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Bellanca CH-300 Pacemaker coming in both 1/72 and 1/48:





Get a load of those spats Brian...

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[KiwiZac]

Forget that nonsense, it's the range of Percival Gulls and Proctors I'm excited about!

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I was just looking at the TP-63E and thinking:  what if you removed the front cockpit and smoothed it over and added some additional exhaust stubs so as to give it a second engine?  Maybe turn it into a twin engined race plane?

[elmayerle]

I was just looking at the TP-63E and thinking:  what if you removed the front cockpit and smoother it over and added some additional exhaust stubs so as to give it a second engine?  Maybe turn it into a twin engined race plane?

Either need contra-props or a combining gearbox and one big honking prop (six-or seven- bladed one?) and you would definitely need to add more cooling capacity (I'd argue for either an under-fuselage radiator/oil cooler installation (steering clear of the exhaust flow from the existing cooling system) or go with large leading edge radiator and oil cooler installations for both engines that would also replace the existing cooling system.  Or go with both (smaller) leading edge and under-fuselage systems and remove the existing cooling system.  This last is what I'm considering for a Ki-64-II with a combining gearbox driving one large propeller.

[apophenia]

A quickie twin-engined racer. Other than substituting another engine for the front cockpit, the nose has been shortened for contraprops and a P-51D belly radiator bath has been added (for the second engine). That radiator bath adds a little side area to help counter the effects of that second set of propeller blades. The fin and rudder have also been enlarged (although this aircraft would need even larger tailplanes ... but you can get away with madness when it's a racer).

Minor stuff was lowering the canopy (to make it more racer-ish), deleting the TP-63E's belly fuel tank, and moving the radio mast aft.

BTW: Another rear-cockpit Kingcobra whif: http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=7275.msg127718#msg127718

[jcf]

Forget that nonsense, it's the range of Percival Gulls and Proctors I'm excited about!

 

What he said.

[GTX_Admin]

A quickie twin-engined racer. Other than substituting another engine for the front cockpit, the nose has been shortened for contraprops and a P-51D belly radiator bath has been added (for the second engine). That radiator bath adds a little side area to help counter the effects of that second set of propeller blades. The fin and rudder have also been enlarged (although this aircraft would need even larger tailplanes ... but you can get away with madness when it's a racer).

Minor stuff was lowering the canopy (to make it more racer-ish), deleting the TP-63E's belly fuel tank, and moving the radio mast aft.

BTW: Another rear-cockpit Kingcobra whif: http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=7275.msg127718#msg127718

 

[The Big Gimper]

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You beat me to it.

[The Big Gimper]

You beat me to it.

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I found it on my 1/72 kit page.  Maybe there is hope for reconciliation between the two scales. 

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I found it on my 1/72 kit page.  Maybe there is hope for reconciliation between the two scales.

Nope.  In fact, you finding it there just shows the popularity with 1/48 making steady inroads into 1/72 territory...

[KiwiZac]

Forget that nonsense, it's the range of Percival Gulls and Proctors I'm excited about!

 

What he said.

I always knew I liked you.

[jcf]

Forget that nonsense, it's the range of Percival Gulls and Proctors I'm excited about!

 

What he said.

I always knew I liked you.

Ditto. However let's hope it's better than their Gee-Bee R, it has some major problems.

http://www.hyperscale.com/2018/reviews/kits/dw8001reviewlp_1.htm

The stringers are blergh.   




The cowling has noticeably too much taper.

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[elmayerle]

Hmm, with those other P-63 variants, can we get an XP-63D with a bubble canopy?  I keep thinking that could make for a nice blend with an L-39-2.

[The Big Gimper]

CMR makes a bubble D in 1/72 Evan.  But a styrene version would be nice.

I have just made space for several FD.2s.

[Volkodav]

A Wapiti, now that is obscure.

[apophenia]

A Wapiti, now that is obscure.

Now we just need an aftermarket canopy and the big jar of yellow paint for the RCAF Wapiti Mk.IIa 

[kitnut617]

A Wapiti, now that is obscure.

Now we just need an aftermarket canopy and the big jar of yellow paint for the RCAF Wapiti Mk.IIa 

I've got a CMR 1/72 Wapiti in the stash, I'd have to find it but I think you can do a RCAF variant

[elmayerle]

I have just made space for several FD.2s.

I will likely do so, too.  So much whiffing that can be done with that, in addition to what was done (dare I hope for a BAC 221 at a later date??).

[KiwiZac]

Dammit, they used a picture of a Gull Six to illustrate the Vega Gull 

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