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Super Fulcrum

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gooberliberation

June 27, 2007, 02:17:10 AM
So yesterday I got SOVIET SECRET PROJECTS: Fighters Since 1945 and immediately I got the urge to kitbash. Initially I wanted to make a tailsitting foxbat as depicted on the cover but alas, the LHS had no MiG-25 kits. So I decided to make a 4th gen heavy fighter by MiG.(basically, if the Flanker was no-go so MiG took over that job)

Model is currently the result of a forbidden romance between an italieri MiG-29UB and an academy F-15C.

I could've played it easy and just stuck MiG surfaces onto a dewinged eagle(actually, some of the concept models in the book appeared to be just that :lol: ), but I just have to do it the hard way.


What we've got here is a compromise between old school wings stuck to fuselage, and new school blended wing body. F-15 wings have been clipped about halfway with entire fulcrum wings attatched. The result... a whoooole lotta wing.


I see the forward fuselage as giving me the biggest potential headaches. I'm planning on using most of the F-15s nose but with the MiG's cockpit and LERXs magically grafted on. I'll probably modify the intakes.


I dont think the finished model will have the auxilliary intakes. Since I forgot to add intake ducts and compressor fans when putting together the fuselage, I'll probably obscure the insides with photoetch FOD screens.


Bigger planes need bigger fins, so I added huge ventral fins made out of the F-15s tailplanes.

Canards are likely to happen :)  
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"How about this for a headline for tomorrows paper? French fries." ~~ James French, d. 1966 Executed in electric chair in Oklahoma.

Archibald

#1
June 27, 2007, 02:21:46 AM
wow! That's looks ultrapromising! with such number and oversized control surfaces, you'll have an agile fighter to say the least!  
King Arthur: Can we come up and have a look?
French Soldier: Of course not. You're English types.
King Arthur: What are you then?
French Soldier: I'm French. Why do you think I have this outrageous accent, you silly king?

Well regardless I would rather take my chance out there on the ocean, that to stay here and die on this poo-hole island spending the rest of my life talking to a gosh darn VOLLEYBALL.

McGreig

#2
June 27, 2007, 02:31:13 AM
Great concept   :wub:   It looks amazing already - looking forward to seeing further progress  :thumbsup:  

cthulhu77

#3
June 27, 2007, 03:46:49 AM
Screw the "cobra" maneuver !  This one can do the "Sidewinder" !

Mossie

#4
June 27, 2007, 03:54:08 AM
QuoteScrew the "cobra" maneuver !  This one can do the "Sidewinder" !
Nice one Goober, I'll look forward to this one with serious interest!  Following on from Gregs comment, I guess it'll have vector nozzles?
I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughin'. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it.

gooberliberation

#5
June 27, 2007, 05:47:41 AM
Last update for tonight. :)



As it turns out, it's pretty close in size and volume to an su-27



Forward fuselage is almost tomcat like in its fatness.



Just got to do the intakes, then I can start PSR <_<  
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"How about this for a headline for tomorrows paper? French fries." ~~ James French, d. 1966 Executed in electric chair in Oklahoma.

Archibald

#6
June 27, 2007, 06:07:08 AM
It looks much better than a Su-27! I like these  canards, ventral fins, big wings and long cockpit area!  
King Arthur: Can we come up and have a look?
French Soldier: Of course not. You're English types.
King Arthur: What are you then?
French Soldier: I'm French. Why do you think I have this outrageous accent, you silly king?

Well regardless I would rather take my chance out there on the ocean, that to stay here and die on this poo-hole island spending the rest of my life talking to a gosh darn VOLLEYBALL.

Scooterman

#7
June 27, 2007, 06:59:50 AM
Oh that's sharp!!!

:thumbsup:  

ysi_maniac

#8
June 27, 2007, 08:32:11 AM
QuoteIt looks much better than a Su-27! I like these  canards, ventral fins, big wings and long cockpit area!
I agree. Supercool B)  B)  B)  B)  
Will die without understanding this world.

Spey_Phantom

#9
June 27, 2007, 09:51:01 AM
that is the best looking mig i ever seen.
any possibilities for licence building that beauty  :wub:  
on the bench:

-all kinds of things.

Archibald

#10
June 27, 2007, 10:33:12 AM
Yeah, MiG catalogue looks rather sexy these days, Super Fulcrum, MiG AT...  
King Arthur: Can we come up and have a look?
French Soldier: Of course not. You're English types.
King Arthur: What are you then?
French Soldier: I'm French. Why do you think I have this outrageous accent, you silly king?

Well regardless I would rather take my chance out there on the ocean, that to stay here and die on this poo-hole island spending the rest of my life talking to a gosh darn VOLLEYBALL.

dragon

#11
June 27, 2007, 11:36:50 AM
Very nice! :thumbsup:

However it looks like it is going to be a bear to putty and sand.

A "super" FULCRUM does exist- it is called MiG-35.  In that case, this would then be an "Ultra" FULCRUM. B)  
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Brian da Basher

#12
June 27, 2007, 12:04:07 PM
Those canards are killer, goober! I can't wait to see where this project takes you.

Brian da Basher

Captain Canada

#13
June 27, 2007, 12:07:35 PM
Oh yeah, that's looking like one tough bird !

:wub:  
CANADA KICKS arse !!!!

Long Live the Commonwealth !!!
Vive les Canadiens !
Where's my beer ?

Eddie M.

#14
June 27, 2007, 12:11:49 PM
WOW! :party:  :cheers: I love it! :wub:  :thumbsup:
  Eddie  
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