Martokker D.XV

[Tophe]

My story with the Marton X/V started in 2004, thanks to Narses2 (http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,4080.0.html ), well concerning twin-boom push-pull peculiar machines, I have both a Marton RS 1/72 kit and a Fokker D.XXIII Pegasus 1/72 kit,. The Marton has been marvelously built by Stlava_Trudu (see http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,24457.0.html ), and the D.XXIII by PR19Kit (http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,26648.15.html ), far better than I could have ever done. Well, I will not build them also as "in service", nor in USAF or RAF colours: I have not room enough for them. I prefer a deeper craziness, the project of mine is a mix of both, the Martokker D.XV: a twin-pod twin-boom glider...
(the RS thermoformed canopy frightens me a little, but I will see).

[Tophe]

to draw the 2 possible ways for my project, I needed dimensions. For the D.XXIII it was available everywhere on the Web, for the X/V I found it only in the kit instruction paper. So:
DXXIII Span x length : 11.5m x 10.2m, X/V : 11.8 x 10.2m

[Tophe]

So, here are the 2 tiny-span ways I consider . Which one would you chose?

[Tophe]

PS. (They are gliders, not airplanes with propellers to keep distant)

[PR19_Kit]

A!

It's by far the silliest........ 

[TallEng]

I think "A"
and wouldn't it be much better than a glider if it had four engines?

[Tophe]

Well, I may consider letting two propellers, the one of the D.XXIII side, for many good reasons:
- this adds assymetry which I love
- the XXIII propellers/spinners are single parts (white metal) more easy to keep than to separate
- I prefer clean glider lines than complicated engine-propeller lines, and I prefer the X/V lines than the XXIII lines, so I may have a pleasant glider beautiful side, the rest being ugly, I like this difference a lot!
- I discard propellers to stand on the shelf without undercarriage, but the XXIII spinners are high and that is possible
So thanks a lot for this suggestion.

[Brian da Basher]

Yes A definitely!

Brian da Basher

[Tophe]

So the score of the match is: A 3 - B zero, so this will be a T-tail...

[Tophe]

a little more advanced, with the first putty on the pods:

[Tophe]

Here are the white-metal spinners-propellers that I will send to PR19_Kit. No need for him to send him his ones, I consider a putty-improved glider nose at last.

[PR19_Kit]

Tophe. you are a scholar and a gentleman, not to mention a RADICAL modeller! 

[Tophe]

Here the updated project, with putty "improved" spinners 'my way...
(Kit, I am going to send you a PM for practical details/address)

[John Howling Mouse]

T-Tail!  T-Tail!   There's something about this I really like.  The pods remind me of Star Wars something-or-others.

Mind if I borrow some of the elements of your line dwg, Tophe?

[Tophe]

Thanks JHM, I am glad this heresy of mine is not insulting "how a balanced T-tail plane should be" . Feel free to use the drawings if you need, these are public posts.