Wow! Thanks for the all responses folks. I'm thinking this is mainly a problem of proportions ... the general impression being of a scrawny chicken rather than a svelte fighter ;P
Greg: Very nice! Love that ogival wing
Mog: You're right about the belly tank. In 3D, it'd take heaps of work just to convert the B-58's siamese-twin tank into a single drop tank ... and the visual difference is minimal.
Jeffry: Yup, definitely a large interceptor - roughly CF-105 sized or just a smidge smaller than the XF-108
Rapier. That's what prompted my Alaskan basing idea - figured that they'd need lots of range. For armament, I was thinking GAR-9
Falcons along with F-89-style 2.75 in FFARs.
Logan: Nice! Scaled up, those paired
Draken tanks would carry plenty of fuel while looking much more 'fighter-ish' than the B-58's central tank.
Kerick: Bigger twin nacelles? Hmmm ... another scale-o-rama possibility here! Basic airframe stays 1/91 Revell (H-272-98) but fitted with inboard engines from the 1/76 Aurora kit (375-250). Add to that a 1/72 cockpit ... but what kind?
Robin: Yeah, those Alaskan schemes have lashings of hi-viz red :)
LemonJello: For sure. I had intended outboard tanks but was havering over their exact arrangement. Maybe because of recent work on a
Nimrod, I wondered about permanently-fitted wing tanks (ie, no pylons).
Anyhoo, attached is a crude rework of the original. I've done it 'clean' ... so you have to imagine it with twin belly tanks and drop tanks on the short, outer pylons. I chickened out on the 'fixed' wing tanks (none too sure about the aerodynamics of those for a supersonic aircraft).
I was also unhappy with my original F-14 canopy (thinking it wasn't 'period' enough) so I've substituted a two-seat
Voodoo cockpit - complete with IRST. I had also hoped to incorporate the radome for the CF-101B's AN/APS-54 ... but the 'F-58' nose is just too skinny