Boeing YC-14...

[Litvyak]

I don't imagine there's ever been a kit released, in any format, of the Boeing YC-14.

I'd be curious to hear your ideas, how you'd go about building one? (EDIT: If you'd even try to build one...)

[Doom!]

Hey that's pretty freakin' cool! I'd never seen this before, can't help with any suggestions but thanks for posting this.

[The Big Gimper]

I would sell my 14 year old for a 1/72 YC-14 or YC-15.

He is being miserable right now so I am willing to put him up on the auction block. 

[Logan Hartke]

I'd probably make one using the same method used to produce foie gras, but with an An-72 instead of a goose.

Cheers,

Logan

[Litvyak]

Thanks, Logan. I haven't had a real, proper belly laugh like that in a long time.

I couldn't help but picture an An-72's nose sticking up between my knees, nose cone open, and me stuffing food down its open maw...

[kitnut617]

http://www.anigrand.com/AA2100_YC-14.htm

[GTX_Admin]

Now whiff it by giving it 4 engines...

[The Big Gimper]

http://www.anigrand.com/AA2100_YC-14.htm

But it has to be under $100.00 else The-Carl-who-just-spent-too-much-money-on-a-single-model alarm goes off and I to have present my losing case the C-in-C home.   

[deathjester]

Hmm......doable, but not for under $100 !!
I think a Hercules for the nose & fuselage, AN-72 for the wings & engines, C-17 for the tail.  Lot of expensive kits to make that one bird.

Of course, you could then have a Coaler with Herky bird wings & engines - sorta like a high wing
P-3....
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Hmm...!!

[Frank3k]

I made a 1/350 scale, 4 engine version STOL jet from a C-5A: http://frank.bol.ucla.edu/USAFCargo.htm

[Litvyak]

So just checked out the options that deathjester suggested.

In 1/72, the only C-17 option I can find is from Anigrand anyways, and at $185 to boot, so for that scale, may as well just go for the Anigrand YC-14.

In 1/144, which I'd prefer for such a large aircraft, going by Squadron's prices, it'd be $30 for a Minicraft C-130, $28 for an Amodel An-72 and $36 for a Revell C-17... so total $94 before shipping. Add all the putty etc., and then you're left with a huge pile of leftover plastic...

Too bad Anigrand doesn't do this in 1/144. At the $100 average their kits in that scale seem to go for, I could probably (at a stretch) justify one to myself. At $150 for one in 1/72... well, that's a reasonable price, all things considered, but I have no idea where I'd put it...

[kitnut617]

In 1/72, the only C-17 option I can find is from Anigrand anyways, and at $185 to boot, so for that scale, may as well just go for the Anigrand YC-14.

Combat models do a vacuform 1/72 C-17, I've got one. But I also picked up the Anigrand 'correction' forward fuselage set to use on it (I won't have to put any ballast in the front either  )
 
http://www.combatmodels.us/

If you going to use just the tail then at US$55 it's a better option.  Plus you can always write to them and see if they have a fuselage where the front end didn't form very well like I did when I was looking for a 1/72 737 forward fuselage for my Atlantic project

[deathjester]

So just checked out the options that deathjester suggested.

In 1/72, the only C-17 option I can find is from Anigrand anyways, and at $185 to boot, so for that scale, may as well just go for the Anigrand YC-14.

In 1/144, which I'd prefer for such a large aircraft, going by Squadron's prices, it'd be $30 for a Minicraft C-130, $28 for an Amodel An-72 and $36 for a Revell C-17... so total $94 before shipping. Add all the putty etc., and then you're left with a huge pile of leftover plastic...

Too bad Anigrand doesn't do this in 1/144. At the $100 average their kits in that scale seem to go for, I could probably (at a stretch) justify one to myself. At $150 for one in 1/72... well, that's a reasonable price, all things considered, but I have no idea where I'd put it...

Ouch!!  That's all very pricey.  There must be a cheaper way to do a 1/72 version!?!

[GTX_Admin]

I'm tempted to do a operational C-14 in RAAF Caribou scheme:

[Daryl J.]

That'd be cool.   :)

[M.A.D]

Now whiff it by giving it 4 engines...

Agree Greg!!
I've read one of the greatest concerns with the USAF re the YC-14 two-engine arrangement was its concern about the designs ability to operate in a single-engine failure situation - a good example of this configuration would be that of the  NASA modified C8-A Buffalo 'Quiet Short-haul Research Aircraft' (QSRA) program (see attachment)

M.A.D

[Silver Fox]

Is that QSRA landing... or taking off and being outrun by the carrier?? :)

[elmayerle]

It's landing and it's managing to land on a carrier without arresting gear.

[Rickshaw]

It's landing and it's managing to land on a carrier without arresting gear.

Not that hard a trick, if there is a fast wind over the bows.   Now, a Fairy Swordfish could take off and have the carrier go faster than it, with a stiff breeze over the bows.