PL-123 TrukAir

Captain Canada · February 03, 2013, 06:54:17 AM

...or for flying over parks ! Good call, Tophe !

Sticky Fingers · February 03, 2013, 08:57:02 AM

Nice one, Tophe, my compliments!

ericr · February 04, 2013, 12:08:40 AM

Quote from: Tophe on February 03, 2013, 05:27:11 AM
Quote from: ericr on February 03, 2013, 02:01:28 AM
(it's just that I love bright colors )
As far as I am concerned, I don't like bright colors, sorry (reminding my nasty brother, who is color-blind and always wears bright colors)...

ok, we share the fact that we like to paint models monochrome

by the way I still haven't found the P-38 egg 3D view in my archives, maybe I don't have them anymore ...
but I found pictures of the box, which I put in the same album on photobucket as this one, of a floatplane version (happen to be yellow

)

the link to the album is http://s1274.beta.photobucket.com/user/ericr63/library/hyd

à plus

Tophe · February 04, 2013, 08:30:15 AM

Thanks for the nice words, all of you.

Ericr, special thanks for the P-38-egg-box view that may be enough for me to draw, I will see.

I may draw your own float-egg (beautiful

), celebrating your build, the nose seems different from the profile too.
By the way, why is your account on Photobucket called ericr63: are you born in 1963 like me?

(no need to answer)

ericr · February 04, 2013, 12:08:25 PM

Quote from: Tophe on February 04, 2013, 08:30:15 AM
Ericr, special thanks for the P-38-egg-box view that may be enough for me to draw, I will see.
I may draw your own float-egg (beautiful ), celebrating your build, the nose seems different from the profile too.

please do draw it ; the nose is the original one : apart from the floats (and color) it's all Out Of the Box

Quote from: Tophe on February 04, 2013, 08:30:15 AM
By the way, why is your account on Photobucket called ericr63: are you born in 1963 like me? (no need to answer)

yes indeed : some people say I am a bit colorblind, but apart from that, we do have some tastes in common

I still remember my surprise when I first saw your drawings; I think I was looking for info about the flying boat version of the Gotha 242... (of which I made an approximate model with what I knew) (... in yellow ... :-? )

Tophe · February 05, 2013, 04:24:56 PM

Thanks ericr!

Well, I have added "a reason to be asymmetric" on my explanation site
http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/asym_dahu_aeroUK.htm

Tophe · February 06, 2013, 08:45:07 AM

Quote from: Tophe on February 03, 2013, 05:27:11 AM
the port boom starts drom the middle wing and the starboard boom starts from the high wing...

Better seen here:

PR19_Kit · February 06, 2013, 10:35:15 AM

Hehehe, magic!

Only you Tophe, only you.....

Tophe · February 06, 2013, 08:48:01 PM

Thanks Kit for your indulgence... Well, I am not sure this is called modelling

, just "having fun with model parts" $:-\$

PS. Ericr: your egg-float-Lightning is featured at the end of my site http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/#Sit Thanks again!

ericr · February 07, 2013, 11:34:18 AM

Quote from: Tophe on February 05, 2013, 04:24:56 PM
Well, I have added "a reason to be asymmetric" on my explanation site
http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/asym_dahu_aeroUK.htm

wah; bright colors !?!

the "explanation" is completely convincing!

ericr · February 07, 2013, 11:39:25 AM

Quote from: Tophe on February 06, 2013, 08:48:01 PM
PS. Ericr: your egg-float-Lightning is featured at the end of my site http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/#Sit Thanks again!

beautiful! thanks for including my humble contributions in your catalogue.
I have a third attempt at floatplanizing a P-38, with a 1/48 Droop (the two others were blue and yellow, so this one is red, obviously)

Tophe · February 07, 2013, 04:52:15 PM

Quote from: ericr on February 07, 2013, 11:34:18 AM
wah; bright colors !?!

I admit colours do help classified explanations... And your bright models for fun (as well as Reno racers) are not "shocking", simply this is not my favorite way.

Quote from: ericr on February 07, 2013, 11:39:25 AM
Quote from: Tophe on February 06, 2013, 08:48:01 PM
PS. Ericr: your egg-float-Lightning is featured at the end of my site http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/#Sit Thanks again!
I have a third attempt at floatplanizing a P-38, with a 1/48 Droop

This great new one

is featured also on the same site tonight... Thanks for having enriched the collection. Do you have an idea what would be the missing EF-38C? An egg-Droop?

ericr · February 08, 2013, 12:14:04 AM

Quote from: Tophe on February 07, 2013, 04:52:15 PM
This great new one is featured also on the same site tonight... Thanks for having enriched the collection. Do you have an idea what would be the missing EF-38C? An egg-Droop?

I am proud to contribute to your gallery! maybe i could try to build some of the variants one day.

An egg-Droop would be beautiful, but it is a bit beyond my basic modelling skills : making the nose-bubble wouldn't be easy ...
(or maybe it can be done in painting, the way you do?)

Tophe · February 09, 2013, 03:42:00 AM

Quote from: Tophe on February 06, 2013, 08:48:01 PM
PS. Ericr: your egg-float-Lightning is featured at the end of my site http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/#Sit Thanks again!

Quote from: ericr on February 08, 2013, 12:14:04 AM
I am proud to contribute to your gallery! maybe i could try to build some of the variants one day.
An egg-Droop would be beautiful, but it is a bit beyond my basic modelling skills : making the nose-bubble wouldn't be easy ...
(or maybe it can be done in painting, the way you do?)

As a drawing, it is even more easy: I have added it at the end of my site. Thanks!

Tophe · February 10, 2013, 07:52:25 PM

Far from my crazy what-if delirium, a serious Airtruk could of course be built with this nice kit. See http://renax-sharkit.blogspot.fr/2012/10/airtruk-au-72-le-montage-fini-par-phil.html . Or a Mad Max half-serious sci-fi version, see http://surbrook.devermore.net/adaptationsmovie/madmax/pl_12_airtruk.html .