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Mossie

May 30, 2007, 08:33:32 AM
Can anybody tell me of any aircraft  other (I'll get this in before somene states the obvious!) than the F-102 & F-106 that a have a two part windscreen split down the centre?  I'm after one for a project I've got in mind, but there are relatively few aircraft with them & I can only think of the SR.71 & the two I mentioned.



Thanks guys!

Simon. :cheers:  
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upnorth

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May 30, 2007, 10:04:47 AM
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May 30, 2007, 10:21:01 AM Last Edit: May 30, 2007, 10:23:41 AM by ysi_maniac
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I think X-2
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kitnut617

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May 30, 2007, 10:34:10 AM Last Edit: May 30, 2007, 10:39:42 AM by kitnut617
Simon, Hannants has this conversion:  

http://www.hannants.co.uk/search/?FULL=XP003

It's for the TF-102 (I've got one too) and has a wider split screen for side by side seating.

And Mastercasters does a replacement Avro Arrow forward fuselage set which is also very good  (I've got a couple of these too)

http://www.mastercasters.co.uk/
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Archibald

#4
May 30, 2007, 12:32:27 PM
Mirage IV  ;)  
King Arthur: Can we come up and have a look?
French Soldier: Of course not. You're English types.
King Arthur: What are you then?
French Soldier: I'm French. Why do you think I have this outrageous accent, you silly king?

Well regardless I would rather take my chance out there on the ocean, that to stay here and die on this poo-hole island spending the rest of my life talking to a gosh darn VOLLEYBALL.

Mossie

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May 30, 2007, 01:39:41 PM
Thanks guys, specifically it's a single seat (although tandem might do) all-glazed canopy I'm looking for.  I'll give you a better idea of what I'm after by showing you a pic of my (potential) project:


Scanned from British Secret Projects: Jet Bombers

I thought at first the X-2 was the most likely candidate from the list, but I was looking at a pic of a replica, the real-thing was a bit different.  Buying an X-2 kit just for it's canopy would be a bloody expensive way of doing things too, the cheapest kit I can find in 1/72 is a £25 Alliance resin.

I've got a feeling there won't be anything quite right & I'll have to take the plunge (literally) & try smashing one, but keep em coming!
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dogsbody

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May 30, 2007, 03:08:40 PM

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May 30, 2007, 10:33:16 PM
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Scooterman

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May 31, 2007, 08:32:17 AM
Slightly OT but does the 1141 look like a cross between a 'arrier and a XF-107?

upnorth

#9
May 31, 2007, 09:16:33 AM
QuoteSlightly OT but does the 1141 look like a cross between a 'arrier and a XF-107?
I don't see too much F-107 in that.

Looks more like the love child of a Harrier and a Gnat.
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#10
May 31, 2007, 09:19:48 AM
Mossie, I'm just drooling now  :wub:  
King Arthur: Can we come up and have a look?
French Soldier: Of course not. You're English types.
King Arthur: What are you then?
French Soldier: I'm French. Why do you think I have this outrageous accent, you silly king?

Well regardless I would rather take my chance out there on the ocean, that to stay here and die on this poo-hole island spending the rest of my life talking to a gosh darn VOLLEYBALL.

Mossie

#11
May 31, 2007, 09:24:47 AM Last Edit: May 31, 2007, 03:46:49 PM by Mossie
'Arrier & Grumman F11F Tiger Scooter, the fuse's are as close as you'll get between two different types, especially in plan view.  Not perfect, but near as damnit for a kitbash.  I've picked up a Hase kit, aquired a Harrier wing from DaveT & I've got a Pavla MB Mk.9 bang seat to pop in it.  I've already got a Harrier GR.5 that I can rob the nozzles & intakes from, & a Gnat that may be able to donate it's tail surfaces.  I could build an aproximation with relatively little work, to get it as near as damnit it'll take quite a bit more work.




EDIT, Got name wrong! :dum:  
I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughin'. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it.

Archibald

#12
May 31, 2007, 11:19:21 AM
The two pics you posted already looks very, very, similar. Another fantastic kitbash to come.
We have a bunch of brilliant styrene surgeons here  :lol:  
King Arthur: Can we come up and have a look?
French Soldier: Of course not. You're English types.
King Arthur: What are you then?
French Soldier: I'm French. Why do you think I have this outrageous accent, you silly king?

Well regardless I would rather take my chance out there on the ocean, that to stay here and die on this poo-hole island spending the rest of my life talking to a gosh darn VOLLEYBALL.

B777LR

#13
May 31, 2007, 01:26:27 PM
The F-111 has a center split windscreen ;)

So has Tu-128 ;)  

Mossie

#14
May 31, 2007, 04:16:48 PM
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QuoteSlightly OT but does the 1141 look like a cross between a 'arrier and a XF-107?
I don't see too much F-107 in that.

Looks more like the love child of a Harrier and a Gnat.
Missed this and Archies post, must have happened when I was putting mine together.  That's exactly what I thought upnorth, the nose & control surfaces look very like that of a Gnat, & I thought, great, a tidgy Harrier!  I'd spotted it tucked away in the appendices of BSP: Bombers, very little information on it. I compared the dimensions & they were very similar.

Trouble was, things didn't look quite right when I compared to a Gnat kit.  I then realised I'd got mixed up, I'd compared it to the, Fo.148 supersonic VG Gnat, which was quite a larger beast.  I was still intrigued by the mixed vector nozzles/straight through combo, it seemed (on the surface at least) the ideal soloution to the reheat/PCB problem.  Probably not, since no other studies looked at this arrangement.  Wether the P.1141 was related or to the Gnat or not I have no idea, although a swing wing variant was studied, as with the Fo.148.  No pictures of this I'm afraid, if I'm succesful with this one I'd like to try my hand at the swinger.

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  The two pics you posted already looks very, very, similar. Another fantastic kitbash to come.
We have a bunch of brilliant styrene surgeons here  :lol:
Thanks Archie, but I'm new to this business, I'd reserve judgement until you see the finished article, or at least when you see one of my other projects finished! :lol:
I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughin'. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it.
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