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anthonyp

#60
May 31, 2011, 07:33:09 PM
Quote from: Weaver on May 30, 2011, 05:58:25 PM
Quote from: Cobra on May 30, 2011, 04:39:07 PM
Alert! just was on the Fantastic Plastic Website, they Just Released the Eastern Alliance Destroyer from the Original BSG! Scale is 1:288! Check it out in their Store!  Dan

Wow - that is so very much an errrrr upside down F-15 with Buck Rogers Starfighter ventral fins as wings.... ;)

Blame those crazy a$$ motherfrackers from the late 70's/early 80's for that ship.  Crashbuilding (ie, scratchbuilding on a budget) was all the rage back then.  The did some insane stuff back then.
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dragon

#61
June 01, 2011, 10:10:21 PM
The worst part is that Fantastic Plastic is becoming an "addiction" with me.....I am spending money on something that isn't illegal...Helluva an "addiction"..
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rallymodeller

#62
June 02, 2011, 07:13:59 AM
Quote from: anthonyp on May 31, 2011, 07:33:09 PM
Quote from: Weaver on May 30, 2011, 05:58:25 PM
Quote from: Cobra on May 30, 2011, 04:39:07 PM
Alert! just was on the Fantastic Plastic Website, they Just Released the Eastern Alliance Destroyer from the Original BSG! Scale is 1:288! Check it out in their Store!  Dan

Wow - that is so very much an errrrr upside down F-15 with Buck Rogers Starfighter ventral fins as wings.... ;)

Blame those crazy a$$ motherfrackers from the late 70's/early 80's for that ship.  Crashbuilding (ie, scratchbuilding on a budget) was all the rage back then.  The did some insane stuff back then.

Even the Star Wars A-wing is two F-14 center fuselages. But Lorimar (the production company behind Buck Rogers and the original BSG) was the worst (best?) for that. They were almost Gerry Anderson-like in their use of existing model kits.
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Cobra

#63
August 28, 2011, 10:20:39 PM
RED ALERT! just came from the Fantastic Plastic Website,they are Releasing a 1:72 scale Earth Defense Directorate Thunderfighter Model later this Week! price is $75US,don't know what the Price would be in Pounds! anyone interested,Check it out! Dan

Weaver

#64
August 29, 2011, 02:15:54 PM
Hmm - it was always a Buck Rogers "Starfighter" until now - when did it become a "Thunderfighter"? Surely "starfighter" can't be copyrighted - methinks Lockheed Martin would have something to say about that!
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Mossie

#65
August 29, 2011, 03:05:48 PM
I seem to recall that Thunderfighter was an early working name for the Starfighter.
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RussC

#66
December 02, 2011, 01:43:21 PM
Brand new item from FP.


 
This is the "Hydra" flying wing from the recent film "Captain America" used by the arch nemesis The Red Skull.  :mellow:
 
http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/HydraFlyingWingCatalogPage.htm
 
If anyone cannot wait for next June or hates working resins, A 1/48th scale Gotha (Horten) 229 kit from Dragon (DML) can be converted into hydra.  There is very little outline differences of the airframe, just get some smaller scale engines. This is a lot like some of my whiffs using Revell and PM 229's in 1/72 to make 144th Horten bombers.
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philp

#67
December 13, 2011, 06:58:53 PM
Neat.  Still haven't seen the flick but on the list.

So, checked their website, 1/288th scale with 22.5" wingspan.  That scales to 90 inches in 72nd scale and 540 feet in 1/1.  Big plane.
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Glenn

#68
December 13, 2011, 11:21:37 PM
Re the XB-53, I think you'll find that the panel on each wing on the extreme ends are canards. When I made my model from the book of US Bombers, I couldn't understand what the end panels were for? I thought they were winglets that drooped, but the more I thought about it, to me they were canards, as they were forward of the leading edge of the wing. If they could have been adjusted to stop a stall....it would have made sense, well...it did to me!
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Weaver

#69
April 11, 2012, 06:51:34 PM Last Edit: April 11, 2012, 06:55:09 PM by Weaver
Also from Captain America:

http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/HydraParasit-Catalog.htm



These are the things that look like prop engines on the trailing edge of the big flying wing, and yes, the front end of each is a nuke..... :blink:

Coming in July or August, depending which  page you look at.... :wub:
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PR19_Kit

#70
April 12, 2012, 05:30:12 AM
Gordon Bennet, that thing's astonishing!

Why the Treibflugel type 'prop-rotor' at the back? Does it do a vertical, nose first landing? And how does it take-off anyway?
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albeback

#71
April 12, 2012, 07:24:04 AM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on April 12, 2012, 05:30:12 AM
Gordon Bennet, that thing's astonishing!

Why the Treibflugel type 'prop-rotor' at the back? Does it do a vertical, nose first landing? And how does it take-off anyway?

and, how does one bale out without being sliced & diced!! Does it have a bang seat? :o
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Alvis 3.14159

#72
April 12, 2012, 07:56:58 AM
Without having seen the movie or anything, I'm only guessing here, but since the single seater was mentioned as part of the bigger flying wing, I'd have to say that it's launched as part of that bigger plane, and functions as a pusher motor until it's dropped off to do it's attack run. If that's a nuke in the nose, survival of the pilot may not be that essential....


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Weaver

#73
April 12, 2012, 10:29:39 AM
As Alvis suggests, I think you take off as part of the flying wing, separate, punt the warhead in the general direction of somewhere you don't like, then blow the rotors off and hit the silk. Whether you land intact or crispy depends on how big the warhead is and whether it's got a rocket or not.....
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ysi_maniac

#74
April 13, 2012, 09:04:56 AM
WOW ... What a model! :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :thumbsup: :bow:
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