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GROUP BUILDS => 2010 Group Builds => The Knackers Yard => Vive la France GB => Topic started by: ysi_maniac on July 21, 2010, 07:31:41 AM

Title: Inspiration, Documentation, Ideas, ...
Post by: ysi_maniac on July 21, 2010, 07:31:41 AM
Obsesed by this camo scheme :banghead:
Title: Re: Inspiration, Documentation, Ideas, ...
Post by: ysi_maniac on July 21, 2010, 07:36:39 AM
BTW, can any profiler try something with a P-47D in WWII, Indochina, Algeria, Suez crisis, ... in french markings. PLEASE! :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Inspiration, Documentation, Ideas, ...
Post by: Radish on July 21, 2010, 02:08:21 PM
like it all..... :wacko:
Title: Re: Inspiration, Documentation, Ideas, ...
Post by: Cliffy B on July 21, 2010, 02:54:48 PM
Quote from: ysi_maniac on July 21, 2010, 07:36:39 AM
BTW, can any profiler try something with a P-47D in WWII, Indochina, Algeria, Suez crisis, ... in french markings. PLEASE! :thumbsup:

I'll have a go at it.  Razorback or Bubble top?  Air Force or Navy?  FYI, the 1/72 Revell P-47D Bubble top comes with USAAF and French AF decals!  I might have to whip this one up hmmmm.....  
Title: Re: Inspiration, Documentation, Ideas, ...
Post by: ysi_maniac on July 22, 2010, 06:12:23 AM
^^^^^
The model I could use is bubble top, but: Your creativity rules!  :thumbsup: :party:
Title: Re: Inspiration, Documentation, Ideas, ...
Post by: ysi_maniac on July 23, 2010, 08:58:22 AM
I will never stop to recomend this site:

http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,441.0
Title: Re: Inspiration, Documentation, Ideas, ...
Post by: anthonyp on July 29, 2010, 06:30:11 PM
Here's a couple of my old ones:

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And my favorite, the MigRage-23

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Title: Re: Inspiration, Documentation, Ideas, ...
Post by: nev on July 30, 2010, 12:28:04 AM
(https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi182.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fx236%2FRedwingNev%2FMirage%25202000J%2Ffinal2.jpg&hash=c4c336b315f58aa195de977d28358ef94555044a)
http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,20689.15.html

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http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,5381.30.html

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http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,10127.0/highlight,rafale.html
Title: A few old ones from me, too......
Post by: dy031101 on August 12, 2010, 03:36:10 PM
F8U-3 always has the potential:

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Putting ideas behind the Eurofighter Typhoon and the Nord Griffon together...... and you get (amongst other things) this:

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Title: Re: Inspiration, Documentation, Ideas, ...
Post by: NARSES2 on August 13, 2010, 08:56:42 AM
I've a part finished Super Crusader which was always intended to be Aeronvale. May well get finished although not in the GB as it was started eons ago  :banghead:
Title: Re: Inspiration, Documentation, Ideas, ...
Post by: ysi_maniac on August 14, 2010, 05:38:02 PM
^^^^^
If it is not too advanced, not painted, ... I could accept it. Can you please post a pic? See rule 5 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Inspiration, Documentation, Ideas, ...
Post by: NARSES2 on August 15, 2010, 03:04:59 AM
Construction is 90% complete, painting hasn't started yet. Next time I get the camera out I'll take a pic

Here she is. As I say construction almost complete. PSR (a lot) to be done but then can be painted. I'll use the excuse of the GB to finish it but won't put it in the GB vote

Chris

Title: Re: Inspiration, Documentation, Ideas, ...
Post by: Weaver on September 16, 2010, 04:29:40 AM
I very much doubt that I'll get time to put this idea into practice, so I hereby offer it up for your consumption and free use/abuse:

What If in some parallel universe, Fouga, rather than Dassault, became the dominant French aircraft manufacturer? Presumably, you'd have a whole range of aircraft with V-tails and side-mounted twin engines..... :wacko:

Aircraft with side or root-mounted engines that could be Fouga-ized with a V-tail:

Banshee
Scimitar
Buccaneer
CF-100 Canuck (that is SO a Magister-on-steroids..... ;D)
IL-40 Brawny (early version)
TU-16 Badger


Aircraft with "in-wing" podded engines that could have them moved next to the fuselage (and be given a V-tail):

Meteor
Canberra
Il-28 Beagle
Yak-25/28
Vautour (but find a decent kit......)


Mad idea: take a small or under-scale aircraft with a nose intake and stick each half of it on the sides of a big fuselage to make a "Magister-on-steroids" shape. The MiG-19 would be ideal, given it's twin engines.



Title: Re: Inspiration, Documentation, Ideas, ...
Post by: Pablo1965 on September 30, 2010, 04:26:33 PM
Well, I make some poor draw to my own inspiration, when I think in the renault 12Q and a french "pull and push" made with this engine. Please before start a proyect like this one  I want some opinion.
Thanks
Title: Re: Inspiration, Documentation, Ideas, ...
Post by: Mossie on October 01, 2010, 04:15:02 PM
That looks pretty good to me.  The large fuselage mounted intakes for the rear engine are good, might avoid the problems with cooling that the Fokker D.XXIII had.  I like that bullet fairing on the tail.  The wing looks like it could do with a little more chord, the curved wingtips are a little modern & you could do to raise the tail so it's out of the prop wash, but they're minor points & I think you've got a good design there.
Title: Re: Inspiration, Documentation, Ideas, ...
Post by: Pablo1965 on October 01, 2010, 04:45:43 PM
Quote from: Mossie on October 01, 2010, 04:15:02 PM
That looks pretty good to me.  The large fuselage mounted intakes for the rear engine are good, might avoid the problems with cooling that the Fokker D.XXIII had.  I like that bullet fairing on the tail.  The wing looks like it could do with a little more chord, the curved wingtips are a little modern & you could do to raise the tail so it's out of the prop wash, but they're minor points & I think you've got a good design there.

yes, I have doubt about the curved wingstips. Another doubt is over the landing gear.
Thanks for your help.
Title: Re: Inspiration, Documentation, Ideas, ...
Post by: Mossie on October 02, 2010, 04:14:01 AM
You'd need a tricylce layout because of the rear prop.  The front wheel is pretty easily sorted, just slotting into the floor in the forward fuselage.  I can think off two ways you could do the main undercarriage.  Either folding inwards form the central wing panels (in the same manner of the D.XXIII), or create slightly larger booms so the the undercarriage can fold back into them, similar to the P-38.
Title: Re: Inspiration, Documentation, Ideas, ...
Post by: Pablo1965 on October 02, 2010, 03:54:08 PM
Quote from: Mossie on October 02, 2010, 04:14:01 AM
You'd need a tricylce layout because of the rear prop.  The front wheel is pretty easily sorted, just slotting into the floor in the forward fuselage.  I can think off two ways you could do the main undercarriage.  Either folding inwards form the central wing panels (in the same manner of the D.XXIII), or create slightly larger booms so the the undercarriage can fold back into them, similar to the P-38.

Thanks, I will do that but... I don't like the larger booms by other hand, is the way to do it.