Different Heron (finished page 2)

[Tophe]

My 38th Unicraft model: I have received the kit of IAI Eitan/Heron military twin-boom UAV 1/72 ( http://www.unicraft.biz/on/eitan/eitan.htm ), and I plan to transform it, as civilian single-seat glider, probably biplane or/and tandem wing...
Here are the kit contents and the parts I plan to use :

[PR19_Kit]

Oooooh, LOTS of wing on that one! 

[Tophe]

Oooooh, LOTS of wing on that one! 

Oooooh, sorry Kit, I am going to destroy this huge span that you love, into a very short span little thing. Please accept my apologies.

[PR19_Kit]

Oooooh, LOTS of wing on that one! 

Oooooh, sorry Kit, I am going to destroy this huge span that you love, into a very short span little thing. Please accept my apologies.

One day you'll learn to ADD length to wings Tophe, not cut them down. 

[Tophe]

Maybe yes.

Anyway, after the first drops of glue (and adhesive tape before drying), here is the intended aspect, with the main wing being probably half as biplane, soon.

[Rheged]

When I read the thread title and author, I assumed that you were about to do something creative with a De Havilland Heron.   This is, as you so rightly say "A Different Heron" but still most interesting!

[Tophe]

Thanks to remind me. I had forgotten this one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Heron

[Tophe]

The first sanding is done, and gluing the lateral rear (into a TT-tail).


Then putty again.

[Tophe]

The little asymmetry in the wing angles is related to a great design bad model

[Tophe]

bad model

I do not mean bad kit: it is all my own fault: I am the one that cut the external wings at mid-span, then I sanded and glued the wing tips without checking angles. When I installed the pod with this high wings on the basis, though, the little problem was obvious. While... as I like asymmetry, personally, I will not break it apart to build it again more normally, it is all right for me with this unbalance.

[Scotaidh]

bad model

I do not mean bad kit: it is all my own fault: I am the one that cut the external wings at mid-span, then I sanded and glued the wing tips without checking angles. When I installed the pod with this high wings on the basis, though, the little problem was obvious. While... as I like asymmetry, personally, I will not break it apart to build it again more normally, it is all right for me with this unbalance.

I seem to remember someone, a long time ago, experimenting with a swivel-winged aircraft.  The straight wing pivoted in the middle, with one tip moving forward and the other moving aft - and it worked.  Not well enough to make it into production, I guess, but I remember reading that the thing did fly, and controllably, too. 

Here's a link to the Wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_AD-1





As I see it, my friend, you're just continuing their work with a mild-sweep version of their idea. 

[Tophe]

Thanks! (I had already seen this weird airplane, but I had never checked if there was a wikipedia article about it, and it is nice).
I was away visiting the family for Christmas but I will continue my resin model in the next days, with painting.

[Tophe]

I have painted the underside. With my reduced span, the kit box seems huge for no reason at all...

[Tophe]

Then painting the side above:

Completion is scheduled for tomorrow, unless the Earth planet explodes today, alas (for this model).

[Captain Canada]

Looks good ! Very different !