Author Topic: swept wing pusher bi-plane  (Read 23376 times)

Offline arkon

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swept wing pusher bi-plane
« on: February 21, 2012, 12:00:36 PM »
this is my new brain twist


just need a few more parts to finish.
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Re: swept wing pusher bi-plane
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2012, 12:07:28 PM »
Am waiting and watching......  :)

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Re: swept wing pusher bi-plane
« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2012, 05:57:11 PM »
Anything with "biplane" in the title sure has my attention!

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Re: swept wing pusher bi-plane
« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2012, 07:13:08 PM »
This should be very interesting... :)

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Re: swept wing pusher bi-plane
« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2012, 09:55:42 PM »
Sounds interesting. Proceed!
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Re: swept wing pusher bi-plane
« Reply #5 on: February 21, 2012, 10:52:30 PM »
Yes please. Hey I sent you enough decals to do her up Texican >:D ;)

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Re: swept wing pusher bi-plane
« Reply #6 on: February 22, 2012, 01:15:10 PM »
got some done tonite :)

have to make the lower wing out of plasic sheet





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Re: swept wing pusher bi-plane
« Reply #7 on: February 22, 2012, 04:47:52 PM »
Interesting...
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Re: swept wing pusher bi-plane
« Reply #8 on: February 23, 2012, 12:13:45 AM »
Very cool looking ac

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Re: swept wing pusher bi-plane
« Reply #9 on: February 23, 2012, 01:22:31 AM »
I like it :)   
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Re: swept wing pusher bi-plane
« Reply #10 on: February 23, 2012, 02:21:16 AM »
Wow!!  :-*
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Re: swept wing pusher bi-plane
« Reply #11 on: February 23, 2012, 05:01:07 AM »
YOWSA!!!

I don't know if you've figured out the struts yet, but you can use wooden toothpicks in a pinch.

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Re: swept wing pusher bi-plane
« Reply #12 on: February 23, 2012, 07:31:15 AM »
i got some strutsfrom the neiport but i dont like them so i will probly form my own from some 1/8 plastic sheet.
whats killin me is the guns, igot one lewis  and one spandua(?) in 1/48. got a bunch of 30's n 50's in 1/72 but they just look way to small. i want two belt fed guns ......but we will see what happens. been thinkin about a gatling or something..........
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Re: swept wing pusher bi-plane
« Reply #13 on: February 23, 2012, 11:46:20 AM »
Son of the Burgess-Dunne :)  Cool concept!
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Re: swept wing pusher bi-plane
« Reply #14 on: February 23, 2012, 05:24:05 PM »
Looks like an ancestor to the Hughes Devastator of Crimson Skies fame:

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Re: swept wing pusher bi-plane
« Reply #15 on: February 24, 2012, 06:49:23 AM »
love that game, got it on my old x-box! (no red ring of death so far).
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Re: swept wing pusher bi-plane
« Reply #16 on: February 24, 2012, 12:09:48 PM »
Nice! Go on!

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Re: swept wing pusher bi-plane
« Reply #17 on: February 25, 2012, 01:00:05 PM »
workin on some intakes for the engine




do not like the square ish engine cover but its what i got. but with i get to make the scoops!!!
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Re: swept wing pusher bi-plane
« Reply #18 on: February 25, 2012, 01:00:33 PM »
It reminds me of a Westland Hill Pterodactyl :
http://www.aviastar.org/air/england/west_pterodactyl5.php

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Re: swept wing pusher bi-plane
« Reply #19 on: March 06, 2012, 02:20:51 PM »
ok dear sirs,(and to all that are here)  i am thinking what if ww1 went more tank heavy and the germans came out with the first tank killer aircraft? i am thinkin a 20mm or 30 mm gun. i read the brits had a 37 for balloon bustin.
   what would be the outside barrel diameter for those said type of guns?
thank you all
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Re: swept wing pusher bi-plane
« Reply #20 on: March 06, 2012, 10:38:33 PM »
This kitbash meets with my approval....

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Re: swept wing pusher bi-plane
« Reply #21 on: March 06, 2012, 10:44:22 PM »
Sweet progress so far. Hey bubba let me see how many guns I can come up with for you >:D

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Re: swept wing pusher bi-plane
« Reply #22 on: March 06, 2012, 11:35:49 PM »
ok dear sirs,(and to all that are here)  i am thinking what if ww1 went more tank heavy and the germans came out with the first tank killer aircraft? i am thinkin a 20mm or 30 mm gun. i read the brits had a 37 for balloon bustin.
   what would be the outside barrel diameter for those said type of guns?
thank you all

 Hmmm. You've got three 'real world' options, maybe four. The Germans fielded a 13 mm bolt-action
 rifle called the T-gewehr, really the first anti-tank rifle. A heavy machine gun the TuF ( Tank und Flieger )
 based on the same 13mm round-it looks like an oversized Maxim or Vickers. A 20 mm cannon, the
 Becker ( that eventually, after another development cycle, became the famous Oerlikon ) and a
 short barreled 37 mm cannon that I don't know too much about.

 The Germans did experiment
 with downward firing machine guns, but they weren't too successful from what I've read-problems
 in aiming them effectively given the pilot's view. But if you're building this as a two seater, who's to
 say they wouldn't have put an observer/gunner in a forward gondola, just under the nose?

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Re: swept wing pusher bi-plane
« Reply #23 on: March 07, 2012, 12:03:38 PM »
... TuF ( Tank und Flieger )  based on the same 13mm round-it looks like an oversized Maxim or Vickers...

Yes, it was a scaled up Maxim MG08 and available in 1918.

... a  short barreled 37 mm cannon that I don't know too much about...

Perhaps the Maxim-Nordenfelt 37mm autocannon? Another scaled-up Maxim, this one had been around since before the Boer War so it'd be well-proven.
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Re: swept wing pusher bi-plane
« Reply #24 on: March 08, 2012, 10:05:59 AM »
any pics of those two?
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