LCM & sails, red : hybrid aircraft/animals e.a.

[Tophe]

Thanks I will complete/correct the collection, but maybe in my 1939-45 topic, as this is not very related anymore to the wonderful model of ericr...

[ericr]

creativity always goes different routes ;-)

[Tophe]

Thanks I will complete/correct the collection, but maybe in my 1939-45 topic

I have done it, at http://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php/topic,20326.3315.html
(but the best here is ericr's blue model/marvel at http://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php/topic,37003.1140.html )

[wuzak]

remainings of the day : a mixture of Alouette helicopter and P-38
(the latter was an old childishly built kit, so it is a buit nastily punkish ;
I think this "composition" would deserve to be re-tried from clean new kits,
even in some larger scale, someday maybe ...)

That looks pretty cool.

Looks like a more powerful version of an Fw 189 battlefield recon aircraft. Maybe good for some artillery spotting.

Or, for Tophe, good as a plane for shuttling tourists around with an expansive view of the countryside.

[Tophe]

For tourism or for military observation, are the 2 bubbles (top and rear of the pod/nacelle) made for crew heads? or is it non-human for electronic devices or else?

[wuzak]

For tourism or for military observation, are the 2 bubbles (top and rear of the pod/nacelle) made for crew heads? or is it non-human for electronic devices or else?

Must be for human heads.

[James W.]

You could've sold one to Idi Amin, he could put his favourite heads on display in the bubbles, for showing off on his countryside tours..

[NARSES2]

I like that 

[Captain Canada]

That Lightning looks good ! Great views for sure.

[ericr]

thansk all !

and thanks Tophe for the variants
(by the way, I do have a FW189 in my stash ... and one or two P38 as well  )

[ericr]

Sometime ago I showed in this thread a space shuttle with a P-61 fuselage, in blue :
here is the reverse, a twin boomed propeller shuttle, in red  :

[NARSES2]

Now that is interesting 

[PR19_Kit]

Now that is interesting 

....and remarkably plausible too. 

NASA used an old P-61 with a scaled Shuttle fuselage to check the crew's viewpoints at low airspeeds? 

[Tophe]

Wow!
I just have a question, as the windows look small compared to the engine: what is the scale of the P-61 and of the Shuttle? Are they huge radial engines bigger than R-4360?

[TheChronicOne]

I like it a lot!  Looks legit to me. Cargo hauler FO SHO.