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

[ericr]

Here you go Eric

argh!!!!!! 

now I just have to find myself a Concorde somewhere !

[ericr]

hi all,

a new one, in the aircraft / insect range :
crossing a SR71 fuselage I had left over from another hybridization  ,
and the wings of a butterfly
(well, actually, these ones are sold as fairy wings ...  )

[Steel Penguin]

nice one Eric 
top work as ever

[McColm]

Great build.

[zenrat]

Good job.  The opacity of the wings adds something. Almost like they are force fields rather than solid objects.
Now let's see the caterpillar it chrysalised from.

[NARSES2]

That is wonderfull.

For some reason my mind immediately wandered back to the late 60's 

[zenrat]

<sing (badly)> In a gadda da vida baby...

[ericr]

<sing (badly)> In a gadda da vida baby...

aaaarrrggghhh ! how is it possible that I hadn't even thougt of this! 
ah, memories re-appear through the smoke ...    

I like my invention even better : thanks for giving it a musical background, most appropriate!   

and thanks all for the appreciation : it inclines me to do even more, or better, or ... 

[ericr]

 I stumbled upon these :
(I didn't remember to have seen them anywhere)





what a nice Whiffing material !
I don't know yet what I will do with them, but I'll keep you posted ...

Do you know any other such insect kits?

[NARSES2]

I've seen the stag beetle before but not the others

[ericr]

I just wanted to quote this here in this thread : it opens new perspectives ...

BTW, some ...artistic stuff - Dog mash-ups!

The Schnauzer fighter




The Golden retriever bomber




The Beagle Spitfire




CG is one thing, but doing this in hardware form...?  

[ericr]

another form of hybrids, still involving aircraft.
The story of how it came about is that I used an old 1/100 B727 from East-Germany I had to make a flying boat with a 1/72 hull, described elsewhere on this forum, and then I remembered I wanted to make a B727 in that scale (because it's the biggest available in injection plastic I think) with the famour Calder Branniff livery, so I had to find another one. And then on ebay I found a lot wih two of them, plus two Tu-20 Bear at the same 1/100 scale, quite large.
And I had been considering putting a water tap at the nose of an aircraft for quite some time (why? ... well ... I don't quite know ... but it does have a look, I think).

So here it is, in red :

[PR19_Kit]

A new view on the 'Water Bomber' theme perhaps? 

[NARSES2]

A new view on the 'Water Bomber' theme perhaps? 

[zenrat]

You're plumbing new depths...

...tapping into a rich vein of humour...

...and something about cracks that I can't quite put my finger on right now (eeeeeuuuuuughh!)