from P-5456B to F-5456A (finished page 1)

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When I changed my bedroom from 3rd floor to 1st floor, many models were partly broken when moved (to make room in the 1st floor where they were). This summer, repairing creatively some ones produced already the F-16VT, P-38S, P.99C, P-51D-51, and now is a new candidate for (very little) "reparation". It was a triplex airplane XP-54+55+56 all in one, with 6 engines, all with 2 blade propellers: push-pull on all 3 pods (see https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=47024.0 of 2019).
Now you see the aspect below, most of the blades have been lost:
- just remain the central pusher
- 2 engines have lost all
- 3 engines have lost 1 blade, and those single blade propellers are not harmonious.

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My project is to keep only the central propeller, like the XP-54 source (but 2-blades only), and to paint in blue this model, with black canopies (and frames for "2 eyes"). That will increase the change, like a kind of improvement somehow.
On the drawing below, the first model is on the left, the broken one is not drawn (mainly because 1-blade propellers could turn but with awful vibrations), the final goal is on the right:

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Possibilities are endless, here with a tri-P-38 basis:

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Other possibilities (like P-38, XP-54, ...), with the one that my model will be (XP-54):

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Other possibilities again (push-pull 2-engined like O-2, Isacsson, Blohm und Voss):

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/P38_persp_K_eh.jpg

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Possibilities are endless

The number is not infinite, but 2^6=64 possibilities...
Of course I will not draw the all, and even less build them all

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I have removed the single blades into something cleaner, that is the first step:

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Then painting the underside:

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Then painting (or starting to paint) the side above:

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Thanks!

The model is now finished:

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From the main 4 angles of view, as usual:

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To complete the family, of course I made mirror copies, as 6 photographs.
To easily understand them, here are (with P-38 basis) the 3 principles that will be followed, each one in 2 versions centering on XP-55 or else: XP-56:

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1st of 6:

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2nd of 6:

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