Well... Let's have a look then

[markm70]

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)...  

I don't think that would be a problem since other aircraft such as the Skyraider and Mauler could carry two torpedos at the same time and handle an unbalanced load.

[Tophe]

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.

Or... would you prefer such a biplane? It is still possible on the plastic model, and the span is not too much, while that would be more 'possible': biplane Go 241 rejected in 1939, monoplane Go 242 ordered in 1940...

[NARSES2]

Go Tophe - Gerry Anderson is alive and well and living in -------

Chris

[nev]

Go for it Tophe!!!    

[Tophe]

GP-78W (Glider-Pursuit-38-Wing), you will see...

Next steps: last week (truncating spinners & external wing roots, adding putty) and this week (paiting canopy, sanding, adding putty again, sanding, putty again, sanding)... Smiling

Steps remaining: painting all to see the defaults, adding putty, sanding, painting all again, painting an eye-line on the canopy. And that will be all finished...

[Tophe]

Go 241 near completion:

[NARSES2]

First shot of my Chain Lightning - not as brave as some, she's straight out of box. At the filling/sanding stage now  :zzz:

First Anigrand kit I've had a fit problem with. There was a slight length missmatch between one set of boom halves - nothing to difficult to sort out just a bit awkward because of some of the moulded detail - more suprised then annoyed.

Still don't know what her final colours will be - couple of ideas bouncing around as to her role/armament.

Chris

[Tophe]

Promising...
Even "straight as it was in the box", this is what-if enough as never mass-produced, and with front-line unit colours or foreign roundels, this will be a complete dream ... welcome!   (with thanks)  

[Tophe]

Without waiting to receive the styren sheet (Markm70 way), I have started the Caudron C-7144 building...

[The Rat]

BLOODY HELL!!! I start into this thing three days ago in a frenzy, thinking for some reason that the closing date is September 12, and now I see it's October 15.    Maybe I'll try finishing it for Monday anyway.  

Oh well, here's one in-progress shot:



A wee note here on technique; the brown paper you see there is the backing paper off an adhesive plastic pouch, the type that companies use when attaching documents to boxes for shipping. Almost nothing sticks to the glossy side, so to protect my clamps from glue damage or from sticking to the model I wrapped the paper, shiny side in, around the glue joint on the wing. The paper doesn't stick to the polystyrene cement either, so it can be re-used.

I have thought of another use for this stuff which I will describe when I post more in-progress shots when painting the WIMsy.

[The Rat]

WOW! Tophe, that looks like something straight out of Star Wars!  

[Tophe]

Your model is pleasant too, Rat!
I don't know much the old years: what kit have you doubled? (a few twins have been built before the 1920s, by Fokker, Blackburn, Wight..., have you tried to build one of this unsuccessful prototypes (what-if ordered) or to add an even-more-what-if cousin (what-if designed)?  

[The Rat]

Your model is pleasant too, Rat!

Thanks Tophe! It's just my own wild idea, no connection to anything real or proposed. It's a Sopwith Camel, and since it's now got two humps it will be called a Bactrian!  ^_^  

[Tophe]

Slow progress on the C.7144:

Before working on the wing-link, the first step was esthetical surgery on the starboard fuselage: heavy truncating below, centering of the spinner (before gluing), adding plastic parts to hold this solidly and avoid huge amount of putty to fill. Before sanding etc...
PS. a double XP-77 is scheduled to be displayed in parallel, someday...  

[Tophe]

C-7144 news:
1/ Esthetical surgery is done, first step of sand skinning-over is done...
2/ Styrene sheet still not received, the link has been done anyway with much glue and internal support (without propellers, my way, fuselages may be close – the same with intermeshing propellers...)