No real plan here other than to throw parts at each other and see what sticks, splash some paint on, slap on decals and then make up some Sciffy lies to fit the result.
I am starting with this...
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4404/36891808086_f15b3972d0_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Yd1afE)Sci Fi Bf 109 G Start 7-9-17 (https://flic.kr/p/Yd1afE) by Fred Maillardet (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156376527@N06/), on Flickr
...which consists of an Airfix BF 109-G, a bag of Academy A-37 parts (left over from the Soviet GB Myasishchev M-7) and a resin C130-J prop.
With 4 weeks to do it in I am trying tho channel Dizz. I feel I am behind already...
Odd thing about the '109 kit. It smells very strongly of tobacco. Not the stale cancerous ashtray smell you get from kits that have been in a smokers house but the sweet smell a freshly opened punch of rolling or pipe tobacco has. It's almost pleasant.
Its odd because my father gave me the kit and he has never smoked.
More done today.
Wings have been modified and large pieces removed from the fuselage to enable them to fit.
Last thing I did was glues some styrene sheet back on to fill some of the larger gaps which will otherwise be visible through the intakes.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4402/36277709244_6d34bab929_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/XgJK4A)Libelle WIP 9-9-17 (https://flic.kr/p/XgJK4A) by Fred Maillardet (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156376527@N06/), on Flickr
This is Starting to Look Awesome :thumbsup: has a Bit of a Star Wars meets Terran Trade Authority Feel to it! Keep up the Superb Work :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: Dan
Interesting! I couldn't visualise where this was going but, seeing it, it's certainly going somewhere good! :thumbsup:
:mellow:
I'm interested too!
That's looking awesome! It reminds me of something but I can't quite put my finger on it. Maybe something from Crimson Skies?
Color me intrigued!
the nose really captures your attention....will check this one out regularly
The spinner is a resin C-130J item. It has scimitar blades which would look really cool but would require very stalky undercarriage which would not.
It will therefore stay a jet and not compound powered.
You prolly won't like it when i'm finished Tophe as it is going to have weapons on it.
I added some gap filling plates to the engine intakes and exhausts today, attached the stabilisers and put some filler on it.
Next pics when I prime it.
Now, I have a decision to make about the wingtips. Tanks or missiles?
part of me wants to say "hunters world " as a piece of sci-fi artwork, but so far the google fu is weak :banghead:
I will now have to find it.
Im certain it was used as a White dwarf cover in the 70s, or 80s.
Now that is looking really nice - what a concept
hahahah
Jim Burns beyond the farthest star
https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&biw=1936&bih=1072&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=Jim+Burns++beyond+the+farthest+star&oq=Jim+Burns++beyond+the+farthest+star&gs_l=psy-ab.3...419876.421646.0.422665.1.1.0.0.0.0.86.86.1.1.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.0.0.0IjxWl9AvLk
its crashed in the pic, but its the nose that says it to me. :thumbsup:
I'd go with tanks. :thumbsup:
Yeah, tanks. Looks too early for wing-tip missile rails.
Quote from: Steel Penguin on September 10, 2017, 02:41:54 AM
hahahah
Jim Burns beyond the farthest star
https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&biw=1936&bih=1072&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=Jim+Burns++beyond+the+farthest+star&oq=Jim+Burns++beyond+the+farthest+star&gs_l=psy-ab.3...419876.421646.0.422665.1.1.0.0.0.0.86.86.1.1.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.0.0.0IjxWl9AvLk
its crashed in the pic, but its the nose that says it to me. :thumbsup:
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/9c/f8/cd/9cf8cd12184f8b1815af0f716048c891.jpg)
Hmmmm. I have seen the picture before in a book of sci fi pics loosely tied together with a narrative that a friend had years ago. Maybe it wormed its way into my head.
I was pondering a T Tail today as well but took the easy way out.
I also have a vague memory of something similar but more dieselpunky with corrugated exhaust hoses. And in landscape format.
It's amazing how just putting that spinner onto a Bf 109 changes the look. Maybe i'll do something similar on the long winged AZ kit. Contra prop maybe.
