What If ideas/goals for the upcoming year, what are YOUR plans?

[The Rat]

I have discovered that there's a Boeing B-17F that was converted into a firefighter which had it's engines replaced with Rolls-Royce Darts,

That would give it about 50% more 'oomph' over the Wright Cyclones, must have had quite the performance.

[McColm]

I have discovered that there's a Boeing B-17F that was converted into a firefighter which had it's engines replaced with Rolls-Royce Darts,

That would give it about 50% more 'oomph' over the Wright Cyclones, must have had quite the performance.

An extra 200 horses per engine.

[kerick]

My goal is to find the bag of confetti I would cut up for vision ports in more modern armor. It looks great with the different shiny colors. I've got two builds on hold because of it and I can't find it in the store!

[Andrew Gorman]

If I keep getting back into plastic, a passenger version of the HP Heyford. I have the parts, but the donor fuselage is too short. Makes absolutely no sense, but that's the fun part.  I'd call it the Handley-Page 51/50...

[McColm]

Daft idea is to change the engines on a Heller 1/72 Lockheed Constellation to four Rolls-Royce Tyne engines taking the ones from the C-160 or Mach2 Breguet Br.1150 Atlantic. Well they fit on the Airfix Shorts Sunderland so it should work.
According to Wikipedia the US Navy flew the EC-121P an ASW version of the Connie but I can't find any photos apart from the EC-121D and the ones flown by the Indian Air Force/Indian Navy with the AN/APS-20 radar.
Lockheed did propose CL-545 an adaptation of the Super Constellation as an ASW aircraft to fill the gap before the arrival of the P3V,late 1960. Not required because the P3V Neptune entered service sooner than expected.
I know from previous experience that the Airfix B-29 weapons bay does fit underneath the fuselage, the front and upper gun turrets plus grafting on the rear tail turret. A lot of cutting is required if the Starliner wings are fitted and single tail fin are to be used. As the profiles aren't the same.
I haven't tried reversing this, grafting the cockpit from the B-29 onto the Constellation and changing the rear end. Boeing CB-29 Stratolation.
Then there's the CL-991, advanced studies on the Lockheed P-3 Orion with bypass jet engines replacing the turboprops back in 1966.I can visualise Rolls-Royce Spey turbofans as the Breguet Br.1150 Atlantic would have got something similar if the Brough's Project Office had been rubber stamped.

[scautomoton]

My what if plans for the next, er, while(?) are an RAF Sea Vixen (assuming they chose the DH110 instead of the Javelin); a Thin Wing Javelin (probably GA.6 P.376 rather than the GA.8 "Guardian"); and the P.1103. The rest of my output will probably be real world stuff in an effort to work through the stash

[Gondor]

Learn Fusion 360 so I can create parts that I want, but no one does. Also so I can make some things I have been thinking of for the last thirty plus years.

[The Rat]

If I keep getting back into plastic, a passenger version of the HP Heyford. I have the parts, but the donor fuselage is too short. Makes absolutely no sense, but that's the fun part.  I'd call it the Handley-Page 51/50...

Backstory could involve lawsuits from passengers who stumbled on the top step, embarking or debarking, and fell from a dizzying height. 

[The Rat]

Try to find out how the heck to print decals without the whole process leading to thoughts of suicidal rampage.

[PR19_Kit]

If I keep getting back into plastic, a passenger version of the HP Heyford. I have the parts, but the donor fuselage is too short. Makes absolutely no sense, but that's the fun part.  I'd call it the Handley-Page 51/50...

What a cracking idea. You could make it twice as deep and still not fill the gap to the bottom wing. 

[Old Wombat]

If I keep getting back into plastic, a passenger version of the HP Heyford. I have the parts, but the donor fuselage is too short. Makes absolutely no sense, but that's the fun part.  I'd call it the Handley-Page 51/50...

The fun part would be building the passenger access ladder. 

[McColm]

I'm not too sure if this has been built before but what if there was a floatplane version of the de Havilland Mosquito.
I haven't built on of those but with the new or updated kits available it shouldn't be that difficult, just need to find the correct size of floats.

There was a plan to convert the Douglas DC-6 into a bomber, the French got closer using it as a water bomber/firefighter. So it looks doable if I use the Heller 1/72 DC-6B kit.
I'll have to check if AIM does a fuselage stretch conversion set.
The DC-7 had a proposal for fitting Rolls-Royce Tyne engines, so it's possible for the DC-6B to have these as well.

The BAe Hawkrod or Nimeye- kitbash of the Airfix Nimrod MR.2P with the Grumman Hawkeye E-2C rotodome and an in-flight refuelling tanker version.

[McColm]

Just thought about a kitbash using the Airfix Fairey Rotodyne fuselage and tail fins with the wings, main landing gear and engines taken from a Avro Shackleton. I'm not too sure if this would work the other way around but I'll have a go as I have the parts to convert the MR.3 into the MR.2.

[Diamondback]

Not into acquisition this year but preliminary research:

New York Central 1927 Twentieth Century Limited. My grandmother was born into an NYC RR family in 1927 and the 1948 version of their flagship train in HO scale was the last thing we worked on together before she died, so this is aimed for 2027 and what would have been her 100th birthday.

[The Wooksta!]

I'm perfectly happy building real, if somewhat more obscure, Mosquitoes, thanks.