Whiffs found on Facebook

[Dizzyfugu]

The VG Phantom lokks really good, and it's close to the respective r/w proposal.
The canard Phantom is rather odd - I also have doubt about launching anything from the underwing station, I'd guess that the foreplanes would be blasted away easily?

[jcf]

The VG Phantom lokks really good, and it's close to the respective r/w proposal.
The canard Phantom is rather odd - I also have doubt about launching anything from the underwing station, I'd guess that the foreplanes would be blasted away easily?

Move the foreplanes up a bit, make them a fixed* surface with movable control surfaces,
mount the Sidewinder pylons under the foreplane. Sparrows still launch from the belly.

*A fixed surface would be easier to accomplish compared to having to add the gubbins
for an all-moving surface to the intake area.

[The Rat]

From Reddit via facebook. This is so sexy it hurts. Facebook being what it is, this link won't last long, grab it while you can.

[Caveman]

I saw that too. Crying out to be made. But will take some serious kitbashing/scratch building

edit: had a quick go at simplifying the wing geometry in powerpoint. I think this is what I would go for:

[Snowtrooper]

The simplified version could possibly use F-117 wings and tails (with reduced sweep) as a starting point. (Though, the "complex" main wing could perhaps be made in 1:72 using the whiff-foddery DML/Dragon 1:200 B-2 as a wing donor, or if those are too small, then any one of the numerous 1:144 ones.) The booms would probably have to be a scratchbuild job unless you could scaleorama a pair of 1:144 X-32's to a 1:72 Lightning to get at least the forward part. Unfortunately nobody makes one in 1:144, so using that approach this would have to be built in 1:32 or 1:48, depending on how large the 1:72 X-32 nose would be compared to the engine nacelles.

[Dizzyfugu]

The original could use the outer wing sections from an 1:200 B-2; Italeri did one, IIRC. But overall this is probably easier carved froma piece of wood than kitbashed and PSRed?

[Tophe]

The simplified version could possibly use F-117 wings and tails (with reduced sweep) as a starting point. (Though, the "complex" main wing could perhaps be made in 1:72 using the whiff-foddery DML/Dragon 1:200 B-2 as a wing donor, or if those are too small, then any one of the numerous 1:144 ones.) The booms would probably have to be a scratchbuild job unless you could scaleorama a pair of 1:144 X-32's to a 1:72 Lightning to get at least the forward part. Unfortunately nobody makes one in 1:144, so using that approach this would have to be built in 1:32 or 1:48, depending on how large the 1:72 X-32 nose would be compared to the engine nacelles.

Uh, I am not sure i understand but I have built many P-38 1/144 from Mini Hobby Models (and there are F-117 1/144 by Revell and Trumpeter, B-2 1/144 by Revell, X-32 1/144 by Triple Nuts according to Google)

[Snowtrooper]

I could not find the 1:144 X-32 in Scalemates, but I stand corrected. Others I knew were avaiilable in 1:144. (But the idea is still the same, the X-32 needs to be in a smaller scale than the P-38 starting point, because obviously the X-32 fuselage is humongous compared to the P-38 boom.)

[Tophe]

https://www-flugzeugforum-de.translate.goog/threads/1-144-boeing-x-32b-triplenuts.88860/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=fr

explains triple nuts in Japan is very expensive (not normal), about this X-32 1/144

[nighthunter]

I saw this and did a doubletake then started laughing and crying at work, THANKS!

[The Rat]

From one Ian Williams on the Airfix Model Group facebook page. Brilliant! 

There are 2 more pictures on the post, but I can't seem to link to it.

[Dizzyfugu]

"It's all bananas..." 

[Rheged]

Another member of the  Inverted Sideways Thought Society.   I like it!

[CammNut]

Custard's Last Stand

[The Rat]

Custard's Last Stand

Someone made the same comment on the fb thread.