What do you plan to build in near future?

[McColm]

The Vickers VC5 was intended as a long-transport for BOAC, the use of the Airfix 1/72 Valiant bomber turned into an airliner.
Hadley Page had the same idea for the Victor (H.P.97).
Avro 722 Atlantic from the Vulcan.

Not too sure on the B-52 and B-36. I've seen pictures of the airliner based on the B-58.

The VC10 was the basis for the Two-Eleven designed in 1966 to compete with the 727-200.

The F-27 with jet engines would be a Jet Herald look-a-like.

I'll be on the look out for the Frog 1/96 de Havilland Comet as I like the look of the Vickers-Armstrong Type 1000 (VC7). Comet Mk4 with Valiant wings.

[Dizzyfugu]

There was a single XC-99 - a transport aircraft based on the B-36. Used its wings but had a totally different 2-level fuselage:



Surely had some public transport potential, but too much, too early, and I am not certain about the airport facilities for such an airliner?

[McColm]

Thanks,
Just found out that S + M models do the VC7.

[PR19_Kit]

Someone does/did a conversion fuselage for the XC-99, using a Monogram B-36 as the basis of course.

kitnut617 will know who did it for sure. 

[McColm]

GHM do a vacform 1/72
conversion for the B-36 fuselage and tail. Not too sure if it is still in production. Execuform also do a 1/72 vacform kit.

[McColm]

Turning the Revell 1/144 A300-600 ST Beluga back into a civvie airliner, a rival to the Airbus A380.
May need to source a new wing to take 4 jet pods instead of two and use several decals of the same airline layered to produce a 3 or 4 deck layout.
I think Kit did something similar but he kitbashed his together.

[PR19_Kit]

Turning the Revell 1/144 A300-600 ST Beluga back into a civvie airliner, a rival to the Airbus A380.
May need to source a new wing to take 4 jet pods instead of two and use several decals of the same airline layered to produce a 3 or 4 deck layout.
I think Kit did something similar but he kitbashed his together.

Yes, that's my 'A390', built as a stopgap when the A380 didn't work. 

It's two, or three, I can't remember now, Beluga fuselages mated to an extended A340 wing with four A330 engines. The A330 and A340 wings are identical, they just need different holes drilled out to take two or four engines. I 'de-drooped' the Beluga's nose so the underside is a straight line and filled in the gaps where the standard fit wings would have gone. The fin is a 747 item, the tailplane came from a DC10 and the landing gear is a mix of A330 and A340 bits.

[McColm]

Thanks Kit, and your kitbash as well.

[Dizzyfugu]

That S-3 conversion with tail engines in the fron of the pic looks interesting, too!?

[PR19_Kit]

That S-3 conversion with tail engines in the fron of the pic looks interesting, too!?

That's my Grumman S-4B Sentinel, built 4-5 years ago now. I'll re-print the description of the model :-

Model built from a Fujimi Hawkeye fuselage (the rest of it's going to be a Greyhound....) with a nose extension from a 1/126 Glencoe Convair 880! The wings also came  from  the 880, but the center section is upside-down.......

The fin was obviously provided by an AMT EF-111 Sparkvark and the tailplane from a Revell 1/144 Boeing 767.  Engine pods were donated by a Revell 1/144 A330 and the u/c pods were originally Airfix 1/48 Tornado F3 'Hindenburger' drop tanks, with interiors provided by a Hobbycraft  MV-22 Osprey which also came up with the cockpit interior  and the engine struts (you've got to do SOMETHING with it, you sure can't make an Osprey out of it........)

The undercarriage itself came from a Fujimi F-8G and a lot of small parts from an Airfix RA-5C (most of which went into a previous model of this genre..........). The Harpoons are from Hasegawa and Airfix weapons kits on scratchbuilt pylons. 

I only had to use half a tube of filler though, I  must be slipping!

The model normally carries two Harpoons on twin pylons outboard on the wings but some gawp at a show had knocked them off when I took the pics. The backstory is here :- http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,27078.0/highlight,grumman.html

[kitnut617]

There was a single XC-99 - a transport aircraft based on the B-36. Used its wings but had a totally different 2-level fuselage:

I've got a conversion to do that in the stash  --- in 1/72 of course    All the required donor parts have been sourced too --  From what I've read, the real thing was used by the USAF to take spare B-36 engines (and such) back and forth from the States to Hawaii (and other places)

[kitnut617]

Avro 722 Atlantic from the Vulcan.

Another project I should really get finished ---   

[Dizzyfugu]

That S-3 conversion with tail engines in the fron of the pic looks interesting, too!?

That's my Grumman S-4B Sentinel, built 4-5 years ago now. I'll re-print the description of the model :-

Lovely! I like it much!   

[McColm]

The Airfix 1/72 BAe Nimrod wings are quite flexible and would look good on the Valiant . Well they worked well on the Mach2 Valiant.
The Airfix Vulcan wings are a good fit on the Nimrod, but the Victor wings couldn't get them to line up.
The Nimrod wings work well on the Mach2 or Revell Atlantic kits, may need trimming on the P-3C Orion.
Didn't get around fitting the P-3C wings on the Nimrod as I was using the engines on a C-97.

[McColm]

Been reading up on the Piaggo P180 Avanti and thinking where have I seen that fuselage shape before. An idea poped into my head, fit a Connie with a T-tail and add a couple of stabilizers/fins from plasticard or the spare parts bin over the holes left in the kits tail. Canards at the front. The wing might be a bit difficult to replace but a change of engines to turboprops might do the trick. Although it might also upset a few Whiffers in the radical updated version. Could always lower the landing gear.

Then there is the Chinese J-10 fighter , got that Typhoon look about it. A few changes and it could pass for a single engine version.

The Beechcraft King Air, has so many options. The ELINT versions have all those lumps and bumps. Still a float plane version would be fun to build. Based on the Cessna 208B amphibian Grand Caravan.

The Mach2 Dassault Falcon looks a promising build. Surely they can't have messed that up?