STOVL Canberra

[kitnut617]

cheers guys ---

[buzzbomb]

Fantasmic!!!

This thread is a great showcase of what can be done thinking outside the square

Well done

[Captain Canada]

Wow...this thing just keeps getting better and better ! Love the work on the tail, it sure looks great attached. It just looks so right it's amazing.....

Beauty !

[ysi_maniac]

WOW
I like this bttb!

[kitbasher]

cool!

[kitnut617]

Thanks everyone ---

[kitnut617]

Got the other tailplane done and it hasn't turned out too bad,  I'll try to get a bunch more done over the holiday as I'd like to get this finished. I've decided on the load-out it will have, under the wings will be two Harrier GR.7 tanks, three anti-radiation Martels, one TV Martel, two AS-30L's, the wing tips will have the Nimrod pods.  Under the nacelles will be a TIALD pod and a data link pod, and after buying the new Airfix Canberra B.8 and liking what I see, I'm going to use the gun pack from it only it will be at the front end of the bomb bay with some suitable strakes attached to it.

[Daryl J.]

You've got the aesthetics bang-on!   That is flat out awesome.




Daryl J.

[Eddie M.]

+1

You've already got me convinced it's real. Definite head turner!

[John Howling Mouse]

Um, please don't take this the wrong way but, I had no idea you were THIS talented.      I mean, you're clearly able to produce anything from anything.
Amazing workmanship, IMHO.   

[kitnut617]

We definitely need an 'Embarassed' smiley --- but thanks for your kind comments Barry and everyone ---

Another piece of the puzzle has come together, as I've said before, the main u/c is just some gear from a 1/48 Harrier (and thanks Barry for the second u/c gear to help out) but for the front u/c leg and wheels I've modified the 1/48 front gear quite a bit, first to go with two wheels but also the trailing arm had to be changed.  I've used some small diameter aluminum and brass tubing to manufacture a new trailing arm and the wheels are a pair of 1/48 F-4 wheels which looked about right for what I want.  So here's what I did with the nose gear and also the first time it's been on it's u/c standing completely by itself. I've had to add about a 1/4 oz. of weight in the radome for it to do this. 

[GTX]

This just keeps getting better and better!!!

Regards,

Greg

[Mossie]

Exactly the words I was going to use!  This just looks "right" Robert!

[kitnut617]

Thanks Greg, Simon.

I've refined the nose-up stance a bit which I thought looked too much in the last photos.  it's much better now I lowered the nose about 3/32" by setting the gear further into the wheel bay.

[ChernayaAkula]

Way, W A Y cool!  As Mossie said, it looks just "right"!