Amazonian Wolves

[Gary]

It started as a legend.
Warriors, all women, vicious and hunting in packs, like wolves.
But like most stories from the ancients, these soon became bedtime stories to make sure children did their chores. "Sweep the floor Alfonzo, lest the Amazonian women come for you in the night."

Then in 1951 as the Amazon River became more commercially viable reports began to filter out. Photo mapping planes disappeared again and again, over only one area of the deep jungle. It was as if a mysterious force was grabbing these airplanes from the sky. Then one September day a photo came across the desk of the editor of the largest Brazilian newspaper, Truth. Fuzzy and nondescript, the image was of a small plane, vaguely familiar, yet different.  

[Gary]

The airforce came in with their P-51's and yet, never returned. Three years later, because of one of those pilots we would discover an amazing small jet and the truth of the Amazonian Women Warriors.

In 1944, Frau Eva Lipstickke had worked as a clerk for Ernst Heinkle. She worked on new and emerging super weapons the Nazis would use to stop the war. However it turned out that Eva was actually an engineer, trained in America and secreted into Germany by her Amazonian sisters to gather data for an inexpensive self-defence fighter. Dubbed the Peoples Fighter by the Germans, the He-162 was an abject failure. What Eva had learned was that wings required minor reconfiguring to make this a truly wonderful weapon.

[Gary]

During an air raid, Eva blew up the lab where she worked and had gathered drawings and specs for the He-162 as well as a new upgraded Jumo-445 with nearly twice the thrust the existing Jumos had. She escaped and made her way back to the Amazon, mother of the rainforest. There she modified the wing, got rid of the landing gear in favour of a flying boat hull to launch off the Amazon and thus was born, the Piranha.

The Piranha was deadly. Twin 20mm cannon under slung in the wings, a diving speed higher than Mach 1, an agile and tricky mount, but with training, a deadly opponent. So was born the She Wolves. Never venturing beyond their territory, they worked to keep their female dominated society secret. Paulo Cruez, P-51 pilot and now a mate slave, have been incorporated into a harem of one of the fighter pilots who had shot him down. His mistress had him mated to dozens of her servants and had sired nearly twenty children, all girls, warriors. But on the odd occasion, he was permitted to do maintenance on his mistress' fighter. Cleaning, maintaining fluid levels and such. Then one fateful day, as Paulo was refuelling Yellow 4 he noticed the locks were removed from the control column. If he could remember how to fly, this was his chance to escape.  He jumped in the cockpit and fired up the jet. He roared down the great green snaking river and lifted gently off the surface, only to pitch up suddenly, stall the compressor and crash in a flaming heap along the shore. The lock had been left off because of a cable problem with the yoke, a snagged cable had come off the pulley and the elevator control wasn't working correctly. The mistress had only just landed as the cable fell apart and she was off to get the bolts to fix the problem herself.

[Gary]

However in all the excitement Bernie Shunkleman, a film loader in a Beech Expeditor that had been shot down before, and now a food servant, heard the alarms and ran to the shore. He had untied the fighter of his mistress, assuming she would be out to intercept, but the current that day was strong. The fighter pulled Bernie into the water from the dock and he along with the fighter were swept down the river. He eventually came to the ocean after enduring two waterfalls and a rather ungracious boa constrictor that had eyed him as lunch. Bernie gave his tale to the Star and was promptly dismissed as a whacko. However, the problem of this snazzy fighter jet had the Brazilian government on edge. They returned the plane along with an offer. You leave us alone, we leave you alone.

[Gary]

What started as an idea for a racer came into this idea of the Amazonian women warriors. What better to fly from but the Amazon river. This was an old Lindberg HE-162 without a canopy and mated to a Modelcraft (ex-Matchbox) Twin Otter float. I chopped the bottom off the 162 and the top off the float and added a pound of filler. Much sanding later and I realized it looked kinda cool, but I didn't like the bubble canopy of the 162. I had bought a Dragon 162 for the sole purpose of using the canopy. What I did instead was modified a 48th scale Bearcat bubble and made a vacumeform of it. The vacumefome didn't work so I used the original after many coats of Futura to get rid of the sanding marks.

More pics will come when I get some more batteries for the digi cam.

cheers

[Hobbes]

Cool plane, and a nicely farfetched backstory. I like it!

[retro_seventies]

it's a known fact  that i get a boner for seaplanes (or riverplanes, eh?) - add a wickedly tall tale and it's a winner!

love it - great idea!

[The Rat]

B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L!!!!!!

With the placement of the engine it's a natural flying boat. Great build!    

[Leigh]

I Love it
Just looks so Gerry Anderson circa "Joe 90". Nice one mate.

P.S. Can we have a pic of the Amazons too?

[Patrick H]

wonderfull plane and story. I like them both.

P.S. Can we have a pic of the Amazons too?

And I'll second that question  



Patrick

[Mike Wren]

oh that's cracking!    love the story, the plane, the base...

[PolluxDeltaSeven]

I really LOVE jet-seaplanes!!!    
Thanks for this model!!! really nice job!!

[NARSES2]

Terrific back-story, great model.

Knowing my luck if I was captured I'd be a cess pit slave  

Chris - who know's at least 4 societies in which women formed a military elite

[anthonyp]

wonderfull plane and story. I like them both.

P.S. Can we have a pic of the Amazons too?

And I'll second that question  



Patrick

As long as they look like the girl from the "Best Newsreader" thread, I got no problems with them  

Great story and model!!

   

[Gary]

I know it's too late for the voting but I wanted to share the topside view of her with ya'll. It shows the revised nose profile much better.