Twitter What If GB: Dieselpunk Messerschmitt Racing Car

[Weaver]

'FredtheFoot' is organizing another Group Build on Twitter, and this time, the theme is What If. Finished entries will be included in a Youtube video made by Martin of London IPMS after the end of the GB, which runs from 1st April to 31st May. There's no vote for a winner and no prize: you just get your pics put in the video if you finish.



If you want to take part, send a tweet to Fred @fredthefoot and he'll put you on the list. You then get copied in on all the relevant tweets.

Having promoted What If to this group I am, of course, going to enter, and it'd be great to see more people from here join in. Twitter is easy and free to join, and despite it's hyped-up reputation for abuse and trolling, the mundane reality is that if you don't go looking for controversy or conflict, you won't find it. YOU CHOOSE WHO TO FOLLOW, so you can make your timeline entirely models, planes and jokes if you want. I'd be more than happy to give advice or guidance to anybody who's confused or unsure.

Accounts to follow to get in on this:

Me: @hws5mp
Fred the Foot: @fredthefoot
Martin (not OGL): @ipmslondon

Hashtags to look at (hashtags are like 'flags' that let other people find posts on a common there):

#scalemodel
#modelmaking
#whatifmodels
#WhatIFGB

[Weaver]

Irish Air Corps Bird Dog with RATO and a 'few' weapons, by CJHM Models (@cjhm_models) in the Twitter What If GB:

Original tweet here: https://twitter.com/cjhm_models/status/986552443587702785
CJHM's modelling account: https://twitter.com/cjhm_models
CJHM's aircraft/classic car racing photography account, which is also worth following: https://twitter.com/cjhm_pictures
CJHM's blog: http://blog.cjhm.net/

[zenrat]

I'm in two minds as to whether the Cessna's wings would take that load
Looks good though.  I need to get more of them.

[AS.12]

Yes I think a six-round Matra launcher and perhaps an FN-MAG pod under each wing would be more bearable

But it's a clever idea, would have been a useful type for border surveillance and cash-van escort.  The IAC would probably still have needed C172s or C185s in that WHIF timeline, though, for utility tasks and parachute-training.



Tangentially, Twitter might be unicorns and rainbows but any site that demands my phone number to sign up gets closed immediately, regardless of how enticing the content might seem.

[Weaver]

Tangentially, Twitter might be unicorns and rainbows but any site that demands my phone number to sign up gets closed immediately, regardless of how enticing the content might seem.

You don't have to give them your phone number. You can give them your e-mail, and they send the verification notice to that account so that you can verify you're really you (same as just about anything you sign up to online) once.

If you want to use the optional 2-stage verification to make your account more secure (Twitter accounts do get hacked from time-to-time) then you need to give them your mobile number so the system can send you a text message to confirm whether a log-on attempt is really you. This is OPTIONAL: I've been on there for a few years now and they haven't got my mobile number.

[NARSES2]

I'm in two minds as to whether the Cessna's wings would take that load

My first thoughts as well. Still it does look good 

My second thoughts, and this may be my monitor or simply the way computers deal with colours, I always though Ireland was the Emerald Isle ? Scheme almost looks like a desert one in a couple of shots ?

[Weaver]

The scheme IS a desert one. The what-iffyness of deserts in Ireland has been remarked upon....

[zenrat]

Given the definition of a desert is a place of no rainfall then an Irish desert scheme is prolly about as whiffy as you can get.

[Weaver]

One suggestion was that an 'Irish Desert' was a nationwide Guinness shortage...

[NARSES2]

The scheme IS a desert one. The what-iffyness of deserts in Ireland has been remarked upon....

Right, that will teach me to read the back story 

[Weaver]

Another entry completed: Blue Angels Vampire T.11 by Badger Hancock.

Original tweet: https://twitter.com/grumpybadger62/status/987354728714719233

[PR19_Kit]

Which reminds me I really MUST finish off my replacement Blue Angels Buccaneer! 

[Weaver]

I'd like to do one of the tail-sitter VTOL designs as Blue Angels: I've got both a Lockheed Salmon and a Convair Pogo now.

Visions of them doing a mass vertical take-off then all rolling 360 deg in unison...

[Weaver]

Latest finisher, a Japanese Spitfire by John Bartrop: https://twitter.com/john_bartrop/status/988049670466363393

[PR19_Kit]

I'd like to do one of the tail-sitter VTOL designs as Blue Angels: I've got both a Lockheed Salmon and a Convair Pogo now.

Visions of them doing a mass vertical take-off then all rolling 360 deg in unison...

See the backstory for my Hawker-Convair Osprey, 7 paragraphs up from where the Modelling bit starts. 

http://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php/topic,22263.msg319757.html#msg319757