Acree's Profiles

[The Big Gimper]

Jet versions of the Manta - the Tigershark

Recce nose AND tip tanks. An arrow through my heart.   

What did you use? I think I see:

• RT-33 nose
• Meteor Mk. I wings
• P-51 Tail
• P-47 Canopy
• Fuselage = ?

It's actually an F-5A nose, the wings and fuselage are Monomail original, engine nacelles are from the Meteor (via the Jet Kittiwake), the tail is P-51 and the canopy is actually late model Typhoon (but P-47 is close enough!).

Somehow I thought you had gone to another fuselage. My bad.

After reading up on the  Monomail, we most certainly do need a kit in your favourite scale.

[Acree]

See Comrade, a stint in the BTS Gulag does you wonders....there is a kit available of the Shrike... :)

Yes, my time in the Gulag was brief but instructive - I thought BTS stood for "Behind the Stash," so, I thought it might be kinda fun - but NOOOOOOOOO! BTS just meant Beyond the Sprues. 

No promise that all future profiles will be kitted subjects, though.  THink of it as motivation to finally do the scratchbuild you've always feared...

[Tophe]

BTS just meant Beyond the Sprues. 

In France, BTS means Brevet de Technicien Supérieur (Diploma of High-rank Technician). This is less fun but that may help for scratchbuilding as well...

[Acree]

Farallon's basic trainer... Aren't they cute?

[lauhof52]

very nice !! :)

[Acree]

Capellis transport and night bomber variants.  No, there is no kit.  Yes, they are ugly...

[Logan Hartke]

Lovely.  Very fitting.  Makes me want to watch Flying Tigers again.

Cheers,

Logan

[Acree]

Thanks, Logan!  I've had a thing for the Capellis since I first saw that movie.

[Logan Hartke]

I think that's where most aviation buffs learn about it for the first time.  I assumed it was a made-for-movie airplane when I first saw it.  Maybe do a version with a more conventional cockpit and tail plus some updated radials?  Oh, you know what would probably be really neat?  Maybe a version with a pressurized cockpit and extended wingtips for a high altitude reconnaissance version like the Ju 86P based on the research from the earlier Capstan 521.



Cheers,

Logan

[GTX_Admin]

No, there is no kit.

Ah but we do have instructions on how to make one:

Part 1
Part 2

[Acree]

Cool!  I'd never seen that before.  Certainly the best Capellis model I've ever seen (I think its only the second one I've ever seen - the other was scratchbuilt and not as good).

[Acree]

Farallonian advanced trainers and light transport:

[Acree]

Both Waco C-62 Percherons illustrated here took part in the invasion of Tripolitania in May, 1946.  Rejected by the US military in favor of the Curtiss C-76 Caravan, the C-62 became a success in Farralonian service as an assault tranpsort in land-based and floatplane versions - the latter used for support of Farralonian Marines.  The C-62 was able to carry light and medium trucks as well as artillery pieces and other equipment, deliverd right to an improvised airfield or beach. 

[Tophe]

Nice!

[GTX_Admin]

Looks like a flying tadpole.

[Acree]

Looks like a flying tadpole.

It pretty much was... except for the 'flying' part.  The real thing was never built, though someone built a flying model recently.  However, the design was slightly ahead of its time, with nose and tail "through-loading" capability.  It was really not necessary to build "non-strategic" transports, and they were never really successful.  But I find the desing interesting nonetheless.

[apophenia]

I love the stuff you come up with! Bennett BTCs and Waco C-62s  :)   Amazing!

Oh, and I'd like to second Logan's motion for a pressurized Capelis 

[Acree]

Thanks.  I definitely have a love for the "unusual."  I'll tackle an updated Capellis after I finish my Cunningham-Hall project...

[Acree]

The Cunnigham-Hall 2-seat fighter based on the GA-36...

[Acree]

The Capstan Capellis Carp (high altitude research, then recon-bomber) - as suggested...

[Logan Hartke]

Interesting.  Those Allisons look huge on it.

Cheers,

Logan

[Tophe]

I love the high altitude Capelli

[Acree]

Those Allisons look huge on it.

Yeah, they do, but they scale about right (I double-checked after your comment).  The Capellis was not as big as we might tend to think.  To apporximate the scale, I took a profile of a P-40E the exact size of the Capellis and reduced it to 75% (the Capellis was 42' long, the P-40E was 31.67', which works out to .75405).  Then I scaled the Allison nacelles to match - so, should be pretty close.

[Tophe]

I love the high altitude Capelli

So much that I drew Mustang in this way. Thanks!
http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/r_P-51TR7_bbb.jpg

[Acree]

Another unusual aircraft I have always liked - the Hall Aluminum PTBH-2 (could have been an American He 115, if we had needed such a thing).  Was quite useful to the Farallonians, though.... maybe there will be some variants...