musical crossing : Chengdu F-7E and flute

[ericr]

Hi all,

coming back to a topic on "hybrids : aircraft & music instruments" from som time ago :
http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,37000.msg597452.html#msg597452
I finally had a try at a musical crossing between a Chengdu F-7E and a flute, inspired, inderctly, by this record cover, expesially some of the hybrids in the back :


So here it goes, made from a flute :


and a 1/48 Chengdu F7 :



and this is the result, in my usual favourite colors :

[NARSES2]

Now that's something straight out of a 40's Disney cartoon short, or maybe Looney Tunes 

[Spey_Phantom]

nice idea 
i guess when the time comes, any enemy of china will have to "Face the music" 

[The Rat]

That contrasting red and blue is just beautiful. Well done!

nice idea 
i guess when the time comes, any enemy of china will have to "Face the music" 

Just snorted some tea out my nose. 

[PR19_Kit]

I have never in my entire 71 year life seen an aircraft model you could PLAY, as opposed to one you could play with! 

I'm waiting for your rendition of the B-17 crossed with a grand piano, in red, blue and yellow of course...... 

[ericr]

I have never in my entire 71 year life seen an aircraft model you could PLAY, as opposed to one you could play with! 

it is indeed in full working condition  you just wouldn't want to hear my playing 

I'm waiting for your rendition of the B-17 crossed with a grand piano, in red, blue and yellow of course...... 

I really have that one on my list ... I am thinking about it for quite some time, I identified the existence of models of pianos, just have to figure the appropriate scale for the Fortress ... after the flute practice, I fell ready to pursue that goal. Especially with your enthusiastic support 

[Weaver]

Nice one, but surely the flute should be facing the other way so that the airflow can play it? 

[ericr]

Nice one, but surely the flute should be facing the other way so that the airflow can play it?  

argh! I hadn't even thought of that!!!  

it sounds   like a design glitch 

but thanks a lot for mentioning : it gives me a perfect alibi for a building a second versionn

[Weaver]

No problem: it would lend a new credibility to the nickname "whistling death" wouldn't it? 

You could imagine them doing low passes over Japanese coastguard vessels whilst playing somethnig like the the Death Star march......

[CSMO]

NATO code name is Flutesnoot! LOL!! , Adios, Larry.

[Captain Canada]

Love it ! I noticed it was backwards too....but maybe it could play it's own version of 'last post' after being shot down ?

[ericr]

actually I did it that way because when you hold the flute you look in the direction which is forward here ; which is logic, in its own way.

but now that I see the possibility of making it the other way, I'm just happy to have an excuse for another flute-aircraft :-)

I might try 4 engined wings ... propeller or jet? plenty of possibilites   

[tahsin]

Looks extremely Star Trekkie, if that's a phrase one could use. Cover the holes on top, some sort of a cockpit, paint in camo of the day and you have the answer to alien incursions as developed after the TOS ship ran into that 104.

[Tophe]

Belated congratulations!
(sorry I did not check this topic before, I was thinking 'flute' in English means some weapon, but no, that is the same as the French 'flute'... incredible!)

[Weaver]

Belated congratulations!
(sorry I did not check this topic before, I was thinking 'flute' in English means some weapon, but no, that is the same as the French 'flute'... incredible!)

It can be a weapon, depending on how skillfully it's played: less skill = more weapon.....