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Modelling => Ideas & Inspiration => Aero-space => Topic started by: finsrin on January 31, 2014, 06:43:07 AM

Title: A380 meets Tu-95
Post by: finsrin on January 31, 2014, 06:43:07 AM

A380 meets Tu-95.    1/1 kitbash   ???

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Title: Re: A380 meets Tu-95
Post by: jcf on January 31, 2014, 07:18:32 AM

No, just a study for an aircraft that looks like that combination.
It is far smaller than an A380.

Title: Re: A380 meets Tu-95
Post by: kitnut617 on January 31, 2014, 07:19:52 AM

Well I haven't gone as far as an A380, but an A310 maybe - -------


This is getting an A400M wing and engines

Title: Re: A380 meets Tu-95
Post by: Gingie on January 31, 2014, 07:56:25 AM

Which begs the question... is the A400 body getting A310 wings?  :))

Title: Re: A380 meets Tu-95
Post by: finsrin on January 31, 2014, 11:38:46 AM

As kitnut617 shows us :)     That general topic is ripe for styrene R&D.

Title: Re: A380 meets Tu-95
Post by: kitnut617 on January 31, 2014, 09:45:41 PM

Quote from: Gingie on January 31, 2014, 07:56:25 AM

Which begs the question... is the A400 body getting A310 wings?  :))

No, the A400 is getting stre-t-ch-ed   ------  so I've got another in the stash just so I can use the spare parts.  Going to be a Canadian operated one and after reading a couple of Chris Gibson books just lately (Battle Flight, Air Staff & the AEW) it will have an E-3 rotordome plus palletized operating room (although I might not go to detailing that lot).

Originally what happened was, I started building a BAe 844. Which is an Airbus A310 with FASS radar system (like a Nimrod AEW).  The version I'm attempting to build is this one below which if I'm following Chris Gibson's book correctly, was probably the version offered to the Saudi's.  It has a cockpit area that looks very much like the A400M forward fuseage so I decided to use all the cockpit bits and forward fuselage from an A400.  Which left a bunch of bits left over -- I should say just about everything else was left over   ;D  So I got the idea to do the A310/A400 hybrid to use a lot of the parts up, I was able to buy a spare A310 fuselage from Aircraft in Miniature for the project.  Some of the parts will be used to detail the insides of my turbo-prop Sunderland fire-bomber, while others will be used for another project still forming in my head, but will entail a Transall fuselage, Nimrod wings and modified A400 tail
 
BTW, this is in 1/72 scale -- ;)