Go fast, go vertical, go nowhere

[CammNut]

I think we've decided this was a bad idea. I just have to come up with a backstory that makes it a particularly bad idea.

Anigrand 1/72 Rockwell XFV-12A experimental supersonic V/STOL shipborne fighter.


NASA image

[Weaver]

Come up with some cynical business+politics maneuver to force a barely-working version into service, then have it let the Navy down horribly?

[sandiego89]

ohh, like this!

how heavy would you say the kit is?  Like 4-5 times an injected kit? 

[Wardukw]

I loved that plane since the first time I saw it ..one thing tho ..is that a A-4 cockpit canopy I'm seeing cause I thought I've seen it before but could never be bothered to find out 

[scautomoton]

I've been thinking of getting this kit myself, but have to many others to do first. And yes, wasn't it an A4 cockpit, F4 fuselage and then the rest was the experimental stuff?

[CammNut]

Weight? Maybe twice injection moulded. I'll find an A-4 kit and compare. It's not heavy but I still might try to find substitute injection-moulded landing gear, to be safe.

And yes, A-4 nose, F-4 intakes and F-4 wing box. I am not planning to deviate such from the stock kit. Maybe make the cockpit a full bubble as it comes that way.

Artists' impressions of the planned operational aircraft show it with twinned Sidewinder rails on the outsides of the endplate tails, so that's a possibility.

[Wardukw]

Thanks for that chaps ..the feeling has been made happy 😊
Least landing won't be a problem to get ..they are A-4 Skyhawk and there's plenty of models of those out there 😉

[kerick]

Weight? Maybe twice injection moulded. I'll find an A-4 kit and compare. It's not heavy but I still might try to find substitute injection-moulded landing gear, to be safe.

And yes, A-4 nose, F-4 intakes and F-4 wing box. I am not planning to deviate such from the stock kit. Maybe make the cockpit a full bubble as it comes that way.

Artists' impressions of the planned operational aircraft show it with twinned Sidewinder rails on the outsides of the endplate tails, so that's a possibility.

See if an A-4M canopy might fit. Or bulge it outward like a Malcome hood.

[NARSES2]

I built that many moons ago. I like Anigrand, they are chunky and take some cleaning up, but do some great subjects 

[CammNut]

Anigrand moulds the thrust-augmentor flaps on the canard and wing so they can be cut free and posed open for vertical flight, if desired. I so desired.



Also I hunted out some injection-moulded A-4 landing gear (Hasegawa) and I need to find better F-4 inlet ramps, which I have somewhere.

[jcf]

Two J85s scabbed onto the fuselage purely used to increase the flow of air through
the silly lift system. Complete dead weight when not in operation.

Scans of a Rockwell brochure available here:
Rockwell XFV-12 brochure

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[CammNut]

No J85s that I can see, just the one Pratt YF401 and lot of ducting.

Inlet ducts painted to clear the way for fuselage join (I need to do another degrease of the resin, I think). Anigrand's wall thicknesses are not as bad as some resin makers', but nowhere near as fine a Planet Models!



Located F-4 inlet ramps, but will need some surgery. There are photographs of the XFV-12A online with the perforated panels removed from the inlet ramps and the boundary-layer ducting exposed and these must have persuaded Anigrand to mold the ridges onto the ramps - erroneously.

The other thing missing from the kit is the plug for the nozzle. This was used to block the nozzle in vertical lift mode and divert the engine exhaust to the thrust-augmentor ducting. The plug moved aft  to unplug the nozzle for horizontal flight.

[buzzbomb]

As a build this is going along quite well.

[jcf]

No J85s that I can see, just the one Pratt YF401 and lot of ducting.

Inlet ducts painted to clear the way for fuselage join (I need to do another degrease of the resin, I think). Anigrand's wall thicknesses are not as bad as some resin makers', but nowhere near as fine a Planet Models!



Located F-4 inlet ramps, but will need some surgery. There are photographs of the XFV-12A online with the perforated panels removed from the inlet ramps and the boundary-layer ducting exposed and these must have persuaded Anigrand to mold the ridges onto the ramps - erroneously.

The other thing missing from the kit is the plug for the nozzle. This was used to block the nozzle in vertical lift mode and divert the engine exhaust to the thrust-augmentor ducting. The plug moved aft  to unplug the nozzle for horizontal flight.

I was joking about them adding two J85s in an attempt to get the lift system to work.

[kerick]

No J85s that I can see, just the one Pratt YF401 and lot of ducting.

Inlet ducts painted to clear the way for fuselage join (I need to do another degrease of the resin, I think). Anigrand's wall thicknesses are not as bad as some resin makers', but nowhere near as fine a Planet Models!



Located F-4 inlet ramps, but will need some surgery. There are photographs of the XFV-12A online with the perforated panels removed from the inlet ramps and the boundary-layer ducting exposed and these must have persuaded Anigrand to mold the ridges onto the ramps - erroneously.

The other thing missing from the kit is the plug for the nozzle. This was used to block the nozzle in vertical lift mode and divert the engine exhaust to the thrust-augmentor ducting. The plug moved aft  to unplug the nozzle for horizontal flight.

I was joking about them adding two J85s in an attempt to get the lift system to work.

Only if they point straight down!