Beyond The Sprues

Modelling => Ideas & Inspiration => Aero-space => Topic started by: GTX_Admin on April 01, 2012, 06:26:24 AM

Title: PZL.23 Karaś Ideas and Inspiration
Post by: GTX_Admin on April 01, 2012, 06:26:24 AM

Hi folks,

Triggered by a comment by Paul Wagner in his Polish Air Force c.1939 thread (http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=1146.0), here is a thread dedicated to your PZL.23 Karaś Ideas and Inspiration.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Pzl23_karas.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Pzl.23_2.jpg)

I wonder, maybe RAF Army Cooperation aircraft?  Carrier based perhaps?

Regards,

Greg

Title: Re: PZL.23 Karaś Ideas and Inspiration
Post by: finsrin on April 01, 2012, 10:40:37 AM

Certainly has stylish spats.
Install bigger engine and make into a kind of fixed gear pre-Skyraider.

Title: Re: PZL.23 Karaś Ideas and Inspiration
Post by: raafif on April 02, 2012, 01:46:06 AM

Allison engine ...

(http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s34/hobgrot/kx1.png)

    Stand-by for two more ........

Title: Re: PZL.23 Karaś Ideas and Inspiration
Post by: raafif on April 02, 2012, 04:43:00 AM

(http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s34/hobgrot/kx2.png)

(http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s34/hobgrot/kx3.png)

Title: Re: PZL.23 Karaś Ideas and Inspiration
Post by: jcf on April 03, 2012, 03:08:57 AM

The Karaś big brother the PZL P.46 Sum has always made me think of a fixed gear Grumman Avenger.
(http://polish-made.com/_var/gfx/3580ca8d546dec33a1fa7fe903ef88be.jpg)

As to re-engining the P.23/P.43, for a number of reasons the most likely (in RW terms) European liquid-cooled
inline engine would be a Hispano 12Y.

BTW the export model P.43 was a P.23 with a Gnome-Rhone 14K radial.

Title: Re: PZL.23 Karaś Ideas and Inspiration
Post by: Dr. YoKai on October 02, 2015, 07:15:21 AM

 Lacking the graphic skill, let me just suggest a slightly deeper gondola mounting a forward firing 20mm cannon.