Corsair.

[Wardukw]

You get one.   

Polar Corsair WIP 04-12-24 01 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

For now.

😀😀😀
Agreed we me mates above ....that ski looks great but what's getting me is the overall look..it's right ..looks ment to be ..love it 😀

[kitbasher]

 

Still looks very Brewster-ish, although now with some Polikarpov thrown in for good measure. 

[Dizzyfugu]

Cool. To me it has a Polish vibe! 

[kitbasher]

Cool. To me it has a Polish vibe! 

Yep, hints of PZL.

[Wardukw]

Still looks very Brewster-ish, although now with some Polikarpov thrown in for good measure. 

Polikarpov..yeah I'd go with that 

[zenrat]

So a Corsairski?  In more ways than one...

Prop will be replaced.  Probably with one from a Battle (surprisingly of a larger diameter) with a spinner bodged onto it.
The one in the pic is the Corsair one wedged on for the pics.

That mono-ski looks VERY impressive! 

Will it have little tip-skis as well?

I am knocking up two stabilising skis.  They will probably be mounted from the fuselage rather than the wingtips.

[Rick Lowe]

Looking good. 

Will you be filling the shell ejector ports?
Asking for a friend...

[zenrat]

Looking good. 

Will you be filling the shell ejector ports?
Asking for a friend...

I wondered when someone would ask that.
No.  I figure that as shell casings are ejected rather than just falling out of the gun then they can come out of the top of the wing.
Back story will reflect this.

I have begun work on the support skis.  Triangular support frames of unknown origin from a parts box.  Upper braces will run to the fuselage.
Polar Coarsair WIP 07-12-24 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

[Old Wombat]

Looking good. 

Will you be filling the shell ejector ports?
Asking for a friend...

I wondered when someone would ask that.
No.  I figure that as shell casings are ejected rather than just falling out of the gun then they can come out of the top of the wing.

Gives the maintenance crew something to do, panel-beating out the dents & fixing the holes made as spent casings bounce down the wings & smack into the ailerons.  

'Tis looking bloody good, though!  

[DogfighterZen]

  

[zenrat]

Looking good. 

Will you be filling the shell ejector ports?
Asking for a friend...

I wondered when someone would ask that.
No.  I figure that as shell casings are ejected rather than just falling out of the gun then they can come out of the top of the wing.

Gives the maintenance crew something to do, panel-beating out the dents & fixing the holes made as spent casings bounce down the wings & smack into the ailerons.  

'Tis looking bloody good, though!  

They are ejected high enough to clear the ailerons.
They hit the tail.

[ericr]

I have begun work on the support skis.  Triangular support frames of unknown origin from a parts box.  Upper braces will run to the fuselage.

now that is a monument of delicacy / intricacy   

[Mossie]

Polar Coarsair WIP 07-12-24 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

Porco Grigio... 

[Rick Lowe]

Or Porco Gringo?

I figure that as shell casings are ejected rather than just falling out of the gun then they can come out of the top of the wing.
Back story will reflect this.

I did wonder if it might be something like that.

As the oft-mentioned Maxim says: "My FXXin Model!"   

[kerick]

Just put a half section of steel pipe on the leading edge of the tail feathers.    It would create a few extra sparks when the guns are fired at night.