Sea Harriers in 1:72

[steelpillow]

Oh I agree about three-legged roundels...

Now that, I do like!

[Weaver]

Oh I agree about three-legged roundels...

Now that, I do like!

Build thread here: https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=19844.0

The original pics might not be visible due to Photobucket's shenanigans: if you want them let me know and I'll put working ones on the thread.

[PR19_Kit]

Build thread here: https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=19844.0

The original pics might not be visible due to Photobucket's shenanigans: if you want them let me know and I'll put working ones on the thread.

Wow H, that really IS going back in time! Even before I joined the Forum, amazing.

I wondered why I hadn't seen it before, but it looks prety darn good. 

[Weaver]

Build thread here: https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=19844.0

The original pics might not be visible due to Photobucket's shenanigans: if you want them let me know and I'll put working ones on the thread.

Wow H, that really IS going back in time! Even before I joined the Forum, amazing.

I wondered why I hadn't seen it before, but it looks prety darn good. 

Thought you'd been here since before the internet was invented Kit...

That was the first thing I ever finished (though not the first thing I ever started... )

[PR19_Kit]

Thought you'd been here since before the internet was invented Kit...

That was the first thing I ever finished (though not the first thing I ever started... )

Hehehehe, not quite. I joined a fortnight after I retired in 2008, I'd never had enough time before then!

But it seems that was actually BEFORE you built the Manx 'thingie', but maybe I hadn't found out about Group Builds by that time.

[Weaver]

Thought you'd been here since before the internet was invented Kit...

That was the first thing I ever finished (though not the first thing I ever started... )

Hehehehe, not quite. I joined a fortnight after I retired in 2008, I'd never had enough time before then!

But it seems that was actually BEFORE you built the Manx 'thingie', but maybe I hadn't found out about Group Builds by that time.

It was called the Triskelion (heraldic name for the Manx symbol), but the group build was "Flying Saucery".

[zenrat]

The Yak-141 had an attractive three nozzle layout with two lift jets and the massive swiveling main engine efflux.  Would also look sporting as a tailless design 

I think i've got one of them somewhere as well.

[Weaver]

The Yak-141 had an attractive three nozzle layout with two lift jets and the massive swiveling main engine efflux.  Would also look sporting as a tailless design 

I think i've got one of them somewhere as well.

And then there's the MiG-23-01 Faithless which was the STOL alternative to the swing-wing MiG-23. This had one normal engine, two lift engines in the middle of the fuselage, and MiG-21-style wings. Very easy to convert to a tailless delta. There was a 1/72nd kit by ARTmodel (thanks Fred): I've got one upstairs somewhere.

[zenrat]

I don't have one of them.  It's much more than a MiG 23 with lift engines and MiG 21 wings.

Could that be ARTmodel H?


https://www.scalemates.com/kits/art-model-am-7208-mikoyan-gurevich-mig-23pd--164712

[Dizzyfugu]

Both can end up looking like the subject aircraft. I believe the Italeri kit, formerly the ESCI kit, to be the better of the two. I prefer the breakdown of that kit to the Hasegawa one.

Same assessment here. The ESCI kit is really nice, I prefer it to the Hasegawa kit.

[Dizzyfugu]

As a conceptual (and kitbash) hybrid I present you this:


1:72 Yakovlev Yak-138 (NATO ASCC Code 'Flitchbeam'); "17 Red" of the Soviet Air Force Frontal Aviation's 24th Air Army, 138th Fighter Aviation Division; Mirgorod AB (Ukraine), 1989 (Whif/Kitbashing) by Dizzyfugu, on Flickr


1:72 Yakovlev Yak-138 (NATO ASCC Code 'Flitchbeam'); "17 Red" of the Soviet Air Force Frontal Aviation's 24th Air Army, 138th Fighter Aviation Division; Mirgorod AB (Ukraine), 1989 (Whif/Kitbashing) by Dizzyfugu, on Flickr

Single engine, with Harrier-esque swiveling nozzles front and a bifurcated tail nozzle from the Yak-38.

[Weaver]

Could that be ARTmodel H?

Yes, that's the one - cheers! 

(I'll change the original post)

What I had in mind was giving it bigger wings, no tailplanes, no lift engines, a more western-looking fin and forward-retracting undercarriage in the wing roots, and presenting it as a Fighter by Fairey, evolved from the FD.2.

[sandiego89]

As a conceptual (and kitbash) hybrid I present you this:


........Single engine, with Harrier-esque swiveling nozzles front and a bifurcated tail nozzle from the Yak-38.

That is special Dizzy.  I have a soft spot for the unloved Yak-38

[Zero-Sen]

And then there's the MiG-23-01 Faithless which was the STOL alternative to the swing-wing MiG-23. This had one normal engine, two lift engines in the middle of the fuselage, and MiG-21-style wings. Very easy to convert to a tailless delta. There was a 1/72nd kit by ARTmodel (thanks Fred): I've got one upstairs somewhere.

I also have the ART MODEL kit of that machine.

I confirm it should be...

... Very easy to convert to a tailless delta.

A 3 view drawing I did a long time ago. 
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[Old Wombat]

It looks remarkably French.

Dassault, in fact.

Mirage, to be precise..