In The Navy GB - General Discussion - GB EXTENDED UNTIL MIDNIGHT 14th JUNE.

[DogfighterZen]

Again without asking my co-moderator (he's probably, & sensibly, asleep at 0100hrs), I'm going to say that's a "Yes, you may enter this F4D in this GB, DfZ".

Thank you, Mr. moderator, Sir! 

[TheChronicOne]

Oh hell, I've been wanting to see what comes of this for awhile now. This GB is going to be damned interesting with all this funkystuff going on. I am TOTALLY on board with this.    Skyrays are so weird with the moth wings....   

[DogfighterZen]

Oh hell, I've been wanting to see what comes of this for awhile now. This GB is going to be damned interesting with all this funkystuff going on. I am TOTALLY on board with this.    Skyrays are so weird with the moth wings....   

Beautiful design, isn't it?  The Lindberg 1/48 Skyray you sent me is still in it box but if this conversion goes to plan, it might get a similar treatment but with better parts and more details. 

[TheChronicOne]

Yeah!! There's really no other jet quite like it....   it's those wings!! Good luck on that other one. I looked at it and couldn't figure out any type of way to make it into anything.    Then again, I've no kitbashing skills (yet). It's a challenge.

[Weaver]

Pondering navalised Soviet aircraft for the PDRV.
Also navalised Jaguar or Swift for the RAN FAA.  The most obvious feature of either would be an extended nose gear leg.

MiG did two studies for a navalized MiG-23:

MiG-23A: R-29 engine, raised cockpit for better view over the nose, stonger u/c, hook, twin fixed ventral fins instead of folding single one

MiG-23K: R-100 engine, even more raised cockpit, bigger wing, no ventral fins, taller tail(?).

[Dizzyfugu]

I did a navalized MiG-19 a while ago, with the front end from a Suopermarine Attacker (fits perfectly!) and MiG-15 wings for less sweep.


1:72 MiG-SK, '14 Yellow' of the 100th Shipborne Fighter Aviation Regiment, Soviet Naval Aviation (Авиация военно-морского флота; Aviacija vojenno-morskogo flota), Kaspiysk AB (Dagestan region), 1970 (Whif/Kitbashing) by dizzyfugu, on Flickr

[zenrat]

Pondering navalised Soviet aircraft for the PDRV.
Also navalised Jaguar or Swift for the RAN FAA.  The most obvious feature of either would be an extended nose gear leg.

MiG did two studies for a navalized MiG-23:

MiG-23A: R-29 engine, raised cockpit for better view over the nose, stonger u/c, hook, twin fixed ventral fins instead of folding single one

MiG-23K: R-100 engine, even more raised cockpit, bigger wing, no ventral fins, taller tail(?).

Thanks H.  I'll have to have a look in Bill Gunston's Encyclopedia of Soviet Aircraft.

[TheChronicOne]

I did a navalized MiG-19 a while ago, with the front end from a Suopermarine Attacker (fits perfectly!) and MiG-15 wings for less sweep.


1:72 MiG-SK, '14 Yellow' of the 100th Shipborne Fighter Aviation Regiment, Soviet Naval Aviation (Авиация военно-морского флота; Aviacija vojenno-morskogo flota), Kaspiysk AB (Dagestan region), 1970 (Whif/Kitbashing) by dizzyfugu, on Flickr

[zenrat]

Pondering navalised Soviet aircraft for the PDRV.
Also navalised Jaguar or Swift for the RAN FAA.  The most obvious feature of either would be an extended nose gear leg.

MiG did two studies for a navalized MiG-23:

MiG-23A: R-29 engine, raised cockpit for better view over the nose, stonger u/c, hook, twin fixed ventral fins instead of folding single one

MiG-23K: R-100 engine, even more raised cockpit, bigger wing, no ventral fins, taller tail(?).

Thanks H.  I'll have to have a look in Bill Gunston's Encyclopedia of Soviet Aircraft.

No mention of those in Gunston's book.  Could mean they didn't get far enough to generate drawings as other paper proposals are included.
There is details and drawings of a carrier bourne MiG 29K. 

[zenrat]

Because, as you all know, having only three works in progress for this GB is not enough, i've been looking at what I could do with one of these.

[tigercat]

intriguing

maybe a pair of 0.5 brownings and an outboard

[NARSES2]

maybe a pair of 0.5 brownings and an outboard

No a crew of 1/300 scale figures and he can turn it into a medieval "super battleship" 

[Rheged]

Blue hull, orange sail, two crew in kapok life jackets.  Mediaeval RNLI!!

[zenrat]

1/700 Mediaeval aircraft carrier with an airwing made up of tiny Da Vinci Seawind human powered fighters?
No, i will leave that level of madness to Dave San Diego.

My thoughts remain in 1/72.

[PR19_Kit]

I know we're a long way away from the finish line, but can we ask for an extension already please?

I'm having lots of difficulty in getting something as basic as grey primer. After previously telling me it would be in the store y'day or today, they're now telling me it's the 14th! 

As the date seems to be moving in real time I'm not at all confident of it coming for a some while, and without it I can't get past even first base with painting my Double Pancake and Barracuda TFIV.