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Re: Sabre & Dan Nguyet, blue Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #550 on: April 04, 2016, 01:23:26 AM »
They blend nicely, though I reckon this would give new meaning to "the wind in the wires".  I wonder if remote actuators could be made to play tunes in flight?

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Re: Sabre & Dan Nguyet, blue Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #551 on: April 06, 2016, 01:12:56 AM »
They blend nicely, though I reckon this would give new meaning to "the wind in the wires".  I wonder if remote actuators could be made to play tunes in flight?

they certainly could  ;)

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turtles & P-38, Sabre, Saab21 Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #552 on: April 06, 2016, 01:18:54 AM »
some of my previous experiments left me with a number of fuselages (that's what you get when you fit wings to everything). Particularly, some twin booms ...


And then I thought of turtles, bought three of them, and here we go :

P-38, blue :










Saab-21, yellow :











Sabre, red :







« Last Edit: April 06, 2016, 01:20:46 AM by ericr »

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Re: turtles & P-38, Sabre, Saab21 Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #553 on: April 06, 2016, 04:20:39 PM »
Genius! :-*

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Re: turtles & P-38, Sabre, Saab21 Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #554 on: April 07, 2016, 07:04:45 AM »
thanks  ;)

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so, with all those wings fit to different things and beasts, I had quite a few spare fuselages for which to find an appropriate destiny.
Here are some of them, grouped in such a way as to bring aeronautic light around us :





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That's pretty brilliant.

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I knew the song "candle in the wind", but these candles are producing wind themselves... ;)

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thanks !

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Blenheim and shells Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #559 on: April 17, 2016, 02:09:36 AM »


another shell hybrid, with a nice 1/200 Blenheim :










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Re: Blenheim and shells Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #560 on: April 17, 2016, 05:08:00 PM »
I love the red one :-*
For the blue one, I feel puzzled with the antenna: does it prevent the body from retracting home? or another good explanation?

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Re: Blenheim and shells Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #561 on: April 22, 2016, 11:15:01 PM »
the antenna is just like for "natural" snails : flexible, and it comes out to sense the environment ;-)

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trucks and (curved) tanks Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #562 on: April 22, 2016, 11:15:50 PM »

two trucks from the Airfix recovery set (I used the crane on a 1/72 seaplane carrier ship ...), transformed into tank trucks, but with a twist :

the first with a spiral twist :







the other with a knot twist :








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Re: trucks and (curved) tanks Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #563 on: April 22, 2016, 11:25:46 PM »
Ha! Ha! Ha! (French wording for big laugh) :-*

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Re: trucks and (curved) tanks Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #564 on: April 23, 2016, 06:33:22 AM »
Love them! ;D :)
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Re: trucks and (curved) tanks Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #565 on: April 26, 2016, 03:08:28 AM »
thanks !

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I had bought this metal, handicraft tin Mini Traveller, bit didn't know just what to do with it, until I relalized that it could very well be repainted in the livery of the faous Clder BMW from the Le Mans race in 1976.
Mini travellers are so cute, and that livery is so bright, it could only work out well.





Also, I have adapted the Calder schemes for the DC8 and B272 to 1/72 kits, nut these aircraft are not available in that scale so I transfered to, respectively, B707 and Tu 134. And here I do the same kind of transformation to a large scale car  ;)

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Tu134 in Calder scheme from B727 Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #567 on: May 01, 2016, 02:25:18 AM »

another calderization :

I couldn't find a 1/72 B727 or tri-engine jetliner, so I settled for the Tu134, because it has a quite similar overall shape :







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The Calderizations, especially the Tu134 look good. You should try a Mondrian version.

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The Calderizations, especially the Tu134 look good. You should try a Mondrian version.


Thanks!
Mondrian would look good indeed !

I went into Clader because those colors really existed :






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I went into Clader because those colors really existed :
And for this weird Tupolev, would you say that the Russians took the Best of the West, or the Worst of the West? ;)

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I went into Clader because those colors really existed :
And for this weird Tupolev, would you say that the Russians took the Best of the West, or the Worst of the West? ;)
Yes!

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I went into Clader because those colors really existed :
And for this weird Tupolev, would you say that the Russians took the Best of the West, or the Worst of the West? ;)

I personally do like Calder  ;) and I came back to modelling, after having stopped for many years, because I wanted to try to map his pattern for DC8 on a 1/72 B707  ;D


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And for this weird Tupolev, would you say that the Russians took the Best of the West, or the Worst of the West? ;)
Yes!
I asked A or else B and got as answer: Yes... Ahem, I will not precise my question as "A and not B" or else "B and not A", because I guess the answer will still be Yes! this is funny as this model, just the right answer applying to it... ;)

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Buccaneer and Coke bottle Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #574 on: May 05, 2016, 04:27:42 AM »

who told me something about the Buccaneeer associated with a Coke bottle?

it ran through my mind, and came out, when I extracted from my stash a Revell/Matchbox Buccaneer and a metal bottle of Coke, in the form of this hybrid :








the cokckpit, by the way, is from a TA4 Skyhawk I floatplanized some time ago.