Almost an Eagle........

[Glenn]

Well, it's getting there! The canopy is modified from the P-40 with bits added here and there. The only thing I don't like about the models' finish is the colour scheme.
O/D upper surfaces and the whole fuselage, and N/G to the under wings and tailplane assembly.
Might do her up like a P-51D, in D-Day markings, yea, that would be better!
Lyn

[Leigh]

ooh ooh ooh I LIKE it, 'scuse my ignorance but what is it?

[John Howling Mouse]

Cool!  I dunno----I kinda like that color.  Something very real and rugged about it.  Few chips here and there, some faint dotted rivet lines with a silver pencil crayon and I'd swear it was the real thing...of something I cannot name !!!

Are those a series of airscoops aft of the cockpit?

And what the heck is that in the background: flora ?  In bloom yet?! What, did you take this pic in August or something (forgive me: it already looks like the freakin' lunar surface over here: dry, barren and dull brown everywhere).

[Ollie]

Good show Glenn!

Barry, it's Spring in Australia right now!

 

[Tophe]

the models' finish
Might do her up like a P-51D, in D-Day markings, yea, that would be better!
Lyn

Just wonderful to see the successful achievement of a project started a long time ago... I remember the pictures you sent, Lyn, in the old topic
http://www.whatifmodelers.com/forum//index...ic=3847&hl=p-75

About the P-51D-like looking, the P-75A would be closer than the XP-75, but maybe there is an idea there: a XP-75 with the colours of the P-75A...  Well, I have not checked but maybe the P-75A was made of metal and the XP-75 made of wood like the Mosquito, and be crazily funny in silver painting...  But what-if... ...

[Captain Canada]

Very nice, Lyn !

And thanks for the 'back-date' Tophe !

Going with Mustang markings and D-Day stripes would really make 'er look the part....grand idea !

 

[Swamphen]

Tophe - the XP-75 was metal. The XP was the 'mix 'n match' version - P-40 wings, F4U undercarriage, SBD tail, etc. The production variant was AFAIK 'all-new'.

[Tophe]

Tophe - the XP-75 was metal. The XP was the 'mix 'n match' version - P-40 wings, F4U undercarriage, SBD tail, etc. The production variant was AFAIK 'all-new'.

Thanks for the explanation.
(AFAIK = As Far As I Know, I suppose)

[elmayerle]

Tophe - the XP-75 was metal. The XP was the 'mix 'n match' version - P-40 wings, F4U undercarriage, SBD tail, etc. The production variant was AFAIK 'all-new'.

Thanks for the explanation.
(AFAIK = As Far As I Know, I suppose)

You've interpreted that correctly, Tophe; AFAIK=As Far As I Know

[Glenn]

Barry,
  The raised triangles behind the cockpit are the exhaust pipes for the 24 cylinder engine. As to the 'plant life', Bouganvilla, 'Scarlet O'hara", yea Ollie, it's Spring here, and the temp is around 27c and bloody beautiful!
The P-75 had a strange past, in the design stage, (I mean) built by General Motors, but designed by Fisher. Fisher was the 'coaching company' part of GM. The guys who designed the cars, but this time, I think they were a little drunk!
Lyn

[elmayerle]

The P-75 had a strange past, in the design stage, (I mean) built by General Motors, but designed by Fisher. Fisher was the 'coaching company' part of GM. The guys who designed the cars, but this time, I think they were a little drunk!
Lyn

Well, I've always thought that the prototype was the ultimate example of being given a box of spare parts and being told to build something useful with them.

[NARSES2]

The P-75 had a strange past, in the design stage, (I mean) built by General Motors, but designed by Fisher. Fisher was the 'coaching company' part of GM. The guys who designed the cars, but this time, I think they were a little drunk!
Lyn

Well, I've always thought that the prototype was the ultimate example of being given a box of spare parts and being told to build something useful with them.

True Evan, but I've always had a soft spot for it

[Glenn]

A closer view of the canopy.
Lyn

[Tophe]

Uneasy...
Scratch-building is the very top of modeling art, and you deserve congratulations, Lyn, even if the result is not as neat as a canopy from a commercial box.

[John Howling Mouse]

Oh man, I didn't realize how much built-up surface you had to model.

[singing]
"Somebody's gonna be up alllllllllllllll night-----sanding and saaaaanding!"