Sci fi fighters from "Real" fighters

philp · April 19, 2009, 05:47:09 PM

ElectrikBlue's drawing of a Scifi F-20 got me thinking (always a scary thing) that if you took an F-20, move the engine to the base of the tail and add two more on the sides, shorten the fuselage by removing the section between the cockpit and tail, it would kind of look like the original Battlestar Viper.

There have been a couple other builds here that could qualify.

So, what else can you convert to get a space fighter?

The Rat · April 19, 2009, 05:52:17 PM

Sexy beast! Gonna build it?

philp · April 19, 2009, 07:24:14 PM

If I can find the 72nd Hasagawa kit, I just might.

Cobra · April 19, 2009, 07:56:04 PM

Hey Guys, Ever notice the Starfighters from the Second Season of 'Star Blazers' looked like F-15's?

?? that's what i thought when i saw them!!!!!!! Stay Cool!!!!

PanzerWulff · April 19, 2009, 11:07:50 PM

Ah yes the Cosmo Tiger sieries AKA Astrofighters
Cosmo tiger 1

Cosmo tiger II

And the Cosmo Avenger torpedo bomber

If you want more just ask I have 3 views of most of the Star Blazers craft and ships
"Panzer"

puddingwrestler · April 20, 2009, 03:28:24 PM

What can you convert to make a space fighter?

So far:
AnEE Lightning
A Kamov Hokum
A F4U Corsair, with EE Lightning and Stuka parts
A FW-190 and two P-47s
Two Spitfires
And plans for several others.

dragon · April 20, 2009, 03:38:58 PM

Hopefully everyone remembers that the F-14 Tomcat has already been done (Macross or Robotech)

Sauragnmon · April 21, 2009, 10:52:02 AM

I would think just as well, that some of the awesome nosebreathers out there, like the MiG-21 and Su-22, are naturals for the spaceship conversion charts.

Jschmus · April 21, 2009, 01:57:56 PM

I found this one in photos posted from a model show a couple of years ago on SSM.

It looks like it's got bits of an F-14 and maybe a MiG-29.

puddingwrestler · April 21, 2009, 03:39:02 PM

Also looks to me like one of the bad guy fighters from Buck Rogers (not the Draconian marauder, one of the others), think it's called a cobra fighter or something.

Rafael · April 21, 2009, 04:05:07 PM

Quote from: Jschmus on April 21, 2009, 01:57:56 PM
I found this one in photos posted from a model show a couple of years ago on SSM.

It looks like it's got bits of an F-14 and maybe a MiG-29.

It's called a "Cabra Macho" (male goat) made by a very industrious Brazilian scifi modeler whose name escapes me right now.

This is his Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/edklingon/

Rafa

Taiidantomcat · April 21, 2009, 06:35:45 PM

Made this a while back, based on the game Homeworld:

http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,20155.0/highlight,taiidan.html

puddingwrestler · April 21, 2009, 07:30:09 PM

Here's what I was thinking of - scroll down past the Thunder fighter to the pirate/mercenary fighter.
Buck Rogers ships
Looks F-14 based to me.
For a while you could buy a kit of this machine (from Spacemam I think, one of the resin kit makers anyway). There's a good built one by Alfred Wong on the Starship Modeler gallery pages.

Weaver · April 22, 2009, 04:09:38 AM

Quote from: puddingwrestler on April 21, 2009, 07:30:09 PM
Here's what I was thinking of - scroll down past the Thunder fighter to the pirate/mercenary fighter.
Buck Rogers ships
Looks F-14 based to me.
For a while you could buy a kit of this machine (from Spacemam I think, one of the resin kit makers anyway). There's a good built one by Alfred Wong on the Starship Modeler gallery pages.

Upside down F-14 with a Hueycobra front end.

Oddly enough, I was just contemplating doing something similar with Italeri's "fantasy" tandem-seat Hokum and some or other Russian jet.