Fairey Goosander. "Admirals Barge "

[chrisonord]

Originally  designed as a ship born  multi purpose  aircraft, the Goosander  was to be a COD aircraft  or anti submarine aircraft  by use of interchangeable  pods carried  under the fuselage and removable  electronics  suites  in the cockpit/ cabin.  The navy  wasn't  too keen on this format  but preferred the  firms other offering  the Gannett  as a dedicated  anti submarine  aircraft  instead, and also quite  liked their twin Pioneers  for the COD duty. Four  aircraft  were built  before the  navy  changed their  minds  and instead of  scrapping them, they were  converted into  VIP transport/ "Admirals Barge 's ". The aircraft  stood high, due to being  designed to  carry large pods underneath the fuselage, so they had to have their own ladders  specially made and stowed aboard  ship.
The build consists of  wings engine front and exhausts from a frog Gannett  and the fuselage  and tail wings are from the revell Skyraider. This should have been an easy  build  as I  have done  similar  before, but the revell Skyraider is  different  where the wings  attach, so a lot of styrene  sheet and putty went in to fill a big gap. Also the fuselage and wings  which  should have  sat square to each other , don't  so the fuselage is slightly  leaning over to one side. I  put 30 steel BB's in the front  fuselage  of this thing and it still  tail sits  so it has got the blatant chock until I make it a base to sit on.
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[PR19_Kit]

A wholly naval kitsbash, nice one Chris. 

[buzzbomb]

combo of the two aircraft goes quite well

[kerick]

Plenty of room for a passenger pod under the fuselage to stuff more admirals into!

[zenrat]

Very good Chris.

[NARSES2]

Plenty of room for a passenger pod under the fuselage to stuff more admirals into!

That would have been for the pink gins 

Nice one Chris 

[chrisonord]

Cheers  everyone 

[Glenn Gilbertson]

That's a great kitbash -it looks really good!

[TallEng]

Reminds me (a bit) of Blackburn's B54 design for the Fairey Gannets role.
Looks a good mix.
Regards
Keith

[Captain Canada]

Oooh I like it ! Great idea and nice build !

[Dizzyfugu]

Now that's pretty!