WHIFS found while Google-ing

[Snowtrooper]

Well, that's just an illustration of TOS Season 1 Episode 19 "Tomorrow Is Yesterday"

[Madoc]

Scooter,

That is such a beautiful rendering of that scene.

[pirx]

Hughes 500 - Aerosani

http://i-am-modelist.com/2012/04/25/aerosani/

[Dizzyfugu]

That's cool. With swimmers, this could also be a concept for a Sheriff/patrol vehicle for the Everglades...?
I'm just not certain about the missiles and their low position...?

[TheChronicOne]

Robert McCall artwork...

[NARSES2]

Great artwork but a horrifying thought 

Hustlers with canards ? Interesting, I swear I've a 1/144 kit somewhere. Always liked the Hustler since I was a kid. It summed up the era and really did look quick 

[TheChronicOne]

Tell me about it....  If the day ever were to occur when these were over Moscow it probably would have meant the rest of the planet was already a smoldering mess.

Here's some more artwork. .... Fast, OH YEAH... man this thing is gorgeous.



The canards look oh so right on it. I have one in my stash, as well (1/72) that I was going to make as the trainer version but the transfers don't look like they're going to work...  I could try decal film or coating with laquer or .... I could build a WHIF version with canards like the McCall artwork instead.

[Old Wombat]

Great artwork but a horrifying thought 

Hustlers with canards ? Interesting, I swear I've a 1/144 kit somewhere. Always liked the Hustler since I was a kid. It summed up the era and really did look quick 

I have a 1/72 Hustler in the stash, Chris, do you want that to go with your 1/144 version, to create a forced-perspective dio of that painting?

[zenrat]

Great artwork but a horrifying thought  ...

Especially since, despite knowing better, my brain interprets a city skyline with all those spires as being London...

[NARSES2]

Great artwork but a horrifying thought 

Hustlers with canards ? Interesting, I swear I've a 1/144 kit somewhere. Always liked the Hustler since I was a kid. It summed up the era and really did look quick 

I have a 1/72 Hustler in the stash, Chris, do you want that to go with your 1/144 version, to create a forced-perspective dio of that painting?

No thanks, I'm fine thanks mate 

[zenrat]

According to a quick search the works of William Wardrop have not been posted here.




The honorable Screaming Pig is a concept for a Japanese troop transport/cargo carrier for the Pacific campaign in 1944. It was designed to be a high speed glider that could get past Allied blockades and fighter cover.
Once the glider was towed into range of its destination the pilot would ignite three Walther rocket motors. With a boost from these rockets which were imported from Germany; this plane could attain speeds of up to 550 mph which would sufficiently outrun most of the U.S. fighters of the day.
Unfortunetly, the power only lasted three minutes and then the speed dropped to gliding speed of 200 mph, making it a sitting duck! The fuel for the rocket motors was no prize ether being the deadly Tstoff and Zstoff it would blow up if handled wrong or right or just looked at in a funny way. The name for this one is from the noise three Walther motors make when running; a sort of a whinning scream. the blunt nose and fat Betty bomber body.
The plan was to tow the Pigs behind Betty bombers and when near the drop zone unhook and glide until spotted by the enemy then light the rockets and zoom in for a fast landing on the target dump the troops and run for cover before the damn thing exploded!.


This steam-powered vehicle was built in 1889 by French entomologists working with the theory that the wing-size to body-mass ratio makes flight for insects impossible. Upon startup it was found out immediatelty that the theory was indeed correct; insects can not fly. The vibration of their wings however, generates a spherical field of extradimentional energy that shifts matter in the space-time continuum allowing them a full range of effortless movement. In essence: the insect remains still and the world moves around it.

Lots more here.

[TheChronicOne]

That pig is something else!!! Looks like wings and some rockets slapped onto a space capsule.

[TheChronicOne]

Hughes 500 - Aerosani

http://i-am-modelist.com/2012/04/25/aerosani/

I missed this one some how.  Very cool find!!!   

[Weaver]

Found on Pinterest, quite by chance:


https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/11399805280046115/

The page says it was pinned from Swanny's Models.

[Dizzyfugu]

Came across this (current) breast cancer awareness Cougar:



http://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/18/health/pink-fighter-jet-trnd/index.html