DC-3, C-47, Dakota, and all license built or copies

[PR19_Kit]

I've lost one of the nosewheels and can't find a replacement now, or I'd post a piccie of mine.

I'm building a Dash-8 floatplane using this same floats conversion but I'm going to use more up-to-date u/c and wheels, I'll pop the front wheels left over from the conversion in the mail for you if you like.

You're a scholar and a gentleman sir, gratefully accepted. They can piggieback with the vacform Arrows! 

I have that three engined Dak conversion too, isn't it Swiss or similar? Some superb resin castings, with a complete Italeri kit as well.

[Shasper]

Basler Daks in Israeli service, I'd also like to do a turbo-Dak gunship fitted with a pair of M197s . . .

[Radish]

Currently working out the idea for an gunship variant in either SE Asia or South Ameica:

Guns firing down through the lower fuselage...
Landing lights relocated to the nose.....
SE Asia modified scheme, with Bat nose-art, like on WW2 B-25s......
Outer wing panels replaced with Bat wings.......

I'm pretty much ready to start, using the Revell version of the C-47, and it'll be done for Bolton

[Radish]

Perhaps Rumanian, though, with Li-2 mods.....

Certainly Eastern Europe might figure well, or Greece?or Turkey?

But I suppose Vampires live everywhere, especially under the bed or in the wardrobe

[Just call me Ray]

Basler Daks in Israeli service, I'd also like to do a turbo-Dak gunship fitted with a pair of M197s . . .

The Colombian Air Force has Turbo Dak gunships called "Fantasmas"

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/71m-in-c47-dakota-conversions-to-colombia-01435/

http://wikimapia.org/3481830/2-AC47T-Fantasma-COIN-aircraft

[Shasper]

Thx Ray I didn't know that :-)

[Radish]

An initial idea for the armed military versions of the Soviet Li-2 was to equip it with 2 x 37mm cannon and 3 x 20mm cannon, as well as 3 machine guns and a few bombs.

Also, the chap that devised the gun configuration/concept for the AC-47 first suggested the idea in WW2

[Radish]

Done some butchery today.
We're looking at a C-47, specially modified for nocturnal missions over Korea...you'll have seen nothing like it!!
I should complete the essential build by early next week, and then the fun with the paintwork and decals will begin!!

[sequoiaranger]

>We're looking at a C-47, specially modified for nocturnal missions over Korea...you'll have seen nothing like it!! <

If you put some ECM stuff in it.......do you have an aircraft capable of nocturnal e-missions??  

[Radish]

The Winter Solstice, etc... has delayed things, but we're progressing.
I'm also dreaming up some other variants, including turbo-prop ones, and Royal Navy Immigration Control C-47s; possibly RAF C-47s in Iraq/Afghanistan too.

I've got some more DC-3s/C-47s on the way too.

[Radish]

The Batwinged C-47 will be ready for Thursday's Club meeting, and I hope to take some photos there, as well as send something to Brother Narses....working on an artice.

I'll cut out the next C-47 while I'm there.....ready for Turno Props and an Immigration Control role.

[Radish]

Turno props are powered by Turnips

I meant "turbo props"

[sequoiaranger]

>...Immigration Control role.<

Maybe a "Spooky" gunship with rubber bullets and dye to deter illegal crossings?

[NARSES2]

The Batwinged C-47 will be ready for Thursday's Club meeting, and I hope to take some photos there, as well as send something to Brother Narses....working on an artice.

Looking forward to that Rad

[Daryl J.]

How about converting one into a high winged, twin turboprop, ground hugging machine?    Why?   Why not?       Maybe the US Coast Guard could use it for transporting South American drug bust hauls to locations of unknown addresses, or Lysander-like insertions of agents into Latin American minidicatorships.


(cold tap water)
Daryl J.