Well... Let's have a look then

[Gary]

In this thread feel free to comment and complement and show off your inprogress works. I suppose I should get cracking then.

[Tophe]

Thanks a lot, Gary.
(My camera return is scheduled for tomorrow, I may present pictures, but there are 2 finished new models, is it the right place for them?)

Edit: No, I have seen the other topic, sorry. And thanks again...  

[Captain Canada]

Mine was already posted many moons ago, and is sadly still in the same state !

I'll finish her, tho.....when's the due date ?

[Gary]

Same state being pretty feck'en cool!!!!!!

[Tophe]

I'll finish her, tho.....when's the due date ?

3. Entries must be posted by October 15th. Progress shots welcomed and feel free to include a backstory if necssary, preferrably beer induced.

Will you have time enough, Captain?  and beer enough?

And here is a summary (last month pics) of my now-finished model, to be 'shot' as soon as I get my camera back.

[Tophe]

Comments here to my July 30th pictures in the "post yer entries here please" topic, as required by dear Gary-mwfo:

First my now completed (Unicraft Models 1/72 resin) Bayern Munchen Football BMF TL-\I\... slightly transformed from the Bayerich Moteren Werke BMW TL-III basis: asymetric tailplanes, canard...
The TL-III, as never built, was already a twin-tail what-if plane for Luftwaffe 1946 but I don't like that, I prefer a what-if plane that engineers had not even dared to design... It cannot work? Perfect: this way, Nazis using it would not have killed... (Just a naive dream, in the what-if spirit.)
Please be indulgent: this is my first model of the XXIst century. Just a try, in your steps, with humbleness. If that makes you smile a little, this will be enough reward for me (while votes are for another purpose: celebrating the best modellers among us, and my position is just being a fan of them).

Next one, already...: I have found, in my resin kits to be built, the Unicraft Models' RQ-2A Pioneer (from the Pioneer UAV Inc. PUI Q-2), a US Navy version of the very famous Israeli Scout.
1/72: 2 inches long, nice, cute....
Though, a military RPV with electronic bubble on the underside is not sexy enough for me, I needed a big eye on the face above, to bring some personality... Fortunately, the central pod part included a line for a device panel that could be turned into a big panoramic canopy for admiring landscapes. I have also decided the wing would be low with booms above it, to stand properly on my shelf, with no need of fragile complicated landing gears. And to simplify, I have made the fins vertical instead of oblique. The result is the '1/144' fun glider XT-2A Meuneer.
All in all, it took 2 hours in 5 days, in a single week... Modelism is wonderful when it is that simple. Thanks to have pushed me into it again, such a pleasure...

[Tophe]

As I have only 1 Go 242/244 kit, it was impossible to build the Go 244Z of my dreams (see the Twin-Whirlwind topic), so I planned to make a what-if low wing Go 244. But opening the box and taking the parts, the floor appeared so straight & flat that it could stand on the floor without low-wing the way I do usually. OK: keeping the high wing, more easy but I need to find another way to whatifize this bird...
The wing had such a huge span... where to put such a model? maybe I could discard the wings, out of the holy twin-boom roots... this will be my "Go 241"... Look below the start, with already truncated wings...

But this is not what-if enough: I plan a T-tail of course (for easy rear access/view, of course, but also as a tribute to our dear JHM), and I will add putty on the little windows to paint black panoramic windows instead... It is nice in my mind, I hope I will be able to make it.

[nev]

well, those short wings give it a kinda sci-fi look...maybe add some thrusters under them?

Or perhaps put some tilt rotors on the wingtips a la Osprey?

[John Howling Mouse]

But this is not what-if enough: I plan a T-tail of course (for easy rear access/view, of course, but also as a tribute to our dear JHM),

T-Tail...aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!        

[Tophe]

well, those short wings give it a kinda sci-fi look...

Have you seen the James-Bond film "the man with the golden gun"? A simple car was turning into a twin-boom airplane in a few seconds... So this Go 241 would have pretended to be a civilian truck for highways, at very-high-speed with a rocket in the pod (load coming by sides here) and a double-tail for aerodynamic balance and... from the truncated wing would go out external wings (unswept variable span - see the P-38VG'' in 'The end of Forked Ghosts'), providing much lift and the truck would fly away... SkyTruck.

Thanks for having required this explanation, that suggests me to let 'open' the truncated wing, avoiding much putty and sanding and gives further explanation to the T-tail (to avoid the rocket fire burning the tailplane)... Just logical, at last.

[Tophe]

The putty is on the Italeri Go 241 (1/72 scale from 'Real'), while I have found in the same forgotten box a half-built (with scotch tape, not glue!) P-38. I have gone and found the box for it, almost empty: Airfix P-38H 1/72. I will build it/her in parallel, as GP-78W (Glider-Pursuit-38-Wing), you will see...

And I have made the letter to the distant model-shop with styrene-sheet, white paint, more putty... Feeling young again, thanks!

[markm70]

Well here's my twin TBF getting ready for primer.

[markm70]

And...another view

[Tophe]

Well here's my twin TBF getting ready for primer.

Great!
While... the view from below shows the 2 compartment for torpedoes, would they be released at the same time? otherwise: dangerous unbalance (danger for the Twin-Avenger survival, more than for the enemy)...  

[Tophe]

Airfix P-38H 1/72. I will build it/her in parallel, as GP-78W (Glider-Pursuit-38-Wing), you will see...

Coming from dream into plastic...