This will probably be regarded as heresy by some........

[Weaver]

I've got an old Air International at home with an article and some artwork. I'll see if I can find it.

What I'm thinking for the Skyvan is that you could reduce the span of the individual wings to the point where they didn't need bracing, then use the redundant tailplanes to make pylons to mount the engines amidships.

[Weaver]

I've put the Air International article up on Secret Projects, here:

http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,6305.0.html

[PR19_Kit]

Yes, it DOES look like a tandem winged Skyvan with the engines in the middle. 

Thanks for the link, I'll be off to download that right now. 

[Weaver]

The other thing that struck me is that you could make it out of Dornier Do-28/Do-228 and/or OV-10 Bronco bits.

[kitnut617]

You could do it like this;

[PR19_Kit]

You could do it like this;

WHAT is that Robert??? 

[kitnut617]

WHAT is that Robert??? 

Lockheed Martin box wing KC-X Advanced Mobility Aircraft (AMA) concept



Duncan

You could do it like this;

WHAT is that Robert??? 

What Duncan said   

Could be a tandem wing, biplane, or anything else you want to call it.  I can imaging one half of the VC-10 tailplane protruding from the top wingtip connection on both sides just to be different.

[albeback]

You could do it like this;

Wow!!! Now, THAT I like!!!!!

[Old Wombat]

"This will probably be regarded as heresy by some........"


.................................... How the blazes does someone come up with a thread title like that here on a site populated by modelling heretics & sinners?

[Rheged]

"This will probably be regarded as heresy by some........"


.................................... How the blazes does someone come up with a thread title like that here on a site populated by modelling heretics & sinners?

HERESY??

In this specific case, it's not heresy, it's creative imagination and should be applauded 

Heresy is a word from the vocabulary of the Rivet Counters (JMNs)  and therefore should   rarely  be  necessary  in polite conversation in Whiffworld. Everything we do is heretical and an anathema to  the ranks of the pedantic.

[raafif]

Attention sicko's, weirdo's & perverts .....

        Heresy for us is building a kit out of the box, no mods, in the colour scheme shown in the instructions / boxtop and using the kit decals.

Now that's what I call going straight 

[RussC]

Attention sicko's, weirdo's & perverts .....

        Heresy for us is building a kit out of the box, no mods, in the colour scheme shown in the instructions / boxtop and using the kit decals.

Now that's what I call going straight 

Or worse yet, buying it pre-painted and marked and snapping it together glue-less with our own little nose pickers...

[albeback]

"This will probably be regarded as heresy by some........"


.................................... How the blazes does someone come up with a thread title like that here on a site populated by modelling heretics & sinners?

Couldn't think of anything better!! I fully expected to meet the fate of all heretics by even THINKING of chopping a model of Vickers finest!!

[Stargazer]

True, true, y'all... BUT... isn't the transformation of a very rare plastic kit into a whif another form of heresy? A kit that many people would pay a lot for and you prefer to cut it into pieces for a special project? Just a thought.

[Rheged]

True, true, y'all... BUT... isn't the transformation of a very rare plastic kit into a whif another form of heresy? A kit that many people would pay a lot for and you prefer to cut it into pieces for a special project? Just a thought.

I tend to adopt the philosophy of live and let live. Remember that like the dung beetle, the horned slug and the politician; the collector does  have a place in  polystyrene ecology. Personally, I'd rather have a kit on the workbench rather than a box on the shelf but I suppose that "one man's fish is another man's poisson"  (or something like that)