scratchbuilt Lightning-racer

Tophe · April 28, 2018, 08:31:40 AM

Yesterday, I came back home from a painful surgery, once again, and my lovely son (8 year old) built for me a twin-boom model.
Not a kit but a scratchbuilt made with the 3D-Doodler pen he got for Christmas from his grand parents.
The colours are good for Reno and I prefer that rather than killer decoration.
He uses for source the 3-view in "60 silhouettes d'avions alliés", a booklet given by a friend of mine. The canopy on the profile has been interpreted as 2 fins on the wings, this is funny. I will try to draw this with my usual angle.
I am happy...

Tophe · April 28, 2018, 10:37:35 AM

From the toy, almost "credible" derivatives:

deathjester · April 28, 2018, 04:48:06 PM

Beautiful !! Slightly melty - looking, and somewhat bright, but Beautiful !!

What a nice welcome home

kerick · April 28, 2018, 04:54:56 PM

The model is great and your son sure knows how to make Dad feel better!

Tophe · April 29, 2018, 01:41:24 AM

My son loved your comments (that I translated in French for him), and he was so proud to be judged "a good son" that he built a second Lightning for me!
Thanks to all!

zenrat · April 29, 2018, 03:49:43 AM

TheChronicOne · April 29, 2018, 04:07:59 AM

Cool!!!!

I need one of these pen thingies!

NARSES2 · April 29, 2018, 06:05:49 AM

Lovely welcome home Tophe

Tophe · May 04, 2018, 09:23:34 PM

Thanks!
Here is another angle, featuring undercarriage and position on the "ground". No rear main undercarriage, this is truly what-if Lightnings...

Ed S · May 05, 2018, 01:35:50 PM

WOW. Nice to see kids with creativity tied with new tech.

Tophe · May 14, 2018, 01:42:43 AM

I asked my son why there are no fins on the green one and he showed me his project: a double-twin-plane:

To make the photo graph without fingers, I have made it solid with adhesive tape, it is not yet plastically glued (if ever)

Tophe · June 17, 2018, 07:39:18 PM

Yesterday for father's day, my 9 year-old son Jacky offered me a weird airplane (still made in 3D with his 3D-pen), a kind of circular-wing F5U-5P (P for pentagon)...

This is not a Lightning anymore, nor a twin-boomer but I am a happy father...

NARSES2 · June 18, 2018, 02:24:31 AM

Well I'd not heard of a 3D pen before now. Fascinating

b29r · June 19, 2018, 07:58:18 AM

This is very exciting and a proud moment for Son and Dad! It's great to know that the younger generation still has interest in things modelingwise. And, the apple never falls far from the tree, they say

Best regards,
Kem

Tophe · June 23, 2018, 10:53:42 PM

Thanks!

And... Daddy made the drawing of Lightning pentagoned derivatives...