Beyond The Sprues
Modelling => Ideas & Inspiration => Aero-space => Topic started by: GTX_Admin on February 07, 2013, 02:25:07 AM
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Hi folks,
A dedicated thread for your Republic XF-103 Ideas and Inspiration.
And if this isn't inspiration (to take up knitting...), then nothing will be:
(http://dishmodels.ru/picture/glr/12/12140/g12140_3563408.jpg) (http://dishmodels.ru/gshow.htm?p=12140)
(click on image to see more)
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That's a gorgeously done model. I've got a few F-103s to build, in both 1/144 and 1/72 and I'll probably go with different missile fits based on the data from the hardcopy article that appeared in APR.
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I should also note that I'm looking to model it's more conventional sibling, the Republic AP-75, using cloned aero-surfaces from the F-103 and bits from 1/72 and 1/48 F-105s.
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every husband's dream ...... an ejection seat for the mother-in-law ! ;)
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every husband's dream ...... an ejection seat for the mother-in-law ! ;)
Like James Bond's Aston-Martin DB5 in, I think it was, Goldfinger? There've been a few times I've wanted to do that with my MiL.
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Another 1/48 F-103 done by the late great Phil "Bondo" Brandt.
(http://hyperscale.com/features/2002/images/xf103pb_001.jpg)
Full build here (http://hyperscale.com/features/2002/xf103pb_1.htm).
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Without clicking on the link, I suspected it was by a Russian modeler. The attention to detail is amazing.
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Won't it need a runway longer than Delaware?
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Republic did propose recon and NASA testbed variants.
I am toying with doing one of those along with possibly either a Canadian or West German one.
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Would I be correct in presuming that the recon version put the recce gear in place of the missile bays? It's the only location I can think of.
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Can't recall. Will check references once I return home.
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Hmmm...another random idea: Russian one
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Hmmm...another random idea: Russian one
With a simple variable axi-symmetric nozzle instead of some of the fanciness proposed for the F-103. Perhaps also give it a drooping nose in place of the periscope?
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Well a drooping nose was one configuration studied by Republic.
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(https://combatace.com/applications/core/interface/imageproxy/imageproxy.php?img=http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh173/SPINNERS1961/WHAT%2520IF%25202010/WHAT%2520IF%25202011/RCAFCF-103ATHUNDERWARRIOR02.jpg&key=53c7521da2fc7f28b0538c6d414c93f83113ec3df49cab305ea5039f03828e38)
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(https://combatace.com/applications/core/interface/imageproxy/imageproxy.php?img=http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh173/SPINNERS1961/WHAT%2520IF%25202010/WHAT%2520IF%25202011/JASDFF-103JTHUNDERWARRIOR08.jpg&key=d463d6f55a351af4c12e8455b98340396feb15dc1c124d9454d29d75afeb9ecb)
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(https://combatace.com/applications/core/interface/imageproxy/imageproxy.php?img=http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh173/SPINNERS1961/WHAT%2520IF%25202013/RCAFCF-103A01_zpsef7ed059.jpg&key=fbe888728f3626de5245c03eb47fb108a0bb7a117d5a09b67925ecfac899eb14)
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(https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D5622AQHLAtptMz7IUA/feedshare-shrink_800/0/1702784638374?e=1705536000&v=beta&t=D572EZwe3znDR7Z2ubG3I88XYxs8B_xb18aY7f8qYA4)
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Would love :-* to have seen those taking off from McChord AFB as I did the F-102 and F-106.