Dewoitine D.520 with a twist

[Arc3371]

I like the idea and the back story, Yugoslavia getting D.520s from Germany in late 1940 as a reward for signing the tripartite pact? And they were fond of mounting the DB 601 on different aircraft (Hurricane, Ik-3)

[Chap]

Coincidence?

No coincidence Goober, Squadron Mail Order has the Nanzan on sale for $1.99 so I just had to get one.


Thank you everyone for the kind words. It does look very Italian, and the Italians did operate a few Dewoitines. So it seems there are quite a few possibilities for markings.


~Steve

[jcf]

Looks like a racer or speed record plane to me, with that aft set cockpit.

Jon

[puddingwrestler]

Well, the italians DID do a lot of speed record stuff...

I think it'd look awesome as a Schnieder trophy contestant on floats... but then I'm going through a float phase and think everything would look good on floats.

[jcf]

Doesn't necessarily look Italian, could just as easily be Japanese or a Heinkel.

Kawasaki Ki 78.




The nose profile is largely the result of using an inverted V-12 and if the French had produced a large, inverted V, liquid cooled engine
then it is entirely possible that the Dewoitine fighter would have looked very similar to Chap's model.
Ditto the Hurricane, Spitfire and P-51B/C/D if the Merlin had been an inverted design.

Personally I'd say it looks French with an inverted engine as the canopy, empennage, and wing on the D.520 all look entirely different from anything the Italians produced. What's wrong with simply making it French? Seems to me that it would be a major league Whif and befuddler of the innocent..

Ditch the annular radiator on the Fw 190D and see what you get.

Jon

p.s. just about everybody was doing speed record stuff in the late '30s, in just about any class conceivable.

p.p.s. Of course Polish markings would be fantastic. 

[Archibald]

MS-406 successor in Finland, Yougoslavia, or Turkey. 
I like it very much!

Any update ?

[ysi_maniac]

all comments and critics are welcome.

[gooberliberation]

How about vichy markings or even luftwaffe?

[peperez]

Hi Everyone,

   Here's my first real contribution this summer. It is a Hasegawa Dewoitine D.520 with the cowling from a Tamiya Aichi M6A1-K Nanzan grafted onto it. As you can see from the pictures, it's held together with tape at the moment. There is no real backstory yet, thinking Yugoslavian. As always, all comments and critics are welcome.

~Steve

Believe it or not, before the war France's Armee de l'Air was negotiating the licence to built DB601 engines. By the way, HS12-31 were bigger than Merlin: 40 litter against 30 litter. Unhappily, it was undeveloped. Klimov engines derivatives show how they could performed if rightly developed.

Cheers

Peperez

[B777LR]

Doesn't necessarily look Italian, could just as easily be Japanese or a Heinkel.

Think youve forgotten one thing, the canopy/ cockpit arangement looks very much like a Macchi (placed very far aft) The Japanese and Heinkels didnt have that look, with the cockpit placed further forwards. Its not just the inverted engine. The wings look very close too...

[jcf]

Doesn't necessarily look Italian, could just as easily be Japanese or a Heinkel.

Think youve forgotten one thing, the canopy/ cockpit arangement looks very much like a Macchi (placed very far aft) The Japanese and Heinkels didnt have that look, with the cockpit placed further forwards. Its not just the inverted engine. The wings look very close too...

Nothing to do with location, go back and take look a the shape and "sitting on top of the fuselage" placement of the Italian fighter.
Wings are also quite different.

[Daryl J.]

If this isn't ever sublime!!!!     Fantastichi!!!



Daryl J., rarin' to see more of this

[The Rat]

That is one sleek looker you've got going there Chap, and should fool quite a few! 

I've always thought French WW2 aircraft uninspiring...

Oh c'mon kb, surely this must inspire you to do something:



(After you've been 'inspired' you might want to disinfect the keyboard)

And let's all welcome Peperez to the madness! 

[sequoiaranger]

Yes, those ugly French bombers DID inspire me!!

I was going to do an "Air Cavalry" aircraft out of one of those Amiot 143 monsters, substituting an HO cattle-car (wooden slates spaced apart) for the lower fuselage, with a sliding door on each side. A contingent of horse-mounted cavalry could thus be delivered directly to the battlefield (never mind how one calms a horse inside an aircraft, especially one that's landing on rough ground!!). My "air cavalry" aircraft would have the "tousenfussler" (spelling?) multiple landing wheels (looking like a Christie tank without treads). I would have Polish markings. I love the dichotomy of AIRCRAFT (modern weapon) delivering horsemen (19th century weapon) to a "modern" battlefield. I was going to make a diorama of the aircraft on the ground, slightly nose-down, with the sliding door open and Airfix OO cavalry charging out with swords drawn!!

I say "was going to do" because I had to pare down my ambitions for my collection, and that was one I purged. Feel free to take up the banner and do it yourself!! I would LOVE to see it done!

[sequoiaranger]

Your D. 520 now looks more like the Reggiane 2005 than a Macchi. I like it!. The added weight up front for your extended nose might require a slight tail-lengthening to preserve center of balance (making it even more like the Re-2005).