What do you plan to build in near future?

[PR19_Kit]

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

Mach 2 can mess ANYthing up! 

If they made a few changes to their designs it would help, like making one side of the model match the other perhaps, or making the transparencies transparent maybe? Both would go a long way to improving their products and their image.

[McColm]

If it hasn't already been done a Griffon powered B-17. A Lancaster MK II with Griffon engines makes sense as they would have needed a testbed aircraft.

[McColm]

Stumbled across the Mig-23PD STOL, though this was a real world whiff until I saw the video on YouTube.
Looks to me as if they kitbashed a Mig-23 and Mirage III with lifting engines.
Art Model do a 1/72 kit, so a collection of STOL and VSTOL, real world and Whiffs will be built next year.

[McColm]

Had an idea over the weekend, to use a B-29/B-50 with the cockpit area of the B-17 as an upper deck. The glazed nose of the B-29/B-50 would be sanded and painted mat black to represent a nose radar. The glazing of the B-17 windscreen would need to be carefuly filed or sanded to get the curve in the upper fuselage to sit. Using a razor saw to cut the cockpit from the B-17 and glue the two halves together.
The B-17 wings and engines can be used on The Super Shorts Striling or Canberra projects.

Another idea that would work is a single -finned C-121 using the Airfix Super G and B-29/B-50 vertical tail fin. This would be better for the bomber conversion as you could use the rear guns.

[Rheged]

If it hasn't already been done a Griffon powered B-17. A Lancaster MK II with Griffon engines makes sense as they would have needed a testbed aircraft.

Lancaster test beds  are possible in many guises

http://www.lancaster-archive.com/lanc_photos_testbed.htm

Also my post No11 on this thread

http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,38508.msg630506.html#msg630506

[McColm]

Wow, so many to Whiff

[Captain Canada]

I'd love to see a big row of Lanc test bed models.....how cool would that be ?

Here's another good read with some cool pics.

http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/Stories/tabid/116/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/455/Last-Call-for-Lancasters.aspx

If you go to the Stories home page there is lots of interesting stuff !

[PR19_Kit]

I'd love to see a big row of Lanc test bed models.....how cool would that be ?

That's not a bad idea.   Take up some space though!

I used to see many of them at Farnborough in the 50s and 60s, usually doing low passes with the Merlins shut down and the props feathered. And with the test engine giving its all, just to show how powerful it was, whatever the type.  

[Old Wombat]

Hmmmm? Near future? Depends on whether your definition of "near" includes the next 2 decades, I guess.

I've just bought a Vosper MTB & an S-boat form Airfix, taking advantage of the Black Friday Sale (oddly, this is the 1st time I've heard the term).

Neither is going to be built OoB, as I have every intention of Scale-o-rama-ing   them into 1/35th PBR's to go with my Tamiya PBR.

My calculations make the MTB to be roughly 35' 6" in length & 9' 6" in the beam; the S-boat equates to roughly 52' 3" length & a beam of 8'.

The PBR has a length of 32' & a beam of 11' 6", so that puts these conversions right on the mark for similar types of craft.

The S-boat may need to be widened (quite) a bit but her length & hull form would suit her being more of a "PBE" (Patrol Boat, Estuarine), capable of handling deeper, choppier water ... or, given her length-to-beam ratio, I could make her into a super-sampan.

I'll have to scratch build their Jacuzzi propulsion units (using the PBR's as a template).

I, also, bought a 1/32nd Ford Fiesta WRC & Mini Countryman WRC Twin-Pack Set which will join my 1/32nd Aston Martin DBR9 & Jaguar XKR GT3 Twin-Pack Set to be built as Post-Apocalyptic Fast Couriers - liveries still to be decided.

[McColm]

Long term builds:
Converting the Mach2 Martin Seamaster into a Be A-40 Mermaid or something similar.
PB2Y-1 Flying Boat
Marlin
Shorts Sunderland turboprop AEW
EC-97 AEW
EB-29 AEW
CB-29 or MR-29
Sea Dart
Ice Dart
Avro Super Shackleton
Shackleton airliner
Shackleton AEW-Falcon or Mach2 rotor dome from E-1B
Super Tracer
Lockheed S-3 biz-jet
Beechcraft Starship/ Avanti
RF-108 Rapier
Shin Meiwa
A few 1/24 or 1/25 car builds
Two seater Sea Hurricane

[Captain Canada]

Do it !

[kitnut617]

Do it !

and we want to see it here too remember ----   

[kerick]

It appears it will be some Corsair Projects as I bought two of Revellogram in 1/48th having forgotten I already had one. Plus a 1/48th FG-1. Some good whiffing material.

[eatthis]

something anything!

[Captain Canada]

I plan to start building some of my true whif ideas. Some scale-o-ramas and some modified ships and armour, as well as a few long-lingering Luft '46 ideas.