Nieuport ACA.5Z Double-Petit-Chose (very little twin fighter 1945)

[Tophe]

As work is progressing so slowly on my huge GP-38L 1/32, I turn myself to a very little model, not to loose enthusiasm in modellism...
From 2 copies of the model ACA.5 (Unicraft 1/72), I will build a twin-plane, and asymmetrical: single-tail, single-seat...

[John Howling Mouse]

You're into resin, now?  You are much braver than me, then!     Good luck with this cool idea, Tophe!   

[PR19_Kit]

Tophe,

That thing looks weird enough straight out of the box, let alone after YOU'VE got to work on it, or them. 

This should be worth seeing!

[Tophe]

Here are, cleaned, the parts I am going to use.
(I plan a single biplane tail on starboard with 4 fins, and 2 tandem pylons on port)

[ElectrikBlue]

Hi Tophe! 

Sounds interesting, looking forward to this!

EB

[Brian da Basher]

Oh yes! You have chosen the absolutely perfect kit for whiffy asymmetric wonder, Tophe! Your tinted canopies will look right at home here.

Brian da Basher

[Tophe]

The ACA-5Z is taking shape...
- the connecting wing is installed. This would require putty and sanding to be "perfect", but I think I will let it that way, to optimize the ratio satisfaction/effort...
- truncating 2 half wings provided me with kind of additional tailplanes and my project is to install them as foreplanes on the tail-less port fuselage...

[Tophe]

Yes, the Twin-little-thing is almost finished, in minutes. I like this way of modelling.

[Tophe]

(As a bad modeller) I was very afraid to  destroy the thermoformed canopy, but I almost succeeded in cutting it off and installing it somehow. This is millions of miles away(below) from  the result of top-modellers here, but I had fun inventing, and this is enough for me. To keep me inside modellism - not playing with computer drawings only (this is almost self-therapy, please do not judge me too severely).

[Brian da Basher]

I've always liked the look your tinted canopies give your projects Tophe and I think there could be few aircraft more fitting for a tinted canopy than your Nieuport ACA. You've made some excellent progress and I look forward to seeing more. Are you going to finish it in W.W. II French Air Force camo or do you have something else in mind?

Brian da Basher

[Tophe]

Thanks Brian.
Sorry it is "finished" according to my standards... This is a shelf-object not at all a propelled wheeled killing-machine, nationalistic moreover (our national anthem requiring to kill foreigners and their babies because their blood is not pure). Never will I celebrate that, sorry... Of course the Nazi were even worse but in the very same direction...
Peace on my mind, sky blue like a growing tree... no injection, doctor, please...

[ElectrikBlue]

Oh no!
What about a civilian paint scheme?

EB

[John Howling Mouse]

Nice job, Tophe.

I like that you model a world where people no longer destroy each other and serial numbers are equally unnecessary.   

[Brian da Basher]

You know, the more I look at your Nieuport Tophe, the more I enjoy it. I think the scheme it's in definitely has a more futuristic appearance. I hope you'll pardon me as I learn more about your approach to whiffery. I always find your work an inspiration!

I'd like to see what you could do with an airliner.


Brian da Basher

[Rafael]

KEY WORDS OF THE WHIFWORLD KING OF IMAGINATION:

(As a bad modeller) Ha, ha!!! Talk about a guy who has delighted us all with his fantasy!!!
This is millions of miles away Yes. Top-notch 
but I had fun inventing, and this is enough for me. Wisest words from the french modeling jedi!!!

I like it, I love it!!!!

I can dream about it being a fast courier, or a family plane for the weekend picnic!!!

Imaginatively ingenious as always, Christophe. Hats off to you from Caracas!!!

Rafa