WHIFS found while Google-ing

[beowulf]

just read the wiki out of interest.....never knew luke skywalker's landspeeder was built on a bond bug chassis! 

[dy031101]

The drawings above are based on the Windsor Carrier which is actually closer to the Lloyd Carrier than the Universal.  Still, there may be some fudging going on.  That is the one advantage of What If, you don't have to be able to actually create it in the real world.

Provided that I don't go beyond the class of M3 Light and its turret-swap derivatives, would Windsor and Lloyd Carriers have been workable as an emergency basis though?

[rickshaw]

I was just thinking the same thing!

People forget that most modern APCs are the size of WWII tanks: if you look at the few WWII "APCs" that were made, they were either based on tanks (Kangaroo) or trucks the length of a tank (Hanomag). The Bren carrier et al were more akin to tracked jeeps than anything else.

The Infantry Carrier was intended to be exactly that.  They were meant to be battlefield taxis, able to haul personnel and equipment around the battlefield with a degree of protection.  Everytime someone attempted to turn them into an Armoured Fighting Vehicle they came a cropper.  They were simply too lightly armoured to stand up to anything other than the occasional spent shell splinter or rifle round.   Developments like the T16 and the Windsor carrier were intended to carry more payload, not more armour.  The Lloyd carriers weren't even armoured, being intended for use behind the FEBA.  Another thing not appreciated by many was that they were also dangerously top-heavy and quite a few people were killed in accidents with them turning turtle.

[rickshaw]

The drawings above are based on the Windsor Carrier which is actually closer to the Lloyd Carrier than the Universal.  Still, there may be some fudging going on.  That is the one advantage of What If, you don't have to be able to actually create it in the real world.

Provided that I don't go beyond the class of M3 Light and its turret-swap derivatives, would Windsor and Lloyd Carriers have been workable as an emergency basis though?

You would need to seriously beef up their suspensions.  Carriers were already considered heavily loaded with the light armour they actually carried.  If you want to improve on that, then you'll a stronger suspension.   Heavier springs, roadwheels, the whole shebang.   It was cheaper to just use de-turreted M3 light tanks if you were looking for something more heavily armoured.

[philp]

k, the Bond Bug has serious possibilities as a light Space Taxi, kind of like the ones from Star Trek Travel Pod or Workbee.

[Spey_Phantom]

i found this German Navy MH90 (German Navy has no NH90's on order)

http://www.marine-modellbauer.de/marineflieger.htm

[Pablo1965]

Nice and curious

[RotorheadTX]

i found this German Navy MH90...

  SWEET! 

[Jschmus]

Amazing papercraft model, originally posted on x-planes:

http://journals.ru/journals_comments.php?id=3646845

It's all in Cyrillic, but the pictures tell the story pretty well.  It's got a serious Crimson Skies vibe to it.

I wanted to insert an image, but they're all wider than standard page width.

[Rheged]

One school I went to always had a pair of Bond Bugs in the staff car park. I still see the odd one at various local steam rally's/country fairs but havent seen one on the road in years thou.

Guy with more money than sense had one when I was at University.  He never quite forgave us for picking it up and putting it in the library one night. I don't know why he complained, we did park it beside "Mechanical Engineering" .....but he was a media studies  student.

[rickshaw]

Amazing papercraft model, originally posted on x-planes:

http://journals.ru/journals_comments.php?id=3646845

It's all in Cyrillic, but the pictures tell the story pretty well.  It's got a serious Crimson Skies vibe to it.

I wanted to insert an image, but they're all wider than standard page width.

You're kidding, right?  Thats paper?  Its better done than most injection moulded models!   

[grumpybadger]

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fjournals.ru%2Fjournals_comments.php%3Fid%3D3646845&act=url

run through a translation engine...not perfect, but what the heck 

[IanH]

SAAF F-51 Thundercat - beaut as I love the Orange Springbok roundel 

http://modelingmadness.com/reviews/allies/us/usaaf/ewald51.htm 

That's our cthulhu77 there.  He's always popping out new work and not sharing it, but then again, this could be an older build.  I don't know for sure.

It's a few years old Jschmus - April 08

[Spey_Phantom]

found this JASDF F-15SE Silent Eagle 
http://www.otacute.com/index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=16&disp_order=4&sort=20a&page=13

[ChernayaAkula]

I wish Tomytec would sell their 1/144 Eagles as proper kits. They're without a doubt the best-looking 1/144 Eagles out there!