Beyond The Sprues
Modelling => Completed GBs => Group and Themed Builds => Annual Clear your workbenches GB => Topic started by: Tophe on December 11, 2016, 07:58:09 PM
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In 1996, I began transforming a 72nd Hasegawa A-7 Corsair II.
Then in 1998 it was not finished and I spent the years 1998-2000 in hospital, moving to a new apartment when going out. The parts were sent to garbage.
But in 2008, creating a web site of my models ( http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/ThankingIgor.htm (http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/ThankingIgor.htm) ), I tried to draw simply this unfinished transformed one:
(http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/p_a7.JPG)
Now I may here improve the drawing, or maybe build again the model? but I would turn down to 1/144, lacking room:
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For a moment, I thought you had crossed the Corsair with the Viking! :D
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The 1/144 Corsair 2 model is too expensive, I think I will just make a better drawing.
Here is the first step, before reducing length into an actual flying wing:
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And here is she, still improved the way I wanted:
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For a moment, I thought you had crossed the Corsair with the Viking! :D
This would require turbojets in pods under the wing, while my Corsair III is a rocket plane...
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With the old "ugly" one to compare, the aesthetic improvement is better featured:
(http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/improved_corser3.jpg)
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I think any kind of lengthening is great for looks on the A-7! Have you thought about an F-16 style intake or what about simply moving the same A-7 intake back about 2 meters?
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I have recently been seeing the A-7 in a new light, acquired a few kits (some built, some not) and there are a lot of really neat options. Ugly or not its unique :)
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If I recall correctly the actual airframe of the Lockheed Viking was designed by Vought, never saw a family resemblance until this whiff came along. ;)
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Thanks for these additions.
Today I received as spam a caricature of A-7, very lovely, and this would have been a far more easy basis to get the result I wanted: