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Offline Tophe

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Re: 7A7 Boeing AsymmetLiner
« Reply #25 on: March 18, 2012, 01:20:53 PM »
I plan now to make it a 1/50 plane (this tiny canopy/eye appeared too small for me)

Or maybe two-seat 1/72 rather than single-seat 1/50 or 1/48. As feasibility prototype for the scale 1 airliner.
View from front of the project :

Offline Brian da Basher

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Re: 7A7 Boeing AsymmetLiner
« Reply #26 on: March 18, 2012, 07:52:05 PM »
That front view is excellent, Tophe! If you hang this beauty from the ceiling by a string, Alexander Calder will be beaming from beyond!

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Re: 7A7 Boeing AsymmetLiner
« Reply #27 on: March 18, 2012, 09:37:42 PM »
He-he, how funny! No, I cannot hang this absurdity without Helium in the fuselage:

Offline Rafael

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Re: 7A7 Boeing AsymmetLiner
« Reply #28 on: March 19, 2012, 12:24:55 AM »
Christophe, you're the most deliciously crazy genius in the world. This plane could easily be an executive transport for overseas passengers. :-* :-* :-*
But an idea comes to mind: what if the centerbody leftover could be optionally clipped to the wings outer edges? That way you could have two planes in one: an exclusive asymmetric transport and a twin-fuselage mass transport for higher seasons
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Offline Tophe

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Re: 7A7 Boeing AsymmetLiner
« Reply #29 on: March 20, 2012, 01:06:01 AM »
Thanks for your psychological assistance: I am not the most crazy in the World: worse can be imagined... ;)

Offline ChrisF

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Re: 7A7 Boeing AsymmetLiner
« Reply #30 on: March 20, 2012, 03:24:20 AM »
Why am i thinking "Jimbo and the Jet set" markings ?!  :)

Offline Tophe

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Re: 7A7 Boeing AsymmetLiner
« Reply #31 on: March 20, 2012, 03:34:34 AM »

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Re: 7A7 Boeing AsymmetLiner
« Reply #32 on: March 20, 2012, 04:00:48 AM »
Anytime !!  lol ;D

Offline finsrin

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Re: 7A7 Boeing AsymmetLiner
« Reply #33 on: March 20, 2012, 05:15:14 AM »
Seems to me that more of us than ever must have poor ventilation at our model building tables and computer desks.
Asymetrics really mess with my mind.
Shorten and stretch has all kinds of possibilities.  Can do them on bombers like B-36 and B-52 and others.  Stretch carriers, battleships, cruisers, destroyers, etc...     Stretched tanks and half-tracks hmmm...

Offline ChrisF

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Re: 7A7 Boeing AsymmetLiner
« Reply #34 on: March 20, 2012, 06:56:10 AM »
I did a stretch tank years ago for a competition... I entered the smallest diarama hoping the fact the whole thing was on a coffee pot lid that might be quirky enough to win...

Two epic scale Games Workshop rhinos and some bits created this :




Sorry about the quality if anyone wants me to take new pics i will but hey it gives you the idea....  :)

Offline Tophe

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Re: 7A7 Boeing AsymmetLiner
« Reply #35 on: March 21, 2012, 12:47:19 AM »
The Boeing 7A7, scanned before painting:

Offline Brian da Basher

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Re: 7A7 Boeing AsymmetLiner
« Reply #36 on: March 21, 2012, 03:29:42 AM »
This baby is a real tour-de-force of your talent and imagination, mon ami!

For some reason I keep thinking of it wearing primary colors for the various parts (blue wings & horizontal stabilizers, yellow fuselage, red engines).

Regardless how you paint it, I know I'll be delighted by the results!

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Offline Rafael

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Re: 7A7 Boeing AsymmetLiner
« Reply #37 on: March 21, 2012, 06:03:54 AM »
Oh, My!!!; it's coming along nicer than I imagined. Way to go, Tophe!!!
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Offline Tophe

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Re: 7A7 Boeing AsymmetLiner
« Reply #38 on: March 21, 2012, 11:13:47 AM »
Thanks a lot.
Brian, I understand this is so absurd that cartoonish colours (JimboJet-like) would be appropriate. But my stock of paint s has disappeared, even the white-spirit to remove paint, I am just using the water-paints and brushes provided by Heller with their Mirage and F-16XL 1/144. In a hurry before my son arrives from abroad and I will stop modelling probably, for several years. So... this will be a grey prototype: New Tech Proto Liner...

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Re: 7A7 Boeing AsymmetLiner
« Reply #39 on: March 22, 2012, 03:46:03 AM »
I know it will give me a big smile, whatever color it's in!

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Offline Tophe

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Re: 7A7 Boeing AsymmetLiner
« Reply #40 on: March 22, 2012, 11:13:21 AM »
Here she is, scanned after painting:

I hope there will be true photographs in about 2 weeks (however the bad news is that the camera is not working anymore, so it may arrive broken...).

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Re: 7A7 Boeing AsymmetLiner
« Reply #41 on: March 22, 2012, 05:20:14 PM »
Love it, Tophe! The asymmetry is awesome! Thank you for starting my day off wonderfully!

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Offline Rafael

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Re: 7A7 Boeing AsymmetLiner
« Reply #42 on: March 22, 2012, 08:42:41 PM »
Love it!!! Has an insect-like face
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Offline Tophe

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Re: 7A7 Boeing AsymmetLiner
« Reply #43 on: March 23, 2012, 12:42:37 AM »
Thanks a lot... :D

Offline Tophe

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Re: 7A7 Boeing AsymmetLiner
« Reply #44 on: April 13, 2012, 09:49:06 PM »
First shots with the new camera look like satelitte picture:

Offline Tophe

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Re: 7A7 Boeing AsymmetLiner
« Reply #45 on: April 14, 2012, 01:57:48 AM »
Better views: