Sabre-Bat beauty...

[Tophe]

To compare more easily, see (thanks to Omega13) : X/F-29 at
http://photopile.com/photos/blackwolfscd/S...FP001/16050.jpg

[Reduced view below]

[Tophe]

To compare more easily

oops... I did not know that Paul's new picture of the SabreBat beauty would be on Page 2 and this F-29 on completely another page 3, not just below...
(if you come here directly, have a look at the end of page 2)

[Geoff_B]

TsrJoe sent this over, thought it might help B)  

[Tophe]

Wonderful    Thanks Thor, thanks Joe... Such a beauty!

[TsrJoe]

http://groups.msn.com/TSR-2ResearchGroup/m...ngs.msnw?Page=3


iv also some piccies of the mockup at Paris somewhere ...ill scan them and post em up too...it looked beautiful in overall white with 2 tone blue trim...

ps. sorry bout the distortion in the images...they were a bit big to scan...

happy modelling, cheers, joe    

[TsrJoe]

just dug out my inaccurate 1/144 scale model built many years ago of the mockup after falling in love with it at my first paris air salon and based on my ground level photographs (i didnt have any drawings of her back then! )... anyway, after glueing the fin, canopy, etc back on...here it is...btw, Rockwell wrere calling this the X.29 back then, so im guessing the contract was still up for graps at that time?

[elmayerle]

just dug out my inaccurate 1/144 scale model built many years ago of the mockup after falling in love with it at my first paris air salon and based on my ground level photographs (i didnt have any drawings of her back then! )... anyway, after glueing the fin, canopy, etc back on...here it is...btw, Rockwell wrere calling this the X.29 back then, so im guessing the contract was still up for graps at that time?

'Twas their entry into the X-29 competition against GD's FW F-16 and Grumman's design.

[Tophe]

my inaccurate 1/144 scale model

Great! I dreamed of a model of this beauty, and she was already in your collection! Scratch built? Great great work, congratulations!

[Tophe]

On http://www.strange-mecha.com/aircraft/aircraft.htm I found this F-16:

[Tophe]

and this Sabrebat  

[Hatchet]

By the same token, I seem to remember Hasegawa also producing a variant of the YF-16CCV in Japanese markings as an early F-2 model, again in a "Japan-only" boxing.

I don't know if it was Japan-only Evan, but I assume you mean this one:


It's on habu2s website, click-me

Just to save some effort, have a look here

 

[waynos]

Hi, many years ago I did a conversion of the Hasegawa X-29 which just involved fitting aft swept canards on the intake shoulders and four sidewinders on very narrow pylons leading forward from the wing leading edge, like in this picture below. I called it the F-29 Firestorm. I might recreate it from my unbuilt F-20 kit in the near future. The  new canards and missiles made a real difference to its looks.
edit; I just wish to point out I didn't model the plane in the drawing, just added its weapos and canards to the X-29.

[Tophe]

Thanks Waynos for this very beautiful picture, almost unknown alas... This is a very gorgeous airplane, will a kit manufacturer dare to propose it in plastic or resin? Maybe the United States Air Force didn't need the SabreBat, but the United What-if Modellers Force may need it... no?

[John Howling Mouse]

Tophe, the twin-booms are going to get jealous.  

In all of your twin-boom designs, did you have any with forward swept wings?

 ^_^  

[rallymodeller]

On http://www.strange-mecha.com/aircraft/aircraft.htm I found this F-16:

Call me a heretic if you will, but I like this one best.