Renard R.39 (Merlin)

[63cpe]

What if there was a successor of the Miles M.20? Maybe it could have looked like this:

PXL_20240323_074917092 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
PXL_20240323_074927018 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
PXL_20240323_075004106 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
PXL_20240323_075013664 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
PXL_20240323_075019023 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
PXL_20240323_074932659 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr

Front of the fuselage is an Airfix Mosquito engine, the wings ar Mosquito outer wing sections. Aft fuselage is an 1/200 DC-3 from Hasegawa. Cockpit is probably a Spitfire XVI unit from Heller. I'll stick 4 20mm guns in nacelles below the wings

Cheers,
David aka 63CPE

[The Rat]

Looking good! 

[PR19_Kit]

Very possible too, a lovely job. 

All the stuff in the background is fascinating too. 

[NARSES2]

Front of the fuselage is an Airfix Mosquito engine, the wings ar Mosquito outer wing sections. Aft fuselage is an 1/200 DC-3 from Hasegawa. Cockpit is probably a Spitfire XVI unit from Heller. I'll stick 4 20mm guns in nacelles below the wings

Cheers,
David aka 63CPE

I admire your ability to visualise all of this in your mind's eye 

If memory serves their were plans for a navalised M 20 ? So give yours a hook and you've got an ideal escort carrier fighter 

[63cpe]

Thank you @NARSES2 . The majority is just combining stuff from the parts bin / recycled models and check who could have had it..

This one actually appeared to me once Tom Z said at a model show I should build smaller models, So I bought a 1/200 Dakota kit ( neat little kit btw) at that show to check what I could do with it.

There was a navalized version of the M.20. So that's "real world". I'm thinking along lines like: the blitzkrieg happened later. The M.20 was improved (in agility, heavier guns and a tad faster) and send to the expeditionairy RAF in France. -Ish or something like that..dunno.

@PR19_Kit: You're right I need to finish some projects and get the table cleaned.

Anyway. Cheers!

David aka 63CPE

[zenrat]

Nice spats.  Wing planform makes it look vaguely Soviet.

Looking forward to seeing it smoothed and in primer.


I'm intrigued by what look like a pair of surfboards with air intakes on their undersides which are standing upright on the LH side of a number of photos.
To me they look like a pair of hoverboards..

[PR19_Kit]

I'm intrigued by what look like a pair of surfboards with air intakes on their undersides which are standing upright on the LH side of a number of photos.
To me they look like a pair of hoverboards..

Waterjet powered surfboards? They'd need filters on the intakes so they didn't ingest any sharks...............

[Rheged]

Pictures of Whiffers workbenches are like "Giles" cartoons.  What's going on in the background is usually as fascinating as the main subject...................which in this particular case is coming along very nicely indeed!

[chrisonord]

That looks brilliant, would look good with sku's fitted to the wheels and Finnish markings.

[2996 Victor]

Looking great and a great raison d'etre. It's a shame the real M.20 didn't get a chance.....

Cheers,
Mark

[su27rules]

  

[Dizzyfugu]

Elegant, reminds me of my Saab J19 build with an inline engine (Basically a Mitsubishi Zero with a Merlin, yet with retractable landing gear, and some more small mods).
However, I somehow have the feeling that the nose is a bit long and the engine could have been set about 3mm further back? There's an odd look to the airframe, at least for me? 


1:72 Saab J 19D; 'Groen Erik' of the Flygflottilj 8 (F 4th Division, Flygvapnet (Swedish Air Force); Barkarby (Stockholm region), 1947 (Whif/Hobby Boss kit conversion) by Dizzyfugu, on Flickr

[comrade harps]

Nice spats.  Wing planform makes it look vaguely Soviet.

l was getting a vaguely Yak feel to this, like a Soviet emergency fighter from 1941-42 with fixed gear, but a late production model with a cut down rear fuselage and a teardrop canopy.

Love the kit bashing with the different scales. Inspiring.

[63cpe]

Thank you all for the comments.

I realized it look less English as anticipated. So a quick rethinking got me to the Belgian Aircraft manufacturer of Renard. I always loved the shape of the Belgium originated Renard R.38 fighter design and maybe as a coincidence it's overall shape looks pretty similar, although smaller in size. It's wingshape is similar aswell and as usual with late 1930-ies european aircraft design different engined were tried ( the original R.38 had a Hispano 12 Y) on the R.38. So why not the early Merlin? Later Renard did try the Merlin on other models, but these never got off the drawing board.

So What if the Renard R.38 was quickly modified with a Merlin and turned into the R.39 as an emergency fighter for the Belgian Airforce during the 1940 Blitzkrieg?

I plan to copy the scheme of these Belgian Buffalo's:
Knipsel Belgische Buffalo's by Buddy Holly, on Flickr

Some pic's below, just before paining commences.
Knipsel Belgische Buffalo's by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
PXL_20240629_194452124 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr

Cheers,

David aka 63CPE

[NARSES2]

Looks like a sleeker Miles M.20