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Fokker D-30

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63cpe

#15
October 21, 2025, 08:45:25 AM
What if.......Fokker developed the D-23 into a jet fighter. It must have had a RR Nene for engine and a circular intake like the Fokker S-14. The lay-out in general was much like the Dehavilland Vampire but with the wings and tailbooms of the D-23. This is what you get:

Funny story: I took this model to the ESM 2024 and TomZ overheard a conversation between two visitors that one of them had seen this model flying in real world... it's registration is supposed to be a hint :thumbsup:

IMG_0006 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
IMG_0008 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
IMG_0016 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
IMG_0020 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr

More pictures here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jetsonsspecial/albums/72177720304371350/with/54868327032

Enjoy,
David aka 63CPE


PR19_Kit

#16
October 21, 2025, 09:03:52 AM
Quote from: 63cpe on October 21, 2025, 08:45:25 AMFunny story: I took this model to the ESM 2024 and TomZ overheard a conversation between two visitors that one of them had seen this model flying in real world... it's registration is supposed to be a hint :thumbsup:


Don't you just LOVE it when that happens!  ;D  :thumbsup:

Some years ago some guy at a show we did swore blind he used to be a back seater in a tandem 2 seater Lightning that I had on display there!  ;)
Kit's Rule 1 ) Any aircraft can be improved by fitting longer wings, and/or a longer fuselage
Kit's Rule 2) The backstory can always be changed to suit the model

...and I'm not a closeted 'Take That' fan, I'm a REAL fan! :)

Regards
Kit

Dizzyfugu

#17
October 22, 2025, 01:22:25 AM
Nice one!  :thumbsup:

zenrat

#18
October 22, 2025, 02:09:03 AM
 :thumbsup:  :thumbsup:

Quote from: PR19_Kit on October 21, 2025, 09:03:52 AM
Quote from: 63cpe on October 21, 2025, 08:45:25 AMFunny story: I took this model to the ESM 2024 and TomZ overheard a conversation between two visitors that one of them had seen this model flying in real world... it's registration is supposed to be a hint :thumbsup:


Don't you just LOVE it when that happens!  ;D  :thumbsup:

Some years ago some guy at a show we did swore blind he used to be a back seater in a tandem 2 seater Lightning that I had on display there!  ;)

I hope they were not disabused of those notions.
Fred

- Can't be bothered to do the proper research and get it right.  Revelling in numptytism.

Another ill conceived, lazily thought out, crudely executed, badly painted piece of half arsed what-if modelling muppetry.

zenrat industries:  We're everywhere, for your convenience.

PR19_Kit

#19
October 22, 2025, 02:26:48 AM
Quote from: zenrat on October 22, 2025, 02:09:03 AMI hope they were not disabused of those notions.


Hell NO!  ;D  ;)
Kit's Rule 1 ) Any aircraft can be improved by fitting longer wings, and/or a longer fuselage
Kit's Rule 2) The backstory can always be changed to suit the model

...and I'm not a closeted 'Take That' fan, I'm a REAL fan! :)

Regards
Kit

NARSES2

#21
October 22, 2025, 05:15:55 AM
That's very nice  :thumbsup:
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

Weaver

#22
October 23, 2025, 01:45:30 AM Last Edit: October 23, 2025, 01:55:03 AM by Weaver
Damn that's pretty!  :wub:

I've long thought that a twin-boom, nose-intake fighter would be interesting.

Off-topic, but I had the "I've seen that flying" thing happen in 1/1 scale. I used to own a Matchless G80, which was an old-styled, modern-build motorbike, using the brand and model name of an old 1950s one. It wasn't anything like the old G80 in detail and wouldn't have fooled anyone who knew what they were talking about: it was an entirely modern bike, just with gold pinstriping, chrome mudguards and the name. One time an old guy came up to me at a petrol station to admire it, and about two sentences in, he said, "my dad used to ride one those in the war you know."

"Really?" I replied (yes, I had this one prepped and loaded...), "He must have been fighting for the wrong side then."

"What? Whaddaya mean?"

"Well this has an Austrian engine, Italian suspension and fuel tank and Japanese electronics, so..."
"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."
 - Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Neil Gaiman

"I dunno, I'm making this up as I go."
 - Indiana Jones

Old Wombat

#23
October 23, 2025, 01:56:09 AM
Quote from: 63cpe on October 21, 2025, 08:45:25 AMFunny story: I took this model to the ESM 2024 and TomZ overheard a conversation between two visitors that one of them had seen this model flying in real world... it's registration is supposed to be a hint :thumbsup:

To be generous, I suppose he may have seen dH Vampires but, possibly, isn't familiar with the type & thought that what you built is what he saw.  :unsure:
Has a life outside of What-If & wishes it would stop interfering!

"The purpose of all War is Peace" - St. Augustine

veritas ad mortus veritas est

jcf

#24
October 23, 2025, 06:32:10 PM
Nice.  :thumbsup:

A Nene would be nice, but I'm not so sure that a broke Britain wouldn't fob old Wellands off on an equally broke
Netherlands.
;)
Of course, US funding underwriting the purchase of the Nene could be a possibility.
;D

kerick

#25
October 23, 2025, 07:21:42 PM
Lots of folks have no idea about the registration or serial numbers. I've been learning as I go.
" Somewhere, between half true, and completely crazy, is a rainbow of nice colours "
Tophe the Wise

frank2056

#26
October 23, 2025, 07:22:40 PM
That's beautiful! The body reminds me a bit of the Dassault Mystère.

kerick

#27
October 23, 2025, 07:31:30 PM
It has a much better and slimmer look to it.
" Somewhere, between half true, and completely crazy, is a rainbow of nice colours "
Tophe the Wise
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