Flyers Projects

[Old Wombat]

Decided against starting the Boomerang, instead I have measured the fuselages of two aircraft with calipers and it looks possible to combine them so I will be trying that at some point. The mix will only work for one though, won't work the other way so I'll have a tail assembly, set of wings and most of a fuselage leftover as spares, never a bad thing to have spares though so whatever. 

Watching!! 

Waiting!

[Flyer]

Don't go holding your breath waiting for it as just after I posted the above I received the email containing the cost I need to pay for the accident with the taxi I had back in January, all I can say is "ouch!" All mojo I had has suddenly disappeared, I now need to focus on what I can sell in the next fortnight to try to afford that, even if I can start up a payment plan the repayments will be big. 

[NARSES2]

Sorry to hear that mate, hope you can find a way forward 

[zenrat]

Best laid plans etc.

I find burying myself in a model can sometimes help me to forget real life for a while.

[Flyer]

Well I found 10 spare minutes tonight to make a start, the main donor Academy P-51D fuselage now has a green interior. Next step I guess will be to glue that together and hack carefully cut off the tail section behind the scoop. Still not convinced that this kitbash will work to be honest, but it does in my mind so I'll give it a try.

[Old Wombat]

Mate! If only you knew how much planning had to go into combining a Boomerang & Fw.190 to create a coherent aircraft!  

[Flyer]

Mate! If only you knew how much planning had to go into combining a Boomerang & Fw.190 to create a coherent aircraft!  

Your Sea Wallaby came to mind when I started thinking about this, but back then I was thinking about mixing a Boomerang and P-40 that I'm still pondering about and still may do, but have changed the P-40 to a P-51D for this attempt. So it will (hopefully) become a Mustangarang or Boomstang. 

[Old Wombat]

  

[NARSES2]

a Mustangarang   

Love it 

[Flyer]

 

Just seen a typo though, should be Mustangerang, but I prefer the look of the first spelling 

[NARSES2]

Just seen a typo though, should be Mustangerang, but I prefer the look of the first spelling 

As do I 

[zenrat]

Boomstang also has a ring to it.

I may have to steal it. 



Boomstangerang?

[Old Wombat]

Boomstangerang?

Now you're just getting silly!


Oh, it's Fred! What was I thinking?

Carry on!

[Flyer]

How about a more subtle Musterang? Nah makes me think it would be in the outback rounding up cattle, can't see it suitable for that work.

Reminds me that an Aussie R/C magazine called Airborne released a series of plans for four profile semi-scale models based on WW2 aircraft and they were:

Mustprang (Mustang)

Splatfire (Spitfire)

Hellsthat (Hellcat)

Me-oh-my (Me-109)

I like Hellsthat and have always wanted to do something grotesque to a F6F and call it just that.

[NARSES2]

Boomstangerang?

Wasn't that an early Kylie Minogue hit ?