What do you plan to build in near future?

[chrisonord]

I see, engines on aircraft  are no3 a strong  poin3 for me, so lots of reading  and  googling  shall be the order of the day when  I  do some  wiff RAF aircraft. 
Chris

[kitnut617]

That  name  has rattled around,  as I  was wondering  if the engines from the meteor  would  fit in the Horten. I  haven't  looked at the  dynamics,  but it is wiffworld after all.
Chris

I would say Metro-Vick Beryl ----

Erm.....eh?? 

The Saro SRA.1* was powered by a pair of them.

*jet powered fighter flying boat, Beryl, a British axial flow jet engine not related to anything German and built during the war. The second Meteor prototype to fly was powered by the earlier Metro-Vick version.

[chrisonord]

I see, and  a perfect  fitment for the Horten  too. Marvellous,  cheers  Robert. 
Chris

[kitnut617]

a perfect  fitment for the Horten  too. Marvellous,
Chris

What I was thinking ---

The Beryl is what I used in my backstory for this, an operational XP-86 straight wing.

https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=45076.msg804620#msg804620

[chrisonord]

I like the  look  of that Robert,  an3 in a similar  time  frame  to the Horten  too. The  aircraft will be either a test and evaluation aircraft,  or  an in service  fighter aircraft during  the 50's,  not  sure yet
Chris.

[PR19_Kit]

And Donald Campbell's Bluebird boat used a Beryl in its first version too.

Not the one that crashed and killed him, that was an Orpheus from a Gnat.

[chrisonord]

Lots of information for the  back story,  brilliant stuff.  I  just  need to  photograph what I have done  so far  and  finish my current  builds, a joint  British  and French  project  nord griffon,  and  my Armstrong whitworth  meteor  missile  training  aircraft.  Then, lots of  stuff to  chip away at.
Chris.

[Rick Lowe]

Chris, I've seen someone call their RafWaffe Horton an Amstrong Whitworth Skate - so there's that, FWIW.
IIRC they also added an extended radar nose, too.

[The Wooksta!]

I'm starting to think about this year's Plan items, but I've a feeling many could be stalled from last year and other part started builds.

[Old Wombat]

A 1/35 scale Tamiya Sd.Kfz 171 PzKfw V Panther Ausf. A as a version built by the Japanese from German supplied plans using 75mm Type 5 tank gun (actually fitted to only 2 tanks during the war & never fired in anger) made in "vismod" form using the Panther gun as a base but keeping the MG34's as supplied.

So near in the future, in fact, that I've actually started the build.

[Rheged]

I've a 1/100 scale EE Lightning expected at chateau Rheged soon.  NASA may turn out to be the operators, or possibly the Commonwealth Space Group......

[McColm]

I was thinking what if Hogwarts had their own Navy?
Now that the VW Beetle has retired an estate version,  I saw a resin conversion for the original Beetle in 1/24 or 1/25 scale so it might fit the newer models.
Then there's the TAG Cadillac luxury estate/station wagon  utility vehicle and the Fait boatcar.

[chrisonord]

Chris, I've seen someone call their RafWaffe Horton an Amstrong Whitworth Skate - so there's that, FWIW.
IIRC they also added an extended radar nose, too.

Only just  seen this for some  reason,  something along those kind of lines  could work,  and a thimble type radar pod scabbed on to the wing leading edge  maybe.

[chrisonord]

Whilst waiting for the  clear coat on my meteor to dry, and the white  paint on the A.S.511 to dry, I  pulled out another kit to build.  Although  it is very  small  and  of limited  parts  this next  kit is going to  need a lot of work doing to it.  This one will be an in service  Saunders Roe  S.R. 53.
Chris.

[NARSES2]

Old Airfix or the newer AZ kit Chris ? The AZ kit is quite a nice build.