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

[steelpillow]

And it remembers me of Kuski's church tank : I think some do use Faller or other brands HO churches :

Puts a new spin on the Popemobile!

[Tophe]

Your model could perfectly embody the question "a modern cruisade?"

[ericr]

 Kuski does incredible builds and sculptures indeed : his site gives much more

[ericr]

another calderization :
I couldn't find a 1/72 B727 or tri-engine jetliner, so I settled for the Tu134, because it has a quite similar overall shape :

[Tophe]

Funny camo, perfect to be invisible in the museum...

[ericr]

Funny camo, perfect to be invisible in the museum...

a bit like zebra camouflage 

[PR19_Kit]

I did the Braniff Calder 727 a good many years ago, but in 1/144, like all my airliners. Are your Tu-134 markings decals or paintwork Ericr?

I have the decal sheet for the Calder DC8 too, one day I'll build it as well.

[ericr]

I did the Braniff Calder 727 a good many years ago, but in 1/144, like all my airliners. Are your Tu-134 markings decals or paintwork Ericr?

I have the decal sheet for the Calder DC8 too, one day I'll build it as well.

I painted the patterns, lookking at pictures of the real things and adapting to the actual shape of the Tu134

I have decals in 1/144 somwhere, but I like to paint in the mood of the original models used by Calder, less "clean" than the actual plane painting; some pictures can be found, like here

http://airwaysnews.com/html/museums/frontiers-of-flight-museum-at-dallas-love-airport/calder-boeing-727/975

[PR19_Kit]

That's EXCELLENT work then Ericr. 

The decals I have, for both Calder aircraft, are relatively 'rough', just as he painted the real thing. For the 727 I hand painted the #1 engine with the updated painting that Calder did on the real thing, with the multi-legged animal running along nacelle, which isn't provided with the decals, which I think were by Jet Set.

[ericr]

thanks a lot!
Actually, I do like painting with a brush : my other hobby is painting (acrylic or oil, on canvas)

I just didn't attempt the manual painting of Calder on the engine, because at that scale it is a bit hard to render.
These details are exactly the help you would expect from decals, I would say?

[ericr]

who told me something about the Buccaneeer associated with a Coke bottle?

it ran through my mind, and came out, when I extracted from my stash a Revell/Matchbox Buccaneer and a metal bottle of Coke, in the form of this hybrid :








the cokckpit, by the way, is from a TA4 Skyhawk I floatplanized some time ago.

[PR19_Kit]

Looks like a Bucc painted red to me................ 

[steelpillow]

Clearly, the hinged nose radome has been removed for maintenance. Brilliant!  

Consider also a coke-bottle Convair F-102A, which was modified as such after the original F-102 ran smack into the sound barrier.

[ericr]

thanks! 

Clearly, the hinged nose radome has been removed for maintenance. Brilliant!  

Consider also a coke-bottle Convair F-102A, which was modified as such after the original F-102 ran smack into the sound barrier.

I kept the nose for another project to be seen soon ...

does the F102A have such a shape, with a narrow waist? it does not seem too obvious from the pictures I  see ...
and I have no more Coke bottle in my stash 

[steelpillow]

does the F102A have such a shape, with a narrow waist? it does not seem too obvious from the pictures I  see ...
and I have no more Coke bottle in my stash  

Convair's F-102A was I think the very first aircraft to have the "area ruled" or coke-bottle fuselage. It was a bit of a bodge really, just some squeezing in of the waist aft of the air intake ducting, along with bulges literally bolted on either side of the basic F-102 tail section. The follow-up F-106 (originally designated F-102B) had it designed in from day one, so might be a better target, although once bottled the differences pretty much disappear: It's down to a choice of tail fin really. Meanwhile Republic got in with the F-105 "Thud" - it is well coked and has zany reverse-swept air intakes which would look cool.