TC`s build thread.

[tc2324]

Pretty much completed the build and put the covers on everything. U/C still to be done but added a couple of bits to make it interesting, so now the `tweaking` begins.....!

[ChernayaAkula]

Good golly, that's awesome!

[Ed S]

With the increased wingspan and tail, it looks like a very high altitude recce bird, predecessor of Lockheed's later U-2.

Looking good.

Ed

[Tophe]

Wow! Wonderful...
While... uh... yesterday morning I tried to draw it, and drew it wrongly now this seems obvious, so today posting it at the end of my what-if P-38 site ( http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/#Sit ) I wrote this was a preliminary drawing. This way I authorize myself to draw it again, almost perfectly the day it will be finished.
By the way, why Ed said there is "increased span"? I thought the booms were replaced by jets then the booms were installed externally, without extending the wing. Was I wrong once more? We need details to celebrate fully your work, tc...

[NARSES2]

With the increased wingspan and tail, it looks like a very high altitude recce bird, predecessor of Lockheed's later U-2.

Looking good.

Ed

Beat me to it Ed, exactly what I thought 

[tc2324]

Wow! Wonderful...
While... uh... yesterday morning I tried to draw it, and drew it wrongly now this seems obvious, so today posting it at the end of my what-if P-38 site ( http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/#Sit ) I wrote this was a preliminary drawing. This way I authorize myself to draw it again, almost perfectly the day it will be finished.
By the way, why Ed said there is "increased span"? I thought the booms were replaced by jets then the booms were installed externally, without extending the wing. Was I wrong once more? We need details to celebrate fully your work, tc...

Thanks for the comments again all. Glad you all like it. 

Tophe, I don`t really want to give too much away at the moment but all will be revealed in the backstory I am working on. 

[Taiidantomcat]

Better than I imagined! Wow! 

[tc2324]

Ok, last picture of the build before the reveal and backstory. Airframe primed and first coat of `warpaint` has gone on. Need to fill that section by the nose cone, attach u/c, u/c doors, wing tanks and some touch up painting of the exhausts and cockpit area and I should be about done.

[Tophe]

 

[tc2324]

Thought I`d be finished by now, but alas the other `arf keeps giving me chores around the house. So heres an update on what she looks like now. (the model, not the wife..!)

[Tophe]

So heres an update on what she looks like now. (the model, not the wife..!)

- (admirative whistle - for the model, not the wife, I do respect...)

[Cobra]

Sweet Job Any plans to put a Shark's Mouth on it? just asking because it looks like a Shark's mouth would be Natural for it.  :cheers:Dan

[tc2324]

Any plans to put a Shark's Mouth on it?

I`m afraid not. Standard testbed sheme for this bird I`m afraid.   

[tc2324]

Diorama and backstory presentation to finish this build will have to wait until the weekend but thought you may like a few colour pics of the completed model and profiles. Decals being very old were a nightmare to apply with all that white halo stuff around them all so out came the fine paint brush again.

Overall I`m petty happy with this model and I think the back story is a cracker.

Untill the the weekend...........!

[Taiidantomcat]

Well done!!!