SNCAChild N-119 Noroxcar

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Now that the Bv-338 is on its way, I consider building my very last model for 2011 (and even forever almost, then there may be one model per year)

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I have kept these ones as very last because they are very much too big size for me. The plan is to make a compound with the Noratlas on top of the Flying Boxcar. Both will be biplane and have their pod's length very reduced. To provide asymmetry smile, both will be single-engines e.g. Noratlas on port boom and Flying Boxcar on starboard boom. As the N.2501 kit has 2 canopies to choose from, this will not be anymore a "twin-boomer with rear door" but a "twin-boomer with rear canopy".

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I have no Noratlas drawing nor Flying Boxcar drawing to mix, but I can show you the principle on 2 P-38 basis: the N-119 will be a bigger quadruplane derivative of the N-38.

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And here is the quadruplane short-span version N-38S:

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These planes might not sit well for the claustrophobic. 

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Wow... the C-119 is so huge at this 1/72 scale, far bigger than the room I have for the compound C-119/N.2501...

I will create a tiny derivative inside the rear part, I guess.

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Shortening booms: the port one has no wing-part (the wing will be low, under the booms) and a 2-blade propeller (to avoid the need for undercarriage on my model), the starboard boom is even shorter, for a jet (with exhaust below and a titanium low fin)... The second piston engine will be in the nose at last.

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The saw is a useful tool for a (what-if) modeller...
Below (for the N-119 lower component): on the left is what I removed (a big airplane, Flying Box), on the right is what I kept (a little airplane, Flying 'car)...

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I like the skillful use of a shoe to show scale!

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hehehe... I knew that the English-speaking unit for dimension is not centimeters but feet...

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After putty/sanding/gluing, here is the aspect of the N-119B (Below) part. With 2 radial engines, 2 little turbojets, one big ramjet:

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The N-119B (below) Fly-ar is finished. It will be the lower part of a compound but it could have been an airplane by itself if I had more room.
Well, this '1/48th' asymmetric tri-jet low-wing, in a previous life, was a 1/72nd symmetric twin-jet high-wing C-119K...

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Other angles:

There is no rear door but rear window...

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After the N-119B (Below) comes the N-119A (Above) before the final N-119C (compound)...
Lord, that Noratlas is huge also! Truncating it will be for me "self defense"...

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Good surprise in the Heller kit box: 2 sets of fins, for either normal or "with extension". Of course, my model will feature them all: 4 fins is good for a what-if airplane, and the grand total of the N-119C will be 6 fins, just right