COIN Aircraft from a Hawk

kerick · May 19, 2014, 08:15:03 PM

Quote from: silverwindblade on May 18, 2014, 11:03:52 PM
The fuel tanks will be the location of the main gear - I've turned them into sponsons/landing gear wells. I might also locate the cannons there too.

Also, I'm not sure whether to put wingtip rails on the ends of the wings, or tip tanks.

Up swept winglets! Or T-38 tip tanks.

silverwindblade · May 21, 2014, 02:42:23 AM

While I don't have any T-38 tanks, I do have a pair of tanks I was planning to use. I was thinking of attaching winglets to the top of them as well, so I might go with that idea. I build a lot of aircraft with wingtip rails, so tanks would be a good change.

kerick · May 21, 2014, 08:43:11 AM

Sounds good!

Dizzyfugu · May 28, 2014, 12:14:20 AM

Just a side note: work on my sister ship already started and makes good progress. Will look very Pucara-ish!

silverwindblade · May 28, 2014, 12:51:04 AM

I've done some more work on mine, but I didn't take any photos yet - I'll get some up later on!

kerick · May 28, 2014, 06:15:55 AM

Dizzy and Silver, stop teasing everyone and show us the pics!!!!

Dizzyfugu · May 29, 2014, 06:05:28 AM

No!

Progress is till good, mine already stands on its own legs, and it has interesting proportions! It became bigger than expected, and coupled with the sleek Hawk fuselage the thing now looks like a mean wyvern...

JayBee · May 29, 2014, 09:27:39 AM

Just to let the JMN in me out for it's annual breath of fresh air.
The T-38 never carried tip tanks.

The F-5 series did, they had those lovely area ruled tanks, but the T-38 is a very different animal.
They just look very similar.

JiMN

silverwindblade · May 29, 2014, 11:25:16 PM

I wouldn't have known any different, Jay! Thanks for the info...
*sprays JMN-Be-gone* ^.^;;

I will take some pictures tomorrow, as I'll be working on this then, as well as my F-1. Hopefully, I ought to make some good progress!

kerick · May 30, 2014, 06:04:49 AM

Quite right about the tip tanks. Actually its hard to find an F-5 pic with the tip tanks, most of them have the Sidewinder rails.

Gondor · May 30, 2014, 10:24:36 AM

Quote from: kerick on May 30, 2014, 06:04:49 AM
Quite right about the tip tanks. Actually its hard to find an F-5 pic with the tip tanks, most of them have the Sidewinder rails.

That sounds rather like a challenge so don't complain if your mail box gets flooded with pictures of F-5's with tip tanks on!

Gondor

kerick · May 30, 2014, 11:02:38 AM

I didn't say I couldn't find any! The most consistant users of the tip tanks seemed to be CF-5s from the Great White North.

JayBee · May 30, 2014, 11:50:58 AM

Quote from: Gondor on May 30, 2014, 10:24:36 AM
Quote from: kerick on May 30, 2014, 06:04:49 AM
Quite right about the tip tanks. Actually its hard to find an F-5 pic with the tip tanks, most of them have the Sidewinder rails.

That sounds rather like a challenge so don't complain if your mail box gets flooded with pictures of F-5's with tip tanks on!

Gondor

Just think "Skoshi Tiger"

...and to the best of my knowledge the only 1/72scale kit that had those tanks was the Matchbox one. Mind you if memory serves the Airfix art work showed them on an Iranian example, but I do not remember the kit having them.

Jim

Dizzyfugu · May 30, 2014, 12:56:42 PM

OzMods (IIRC) also offers 1:72 resin tip tanks for an F-5. The only kit that features the tanks is the Matchbox F-5, the Airfix kit only has the AIM-9 launch rails.

BTW, why insist on these area-ruled tanks? For a slow COIN aircraft, "standard" shapes should suffice?

kerick · May 30, 2014, 12:59:41 PM

Yeah, but they look cooler!