Arado Ar80 V4

[Pablo1965]

When the Ar68 go to the competition for the  Luftwaffe new fighter, It haven't retractable landing gear, have an open canopy, and his fuselage have a monocoque construction but the unexperience in this kind of fuselage made a more waist fuse... I imagine Arado could had made something like this:

Ah! excuse me for the photos, I don't have other by now.
Pictures has taken From http://www.fantasyplanes.com/2010/03/arado-ar80-v4.html



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[NARSES2]

Beautiful 

[Taiidantomcat]

Very smart and clean looking 

[matrixone]

Very clean looking, it could have given the Bf 109 some real competition for a front line fighter.

Matrixone

[ysi_maniac]

Nice and clean 

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Think the word 'elegant' would be appropriate.... 

Ian

[Pablo1965]

Thanks to every body, The photos are bad, this is  a very dificult proyect in 1/48 scale.
Thanks again.

[James]

Think the word 'elegant' would be appropriate.... 

Ian

I agree. A wonderful model of a graceful aircraft.

[sequoiaranger]

Though I would have to say the wingspan seems "excessive" for a fighter of that era.

[edit: If you used the Ar-80's wings (35 ft wingspan), that wouldn't be "excessive" at all---maybe my perception is just the angle of the photograph making the wings *LOOK* longer.]

[Pablo1965]

Though I would have to say the wingspan seems "excessive" for a fighter of that era.

His wingspan is less than the original Ar68, but the wing profile ls longer.

[Tophe]

Looking at those pictures, I thought: "well, notmuch what-if it seems, just some rejected prototype of the 1930s". Then I read the text, and it was speaking of Ar 68, so I asked Hannants the aspect of it and got
http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/CF453 and Google confirmed:
http://www.kitreview.com/reviews/images/ar68reviewlr_boxart.jpg

Wow! What a great butchery! Aesthetical surgery is great when it is so deep!

[Pablo1965]

Looking at those pictures, I thought: "well, notmuch what-if it seems, just some rejected prototype of the 1930s". Then I read the text, and it was speaking of Ar 68, so I asked Hannants the aspect of it and got
http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/CF453 and Google confirmed:
http://www.kitreview.com/reviews/images/ar68reviewlr_boxart.jpg

Wow! What a great butchery! Aesthetical surgery is great when it is so deep!

Sorry, really I want mean Ar 80V2 but how I used the Ar-68 to make my work...the name I used was wrong. See this image from Hyperscale:
Really I think Arado can spend less time using a traditional construction fuselage.
Thanks and excuse me.

[Tophe]

Sorry to have over-estimated your degree of what-ifing... So, the main changes are a closed canopy and retractable undercarriage, that is good anyway. Congratulations.

[Pablo1965]

Sorry to have over-estimated your degree of what-ifing... So, the main changes are a closed canopy and retractable undercarriage, that is good anyway. Congratulations.

No, you don't understan, I don't use the Ar80 V2 in 1/48 scale, because it doesn't exist, I used the Ar68 fuselage, all the other things are made by me.

[Tophe]

Sorry again... I guess I begin understanding at last:
- you made a great hard work to transform the Ar 68 into Ar 80
- you added what-ifing in inventing the imaginary Ar 80V4 with closed canopy and retractable wheels
Right?