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

[eatthis]

F-16s would have worked better as a Lawn Dart

f104 all the way 

[ericr]

Brilliant.
Have you tried throwing them at a window or mirror to see if they stick?

well, I kind of have, but precautiously, and the suction cups do not work very well, I have to admit :
next time maybe I should try to find better quality suction cups :

Whiffing sometimes brings quite technical issues that the "normal" modellers don't even think of : hence the greater merit we have 

[ericr]

F-16s would have worked better as a Lawn Dart

f104 all the way 

right indeed, you are very welcome to make the exercise with these : I would say that the rule of thumb is that the length between nose and wings should be large ; delta aircraft should be doing well too (Daggers, Mirages, ... maybe even Hustler?)

[zenrat]

And obviously Delta Darts.  

[steelpillow]

And obviously Delta Darts.  

ROTFL 

[ericr]

And obviously Delta Darts.  

ROTFL 

o so obviously 

[ericr]

you might remember this tribute to two of the great american contributions to the world culture :

I don't think I share this one with you, a bit older :

a 1/144 Space Shuttle crossed with a bottle form a well-known sweet soda brand :

and I thought it deserved to be appropriately boosted, so after some thinking and considering different possibilities, i finally opted for a bottle of Rivella (a delicious swiss lemonade, hard to find anywhere out of Switzerland and a bit of Germany) :

[ericr]

I finally got around to build something like a Tophe idea! 

There was a discussion about a P-38 with sharkmouths, with a mention of cerberus three-headed dog :

http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,20326.msg677250.html#msg677250

and I found a cerberus figurine which seemed fine for such a treat :



and I used a HobbyBoss P-38, cheap but surprisingly clean, and funnily designed with two half-airframe, upper and lower ...

and here is the hybrid (in yellow  ):

[kerick]

Awesome!

[Tophe]

  The best dogfighter ever!
Congratulations...
Well, uh... I hope this monster is on our side, threatening our enemy, not on the other side

[zenrat]

Heh heh heh, Lockheed P-38 Fluffy.  Personal aircraft of Squadron Leader Hagrid at RAF Hogwarts...

[NARSES2]

The best dogfighter ever!

Very much so 

[ericr]

thanks all!

Heh heh heh, Lockheed P-38 Fluffy.  Personal aircraft of Squadron Leader Hagrid at RAF Hogwarts...

right indeed!

apparently there exists a figurine of this particular one :



so there are possibilities for variations on the theme!

another possibility which came up in Tophe's thread is to consider cats ...

[steelpillow]

Heh heh heh, Lockheed P-38 Fluffy.  Personal aircraft of Squadron Leader Hagrid at RAF Hogwarts...

Or possibly of Charon the ferry pilot.
Oh, no, silly me. That would be a floatplane capable of landing on the River Styx. 

Seriously, I love this one, it has such rich resonances.

[zenrat]

...a floatplane capable of landing on the River Styx...

3 headed Catalina?