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The Big Gimper · « **Reply #200 on:** November 08, 2012, 05:51:13 AM »

Quote from: raafif on November 08, 2012, 03:14:06 AM

Quote from: The Big Gimper on November 07, 2012, 06:35:50 PM
I have to so build this. !!!!!!

The Wings are a from a P-47? Did you scale them down or shorten them? Drops tanks from the P-80?

And the pilot lands how?

Wings & tanks too are P-47 ...... scaled to fit, you'll have to experiment to see what plastic fits together .... it's so much easier to be pixelated than plasticated, eh ?

I usualy scan drawings or ~~nick~~ borrow them off the Russian / French 3-vue sites then scale to fit whatever I have in mind. There are sometimes several versions shown so I choose whatever one suits my use best - some are highly accurate & to pure scale but messy, others are very basic but clean B/W drawings.

Ahh, how does he land ?? .... he doesn't !!
He hooks back up to the "ZF Surcouf" (Zeppelin Francais "Surcouf")

Oh, the old pixelated plastic trick. I should have know that.

A fit check with 1/72 scale wings looks like I'll need 1/48 wings.

Cool. I'll build a flying trapeze hook.

elmayerle · « **Reply #201 on:** November 08, 2012, 06:49:18 AM »

The "hook on" should be interesting since you'll need the hook in the pilot's line of sight but not where it would interfere with the propellers. I'm thinking that something more akin to BAE's "Skyhook", where the pilot can fly formation with a reference point and the system acquire the aircraft might work better here.

raafif · « **Reply #202 on:** November 08, 2012, 08:19:20 AM »

The Big Gimper · « **Reply #203 on:** November 08, 2012, 09:07:19 AM »

Quote from: raafif on November 08, 2012, 08:19:20 AM

Thanks Ron. So what I can see is all I need to add a triangular latch on the nose.

raafif · « **Reply #204 on:** November 17, 2012, 10:26:22 AM »

RAAF Anson Bomber in desert colours, Northern Territory.

yet another variation on the Beaufort ...

apophenia · « **Reply #205 on:** November 17, 2012, 10:45:37 AM »

Nice :) I can just see the Seaford flying off HMAS Shangri-la heading for Tokyo

It's also easy to imagine a later Anson variant with more powerful P&W Wasp Juniors (à la the Canadian Anson Mk Vs).

raafif · « **Reply #206 on:** November 25, 2012, 05:19:44 AM »

As the 2pdr shells just bounced off German armour, in 1942 most Matilda's were converted into SPATs to ambush German tanks.

arc3371 · « **Reply #207 on:** November 25, 2012, 05:22:14 AM »

A logical step, I often wonder why the Western allies didn´t copy the Germans and Soviets in that regard

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #208 on:** November 25, 2012, 05:27:19 AM »

raafif · « **Reply #209 on:** November 25, 2012, 05:33:01 AM »

They were so short of tanks, & bigger guns to put in/on them, they couldn't do it. They did make plans to do this tho -- mostly as improv vehicles for the German invasion of England. Lend-Lease M7 Priests soon solved the problem for them.

Have a good idea for another SP ....... German into IDF use, 1948

ChernayaAkula · « **Reply #210 on:** November 25, 2012, 02:51:50 PM »

Damn, that Matilda SPAT looks great! :) Someone should build that!

raafif · « **Reply #211 on:** December 02, 2012, 04:50:32 PM »

not entirely my fault .... GTX provided the "mono-spat" idea ....
Not a tilt-rotor ... just a fast twin.

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #212 on:** December 02, 2012, 04:53:21 PM »

I should probably explain...especially for Brian's benefit:

Brian recently received a Miles Master kit. As a suggestion for what to do, I suggested the following:

Maybe it will end up with 2 engines (1 on each wing tip) plus a single central spat (and outriggers in each engine nacelle) as the Miles Monospat...

raafif · « **Reply #213 on:** December 08, 2012, 12:50:51 PM »

arc3371 · « **Reply #214 on:** December 08, 2012, 03:00:36 PM »

Nice, could you post a larger pic of the navajo marking?

raafif · « **Reply #215 on:** December 09, 2012, 09:23:02 AM »

Here's the shields of "Cowboys & Aliens" -- I modified. The horse is a modification of one of the Pony-Express logos.

arc3371 · « **Reply #216 on:** December 09, 2012, 04:04:19 PM »

Thanks

apophenia · « **Reply #217 on:** December 11, 2012, 05:54:06 AM »

Quote from: raafif on December 02, 2012, 04:50:32 PM

not entirely my fault .... GTX provided the "mono-spat" idea ....

And a parasol to boot! Love it

raafif · « **Reply #218 on:** December 11, 2012, 06:56:25 AM »

Next may be a military version as part of the competition for an RAF fighter replacement -- it'll go up against the Westland-Hill Pterodactyl ...

Tophe · « **Reply #219 on:** December 11, 2012, 07:38:29 AM »

Quote from: GTX_Admin on December 02, 2012, 04:53:21 PM

Maybe it will end up with 2 engines (1 on each wing tip) plus a single central spat (and outriggers in each engine nacelle) as the Miles Monospat...

Outriggers from a high wing may not be a good idea. You probably know this was the reason for the design of the Twin-Monospat (Monospat Mk 11):

apophenia · « **Reply #220 on:** December 11, 2012, 12:26:24 PM »

Quote from: raafif on December 11, 2012, 06:56:25 AM

Next may be a military version as part of the competition for an RAF fighter replacement -- it'll go up against the Westland-Hill Pterodactyl ...

I like it! And a good stablemate for the Twin-Monospat

Then maybe a Lysander replacement with a variable-incidence wing?

raafif · « **Reply #221 on:** December 13, 2012, 06:22:31 AM »

Developed military version of the Miles Mono-Spat -- the tail was raised via a boom & a two-gun turret added ...

There are two more versions coming ....... including an asymetric for Tophe

.....

finsrin · « **Reply #222 on:** December 13, 2012, 06:29:39 AM »

Such a pleasant departure from sanity

Cliffy B · « **Reply #223 on:** December 13, 2012, 06:31:18 AM »

Neato! How about a ship based seaplane with a boat hull?

Logan Hartke · « **Reply #224 on:** December 13, 2012, 06:37:03 AM »

Indeed, I like that quite a lot.

Cheers,

Logan


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