Lockheederican XP-3851A & B (or C) finished pages 3 & 4

[Wardukw]

Those are some pretty cool ideas Tophe mate and its a shame that plane didnt get made but thats the way of the world..i do wonder sometimes just how great and very cool ideas  dudes came up with that never got past the drawing board's.
Strange thing is i think theres been more WW2 what if aircraft designed in modern times than there where in WW2 

[Tophe]

triple engined fighter looks brilliant

if I remember well. But not easy to find it again. I am almost sure I made a fake from it, but I don't remember if the source had a single fuselage and I made a zwilling with 5 or 6 engines, or if it was already a twin-boomer and I made a 4-engined derivative.

Now that the source IMAM Ro.67 is found, I have checked my twin-boom whif site to check what I've done, and the answer is: nothing about this one! Why? Anyway, I wanted to do it now, and - doing it - I understand what happened:
- as the source was not a twin-boomer, the normal way was making a zwilling (like P-82, or else, if problem: a pod-and-booms plane like P-38)
- there are asymmetric roundels and a mirror copy for a zwilling would require a second mirror copy on the roundels but then these one would not fit in the complex camouflage. The shadow would also be weird as light would come from opposite directions.
- without zwilling, making a pod-and-twin-booms plane is not easy as well because of the complex shadow on the colorful source, so a "tones of grey" would ease the making (probably I did not think of this solution years ago, so I gave up the project of making it). I do it now:

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/imam-ro67z.jpg

[Tophe]

Here is the second possibility of building (AC, after showing AB before showing BC)
giving either 4 models or 3:

[Wardukw]

Nope..still love A Tophe  but heres the kicker..right now it seems that a 1/48th scale P51D Mustang model of any brand does not exist in NZ ..ive looked and the only one available is the bird cage version which i dont want..its bloody annoying bud.

[Tophe]

I understand your problem, poor kiwi...

On my froggy side, I am waiting father's day to start.
Here is the BC final combination, without A sorry, I have not decided yet which combination will be built (AB or AC or BC):

= link https://i.imgur.com/IVLBj1c.jpg

[Wardukw]

B is working for me Tophe mate ..looks pretty cool in fact 

[Tophe]

Well, I received positive comments on A and B, which are the 2 symmetric possibilities I have selected, while... personally I love asymmetric weird layout in aircraft, and I think I may complete C with a bunch of 3 other asymmetric ones, D-E-F, at least... I will see, as there are still 11 days to wait before starting to build. I may draw more...

[Tophe]

Well, 2 asymmetric new ones (D,E) and 1 symmetric new one (F):

[Tophe]

Those 3 new combinations provide 3 new groups of remaining parts:

[Tophe]

The last one above cannot be an aircraft by itself it seems but the 2 first ones can:

Why such asymmetric aircraft were designed??? This seems crazy, but the whole history of their creation explains it all...

[PR19_Kit]

I do like the last one, 'Rest of E'. 

Just what you could build from your spares box after a heavy whiffing session. 

[zenrat]

I've been trying to figure out something similar to Rest of E from a Hasegawa Lightning but i'm having a problem fitting a pilot, turbo with plumbing, and an undercarriage leg into it.

Backstory may or may not bear a similarity to the plot of Flight of the Phoenix.

[Tophe]

Thanks for your comments, both of you.

I've been trying to figure out something similar to Rest of E from a Hasegawa Lightning but i'm having a problem fitting a pilot, turbo with plumbing, and an undercarriage leg into it.
Backstory may or may not bear a similarity to the plot of Flight of the Phoenix.

I understand your problem, zenrat: you are still too much realist, which brings many problems to be credible. As far as I am concerned, I don't care much about credibility, realism, I assume to be a dreamer. A pilot? no need... An undercarriage? no need... A weight balance? no need... This is what-if spirit somehow: what-if there was no realist need to fly?
Furthermore, my models are not flying machines but decoration objects, impossible to fly ? yes, no need... It would have been more simple to have this spirit in the film "flight of the Phoenix", the heroes would have simply stayed where they were, without going back to civilisation...

[Tophe]

Three other possible combinations, 1 symmetric then 2 asymmetric:

[Wardukw]

Fred..rest of e...rail launched flying bomb ..building a rail system aint hard and a dolly for the bomb to sit on..nice