Junkers J.1001 canard Flying Wing

[Tophe]

I am lazy  to go back to my 1/32 P-38 with so many putty and sanding to perform...maybe in late June.
So my next one will be the what-if version of the Junkers J.1000 Unicraft resin 1/144 (see  http://www.unicraft.biz/bigph/j1000.htm ). Mine will be rather different: even 1/144, the beast is 60cm (2ft) wide and I will reduce it to 25cm (10in) as sesquiplane, with 5 canopies 1/72 and no engine. That is the project of mine.

[B777LR]

Whats that beast?!? (not the one you are doing, the one in the link!)

[Tophe]

many pictures there
http://images.google.fr/images?source=ig&hl=fr&rlz=1G1GGLQ_FRFR340&q=junkers%20J-1000&lr=&oq=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

[Brian da Basher]

Wow that's practically a whiff right out of the box!

I can't wait to see what you do with it, Tophe!

Brian da Basher

[Tophe]

Isn't that normal, for an airliner?
( http://www.junkers.de/visionen/medienbibliothek/ )

[Tophe]

I have drawn the project of the J.1001. Sorry, it lacks the impressive beauty of the J.1000 (wider in 1922 than an Airbus A380 of 2005), but I simply have not enough room in my shelves, and the what-if J.1000 model has already been built by someone, so I want to make something different, what-ifing further.
So... the 1/144 4-engined inhabited flying-wing (+ pilot pod) monoplane will become a 1/72 sesquiplane engine-less (powered by mind force) with 5 pods enjoying panoramic frontal view (despite booms and foreplane...):

[PR19_Kit]

A glider ekranoplan, no less!

Nice one Tophe. 

[Tophe]

Thanks Kit, to have found some "reason"
Well, the first sawing and gluing gave shape to the reduced J.1001:

[Tophe]

Putty and sanding has begun.
But the project must be updated: the lateral engines were adapted only to the swept leading edge, so there will be only 2 lateral canopies, not 4:

[Tophe]

Aspect now. Next steps:
- sanding the two lateral pods (now standing on the fuselages for drying)
- painting black the canopies
- painting sky blue the rest
- gluing the lateral pods and the central one

[Tophe]

I fear the lateral pods are too small: to be panoramic passenger pods with canopies, the scale should be 1/144, while the all glazed central pod was aimed to be 1/72. Maybe those lateral pods will be radars or something, plain sky blue. And maybe both on starboard to add a touch of asymmetry ...

[PR19_Kit]

Tophe,

Put the lateral pods underneath and then they could be the 'mind force transducers' to keep it off the ground.......... 

[Taiidantomcat]

Whoa!!

[Tophe]

Put the lateral pods underneath and then they could be the 'mind force transducers' to keep it off the ground.......... 

I'd like this mind-force dream, thanks for it. Alas, thes pods are made to adapt on the big leading edge of the wing, and putting them elsewhere would be a tremendous work... I am a what-ifer, yes, but hard-work still frightens me a little. Sorry...

[PACOPEPE]

Very interesting. Would not be better engines like pusher propeller?. And a configuration as a big floatplane (like The Dornier Do-X), as the draft transatlantic flights of thirties?.

Excuse me for my dare.

Cheers
Fran