DFZ & Womby - You may be right. The wings are actually slightly forward swept which would point missiles inwards. Not enough to affect their use but I suspect the eye would pick it up and the brain would think it was wrong. As it's Sci Fi though, I reject any arguments based on when munitions were developed in OTL. ;D
After all, the back story will put it in world of the anime My Sky the Free Wind (Studio zenrat - release date TBA) along with this.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4236/35599957886_fa85515d47_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/WeR6cm)Babs 007 (https://flic.kr/p/WeR6cm) by Fred Maillardet (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156376527@N06/), on Flickr
http://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php/topic,41084.msg698355.html#msg698355
Quote from: zenrat on September 10, 2017, 04:54:17 AM
DFZ & Womby - You may be right. The wings are actually slightly forward swept which would point missiles inwards. Not enough to affect their use but I suspect the eye would pick it up and the brain would think it was wrong. As it's Sci Fi though, I reject any arguments based on when munitions were developed in OTL. ;D
After all, the back story will put it in world of the anime My Sky the Free Wind (Studio zenrat - release date TBA) along with this.
;D :thumbsup: My opinion is just based on looks, and i'm a wingtip missile fan but on straight wings, i prefer tanks, P-80 like.
I also think tanks are the best choice
Every time I see this picture (& I've seen it many times over the years) I keep asking myself "Why is that pilot making the big pussy-cat thing angry by shooting at it?" :unsure:
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/9c/f8/cd/9cf8cd12184f8b1815af0f716048c891.jpg)
I'm thinking why doesn't the front seater get a canopy or even a windscreen?
I know I said no more pics until primer, but here's one anyway.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4347/37161442985_ede917ed94_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/YBQ7je)2017-09-11_06-32-16 (https://flic.kr/p/YBQ7je) by Fred Maillardet (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156376527@N06/), on Flickr
Bi-ig wings & tail-plane, teeny little rudder. ;)
The lady's not for turning... ;)
The wings are actually slightly less in span than the stock Bf 109G. The stabs are bigger though.
I'm glad I went for the tanks.
Keen eyed viewers will notice that the spinner I have glued on isn't the one I had on in the earlier pic. This is because I had drilled 6 accurate holes in that one for blades and this one is going to be smoothed over and in (it's already full of filler, drying as I type).
Quote from: zenrat on September 11, 2017, 03:50:32 AM
The wings are actually slightly less in span than the stock Bf 109G.
Really? :o
They look bigger. :blink:
Maybe not now with the tanks on, but yes. I have tricked you with perspective and camera angle.
Who said "photographs never lie"? :unsure:
'Coz they were lying! :angry:
Welp, Kit will get a kick out of this, lol!
Quote from: Old Wombat on September 11, 2017, 06:16:16 AM
Who said "photographs never lie"? :unsure:
'Coz they were lying! :angry:
Proof. ;D
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4406/36368546233_9b898ff7b7_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/XpLiJz)Libelle - Wingspan (https://flic.kr/p/XpLiJz) by Fred Maillardet (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156376527@N06/), on Flickr
And here she is with the nasal filler rubbed back and a lick of primer.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4343/36785085990_2f7531ffd9_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Y3zbuw)Libelle WIP 12-9-17 (https://flic.kr/p/Y3zbuw) by Fred Maillardet (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156376527@N06/), on Flickr
Now she's starting to look sexy
Man, no doubt!! ^ ^^
Looks friggin awesome.
I love the build so I am not being picky or anything. Can you help me out with the technical details. So the engine is still in the front - yes? And the radiators are in the air intake in the wing roots. Is that the concept?
Thanks Bernie
Quote from: dumaniac on September 13, 2017, 01:16:23 AM
I love the build so I am not being picky or anything. Can you help me out with the technical details. So the engine is still in the front - yes? And the radiators are in the air intake in the wing roots. Is that the concept?
Thanks Bernie
No Bernie, it's now a twin jet long range bomber escort. The pilot sits between the engines which are in the wing roots.
The nose now contains radar and other electronical gubbins and maybe some more guns (although that might disfigure her svelte profile.
Second round of PSR commenced today with the P.
It looks a bit like Version 1 of a Banshee. ;D
She's a fair bit smaller than a Banshee.
