Mistels - Real and imagined

[sequoiaranger]

OK, don't look at me like you previously thought I was sane but now suddenly you think otherwise. One look at my models tells a different story.

Well, here is a "whif" idea I just thought up yesterday.

Northrop's "Mistel" consisting of an N9M atop a B-35! We know what the Germans did---they took "obsolescent" bombers, loaded them up with explosives, and put a guiding fighter atop them.  They used the bomber itself as a flying bomb released by the fighter.  Well, fast forward to the early '50's when we had a squadron of B-35's but they were proving too much to handle so the B-47/B-58/B-52's took over. Rather than let them rot as unwanted surplus, Northrop made "special" bombers out of them. Maybe the Israelis bought them for use in the Suez Crisis of 1956.

[philp]

After last years turnout figured I would replace the Raspberry Ripple category with something else.

Now I have seen at least 3 builds this year regarding aircraft with launch vehicles under them ala Mistel.

So, maybe the best Over/Under 

[PR19_Kit]

So, maybe the best Over/Under 

Does that mean that all EE Lightnings are OK? 

[Daryl J.]

That's cool.



Daryl J.

[tigercat2]

Agree with this category, especially the Mistels.  I saw somewhere recently a thread about insane Mistels concepts that were proposed, apparenly some were serious, for the USAF.  It was, I believe, something like an F-100/B-47 for the Vietnam War.

Some other ideas for various wars the US has been involved in:

P-51 or P-47/B-17 WWII
F-82/B-29 for Korea
F-89 or F-94/B-36 for mid 50s to late 60s
the aforementioned F-100/B-47
F-105B/B-52B or C for Vietnam

What a display these would make in 1/72!!


Wes W.

[philp]

So, maybe the best Over/Under 

Does that mean that all EE Lightnings are OK? 

If the Lightning is over a Vulcan, then yes

[philp]

Think we are up to four now.  Let's see.

X-15C


British Spaceplane


and the unmanned version


Stinger


and the Bat-Jet


Hmmm, I was wrong, that makes 5 and enough for a category.  Wonder how many more we will see in the next 9 months.

[ChernayaAkula]

<...> Wonder how many more we will see in the next 9 months.

I've got one planned as well. Whether I'll get round to it this year is another matter, though. It will involve a 1/72 Airfix D.H. Vampire and a 1/72 MPM Gloster Meteor. The idea was sparked by a  GTX profile, I think - yet again.

[GTX]

<...> Wonder how many more we will see in the next 9 months.

I've got one planned as well. Whether I'll get round to it this year is another matter, though. It will involve a 1/72 Airfix D.H. Vampire and a 1/72 MPM Gloster Meteor. The idea was sparked by a  GTX profile, I think - yet again.

Why do I get blamed a lot?  I didn't do anything...



Oh, that's right.  Never mind.

Regards,

Greg

[JayBee]

<...> Wonder how many more we will see in the next 9 months.

I've got one planned as well. Whether I'll get round to it this year is another matter, though. It will involve a 1/72 Airfix D.H. Vampire and a 1/72 MPM Gloster Meteor. The idea was sparked by a  GTX profile, I think - yet again.

Why do I get blamed a lot?  I didn't do anything...



Oh, that's right.  Never mind.

Regards,

Greg

Oh yes you did!, and frequently at that, thank goodness.

[tigercat2]

How about an older model B-47 (that was going to be scrapped anyway in the late 60s) configured as either a Mistel (with an F-100F on top) or as a complete drone bird, loaded up with a lot of TNT and flown into hardened targets in NVN?  It would be in the SEA scheme.


Wes W.

[sideshowbob9]

How about an older model B-47 (that was going to be scrapped anyway in the late 60s) configured as either a Mistel (with an F-100F on top) or as a complete drone bird, loaded up with a lot of TNT and flown into hardened targets in NVN?  It would be in the SEA scheme.

^ Funny you should mention that! I have a Revell 1/113(?) B-47 in SEA colours that I did a few years ago that's in for a similar treatment (painted before I got the airbrush so it's on the re-do list anyway).

It will have a F-104 (Tamiya 1/100 was the closest I could get) on the top and as an added twist it will be converted to become a B-47D turboprop variant to create the RF-104C/QB-47D "Have Cake" Mistel combo.

(Yes it's a bad pun but I quite like it!)

Another Revell B-47 I have is in a weathered NMF over orange testbed scheme with a honking big radar nose & TV/IR sensor cheek fairings

[PR19_Kit]

How about a Mistel Wimpy, with a Spitfire or Hurricane on top?

Vickers did their own Whiffing on it as well, making the up-sized Warwick, but for some reason that seemed to be nowhere near as successful as the Wimpy.

[tigercat2]

Someone earlier suggested a ZELL B-58.  For something really insane, how about a ZELL/Mistel, with a B-58 on the bottom and an F-104 on top.  Now, that would be something to see; 5 J-79s at full burner plus a big, big booster or two.  That should wake up the neighborhood!!!


Wes

[Doc Yo]

Someone earlier suggested a ZELL B-58.  For something really insane, how about a ZELL/Mistel, with a B-58 on the bottom and an F-104 on top.  Now, that would be something to see; 5 J-79s at full burner plus a big, big booster or two.  That should wake up the neighborhood!!!


Wes

Do you have a license for that mind-reading device, sir?   I have an Academy Hustler slowly undergoing
conversion to a Zel-launched, concrete revetment-housed, lifting-body launching...something or other.