Frank Whittles' Holiday: Completed

[jorel62]

That is so cool.....

[James]

Simply brilliant as always. 

[Army of One]

I really like this.......absolutely great......awesome backstory as well....

[buzzbomb]

great outcome.. it really looks the part.

Terrific backstory as well.

[Alvis 3.14159]

A stage of whiffing life in the RAF. Very nice put in scene, and the plane is amazing.
A cuestion: Where the spout of the reactor, Ican't see it.
Cheers 

It's right under the tail. The angels I shot it at mostly don't have a good angle on the exhaust. I'll see if I can find one looking up the pipe.

Alvis Pi

[PACOPEPE]

Fantastic; i like it a lot! . Good idea, and very well done.


Regards
Fran

[philp]

Never was a fan of the P-39 but this just looks right.

[Stargazer]

Never was a fan of the P-39 but this just looks right.

I guess if you saw a P-39 in real life you might change your mind.
Anyway, this is far enough from a P-39 for it not to suffer the comparison, isn't it?

[Pablo1965]

A stage of whiffing life in the RAF. Very nice put in scene, and the plane is amazing.
A cuestion: Where the spout of the reactor, Ican't see it.
Cheers 

It's right under the tail. The angels I shot it at mostly don't have a good angle on the exhaust. I'll see if I can find one looking up the pipe.
Alvis Pi

Ah! I see, Sorry for my stupid question. 

[PACOPEPE]

The P-39 seems a vulgar aircraft, but it has something........, i think.

It´s one of the aircrafts with more whiffies and "tunning" versions i know.


Regards
Fran

[Alvis 3.14159]

A stage of whiffing life in the RAF. Very nice put in scene, and the plane is amazing.
A cuestion: Where the spout of the reactor, Ican't see it.
Cheers 

It's right under the tail. The angels I shot it at mostly don't have a good angle on the exhaust. I'll see if I can find one looking up the pipe.
Alvis Pi

There are no stupid questions, only stupid models!   (Even I look at it and think it has no tail pipe)

Alvis Pi
Ah! I see, Sorry for my stupid question. 

[sequoiaranger]

>It's right under the tail. The [angles] I shot it at mostly don't have a good angle on the exhaust. I'll see if I can find one looking up the pipe.<

So, do you tell it to "bend over"?  

PS--I know someone who flew P-39's. He loved them, and he said it was the sweetest thing to fly. It just wasn't an "interceptor" that could fly high, nor a nimble enough dogfighter to take on Zeroes. The Russkies, though, seemed to appreciate it (and the follow-on P-63 Kingcobra)! My future L-39 whif, a long way off, will be outfitted in some Soviet ace markings.

The only thing I might have done differently would be to "separate" the end of the tail pipe with a visible tube, and a little air space between it and the tail above it, both to make the jet aspect a little more visible to the viewer, and to provide some "cooling" (otherwise the paint would be scorched off it). You might be able to still do that with a bit of "drinking straw" extension painted scorched metal. But believe me, I love it the way it is!

[Alvis 3.14159]

Yes, a small extension out of the existing opening should work nicely, I've got some brass tubing that would work nicely. Thanks for the input, it fixes an error.

P-39s get a bad reputation mostly, it seems, from the mauling they received at the hands of the Japanese. I tend to chalk that up to very experienced aircrew (IJN and IJAAF) going up against relatively inexperienced USAAC and USN crews, who hadn't been in a shooting war yet, and were trying to use tactics with vastly dissimilar aircraft. Once they changed tactics (don't get into a turning fight with Zeros) and used the properties of their own planes to advantage, things started to improve for the Americans. By then, the P-39s were being replaced by other planes, so the Airacobras never had the chance to prove they could do the job...albeit in some limited ways.

If they  had a better cannon in the nose tho...that Chrysler 37mm wasn't exactly frisky in muzzle velocity.

The prototype P-39 had a turbo/supercharger, but it didn't make it into production aircraft. Part of the USAAC's mentality was that the planes were there as support for the Army, so high altitude performance wasn't given much importance. This attitude held on for some time before actual info from combat over Europe began to sink in at the higher levels of bureacracy.

Alvis Pi

[GTX]

Brilliant stuff as always Alvis.

Regards,

Mav

Yep, that about sums up my reaction too.

[kitbasher]

Top notch, Alvis!