But there is a similarity.
Second round of S today followed by a squirt of primer showed no need to R.
I have decided to leave that shapely nose as it is and not put any guns into it.
If I do add more guns they'll be in a ventral pack.
Now, to missile or not to missile?
I have 4 hard points for each wing and a wide range of Soviet and Japanese Air to Air missiles to hang from them.
But then she also looks good clean.
I may paint her first and see how I feel when she's in gleaming technicolour.
Speaking of paint. I'm going for a standard yellow nose Bf 109 scheme but with a twist. :mellow:
Aw beauty Fred
I did a similar build with the Me 262 HG3. Jumos in the wing roots. Wings at 18 degrees for higher speed. Pushed the undercart out to provide a more stable platform for landing.
I am gonna have to put this Me109 on my build list. This is a great concept.
Thanks for the guidance.
Bernie
Glad you like her Bernie.
The wings had been burning a hole in my parts box since I sliced up the Dragonfly to build the Myasischev. I could see they had great promise but had to find the right fuselage.
I hit the underside and nose with white undercoat today. Forgot the tail though. I'll have to do that tomorrow.
I also found the decals I want to use in the decal folder and a colour scheme to base mine on on the interweb.
Its one with splinter pattern wings but mottled fuselage sides so i'll have to use the hairbrush on it which is something I don't often do in this scale.
That sounds great. Looking forward to this big time. :mellow: :mellow: :mellow:
Me too. Do you think if I ignore it it'll finish itself?
;D
Quote from: zenrat on September 15, 2017, 02:15:03 AM
Its one with splinter pattern wings but mottled fuselage sides so i'll have to use the hairbrush on it which is something I don't often do in this scale.
That will surely make it loose and shiny... ;D
Quote from: zenrat on September 16, 2017, 01:47:42 AM
Me too. Do you think if I ignore it it'll finish itself?
;D
;D
Quote from: zenrat on September 16, 2017, 01:47:42 AM
Me too. Do you think if I ignore it it'll finish itself?
;D
That's been my approach of late. :rolleyes: ;D Doesn't seem to work but sure makes building a breeze!
Got some colour on her today.
The scheme I am using has RLM 65 (light blue) underside but what Vallejo sell as this colour looks too dark compared to references.
It looks like this.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4285/34786450664_9083d3af7b_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/UZXDQL)Bf 110 Sternschnuppe 013 (https://flic.kr/p/UZXDQL) by Fred Maillardet (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156376527@N06/), on Flickr
Think i'll be adding some white.
Underside is blue. Adding the same amount again of white to the Vallejo RLM 65 has brought it close to what other paint manufacturers sell.
RLM 71 on the topside completed today. How exciting.
Quote from: zenrat on September 21, 2017, 01:27:24 AM
RLM 71 on the topside completed today. How exciting.
What's that in English? :unsure:
Quote from: PR19_Kit on September 21, 2017, 02:55:33 AM
Quote from: zenrat on September 21, 2017, 01:27:24 AM
RLM 71 on the topside completed today. How exciting.
What's that in English? :unsure:
A shade I would describe as "cowpat green".
And now the cowpat green has been joined by estuary mud grey (AKA RLM 02).
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4383/36530540124_c274d824f0_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/XE5ySG)Libelle WIP 22--9-17 (https://flic.kr/p/XE5ySG) by Fred Maillardet (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156376527@N06/), on Flickr
It's an intriguing looking machine and one that is ringing a very tiny bell somewhere in my brain ? :unsure:
Looking good there Fred, the yellow bits really make it.
:thumbsup:
Looking glorrrrrious! I flippin' love this one.
Glad y'all like it. Next stage is to mottle the fuselage sides. The colour scheme I printed out is unclear if the mottling is cowpat green or estuary mud grey. I think i'll go with the grey.
Yes - looking great
Wonderful 109 Sci-Fi, thank you! Go on! :thumbsup: :wub:
And congratulations again for your asymmetric Bf-110 of 2015 :wub: :wub:
Thanks guys. I did consider replacing the fin with that from the A-37 but it seemed like it would require far too much PSR.
