Duck monoplane & He70, yellow : hybrid aircraft/animals e.a.

[ericr]

small wingtip wheels, indeed, I had thought about that : maybe I can make an upgrade sometime ...
(I must a few hundreds small wheels in the scrap boxes)

[steelpillow]

Wingtip wheels should really be retractable, which is awkward. Wingtip skids would be more practical, for example early swept-wing types such as the Dunnes had them.

[ericr]

skids are a good idea indeed ; but then do I have spare skids in my spares boxes?

the XC-8A had nice skids :

[TheChronicOne]

LOOOOOOVEEEEE the latest builds, bruh.   

[ericr]

 

[ericr]

I'd need something bigger than a Veltro 

I recently found a few quite big kits for quite cheap, so temptation was un-resistable :

here is a K-A380 (with upgraded number of engines, too), made from the Heller 1/125 kit, plus additives from AMT 1/72 B52 and KC-135

[Tophe]

Gorgeous!

[NARSES2]

That's so bright that I didn't notice the extra engines at first, I was obviously dazzled 

Brilliant 

[steelpillow]

Are the windows there so folks flying alongside can see how much fuel is left in the tanks? 

[PR19_Kit]

Are the windows there so folks flying alongside can see how much fuel is left in the tanks? 

But that's a seriously good looking model, and at 1/125 it's HUGE! 

[zenrat]

 

[ericr]

thanks all 

I noticed in the KC135 kit that the cargo part seemed to be not used as a tank,
so I don't know actually how much of the volume of such a tanker is used for kerosene?

[PR19_Kit]

AFAIK KC-135s use their wing tanks and sometimes belly tanks for tanking fuel.

Unlike the VC10 K3s and K4s which have their entire fuselage given over to enormous tanks! 

[jcf]

   

[jcf]

 

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