Lockheed P-80 Derivates

[The Big Gimper]

Here is what I hope to be is a ongoing thread of P-80 derivatives. I was inspired by ysi_maniac's line drawings where he did a mash up the P-80 fuselage with all sorts of wings and tails.

I'm calling it a P-80F (E was already taken) as flown by the RNoAF.  I wanted a hybrid P-80/F-90 look.











Bill of materials are:

A. Airfix P-80C fuselage and landing gear.
B. Fuji T-1 wing and tail
C. Tip tanks from a 1/128 Constellation
D. Xtradecal T-33 Foreign operators decals and spares
E. 1000 LB bombs from the spares box

What I did rounded off the vertical and horiz stabilizers, moved the horiz stabilizers about 1/2 way up the vertical stabilizer. Lots of PSR to blend in the T-1 wing.  Base paint is Tamiya rattle can TS-30 silver with hand painted trim.


Here is my next installment: The P-80G in Spanish service, 1968. Guns removed and updated to carry AIM-4Ds. ISTR installed under the nose.











Bill of materials are:

A. Airfix P-80C fuselage and landing gear.
B. Revell G.91R wing and complete tail
C. Drop tanks from a Tamiya 1/100 A-6A
D. ISTR from Monogram F-4C/D
E. F-104 Pitot tube
F. Xtradecal T-33 Foreign operators decals and spares
G. AIM-4Ds from the Hasegawa Air Weapons III kit. Xtracolour Red Arrows red used for the AIM-4D red/orange.

I sawed off the tail and added the G.91 tail at the turbine warning stripe. Less PSR this time to blend in the G.91 wing but I needed to remove about 5mm on the inboard side.  Base paint is Tamiya rattle can TS-30 silver with hand painted trim.

[bobbo]

  Can we see more?  These are great!

bobbo

[Knightflyer]

Very Nice!  I likee very muchee! 

[TallEng]

Nice
that last one especially reminds me of Saab's Lancen.

Regards
Keith

[Jkob]

Very nice! 

[Dizzyfugu]

Nice
that last one especially reminds me of Saab's Lancen.

Regards
Keith

Second that, and the first one only needs a pointed nose and it could be a smaller relative to the luckless XF-90!?

Sweet combo, I like them both. 

[NARSES2]

Nice
that last one especially reminds me of Saab's Lancen.

Regards
Keith

It does, doesn't it 

[sandiego89]

Really like those, especially the nose IR sensor and the Falcons on the Spanish version.  Well done.

[TomZ]

Love the Spanish one! Great.

TomZ

[Captain Canada]

Wow ! Great start that's for sure ! The first one really does it for me....like everything about it. The Second one is nice, but off somehow....either the greeblie under the nose or the F-86 tail.

[The Rat]

Winners, all of 'em! 

[comrade harps]

Really like those, especially the nose IR sensor and the Falcons on the Spanish version.  Well done.

Ditto 

[Captain Canada]

Nice
that last one especially reminds me of Saab's Lancen.

Regards
Keith

I notice it now ! Now lets see one in Swedish colours and markings 

[McGreig]

Winners, all of 'em! 

Exactly what he said I like the idea of a series of these - looking forward to seeing more

[The Rat]

Oops... Just noticed that in all your lovely work you made the same wee slip-up that a lot of people make, and I've done it to: the oleo scissor on the P-80 points forward.

Go ahead and  , you know you want to! 

Still great work though, maybe you could write the difference into a back story. I think we've all covered some modeling sins that way.