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WHIFs found at HyperScale

Started by philp, January 06, 2009, 07:56:09 PM

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James

Those Tunnans are wonderful, especially the U-2 and Gripen Tunnans.  :wub:

Weaver

"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."
 - Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Neil Gaiman

"I dunno, I'm making this up as I go."
 - Indiana Jones

The Rat

"My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought, cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives." Hedley Lamarr, Blazing Saddles

Life is too short to worry about perfection

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kerick

The backstory was hilarious! Good modeler and story teller.
" Somewhere, between half true, and completely crazy, is a rainbow of nice colours "
Tophe the Wise

Dizzyfugu

Ugh - have a similar project/idea in the pile, even though with a single/central float...!  :banghead:

kerick

Build it and we can have a fly off.
" Somewhere, between half true, and completely crazy, is a rainbow of nice colours "
Tophe the Wise


perttime

Quote from: Hotte on September 10, 2013, 07:38:20 AM
Hawker Mansoon  :lol:
This link works better for me:
http://www.pienoismallit.net/galleria/malli_11737/
Hawker Monsoon Mk IV
RAAF (?) ASW and fast naval recce. I'd have thought the Navy would be the user, instead.

PR19_Kit

Kit's Rule 1 ) Any aircraft can be improved by fitting longer wings, and/or a longer fuselage
Kit's Rule 2) The backstory can always be changed to suit the model

...and I'm not a closeted 'Take That' fan, I'm a REAL fan! :)

Regards
Kit

Captain Canada

What a beauty ! Wasn't therea48th scale Monsoon on here on an absolutely gorgeous tropical water base ?

:cheers:
CANADA KICKS arse !!!!

Long Live the Commonwealth !!!
Vive les Canadiens !
Where's my beer ?

perttime

#505
He says that he has made a 1/48 Typhoon with Rufe floats - but there was an American by the name of Tory Mucaro who built a Hawker Monsoon before. Googling will probably find more on it.

... yep: http://www.scaleworkshop.com/workshop/monsoontm_1.htm

ChernayaAkula

Both Monsoons look fantastic!  :bow:
Cheers,
Moritz


Must, then, my projects bend to the iron yoke of a mechanical system? Is my soaring spirit to be chained down to the snail's pace of matter?

kitnut617

#507
As much as I like the look of those I tend to spoil it for myself,  I check to see if the float size would work for it.

So lets see,

Kingfisher max' takeoff weight    6000 lbs
EDIT: Shiun max' takeoff weight          10803 lbs
Typhoon max' takeoff weight     13250 lbs

The Shiun float might work but sorry to say the Kingfisher one wouldn't
If I'm not building models, I'm out riding my dirtbike

perttime

#508
And the Mk IV pontoons are from Kawanishi E15K "Shiun"/"Norm": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawanishi_E15K
Max. takeoff weight: 4,900 kg (10,803 lb)
... but they are cut down to make them "look right" on the Monsoon. Not sure if that meant shortened or lowered....

Hawker Tempest Mk V Max. takeoff weight: 13,640 lb (6,190 kg)

kitnut617

#509
Interestingly, the Typhoons max take of weight is very similar to a Blenheims, and the Bolingbroke (Canadian Blenheim) floatplane had two very big floats on it.  I'm building one of these from a 3-View drawing John Adams (Aeroclub) gave me.

If I'm not building models, I'm out riding my dirtbike