-title of this topic, I was saying "Half Real Pancake", and maybe I must explain the 2 different reading:
- "Half-Real" Pancake: the F5U-1 half with propeller is real, the F5U-0 half without propeller is unreal (see the F5U-0/01/6 at http://www.whatifmodelers.com/forum//index...=0&#entry147783 )
- Half "Real-Pancake": the F5U-0 half without propeller is a perfect pancake rather than an aircraft, the F5U-1 half with propeller is not actually a pancake...
Almost logical  

[dragon]

Perhaps a waffle or a crepe then? B)  

[Jschmus]

GTX looking for a 1/48 F5U-1 kit made me consider my 1/72 one, Hasegawa.

Whenever did Hasegawa make a 1/72 Pancake, and where can one get one?

[Tophe]

Jschmus: a list of available Flying Pancake kits is given at http://www.hannants.co.uk/search/?CATEGORY...%5B%5D=code+asc
all 1/72 it seems, my one being the Hasegawa http://www.hannants.co.uk/search/?FULL=HASP063

Dragon: a flying Waffle would not be much aerodynamic!  For the words pancake/hotcake/crepe, all seems to be related to my French "crèpe" and I do not know the exact differences (baking powder or not, etc?). My Vought bird will just be round and flat, I will not eat her to decide the exact name... I would have liked to paint her in a light yellow/brown pancake-like colour, but I have none, and the decision is bright orange! With old Dutch triangles to complete. I just hesitate for the blades and landing gear: most of you would probably prefer grey or silver, but I prefer orange also... this is for me a nice funny object, not a useful noisy machine ^_^

[Gary]

Needs the IHOP logo on the belly.

[Captain Canada]

Sweet ! An even stranger look to an already strange aeroplane ! Would look pretty neat as a jet powered bird as well, now that I see it like that......

Good one !

 

[Tophe]

Needs the IHOP logo on the belly.

I did not understand, but Google told me: "International House Of Pancakes" restaurant... nice! I like to transform a killing machine into a restaurant. Thanks for the idea!

Would look pretty neat as a jet powered bird as well

I have somwhere a 3-view drawing of the what-if jet-powered F5U-2, haven't you ever seen it? This was just a photocopy, I did not know the source, but I may send it by mail if I find it again someday.

[GTX]

I have somwhere a 3-view drawing of the what-if jet-powered F5U-2, haven't you ever seen it? This was just a photocopy, I did not know the source, but I may send it by mail if I find it again someday.

If you do find it, please sacn and post it - I'd like to see it too.

Regards,

Greg

[Tophe]

Please, Canadian friends , forgive me   not to put RCAF roundels on this model... I mean: I agree completely, at 100%, that pancakes' best friend in the World is maple syrup ... and I would chose Canadian army if this Flying Pancake was a military fighter . But this is an object for fun ^_^ , and the old Dutch triangles will not be realist at all, just put opposite like a sand-egg-timer, orange-over-orange...

Am I forgiven?  God bless maple syrup...  

[Brian da Basher]

Maple syrup, now there's an idea. You might want to consider painting some dripping down over it and then a little yellow square to represent the pat of butter. Mmmm I'm getty hungry. Must be time for breakfast.

Good looking pancake, Tophe!

Brian da Basher

[John Howling Mouse]

And, with Brian's ideas, your diorama can be a dish on a placement, complete with cutlery on each side!

Genius!

This has "Alvis" written all over it: that could be the brand on your maple syrup bottle nearby...

[dragon]

There is another name for pancake (don't know if it is also in Canadian, but it does exist in American english)- Flapjack.  Like the name of the old and venerable desk top model that Monogram made in the 1970s.   B)