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

[steelpillow]

Here I am late to the bananair party, victim of Groucho Marx' famous epithet;

"Time flies like an arrow — fruit flies like a banana!"

There's just something fun aboot making them into aircraft.

[steelpillow]

By the way, love the push-pull dino. It somehow reaches into the subconscious. 

[ericr]

 

[TheChronicOne]

Something sinister about that Dino....    like a cross between something from Lovecraft and something from Salvadore Dali..or something.  I like it! It conjures up images of one tearing through the jungle with the props spinning.. defense in the back and front.. offense in the back and front... chopping up vegetation and other creatures.   

[ericr]

thanks ! 

[ericr]

The wings and booms of this P-61 are going to be used elsewhere ( ... teaser ...  ) here is the fuselage,
used by Northrop to test, with an existing airframe to make it simpler and cheaper, ideas about a space shuttle design :







The P-61 is Revell 1/48, the Shuttle and Booster Academy 1/144

[TheChronicOne]

Righteous, brotha!! That is super slick! Genius!!!

[Tophe]

  Wonderful! I especially love the rear post for the flame-control crew...

[TheChronicOne]

Wonderful! I especially love the rear post for the flame-control crew...

Brilliant!!  This is flame control to major balm...

[zenrat]

Wonderful! I especially love the rear post for the flame-control crew...

Is he the one with the long toasting fork and the bag of marshmallows?

This is great Eric.  I hadn't though about using a P 61 Nacelle in such a way but I think I need to find a cheap one now.

[PR19_Kit]

Pretty darned awesome there ericr, and the primary colours work really well with it too. 

[ericr]

thank you all very much!

I really appreciate your appreciation, which gives me inspiration for more 

the idea came from the chance meeting of the two kits on my modelling table after cooliding in my stash.

And I found a source for a 1/48 Revell P-61 at less than 20 euros, and the Shuttle and boosters at 10 euros, some time ago 

The wings and booms will appear here in the coming weeks 

[ericr]

This is great Eric.  I hadn't though about using a P 61 Nacelle in such a way but I think I need to find a cheap one now.

and, as I sometimes say, please go ahead, and do that kind if stuff with your modelling skills, much sharper than mine 

[tigercat]

It looks very X wing-y.  can picture R2D2  in the normal turret position

[ericr]

It looks very X wing-y.  can picture R2D2  in the normal turret position

right, the dorsal turret is a natural fit for a R2D2 !

I had to keep it shut though, to accomodate the shuttle fin.