Masked it up and mottled the fuselage sides today.
I say mottled. It's more of a fade. I couldn't get my airbrush to do a mottle even with the #1 nozzley bits.
Still, it looks OK, it's a whiff anyway and it has shown me not to try and mottle with the airbrush on 1/72 aircraft. In future I shall revert to a knackered old paint brush.
Decaled.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4400/36677695204_814cd29017_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/XT5LXf)Libelle WIP 29-9-17 (https://flic.kr/p/XT5LXf) by Fred Maillardet (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156376527@N06/), on Flickr
Decals are from an Academy F-104 G (for Germany) and are out of register. I had to touch parts of them up with black.
:thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Quote from: zenrat on September 29, 2017, 01:40:31 AM
Decaled.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4400/36677695204_814cd29017_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/XT5LXf)Libelle WIP 29-9-17 (https://flic.kr/p/XT5LXf) by Fred Maillardet (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156376527@N06/), on Flickr
Decals are from an Academy F-104 G (for Germany) and are out of register. I had to touch parts of them up with black.
Does that mean it's unregistered? :unsure:
Only a little bit...
;D
Gloss clear over the decals yesterday before heading off out to Mrs zs brother's place for the AFL Grand Final and then painted the wheel wells, intakes and exhausts and pin washed the panel lines today.
As designated driver I didn't drink alcohol yesterday but did knock back a litre of Fanta along with many handfuls of m&ms, slices of pavlova, assorted cakes and many chocolates.
I've never had a sugar hangover before. I don't think I like it.
:-\ :unsure: :angry: :blink:
Quote from: zenrat on September 30, 2017, 10:01:53 PM
I've never had a sugar hangover before. I don't think I like it.
:-\ :unsure: :angry: :blink:
Then the easy, nay only, answer is to keep eating chocolate... :rolleyes: ;D
Quote from: Rick Lowe on October 01, 2017, 02:18:02 AM
Quote from: zenrat on September 30, 2017, 10:01:53 PM
I've never had a sugar hangover before. I don't think I like it.
:-\ :unsure: :angry: :blink:
Then the easy, nay only, answer is to keep eating chocolate... :rolleyes: ;D
Wouldn't work for me, sugar hangovers are pretty hard on my intestines... :o ;D
Pilot installed today (in his silver, 50's style high altitude flight suit) and canopy attached.
Started painting the fiddly bits.
The World of My Sky the Free Winds – A Dieselpunk Anime from Studio zenrat.
Messerschultz Me 109-Q7 Libelle
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4514/36900398664_c7202f5fb3_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/YdLbW5)Messerschultz Me 109-Q7 Libelle 11 (https://flic.kr/p/YdLbW5) by Fred Maillardet (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156376527@N06/), on Flickr
When the great air fleets of the Mediterrorean free anarchies required long range fighter escorts to protect them on their drive to project revenge, retribution, justice and freedom into the heart of the Polish Mechtocratic Empiricum they did as their fathers and their forefather before them had done and turned to mercenary skyclans.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4490/36900400474_b33945c80d_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/YdLcth)Messerschultz Me 109-Q7 Libelle 6 (https://flic.kr/p/YdLcth) by Fred Maillardet (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156376527@N06/), on Flickr
Driven from their homeland by the Empiricum during the Purgeric Expulsions of the Spring of Blades the proud warriors of the Himelreitter Fliegende Teufel welcomed with open arms the chance to strike back against those who had driven them to the very edges of what had once been the Holy German Empire.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4445/37578600452_ec43edb0ac_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ZfG9Gm)Messerschultz Me 109-Q7 Libelle 8 (https://flic.kr/p/ZfG9Gm) by Fred Maillardet (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156376527@N06/), on Flickr
The chosen mount of the HFT was the Messerschultz Me 109-Q7 Libelle (Dragonfly). Designed and built in the great floating megopolis of Tanganyikatown the Libelle was powered by a pair of PanAf Jumbo 004 engines mounted either side of the pilot. Armament consisted of two Vektor SS-34 20mm motorkanone mounted in front of the cockpit (fed from large capacity ammunition bins directly beneath them) and four hardpoints under each wing suitable for air to air missiles or rockets.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4449/36900401824_8474fb0ca4_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/YdLcSy)Messerschultz Me 109-Q7 Libelle 3 (https://flic.kr/p/YdLcSy) by Fred Maillardet (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156376527@N06/), on Flickr
The Q7 carried a GEMA Luftabhören Funkverstärkungserkennung MkXXIII under its streamlined cellulose nose. This microwave radar was crude by modern standards but was the first of its kind to be built small enough for a single seat fighter and gave the aircraft of the Free Anarchies a decisive advantage in the Far West Asian skies.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4481/36900401604_14d1d89746_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/YdLcNL)Messerschultz Me 109-Q7 Libelle 4 (https://flic.kr/p/YdLcNL) by Fred Maillardet (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156376527@N06/), on Flickr
The pictured aircraft was photographed at Dadswell Bridge Aerodrome during the filming of Studio zenrat's live action blockbuster version of My Sky the Free Winds starring Scarlett Johansson and Dave Dunnebier (at an iMax near you in 3D from next Tuesday).
