Author Topic: North American/Rockwell Hyper Sabre Space Plane  (Read 3399 times)

Offline Alvis 3.1

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North American/Rockwell Hyper Sabre Space Plane
« on: February 19, 2019, 03:20:40 AM »
Designed as a single-seat orbital interceptor/recon space plane, the Hyper Sabre is used by the NSASA* on highly classified missions.
*National Security Agency Space Agency













This was bashed from a 1/72 scale ESCI F-100 and a Monogram 1/200 Shuttle, a Revell 1/72 X-15 supplied the one eyed pilot.



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Re: North American/Rockwell Hyper Sabre Space Plane
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2019, 03:28:03 AM »
He's baaaaack with!  Great looking kit bash!
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Re: North American/Rockwell Hyper Sabre Space Plane
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2019, 04:45:03 AM »
That is excellent!  :smiley:
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Re: North American/Rockwell Hyper Sabre Space Plane
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2019, 05:09:54 AM »
Superb!

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Re: North American/Rockwell Hyper Sabre Space Plane
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2019, 05:24:49 AM »
The F-100 works well for this idea as it's got a really flat bottom. The 1/200 shuttle has a nice one-piece wing on the bottom, unfortunately it's a smidge too narrow to fit the F-100, so I had to cut the wings off and apply them "conventionally".
I did a similar thing using a B-1 and a Shuttle in 1/72. Seems like North American designs fit together even when they're very different designs. :)

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Re: North American/Rockwell Hyper Sabre Space Plane
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2019, 06:03:39 AM »
Space Plane inspiration! Awesome!

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Re: North American/Rockwell Hyper Sabre Space Plane
« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2019, 06:52:28 AM »
 Nice. Creative and well done.

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Re: North American/Rockwell Hyper Sabre Space Plane
« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2019, 06:57:30 AM »
 Awesome kit bash,. Looks absolutely stunning

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Re: North American/Rockwell Hyper Sabre Space Plane
« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2019, 07:41:26 AM »
Sweet! 8) :smiley: :smiley:
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Re: North American/Rockwell Hyper Sabre Space Plane
« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2019, 09:11:11 AM »
Magnificent, Alvis!

You have an amazing knack for this and it looks so convincing I'm sure many could be fooled!

I like the B-1 Shuttle too.

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Re: North American/Rockwell Hyper Sabre Space Plane
« Reply #10 on: February 19, 2019, 11:03:11 AM »
Beautiful!!  That one-eyed pilot could be the gent who was flying the M2-F2 when it crashed (immortalized in the opening title sequence of "The Six-Million Dollar Man"); he lost the eye due to infection while he was in the hospital after the crash.  He was a great help in sorting out the B-2A's cockpit.

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Re: North American/Rockwell Hyper Sabre Space Plane
« Reply #11 on: February 19, 2019, 11:18:03 AM »
These shuttle winged wonders are fabulous.  WOW  :-*

What all you BTS folks (everyone) can do with styrene/graphic imagineering is tops.  This is the place to be !

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Re: North American/Rockwell Hyper Sabre Space Plane
« Reply #12 on: February 19, 2019, 11:53:00 AM »
Both are amazing! Great rescaling of the Shuttle wings!

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Re: North American/Rockwell Hyper Sabre Space Plane
« Reply #13 on: February 19, 2019, 12:00:44 PM »
Both of your space planes are awesome, well done  8) 8) 8) 8)
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Re: North American/Rockwell Hyper Sabre Space Plane
« Reply #14 on: February 19, 2019, 01:14:10 PM »
Beautiful!!  That one-eyed pilot could be the gent who was flying the M2-F2 when it crashed (immortalized in the opening title sequence of "The Six-Million Dollar Man"); he lost the eye due to infection while he was in the hospital after the crash.  He was a great help in sorting out the B-2A's cockpit.


That's one possibility, he could also be the fictional evil twin of a Skylab astronaut. Evil twins wear eye patches, or goatees. I'm not sure which is less acceptable in a test pilot however.
:D

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Re: North American/Rockwell Hyper Sabre Space Plane
« Reply #15 on: February 19, 2019, 11:17:12 PM »
I’m imagining this space plane perched on top of a booster like the dynosoar project. Nice work!

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Re: North American/Rockwell Hyper Sabre Space Plane
« Reply #16 on: February 20, 2019, 05:55:51 AM »
Whoa! Love your Hyper Sabre  :-*  The Rockwell-MBB X-31 goes orbital!  :smiley:
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