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[Tophe]

from http://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php/topic,45223.0.html :

seeing the Heller P-51D kit in the toy shop I was unable to resist... I started this kit in the 1990s but never finished it, and it was lost in 1999 when I changed home alas. Si I bought it again, yes.
Now the new project of mine is a Mustang with a Y-tail !

Buying toys for my son's birthday (9 years old) I was unable again to resist, and I bought another Heller 1/72 P-51D...
This time the project of mine is a T-tail and having both canopies side by side on the nose!

[Tophe]

As drawing, here is the new project I have:

[Tophe]

Here are the parts I plan to use:

[PR19_Kit]

That has a certain hint of the Douglas XB-42 Mixmaster to it. 

[Tophe]

That has a certain hint of the Douglas XB-42 Mixmaster to it. 

Thanks Doctor! (This means I am not crazy nor technically lunatic!)

[TheChronicOne]

T-tail!!!! 

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeah buddy. Now we're talking!!


Twin canopies and mid-engine (or rear depending upon semantics).   This is great.   

[Tophe]

Thanks!
Here is the start (with the tailplane fixed with adhesive tape, just to show).

I consider cutting the external part of the wings and installing them between the wing and the tailplane, rear of the canopy

[Tophe]

With 1/144 canopies on the 1/72 model, installing 2 canopies on a single nose would be easy, like a XB-42 look.
But with all 1/72, there is not enough room... I think I will remove the blades from the propeller and will make a flat nose somehow. With jets at wingtips?

[Tophe]

Here is the new project:

[b29r]

I like all of this 

Another approach might be to widen the forward fuselage to accommodate both cockpits, and then cut the fuselage behind the original cockpit and use a single boom like the Arado 232 or such?

Whichever way you go will be fun 

[Tophe]

Thanks for this idea, that I will have to consider.

I forgot one thing: removing the piston exhausts on the jet version without propeller, while - uh... - I may let them this way in a motorjet layout (like Campini N1, MiG I-250)...

[Tophe]

I continue:
- the blades are removed and the spinner is now the basis for a flat nose
- I have lost one of the piston exhaust sets, so I will remove them
- putty is replacing the old cockpit

[Tophe]

Towards a new nose:

[NARSES2]

Now that's interesting Tophe. Is it going to be called the "Kermit Kraft" 

[Tophe]

PSR is no fun... but the shape is improving, not far from acceptable (according to my standards).
But you are right, the nose looks like a frog mouse somehow, and as I am of the French men that you call Froggies in England...