Unicraft

[luft46models]

I must agree with Wooksta - I'm not adverse to difficult builds even doing lots of P/e stuff but I have sold off nearly all my Unicraft stuff over the last 2 years - life is just too short and I have too many good kits and ideas to do Unicrap - someone here even got a free Junkers SFP from me and I loved that plane - just no way I could do the final work


William in Oz

[Weaver]

G'day Gang,

Unicraft has a couple of new releases up.

Lockheed's Bronco competitor

http://www.geocities.com/unicraftmodels/on/cl760/cl760.htm

Methinks he's got his text scrambled somewhere:

The Lockheed CL760 has reached a mockup stage of development. It would have had a 26000 pound afterburning turbofab engine. The wing had about 25% more area than the F104 and the low tail would have alleviated the pitchup problem inherent with the T-tail.

Now personally, I'd LOVE to see what happened if you put a 26,000 lb thrust engine in that, but you'd have to make sure you didn't blink and miss it.......

[Weaver]

and one which should make Greg happy, the BAe HERTi

http://www.geocities.com/unicraftmodels/on/herti/herti.htm

It amused me, and the rest of the biking-plane-nut fraternity, no end when they first revealed pictures of the HERTI prototype and went on at some length about it's "specially developed" engine, given that we could all see the cylinder heads of a production BMW motorbike engine sticking out of the sides.....

In some of those pics, it has a stencil on the side which reads "NO HUMAN OCCUPANT": is that to stop the postman and milkman delivering or what?  Or maybe it's to stop little old ladies and Japanese tourists from knocking on the Police version it and asking for directions....

(There are those who would argue that a "NO HUMAN OCCUPANT" sticker was appropriate for all Police vehicles, but that's just cynical........)

[Maverick]

G'day Gang,

Looks like our own Flitzer is branching out.  The art is his I believe.

http://www.hannants.co.uk/search/?FULL=UNI7289

Regards,

Mav

[sotoolslinger]

Beauty

[Green Dragon]

Unicraft seem to be using his art for their Miles M22 and Boulton Paul P.122 as well. http://www.geocities.com/unicraftmodels/
Hope he's getting paid for it! Love his artwork.

Paul Harrison

[kitnut617]

Just been looking at the 'New Arrivals' listing on Hannants' website and found this:

http://www.hannants.co.uk/search/?FULL=UNI7289

[PanzerWulff]

This one looks interesting

[NARSES2]

Just been looking at the 'New Arrivals' listing on Hannants' website and found this:

http://www.hannants.co.uk/search/?FULL=UNI7289

Picked one up at Southern Expo - beware it's not for the faint hearted, the resin almost looks like Meerschaum that those German pipes were made out of  Still I've started it but it will need bits from the spares box and some gentle scratch building. Hannants only had a few.

[Maverick]

Here's some more Unicraft whiffery & RW.

http://www.geocities.com/unicraftmodels/on/jet-skimmer/jet-skim.htm

http://www.geocities.com/unicraftmodels/germ/barracuda/barr.htm

http://www.geocities.com/unicraftmodels/germ/me1101/me1101.htm

http://www.geocities.com/unicraftmodels/on/mig-skat/mig-skat.htm

http://www.geocities.com/unicraftmodels/on/su10/su10.htm

I'd think that doing the "Jet Skimmer" would be easier converting the Hase kit.

Regards,

Mav

[kitnut617]

http://www.geocities.com/unicraftmodels/on/jet-skimmer/jet-skim.htm

I'd think that doing the "Jet Skimmer" would be easier converting the Hase kit.

Regards,

Mav

I don't really understand the skimmer Mav, the whole concept of the flying pancake was that the prop wash over the fuselage created the airflow when flying very slowly which then created the lift, I'm not sure how this jet version would work unless it has some boundry layer airflow system.

[Mossie]

Dewotine/Sud Est.580.  Looks like a D.520 derivative a with a huge dorsal radiator scoop.  I'm afraid I don't know anything about it & a breif web search brings nothing up.
http://www.geocities.com/unicraftmodels/on/se580/se580.htm

[Maverick]

G'day Gang,

Unicraft have a swag of new releases available.

http://www.geocities.com/unicraftmodels/germ/fa336/fa336.htm
http://www.geocities.com/unicraftmodels/germ/me109zz/me109zz.htm
http://www.geocities.com/unicraftmodels/on/vg60/vg60.htm

Regards,

Mav

[frank2056]

His masters look very nice. I don't know what inverse magic occurs between the masters and the resin/plastic, though.

[TsrJoe]

just picked up the 'Unicraft Models' EADS Barracuda UAV resin kit, a type id been eagerly awaiting after abandoning an example my late dad was working on a few years ago due to lack of information, at £27.00 i thought, hmm, a bit pricey but as i want one for the collection needs must

... how can i put this without exaggerating or misrepresenting the kits contents... the model is, to be polite, a 'POS.' ... inaccurate fuselage and wing section contours, undercarriage which bears no relation to the actual airframe (no excuse as the image on the box clearly shows how it should look), inaccurate and crudely done surface detail (marred by a scarred and uneven finish) unusable 'decals' (must have been printed at the lowest resolution possible) next to useless instructions (forgivable with a 'what-if' type but not an actual aircraft) a mention of 'please refer to the enclosed cd for photos and artworks... cant see how that wouldv fitted in the box, no matter there wasnt one anyway. The material used (epoxy tinted so as to look like a urethane type resin?) is brittle and has the consistency of a 'crunchie bar' ie aeriated, bubbles are also apparent on the outer surfaces and at corners where the moulds havent filled properly (i used to bin or give away as freebie samples 'reject' castings better than this!)

methinks if the master had been primed and tweaked to fix any glitches before moulding quite a lot of the annoying aspects might have been 'fixed', altho it seems from the website that the raw masters are used right down to misalligned undercarriage bays, squint panel lines, etc etc.

http://www.geocities.com/unicraftmodels/germ/barracuda/barr.htm

grrr... i have managed to build some of this range of kits in the past AS.31, Focke VTOL. etc., usually with an acceptable bit of work but ill admit i definately have more unbuilt than built in the collection, abandoned examples being the MBB. Lampyridae (inaccurate and twisted) Super V.1 & V.4 (badly and crudely mastered) etc.

ill fully admit these are my own comments re experiences with the range, any further thoughts ... ?

ps. iv now dug out the one abandoned a few years ago, my fathers model definately being an easier and more accurate starting point

cheers, Joe