Some cool What Ifs

[viper29_ca]

Saw some cool what ifs over on the Starship Modeler website in their new entrants gallery for the week.

Check them out!!

Pampa 2k

Yak V2

Tango II

[Tophe]

Thanks a lot, I love the F-16 Tango , as pleasant as JHM's F-16T maybe...

[Tophe]

Question to our fluently-English-speaking friends : this wonderful site maybe from Argentina is presenting "What-if" planes as "fiction" and "dreams" while my own site from France present them as "fake", well, could you tell us the details to understand the differences among those words in English, what is the more appropriate. We are willing to learn...
Below, the source F-16 Tango from the "here" on the site above. So lovely...  

[kaysersoze]

those are rather funky!

[Leigh]

The word "Fake" implies that you are trying to pretend something is real when it's not, essentially lying.
What If or Fiction say's we know it's not real but it could be a possibility, and it's just imagined.

[Captain Canada]

Wow, Viper...that's awesome ! Brilliant modelling there...very well done ! Thanks !

I like the Pampa best !

And what Leigh says, Tophe...... a 'dream' a/c is probably better than calling it a 'fake' !

Cheers !

Toadman  

[Tophe]

And what Leigh says, Tophe...... a 'dream' a/c is probably better than calling it a 'fake' !

Thanks Leigh, thanks Captain Toad.  I do appreciate your explanation.
I will correct my web site with "fiction", though, as "dream" seems to be different : an engineer's serious dream at work is a "secret project" , while "fiction" from enthusiasts    is a different kind of what-if, no ?
Anyway, I update today wy web site (and book manuscript), thanks a lot !  

[nev]

3 fantastic models!  Great bit of kit bashing there    

[Tophe]

The word "Fake" implies that you are trying to pretend something is real when it's not

Are Matrixone's dioramas and Glenn's in flight pictures "fakes" ? (trying and succeeding to look like real). I respect that part of the What-if approach ("I would like paper project to have been real") while I am at the opposite end of the what-if rainbow ("I would like military planes to have been just angels on paper and models"). I hope there is room here for the different sensitivities, all respectable according to me , and rejected just the same by JMN reallists ...