I Need An Opinion Or Two Or Three...

[mwf4nut]

I posted earlier pictures of this many moons ago, and I've finally gotten around to working on it again.  I have several configurations in mind, but I can't decide which looks better.  That is where you come in!

Option 1, your basic everyday twin engine F-16:




Option 2 the hunchback version:



Option 3 same as option 1 but with the vertical stabs moved back and out:




Option 4 same as option 2 but with the vertical stabs moved back and out:




I'm really torn between 3 & 4, but my wife likes 1 & 2.  Arghhh, of all the times for her to have an opinion about my work!

Watcha think?

Mark

[Hobbes]

I'd go with option 1. The hunchback makes the fuselage too high, and aligning the horizontal and vertical tailplanes makes for a cleaner look than offsetting them as in 3/4

[McGreig]

I'd go with option 1. The hunchback makes the fuselage too high, and aligning the horizontal and vertical tailplanes makes for a cleaner look than offsetting them as in 3/4

I'd agree with that. Option1 may be the simplest, but the overall shape seems more balanced than the others.

[Shasper]

Cant see the pics mate.

Shas B)

[Captain Canada]

Option 3......the stabs are to close together on the 1st one. Looks great from the side, but kinda funny from the top.

 

[Mossie]

For me, it depends on what your after.  1 & 2 look like they could be a F-16 derivative, the tail of 3 & 4 looks very Soviet.  If your looking to keep the F-16 family line, go with the first tail, if your looking to depart, go with the second one.  Personally I'd ditch the humpback too & maybe look at some larger wings?

Have you ever seen the HS.1202 Mark?  It was Hawker Siddley project almost identical to the F-16, but a fair bit larger.  The HS.1202-9 had twin fins, but with a single engine.  I think twin engined layouts were studied, but I've never seen them.

[GTX]

Definitely Option 3 - the vertical fins don't look right in option 1 (if doing that arrangement, I'd go with a single fin), whereas the hunchback is too much.  Option 3 does also start to look a bit like some of the ATF concepts.

Regards,

Greg

[SinUnNombre]

I have to go and break the mold. I would like to see an Option 5 where you moved the stabs out but didnt move them back any. I agree that they look to close together in 1/2, but too far back in 3/4. And while I think that a hunchback could look good, I think that the one you have in the pics is just too big. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

Jon

[BlackOps]

Put me down for option 4. I liked option 2 but I think Option four just has a little more flavor to it

Is there any way you can blend your hump into the canopy so you end up with one hump? I think with the canopy in place the bulge might look odd, kind of like a two hump camel    

[mwf4nut]

Thanks for the feedback gents!  

SinUmHombre I played around with option 5 and came up with this:



The verticals are placed just outside of where they usually are, and are canted out a little.  

Blackops - I thought about blending the canopy into the hump, making it look kind of like an A-4E/F.  

I think I'm going to go humpless on this one and go for more of the F-16 family look.  I've got a bunch more F-16's waiting to get hacked, so someone is going to have a hump starting at the canopy.

Mossie - I haven't seen the HS. 1202, but as soon as I get done here I'm going to look for it.  

As far as the Soviet look goes, yep, that was the first thing I thought of with options 3 & 4.  I'll save that for another time.

Shasper - I'm not sure why you can't see the pics.  

Dang, it feels good to get back into hacking plastic!

Mark

[Shasper]

I'm down to nos. 2 & 4, leaning towards 4.

Shas B)

[cthulhu77]

Too many numbers, but I love the last pic.  Kind of a cross between a bug and a 16...neato.

[AeroplaneDriver]

I like the last one best (with the canted v-stabs and no hump).  Great concept, cant wait to see her finished.  It makes me wonder....would a twin F-16 have been a naval bird instead of the F-18..?

[AeroplaneDriver]

After a little more browsing at the pics I cant help but think the wing looks a bit small for the longer fuselage.  Have you considered making the wing a bit bigger?  Maybe just a bit of sheet styrene added to the leading edge from the tip to maybe 1 cm in front of the current LE at the root?

Another idea that would depart from the F-16 platform might be removing the horizontal stabilizers and putting the v-stab outboard with a wide cant (sort of like the F-23) and adding a canard to the fuselage plug.

However you end up doing it I love this idea and cant wait to watch it progress.  

[ysi_maniac]

Option 5