Author Topic: Empty Handed's Profiles (Read 188012 times)

Empty Handed · « **Reply #475 on:** March 08, 2013, 02:59:44 AM »

Keeping my oar in as it were.

Goodyear P-72B USAAF Night Escort by mtpalmer1, on Flickr

Cliffy B · « **Reply #476 on:** March 08, 2013, 03:01:34 AM »

MUST BE BUILT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

jorel62 · « **Reply #477 on:** March 08, 2013, 04:46:56 AM »

Very very cool.......

The Big Gimper · « **Reply #478 on:** March 08, 2013, 06:33:04 AM »

I was going to build my 1/72 SH F2G into an Marines AU-2 but this may win me over.

finsrin · « **Reply #479 on:** March 08, 2013, 06:49:13 AM »

Big Gimper - understand zactly where you are coming from.
It is sweet :)

Empty Handed · « **Reply #480 on:** March 08, 2013, 09:02:54 AM »

Thanks guys!

The Kartveli Ka-7SM-10 'Fumble-E' was a significant departure from it's forebears and very much a transitional step toward the Ka-11 'Fuddle'.

Kartveli Ka-7SM 'Fumble E' VVS Blue 19 by mtpalmer1, on Flickr

finsrin · « **Reply #481 on:** March 08, 2013, 02:52:02 PM »

I'd say Russians liked the F-84 so much they built their own variant

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #482 on:** March 08, 2013, 03:38:43 PM »

Love them both.

jorel62 · « **Reply #483 on:** March 08, 2013, 09:20:29 PM »

Looks great......

apophenia · « **Reply #484 on:** March 11, 2013, 10:40:10 AM »

Love the Fumble-E! So Alexander Kartvelishvili never left for France, eh? Was Mikhail Leontyevich Grigorashvili part of his Design Bureau by chance?

Empty Handed · « **Reply #485 on:** March 11, 2013, 07:21:18 PM »

State Security will neither confirm or deny the members of the glorious Kartveli OKB!

Thanks for the kind words guys. The Fumble-E was inspired by the MiG-19SM-12. I plan to do a more conventional Fumble-B/C at some point. As for the Fuddle, well if you cut the cockpit section off of a 1/72 Monogram Thud for some reason and have a spare Lightning cockpit section, turns out they are not a terrible fit.....

Tophe · « **Reply #486 on:** March 12, 2013, 12:14:01 AM »

Nice Fumble design, despite its code... (has the OKB fumbled to produce it?)

Empty Handed · « **Reply #487 on:** March 18, 2013, 07:14:37 AM »

Thanks Tophe. Don't know about the OKB but I definitely fumbled this one!

Kartveli Ka-7P 'Fumble C' VVS Yellow 23 by mtpalmer1, on Flickr

ChernayaAkula · « **Reply #488 on:** March 18, 2013, 07:22:51 AM »

^ Wow!

Just needs some AA-1 Alkalis. :)

elmayerle · « **Reply #489 on:** March 18, 2013, 07:25:35 AM »

The radar nose from the XF-91 would definitely look good here.

Empty Handed · « **Reply #490 on:** March 18, 2013, 07:32:06 AM »

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The radar nose from the XF-91 would definitely look good here.

Very true but that would seriously honk off the design team working on the Ka-9 'Fondle'.

Empty Handed · « **Reply #491 on:** March 19, 2013, 07:00:01 AM »

Last Kartveli for a while. The Soviets didn't use enough orange I feel......

Kartveli Ka-7PU 'Mumble-A' VVS Black T09 by mtpalmer1, on Flickr

Tophe · « **Reply #492 on:** March 19, 2013, 10:51:56 AM »

Pleasant!

lauhof52 · « **Reply #493 on:** March 19, 2013, 04:44:24 PM »

Kartveli is top!

jorel62 · « **Reply #494 on:** March 19, 2013, 11:54:24 PM »

I like it.....

Empty Handed · « **Reply #495 on:** May 16, 2013, 05:51:01 AM »

My 2 '46 entries:

Grumman P-65F (BTO) Tigercat FSAAF by mtpalmer1, on Flickr

Vickers Windsor B.II RAF Tiger Force 635 Sqn by mtpalmer1, on Flickr

.... and I've decided to re-do some of my old Curtiss concepts, starting with the F16C-1......

Curtiss F16C-1 USN VF-5A by mtpalmer1, on Flickr

Tophe · « **Reply #496 on:** May 16, 2013, 08:38:08 AM »

I love your F16C-1.

Would a twin-boom derivative be possible?

lauhof52 · « **Reply #497 on:** May 16, 2013, 02:15:14 PM »

Me too!

finsrin · « **Reply #498 on:** May 16, 2013, 03:12:41 PM »

Each of this trio has "it" for me.

Splendid fine job :)

Empty Handed · « **Reply #499 on:** May 16, 2013, 08:53:39 PM »

Thanks guys!

Here is the XF17C-1. I first doodled this two years ago while watching Sunshine on the TV (I had quickly lost interest). Definitely had the Victor and Sea Vixen in mind but I also wanted to replicate the 'engines forward' design philosophy of the Curtiss XA-46 Phantom in a fighter. Most probably impractical but that's the beauty of 50's prototypes. They don't have to be successful!

Curtiss XF17C-1 USN by mtpalmer1, on Flickr

The old XA-46 profile for reference. I won't be re-doing this but a Vietnam-era upgrade may be on the cards:

Curtiss XA-46 Phantom Prototype by mtpalmer1, on Flickr

Tophe, I'll see what I can rustle up from the Curtiss files.


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