ប្រចៀវព្រៃ brachiev prei – Wild Bat (Grughes Mopache). Finished pics Pg 7

[zenrat]

Time I bashed some kits together instead of just "building aircraft models with...spurious colour schemes, which would be boring" © Spit Knackma 2025. 

I intend to combine these two models.

Mopache by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

[Old Wombat]

Hmmm!? nteresting!   

Wondering which direction this is going to go ... And whether we'll see the inverse Aphawk/Apahawk/Apachawk?? 

[Mossie]

A natural pairing.

Hmmm!? nteresting!   

Wondering which direction this is going to go ... And whether we'll see the inverse Aphawk/Apahawk/Apachawk?? 

Apachawk-ee?

[Rick Lowe]

Interesting...    We need a Popcorn Emoji. Or a Coffee!! one...

[zenrat]

I have thoughts of two aircraft.  One fixed wing, one rotary.

I started assembling the cockpit of the first one today.  This will be a Grughes Mopache twin turboprop COIN aircraft.  3 crew - pilot and two gunners.  Photo as soon as I dummy something up.

The second will be a Humman Ape-Hawk (a breed of raptor feeding on small simians.  Like a Monkey Eating Eagle only smaller).  A helicoptor of currently unknown specification.

[zenrat]

So, its going to look something like this...

Grughes Mopache WIP 25-11-25 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

[Old Wombat]

I can see a certain gentleman of the western border marches of England having words to say about wings with you, Fred.   

[PR19_Kit]

Too right!

[kerick]

This will be classic!
Will it have the tail fins of the Mohawk?

[Captain Canada]

You're trying to make it Mo Pache, but it looks lesspache to me !

 

[Old Wombat]

This will be classic!
Will it have the tail fins of the Mohawk?

Yeah, I was envisioning it as more of a forward fuselage swap than a whole fuselage swap, but it's Fred's build & he'll build it his way.   

[kerick]

Man! Now I'll have to go out and buy a couple more kits!   

[Dizzyfugu]

Interesting, nice. Already curious about the landing gear!

[zenrat]

This will be classic!
Will it have the tail fins of the Mohawk?

Possibly have the outer two.  But it depends on how it looks when I match eveything up.

...I was envisioning it as more of a forward fuselage swap than a whole fuselage swap, but it's Fred's build & he'll build it his way.   

The thought of the PSR required to blend the straight edge inverted Tee shaped Apache nose into the oval Mohawk fuselage makes me shudder.

Interesting, nice. Already curious about the landing gear!

Tail dragger.  Mohawk main gear and Apache tail wheel.  There is no room in the nose for a nose wheel bay and anyway I want to keep the gun.

Today I painted the interior green bits and adjusted the mid upper turret (from something Italeri - possibly a B-25) so the glazing and a gunner will fit.
I also glued the wingtips on - Hasegawa Mohawks have separate wingtips to allow for the different length wings as the B...
Grumman OV-1B Mohawk by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr
...has longer wings than the A.  These are A wings.
But this is a B, and when I built it (10 years ago!) I used the fact it had separate wingtips to extend them further.
Grumman Mohawk 013 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr
https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=40704.msg686882#msg686882

[PR19_Kit]

.........I used the fact it had separate wingtips to extend them further.

GOOD thinking Fred.