DH 82 Tiger Moth ...

[jcf]

Was a radial ever fitted to a Tiger Moth?  I know a few models in the Moth series were fitted with radials, but I've never seen one on a Tiggie.  Armstrong Siddely Lynx maybe, similar to the Hawk Moth?

A Lynx would be way too big, and 200lbs heavier than the Gipsy Major,
maybe a Genet Major or a Warner Scarab?

[Mossie]

Thanks John, I'd missed the Genet Major and could only think of the Genet.

[zenrat]

The fighter is interesting.  I've been thinking along those lines and now realise I must have read this thread back in the dim mists of antiquity (January) and promptly filed it in some part of my subconscious mind.

[Old Paul]

De Havilland Genet Moth - http://aviadejavu.ru/Images6/MM/MM-25/0708-01-2-2.jpg

[Mossie]

Thanks Paul, that's what I had in mind when thinking of the Tiger Moth, the Genet Moth upgraded.  The Tiger might look good with a similar nose, or possibly in a ring fairing for the later seven cylinder version of the Genet Major.

[JayBee]

And of course earlier this week Hannants got this in stock :

http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/AMU72281

[jcf]

You wouldn't have the extended nose of the Genet Moth on a Tiger Moth with
a Genet Major. The Genet Major and Gipsy Major are very similar in weight,
so the A-S engine would mount in the same location as the De Havilland engine.

The Genet Moth had the extended nose because the A-S Genet was over 100 lbs lighter
than the D-H Gipsy engine.

[Captain Canada]

Never seen that Genet Moth before...kinda neat but also kinda ruins the nice lines. Expensive little kit too ! You'd think it would be easier to just cob one up with the new Airfix kit ?

[jcf]

If you straighten the wings. 

The Genet Moth was a conversion of a DH.60 Moth, rather than a DH.82 Tiger Moth.

[maxmwill]

Well, if a Texan can be converted into a bomber(for the 100 hour, or Soccer War), a Fighting Tiger Moth would be a doable idea.

[maxmwill]

I have a plan for the new Airfix one when it's out 

After thinking further on it, I'm about paralleling your plan, as I already have a Tigermoth kit, a reissue of the old Matchbox 1/32.

[maxmwill]

If you straighten the wings. 

The Genet Moth was a conversion of a DH.60 Moth, rather than a DH.82 Tiger Moth.

I've seen a few pictures of the Genet Moth, and I don't think that it was the 7 cylinder Genet Major, but the smaller 5 cylinder engine.

This Genet Moth model looks really nice.

[jcf]

Mmm, yeah, no one said the DH.60 Genet Moth used the Genet Major, that engine was
suggested for a fictional DH.82 Tiger Moth conversion to a radial.

[Mossie]

Just to confuse matters, the Genet Major I had five cylinders like the Genet.  The Genet Major IA was the one with seven cylinders and to confuse things further, was also known as the Civet I.

[maxmwill]

Ok.

For a while now, I've been trying to research the DH 60 Genet Moth, because I though it might make for an interesting build in 1/48, having never heard of a kit for the Genet Moth, and have found very little on it.

But, after that link from Hannants was shared, I might try it in 72nd, the A model kit, because I never could get the structure forward of the cockpit right on the quarter scale model.