Lockheed-Georgia C-130 WBS

[McColm]

The Lockheed-Georgia WBS (Wide-Body STOL) was another development that never made it passed the drawing board but it looks to me as if the 1/72 Heller or the Revell C-160 Transall model could be used as the donor kit.
Lockheed wanted to lengthen the fuselage and increase the dosal tail fin, that would leave me with the engines, landing gear and the cockpit. I could leave the landing gear alone and just concentrate on the business end and the engines.
I have fitted the Allison turboprops on the Heller C-160 during my Gunship build without too many problems.
Lengthening the C-160 at the rear may cause some issues, best leave that alone and just reshape the nose radome and cockpit canopy glazing.
Then there's the loading ramp,do I stick with the C-160 or try to change it for the C-130.

Me thinks that the first build should be a change of engines, tail fins and cockpit profile whilst I have a go at adding the leftover parts onto the C-130 fuselage and wings, this would look like something like one of the proposals for the STOL cargo plane project.

This will be on the 'Future builds pile ' until I've finished the C-130 twin-engined versions and the Transall C-160 builds as they have gone past the 'I could have used one of each for this build '.