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Mac Lightning of the airshow
« on: September 07, 2013, 06:09:28 PM »
(I am not a fan of politics and armies but...)
When India and Scotland got their independance, in 1947, Edimburgh squadrons of Lightnings were painted in a very-Scottish way:

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Re: Mac Lightning of the airshow
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2013, 06:47:24 PM »
After my first try with Corel PhotoPaint6 (above), I have tried a slanting view with my old Corel Draw6, but the import tool (for Scottish tissue) does not work anymore with Microsoft 7...

EDIT: The picture above was too big to see, I have reduced it, sorry.
« Last Edit: September 07, 2013, 09:39:53 PM by Tophe »

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Re: Mac Lightning of the airshow
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2013, 09:42:33 PM »
At last, I have half succeded with Corel Draw 6 and the "Découpe" tool... But I am very sure JP Vieira or José Fern can make a million times better with their 3D softwares...

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Re: Mac Lightning of the airshow
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2013, 10:01:06 PM »
 :)
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Re: Mac Lightning of the airshow
« Reply #4 on: September 08, 2013, 05:06:39 AM »
 ??? ??? what clan is that ?  :) :)

Hope they only employ tea-totalers as painters

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Re: Mac Lightning of the airshow
« Reply #5 on: September 08, 2013, 04:41:40 PM »
On the ground, Scottish Lightnings were wearing a kilt, I suppose:

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Re: Mac Lightning of the airshow
« Reply #6 on: September 08, 2013, 11:53:50 PM »
Well, I am rather naive and the Lightnings were not sugar-made angels. As well, after independance, the Scottish government required royalties for all the Spitfires that have been built in England: the Scottishmarine SpitFire Mark 1 was another name of the (flying) Loch Ness monster.

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Re: Mac Lightning of the airshow
« Reply #7 on: October 12, 2013, 09:52:36 AM »
Well, I started this thread mainly because there was no entry at all, now there are several and I have considered deleting it. Or I may complete a picture, somehow. Here it is : the Scottish Air Force in uniform with the Nessy Scottish Navy:

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Re: Mac Lightning of the airshow
« Reply #8 on: October 13, 2013, 01:31:02 AM »
You do know your mad?  Quite mad, I say.  But I like it...  ;D
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Re: Mac Lightning of the airshow
« Reply #9 on: October 13, 2013, 01:48:12 AM »
The Scottish Navy looks quite friendly...

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Offline Tophe

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Re: Mac Lightning of the airshow
« Reply #10 on: November 09, 2013, 02:59:28 PM »
Well, more seriously (from the P-38 layout): the Scottish Aviation design bureau had prepared a 6-engined airliner (see on my site http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/update_FG.htm ), now with independance, the 4-engined version was mass-produced for the Scottish European Airways (SEA):

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Re: Mac Lightning of the airshow
« Reply #11 on: November 09, 2013, 04:20:20 PM »
At first look took it as a flying boat (catamaran).  :)
Like to kitbash it as one.  Though would move inner two props to rear of wing so pilots don't have to look through them.

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Re: Mac Lightning of the airshow
« Reply #12 on: November 09, 2013, 07:43:48 PM »
Thanks for this improvement, designer!

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Re: Mac Lightning of the airshow
« Reply #13 on: November 12, 2013, 05:43:30 AM »
nice drawing Christophe, i have been looking for a 3 view drawing of the Scottish Aviation twin hull flying boat for years, any help would be very appreciated as all i have seen is a few early artists conceptions (from a 1945 booket on Prestwick Airport and a photo of the manufacturers model in an old issue of Flypast  :)

cheers, Joe  8)

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Re: Mac Lightning of the airshow
« Reply #14 on: November 12, 2013, 09:06:13 AM »
The source for the drawing here is nothing more than the Flypast photograph, sorry... And it is taken at too short a distance (with too much conical effect) for my geometrical tools to get at least a top view.
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Re: Mac Lightning of the airshow
« Reply #15 on: November 14, 2013, 05:13:01 AM »
I really like this one, mon ami! Having those two pusher engines gives this a wonderfully 1930s futuristic look.

I've had a thought to build something similar using two 1/144 C-97s, but your version has a much higher design sense than mine.

Can't you just see this behemoth flying the Marseilles to Rio route?

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