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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #75 on: March 24, 2012, 06:08:45 AM »
At first I thought this was the MK. XIII anti-personnel log.   ;D

Nah, that was banned under the Geneva Conventions because of its splinters ;D
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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #76 on: March 24, 2012, 06:18:36 AM »
My that looks familiar ;):

Except that I called mine the DAP N-7 Wandabaa (aboriginal for Eaglehawk).  I certainly wouldn't have thought of the practice torpedoes though - great idea! :)

yes, Greg,
               I had to copy your idea of the Wandabaa but the line-drawing wasn't clean enough so I re-did it from scratch using a couple of your others & re-scaleing several parts ----- your ideas are such an inspiration !! :)

"Fairey Penguin" seemed just sooo right for mine 8)
« Last Edit: March 26, 2012, 07:31:22 AM by raafif »

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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #77 on: March 27, 2012, 11:05:28 AM »
NOTICE -- as I've done so many new DC-3-based profiles, I've started a new thread for all my DC-3s.

Copied the existings ones to there as well as 2 new ones .....
http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=1125.0

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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #78 on: March 31, 2012, 03:08:13 AM »
a Sandringham pressed into military service ...


Flying Boats for Freddie






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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #79 on: April 02, 2012, 09:15:25 AM »
Polish PZL-23 Karas light bomber ...

the real item, 1939


with R.R. Kestrel engine, July 1940


with Allison engine, 1942


S.T.O.L. version


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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #80 on: April 02, 2012, 11:49:03 AM »
LIke the PZL variations -- especially the STOL!
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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #81 on: April 02, 2012, 05:04:18 PM »
LIke the PZL variations -- especially the STOL!

Me too!

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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #82 on: April 07, 2012, 08:40:28 AM »
RNAS Shack-bag airship ...
  Mk.I.


Mk.II

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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #83 on: April 07, 2012, 09:01:08 AM »
The inline-engined Karas idea is awesome!  :)
Forget about his bow and arrows- why wait until that sparrow has done his deed when I can just bury him right now 'cause I'm sick and tired of hearing why he wants to have his way with the cock robin!?

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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #84 on: April 17, 2012, 07:18:22 AM »
in line with ideas on another thread ....
             http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=1215.0

Japan fights on the British Side during WWII ...



Russia is allied with Germany & Italy ...


As they have many lakes in the mountainous areas, neutral Switzerland purchased fifty A6M2n "Rufe" floatplanes as part of their air-interception force to counter the many German & Russian "strays" over their territory.  During the war they forced down 157 German, 62 Russian and (late in the war) 20 Allied aircraft that drifted, either intentionally or by accident, over Switzerland.

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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #85 on: April 17, 2012, 05:03:30 PM »
Nice!

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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #86 on: April 18, 2012, 05:32:01 PM »
In 1945 the French company of Sud-Est Aviation joined with the American Convair Aviation Co. to produce & market a fast private / corporate transport based on the captured Dornier Do-335 design.  The result was the Sud-Est / Convair 835 "Libelle".  It would seat 10 passengers plus two pilots -- a freight version was also offered to Wells Fargo & Western Union for shipment of valuables, documents etc.

Convair 835 private aircraft belonging to GM for transport of executives around their branches/ factories.


What other company schemes ??  What 1940s/50s movie-stars in Hollywood would have one of these ??
Suggestions for colour schemes ??

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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #87 on: April 18, 2012, 05:53:32 PM »
I like!
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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #88 on: April 21, 2012, 02:12:35 PM »
to continue my off-beat subjects with more unpopular civil items ...




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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #89 on: April 21, 2012, 03:35:28 PM »
Mmmmm....
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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #90 on: April 21, 2012, 03:45:42 PM »
Liking the 385s with those markings.  :) :)    Wells Fargo one is out there in the way cool zone.  8)

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« Reply #91 on: April 22, 2012, 12:05:52 PM »
1970 and the far right religious movements in the US succeed in lobbying for expanded censorship laws.  Entrepreneur Hugh Heffner now finds it totally impossible to deliver his magazine, even in plain brown wrappers, through the regular postal system.  Special FBI agents intercept over 2000 private-company delivery trucks on the interstate highways every day searching for illegal publications & products but in short time the usual underground black-market system sees this material regularly available, tho through different outlets than in the past.

The right-wing parliament of Margaret Thatcher, supported by the Mary Whitehouse organisation, also adopts almost as strict legislation for Britain.
To obviate this blockage of his empire, Mr Heffner institutes his own international fast-delivery service.  Buying six surplus B-58 bombers he converts them for cargo - mainly for his own magazines but also some international & diplomatic mail.  Banned from landing at Heathrow Airport, he is granted covert landing-rights at the US Greenham Common Airbase.

While the Sonic Bunnies deliver Playboy & Hustler magazine to Britain & other Commonwealth countries, Larry Flint obtains the US military-mail contract & his aircraft delivers his magazine, Playboy and priority-mail to troops on military bases in Vietnam.

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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #92 on: April 24, 2012, 12:24:52 PM »

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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #93 on: April 25, 2012, 03:39:15 AM »
Nice...but is it just me or are you heading towards the FLETCHER FU-24...
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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #94 on: April 25, 2012, 04:38:03 AM »
A Hustler Hustler! Sheer genius!

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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #95 on: April 25, 2012, 05:11:13 AM »
Nice...but is it just me or are you heading towards the FLETCHER FU-24...

           ..... there's plenty of room in this world for more ugly aircraft ! :icon_fsm:
                           ((( we need an "Ugliest Plane" / "most perverted design" group build contest ))) :-\

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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #96 on: April 25, 2012, 10:57:08 AM »
           ..... there's plenty of room in this world for more ugly aircraft ! ...

Too right!  :)
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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #97 on: April 27, 2012, 04:41:10 AM »
Quote from: raafif

           ..... there's plenty of room in this world for more ugly aircraft ! :icon_fsm:
<snip>

I've been building models of them for years now...

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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #98 on: May 07, 2012, 01:18:21 PM »
Pre-production Me-110 for the Spanish Civil War .... 3 open cockpits, short nose, early engines & pantaloons !!


     yet to add the red-brown cam.

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Re: Raafif's profiles
« Reply #99 on: May 07, 2012, 01:27:41 PM »
Pre-production Me-110 for the Spanish Civil War .... 3 open cockpits, short nose, early engines & pantaloons !!


     yet to add the red-brown cam.

Definitely a different look.  How about an earlier prototype with engine installations similar to the earliest Bf109s?