TP-88 Heavy Fighter .

[Wardukw]

As some of you guys might or will remember back in 1941 or 42 some bright sparks decided to mount 2 Allinson V12s on a P-40 ,,only one was built and im not sure but i dont think it ever flew but seeing that pic was all i needed to thinking about building it ...since im a armour guy i was really in no rush to build it ..then that wonderful gent named Guy (Old Wombat) sent me a few kits and in there was a bloody model plane ..a Helldiver ...well the bug bit and i turned that into the amazingly ugly Destoryer .
The bug is still there and i saw this pic again in my pile of pics and the rest so they say is history .
So without further ado here is my version ...the TP-88 Heavy Fighter.
Heres the first pile of parts to get my brain working on the idea and the first part is to lengthen the fuselage .
DSCF3107 by Phill Harrison, on Flickr
DSCF3109 by Phill Harrison, on Flickr
Here the new section is being built and cleaned up and the nose is now from a 72nd B-25 and thats when i looked at the thing and bugger me it kinda looks like a 109G 
DSCF3110 by Phill Harrison, on Flickr
DSCF3111 by Phill Harrison, on Flickr
Now this is the third idea for mounting the new engines ,,Rolls Royce Merlins   
DSCF3112 by Phill Harrison, on Flickr
DSCF3120 by Phill Harrison, on Flickr
Since this is a tricycle landing gear now of course ive gotta build the new wheel wells for it ,,the ones for the wings are easy as hell ,,but the front is a different story..since i dont have one ,,,gotta build it ,,so far its not to bad and yup ..tank parts are being used again 
DSCF3121 by Phill Harrison, on Flickr
DSCF3123 by Phill Harrison, on Flickr
DSCF3127 by Phill Harrison, on Flickr
DSCF3132 by Phill Harrison, on Flickr
The new nose ,,with twin 30mm cannons nd quad 50's 
DSCF3118 by Phill Harrison, on Flickr
These pics are just to give you blokes some idea of what this will look like .
DSCF3114 by Phill Harrison, on Flickr
DSCF3116 by Phill Harrison, on Flickr
Some how i think this is going to look alot better than the first one i built on here 

[comrade harps]

37mm cannon in the nose?

[Wardukw]

Nope  more fire power Comrade mate .
2 x 30mm cannon..now this isn't decided but its either going to be quad 50's or 2 x 50cal and 2 x 20mm and these still more guns in the wings too.
Theres 2 x 50cals in the wings already .

[Tophe]

  Wonderful change in the silhouette! Congratulations!

[perttime]

Oh   

Do you happen to have anything more streamlined than a P-40 cockpit canopy for it?

[Wardukw]

Tophe mate  ..thank ya dude..its slowly getting there but i looked at one of the pics and it looks terrible without the horizontal stabilizers 
Im sorry to say nope on that perttime mate..when it comes to aircraft parts pathetic is a understatement..i gotta use what i have which aint much 

[zenrat]

Looking good there mate.

[Tophe]

but i looked at one of the pics and it looks terrible without the horizontal stabilizers 

Would you consider a T-tail?

[Dizzyfugu]

Cool, I like that. 

Looks a bit nose-heavy, though? Might need bigger tail sufaces to compensate?

[zenrat]

Looking at it again it might need longer wings.

[DogfighterZen]

Looking at it again it might need longer wings.

Ah! Exactly what i was thinking! 
But i like it the way it is anyway.

[Scotaidh]

Looking at it again it might need longer wings.

Ah! Exactly what i was thinking! 
But i like it the way it is anyway.

At first glance, I, too, thought it needed bigger wings.  But then I looked again, and I think you could get away with the current ones, justifying the small wing area as "reduced drag for enhanced speed."  After all, the B-26 Martin Marauder had very small wings and was known as a "hot ship." 

As for armament, I'd go with triple 30mm - two hits anywhere near the wing-roots of any WWII aircraft virtually guaranteed its destruction - even the heavies, like a B-17/24/Lanc/etc.

[Old Wombat]

Well, this is looking a bit of a beastie, isn't it!

[PR19_Kit]

Looking at it again it might need longer wings.

Well of COURSE it does! 

[Tophe]

Uh, the double-twin-P-40 had a bigger span but it was a different plane

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