can you guess what it is yet???

[mistress mannerheim]

stil needing lots and lots of work to get it ready for painting tho, heres progress so far after chopping, shortening, thinning, reshaping, etc, etc. 

[Hobbes]

BAe P.110?  (edit: no, that doesn't have strakes)

[AeroplaneDriver]

I'm tempted to go with the obvious and say "F-18"  but I wont.

P530 or F-17 maybe?

[jcf]

YF-17 based on the forward notch in the LERX, unless of course you are planning to fill them in to make the P530-3.

Jon

[puddingwrestler]

An F-18 that's been put on a diet and then run into a rather unfriendly, but incredibly dextrous laser cannon battery which has sliced it's wing off with incredible, indeed uncanny precision, captured on film just before it crashed as a result of only having one wing?

[Damian2]

An F-18 that's been put on a diet and then run into a rather unfriendly, but incredibly dextrous laser cannon battery which has sliced it's wing off with incredible, indeed uncanny precision, captured on film just before it crashed as a result of only having one wing?

Damn it! He took my guess!!

D

[sotoolslinger]

Nope

[Daryl J.]

I think I ran.   But then again, maybe I walked.


Daryl J.,seeing something Persian

[Mossie]

Looks to me like an F-17, are you going to do it as an operational version?

[Howard of Effingham]

it looks rather like an F-17 and a half! 

here's to the end result 

[sotoolslinger]

Wow that is cool  You have taken on quite a project. I was just reading about the F-17  and thinking it was cooler looking than the F-18

[noxioux]

I was afraid to guess, until a couple other people had. . .

This is a great idea.  It almost makes me want to suggest a "Y" build, where we'd all take a production aircraft and build the prototype.  Some would definitely be easier than others, but still, it might be entertaining.

It is funny how you start a project like this thinking, "What could be easier?", and later find yourself measuring your progress by counting the empty tubes of putty. . .

[kitnut617]

Wouldn't it be easier if you just bought this --- not to knock your kitbash though, MM:

http://www.anigrand.com/AA2023_YF-17.htm

[Daryl J.]

Cool!   I'd seen it as an Iranian F-5 derivative thus the "I ran" comment.


Daryl J.

[AeroplaneDriver]

The thing about building an "F-17" is that you raelly have a little bit of leeway.  If you assume that the YF-17 won the LWF contest, then you can make changes to the production F-17.  The F-16A was different from the YF-16, and in the same way you can make a production F-17A different from the YF-17.  It wouldnt be as different as the F-18, but still, it gives you a little room to maneuver.

Cant wait to see it progress!