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4455/36900401054_1cb4f54235_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/YdLcDh)Messerschultz Me 109-Q7 Libelle 5 (https://flic.kr/p/YdLcDh) by Fred Maillardet (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156376527@N06/), on Flickr
The model.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4480/36940474953_ebc268642f_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/YhiAdz)Messerschultz Me 109-Q7 Libelle 1 (https://flic.kr/p/YhiAdz) by Fred Maillardet (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156376527@N06/), on Flickr
1/72 Airfix Messerschmitt BF 109G fuselage with wings and stabilisers from an Academy Cessna T-37 Dragonfly.
Nose is a resin C130 spinner.
Decals from Academy F-104G.
:thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Nice one, Fred!
HELL yeah, brotha!!! I love this one!! So cool. And, always neat to see a jet -not- on tricycle gear. :mellow: :mellow:
Thanks blokes.
While I was building it I was thinking "this is going to look odd tail dragging, I should trike it". But now I think it looks OK.
The thing in the circle on the tail is an iron cross BTW not a swastika.
I think it looks great... the uhh... length of the main gear helps... if they were longer, the nose would sit higher and at some point it would start to "not look right." Being as they are, it sits well.
That's nice mate :thumbsup:
She looks fast just sitting there.
Cracking job there, looks like an A-37 in Luftwaffe service. :thumbsup: ;D
Very good indeed! :thumbsup:
I like it's stance with the landing gear like that, like Chris said, looks fast just sitting there and, like Brad said, the height of the gear is just right. And also, i think it would look weird with tricycle layout cause there would be more than half of the fuselage behind the main gear.
The story is also very good, great work as always! :cheers:
It ame put very pretty. I also appreciated the german halftrack as bowser in RAF colours. :thumbsup:
EDIT: Sorry for a few typing errors: it was meant to say: It came out very pretty. :banghead:
Quote from: loupgarou on October 11, 2017, 05:15:55 AM
I also appreciated the german halftrack as bowser in RAF colours. :thumbsup:
Ha, I hadn't noticed that until you pointed it out. Magic stuff, that's a Whiff in its own right. :thumbsup: ;D
I do love the way you have completed the jet engine exhaust area. The wider undercart will also add delightfully to landing and take-off stability. Bl!@#dy excellent job. Have added to my to-do list in 48.
Bernie
Glad you all like it.
I have a small collection of 1/72 & 1/76 vehicles and figures with which I populate the background on my photos.
Kit - I was under the impression I had posted pics of the Tanker. I'll put some in my blog thread.
I know I've seen it before, in a build thread. <_<
Belated congratulations! :thumbsup:
Thanks Tophe.
I know it's too late, 'cos the build is complete, but I finally came up with a reason for not putting more guns in the nose - gun gas will stall a jet engine. Check out the development of the A-10. :) But, of course, you knew that.
It puts me in mind of the P-59 Airacomet , the first US indigenous jet design. Not denigrating, just sayin', is all. I really like this build - it gives me ideas. :)
Good thinking. :thumbsup:
I'm toying with the idea of a US version using Panther wings on an Airacobra fuselage.