Fantastic Plastic

[TheChronicOne]

That thing's nuts!   

[rickshaw]

Cool, and a possible purchase as it's not CAD/mastered by that psycho Fascist-Libertarian douche-bag Scott Lowther.
I've skipped a number of FP releases because of his involvement 

I know exactly what you mean...   

[kitnut617]

1/144 Vickers Type C Giant Bomber Project (1942) Announced

Might have to get one of those, it's as big as a B-36. I've been gathering bits & pieces to do it in 1/72 scale though ----

[Green Dragon]

I bought some Revell/Frog Shackleton MR.3's to do a lookalikeee thing in 1/72nd.

Paul Harrison

[Madoc]

This looks impressive as all get out.  It's the wrong scale for me but it's still damn impressive!

Those canon look a tad overscale though.

Where did you find the turret details?  That's been one of the things which intrigued me the most about this version - the side turrets are absolutely huge!  I always wanted to know the details of those things.

[kitnut617]

I bought some Revell/Frog Shackleton MR.3's to do a lookalikeee thing in 1/72nd.

Paul Harrison

It's about 3X bigger than a Shack' Paul, but a 1/72 Shackleton might be about right for a 1/144 scale Vickers C. Doing some scaling on a drawing I got from Tony Buttler, a B-52 fuselage works as a base for the fuselage. And I've got some 1/32 scale B-24 wings which seem to be about right too.

It's supposed to be able to carry two Grand Slams -----

[kitnut617]

Those canon look a tad overscale though.

Yeah! they're more like 1/72 cannon

[Green Dragon]

I bought some Revell/Frog Shackleton MR.3's to do a lookalikeee thing in 1/72nd.

Paul Harrison

It's about 3X bigger than a Shack' Paul, but a 1/72 Shackleton might be about right for a 1/144 scale Vickers C. Doing some scaling on a drawing I got from Tony Buttler, a B-52 fuselage works as a base for the fuselage. And I've got some 1/32 scale B-24 wings which seem to be about right too.

It's supposed to be able to carry two Grand Slams -----

Yeah, I know it's a lot bigger all round. It was going to take a LOT of cutting and shutting similar to what I did to a couple of B-29's. http://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php/topic,28343.msg434533.html#msg434533
It would have needed widening and heightening (is that a real word!?), the B-52 fuselage sounds a lot easier!

Paul Harrison

[kitnut617]

Latest news from Fantastic Plastic is the Type C bomber is a lot closer to production

http://fantastic-plastic.com/vickers-type-c-giant-bomber-project---catalog.html

[NARSES2]

At least it's not got individual prop blades 

Looking forward to this - Tiger Force ?

[jcf]

At least it's not got individual prop blades 

Looking forward to this - Tiger Force ?

Well, developed as quickly and efficiently as the Windsor, perhaps
Korea?

[NARSES2]

At least it's not got individual prop blades 

Looking forward to this - Tiger Force ?

Well, developed as quickly and efficiently as the Windsor, perhaps
Korea?

Fair point 

But in "My Tiger Force" 

[Hobbes]

The Vickers Type C has been released:
http://fantastic-plastic.com/vickers-type-c-giant-bomber-project---catalog.html

[Thorvic]

Alan got a bit miffed when I slated the box art, putting a post war RAF Bomber scheme with German Me-262's 

Usual half arsed thinking, copied the cover art from BSP:3 and put it into WW2 setting without any real understanding 

They even included a more suitable decal option for late WW2 which they should have used for the cover art !!! 

[The Wooksta!]

Only the roundels are post war, the RAF was contemplating that scheme for night bombers during the final months of the war.