My first whifs...

[K5054NZ]

G'day all
Well, thanks to Eddie M's thread re benches, and the subsequent talk of Twin-Tail F-16s, here's my contribution:

What can I say...I love canards! B)
Tomcat tails, some 1/144 kit I dunno what.

Next up: USN McDonnell-Douglas/Dassault-Breguet C-150 Atlantic :

Heller 1/200(?) kit with F-14 decals.

Then, Bristol Bulldog NZ240 as used in the fighter trainer role by the RNZAF (note blue practice bombs) :


Airfix kit with (I think) P-40 or Hurricane national markings and P-51D serial with the last digit removed.

And finally, to compare with Mr Miller's, my own vision of Dale Brown's EB-52 (but with conventional engines):

Minicraft "Sky Giants" kit, with 1/144 MiG-25 Foxbat nosecone .

Would anyone else like to share their first whifs? And whaddya think of mine? I'm especially proud of the F-16FSW.

PS - As always, sorry for the blur on some pics. I'm sure I'm getting Parkinsons....causes all kinds of hell when painting certain vacform canopies ...

[anthonyp]

I like that USN Atlantic!    

Great job!

   

[Eddie M.]

Those are all pretty cool. B) I especially like the Falcon and Old Dog. Good job Hombre! Man that EB is small. Did you have to get glasses after that?
      Eddie

[K5054NZ]

Cheers Ed. Glasses? Is that what you said? I can't see the screen all that well....

Thanks for your remarks guys. Can't wait til evryone else has a look. You know me, I like to share.

[The Rat]

Great stuff Zac! I have one of those Heller Atlantics too. I bought it to cannibalize the MAD boom for my Transall flying boat, and was thinking of turning it into a water bomber.

Parkinson's? Hope you're kidding, but if not, don't mess around - get checked!

Otherwise check your camera settings. You weren't using flash, so maybe the shutter is staying open longer to gather more light. Try outside in full light. You could also pick up a table-top tripod fairly cheaply.

[John Howling Mouse]

Well, there ya go again, Zac: I find myself once again thinking "Why didn't I think of that?!"  [your F-16 bash----amazing, simple, yet amazing]

You should do one in 1:48 scale too so us old guys could see it better.   B)

As for your inquiry about our first What If's, I think this F/A-6 "Jalisco" was my first What If in terms of aircraft models.  Back then, scratchbuilding a matched pair of stabilizers from plain sheet stock seemed like an impossible task:

[Brian da Basher]

John, Zac, those are some GREEEAAAT whiffs! Thanks for sharing your tri9p down memory lane with us.

Brian da Basher

[Tophe]

G'day all
Well, thanks to Eddie M's thread re benches, and the subsequent talk of Twin-Tail F-16s, here's my contribution:

This is not 'just one more twin-tail F-16', this is a completely new one, further in originality: with canard foreplanes, with reverse wing... I hope a gallery will be possible somewhere on the site, gathering all the very different F-16 shapes that have been imagined by the best of us...  

[BlackOps]

I like them all, but what about the Lego creation in the background?  


Jeff G.

[K5054NZ]

Tophe, I knew you'd like it. I love forward-swept wings and canards. Canard foreplanes are just so elegant...  

BlackOps Jeff: it is a 1/48 Bristol Blenheim. A bit of a pasttime for me besides plastic modeling is building Lego warbirds to proper scales (measurements and all): in the past there have been (in 1/72) a C-119 (then broken down to create the "Flight of the Phoenix"' plane), B-17 and B-29. In 1/48: the Blenheim, Polikarpov I-153, P-40, Hispano HA-1112 Buchon, Eurofighter, Commonwealth CA-11 Woomera (so...damn...perfect...), the list goes on.

[BlackOps]

Cool, I love Legos!   don't think I could ever build a plane to scale that looks like it's 1/1 counterpart but they are fun for building straight up fantasy jets




Jeff G.

[Patrick H]

Great Stuff Zac, especially the F 16. and the Atlantic
I'm currently working, or trying to work(  :zzz:  B) ) on a twin tail F 104 and you could say that's my first whiff in kitbashing.
However, my realy first Whiff was this. Just slapped some paint and decals on an OOB kit.



Patrick

[K5054NZ]

Oh.....a Canadian Maggie? THE PHOTO WON'T LOAD!!!! I wanna see it!

And Jeff - fantasy jets? And I thought I was the only one! Try this one:

I created the Yates Aviation Superhawk  B) , a very stealthy Skyhawk replacement that was basically a Eurofighter....except at the time I didn't know the EFA existed! Roughly 1/48, real mean mother. Packed to the seams with missiles, bombs, ECM....plus, and this was the real selling point, you couldn't hear it until you'd already been bombed to bits, cos of the revolutionary engine.  


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I know, but it was cool as hell! I'm eyeing up a Airfix A-4 to reassemble as a Superhawk, I dunno, but now I wanna make one.

[Tophe]

in the past there have been (in 1/72) a C-119 (then broken down to create the "Flight of the Phoenix"' plane)

It is very funny to imagine you reproduce in your room the movie drama: a half broken twin-boomer becoming a single-boom aircraft, almost normal. Fortunately, the end of your story   seems more happy than the Tallmantz Phoenix crashing and killing her manufacturer  

[K5054NZ]

Yes, that was sad Tophe, but my Phoenix had a happy ending. I even took digicam pics of the post-crash carnage...now lost to the ages....if I find them, though, I'll post them, as Phoenix is a sort of what-if!