Author Topic: Hunter & FW189, yellow : hybrid aircraft/animals e.a.  (Read 588866 times)

Offline ericr

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thanks !

I have several of those bananas ... watch out

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"Sometimes a banana is just a banana."
- S. Freud

That's quite a flight of fancy there and you've got a good eye for figuring out which aircraft work with what animals/fruits/vegetables/other misc. items!

I smile every time I see a yellow color scheme. That hue challenges me to no end.

Nice work!

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Offline ericr

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thanks a lot ! yellow is bright indeed  ;D

Offline ericr

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twin otter & banana, flying, blue Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #704 on: October 15, 2016, 02:57:31 AM »
another Twin Otter (it is a nice kit, cheap, and each time you get a nice pair of floats to whiff with)
and another banana (it was a set of five I bought, and I am actually tempted by a second one)






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Re: twin otter & banana, flying, blue Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #705 on: October 16, 2016, 11:45:12 PM »
Great! So good again! :-*
Sorry: if I do not say "this is better and better", it is because the twin-boomer came first... ;)

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Space shuttle & banana, flying, red Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #706 on: October 18, 2016, 12:36:51 AM »


a banana in space!







I cheated a bit, by allowing for extended wheels and at the same time putting it on the booster ;-) because both views are nice

The shuttle is an Academy 1/144 (of which I had some cheap copies, still one left ...)


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Re: Space shuttle & banana, flying, red Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #707 on: October 18, 2016, 12:28:36 PM »
With the heat coming down to earth, the banana would be cooked, good! ;)

Re: Space shuttle & banana, flying, red Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #708 on: October 18, 2016, 01:58:50 PM »
Bananae Frites ?!?
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Re: Space shuttle & banana, flying, red Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #709 on: October 19, 2016, 01:38:02 AM »
I'm beginning to think eric has some sort of hypnotic influence. The other day I bought a bunch of banana bread for no earthly reason.

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Re: Space shuttle & banana, flying, red Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #710 on: October 19, 2016, 03:54:52 AM »
a psychedelic influence ?  ;D

and it is not finished : I am designing a whole suite of aircraft across the ages (wait and see, more to come ;-) )

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Re: Space shuttle & banana, flying, red Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #711 on: October 19, 2016, 04:14:05 AM »
I like the use of all 3 colors on the banana shuttle!
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Re: Space shuttle & banana, flying, red Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #712 on: October 19, 2016, 12:18:01 PM »
a psychedelic influence ?  ;D
Yes! Look at the proof: this morning, for no reason at all, I designed Lightning with nuclear jets, and the pilot was endangered by the rays so the Girafning version was better, then... a Banananing variant came into my mind, why??? ;)

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Re: Space shuttle & banana, flying, red Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #713 on: October 20, 2016, 03:54:47 AM »

bananas and giraffes? I might get influenced in return  ;D

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pipe and Mi-1 helicopter, blue Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #714 on: October 21, 2016, 10:42:35 PM »

there are not only bananas in life :

"this is not a pipe" (as Magritte once said) but made of one, with elements from a Mi-1 helicopter in 1/72 :







as most of you will have promptly noticed, appropriate weighting in order to avoid tail-sitting
involved a quite delicate front wheel placement

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Re: pipe and Mi-1 helicopter, blue Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #715 on: October 22, 2016, 04:15:25 AM »
 :)
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Offline Tophe

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Re: pipe and Mi-1 helicopter, blue Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #716 on: October 22, 2016, 05:38:27 PM »
The rotor seems crazily logic: to dilute the tobacco fume into the air... :-* ;)

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« Reply #717 on: October 22, 2016, 06:44:50 PM »

thanks  ;)

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Re: pipe and Mi-1 helicopter, blue Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #718 on: October 23, 2016, 09:30:23 AM »
*laughs softly* Beautiful adaptation of a pipe for a novel item.  I wonder if this could be an icon for "pipe dream"?

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Re: pipe and Mi-1 helicopter, blue Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #719 on: October 23, 2016, 11:24:54 AM »
... this could be an icon for "pipe dream"?

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Re: pipe and Mi-1 helicopter, blue Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #720 on: October 24, 2016, 06:33:53 PM »
... this could be an icon for "pipe dream"?

 ;D

I didn't know that expressions, but google tells me :

pipe dream
noun: pipe dream; plural noun: pipe dreams; noun: pipedream; plural noun: pipedreams
    an unattainable or fanciful hope or scheme.
    "free trade in international aviation will remain a pipe dream"

which is essentially another definition of Whiff, isn't it?  ;)


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Camel & biplane banana, flying, red Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #721 on: October 25, 2016, 05:33:07 AM »

more bananas :

a 1/28 Sopwith Camel (I am busy lowering my stash level ...)
and a banana, because I wanted to see how it could look as a biplane








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Re: Camel & biplane banana, flying, red Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #722 on: October 27, 2016, 01:03:39 AM »
This is very logical (thus perfect): at a time when aerodynamics was not mandatory, a curved fuselage was very possible... ;)

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« Reply #723 on: October 27, 2016, 04:21:00 AM »
 ;)

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Camel & daVinci wings, blue Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #724 on: November 03, 2016, 04:07:35 AM »

the other half of the 1/28 Camel had to have a life, and in my qtash I had this Revell wooden kit of da Vinci designed wings for manned flight :