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Offline taiidantomcat

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Re: Hinamaru Havoc II
« Reply #25 on: March 04, 2012, 01:17:16 AM »
Like these flying wing ideas!  :D

A few last beauty shots:







Still working on the back story... Have some good ideas though: 

*Tall undercarriage to help in the loading of these:



* Mitsubishi or Nakajima (?)

*Thanks to RussC, it will be called UNZEN by Japan and JAMIE by the Allies.

* What if world 1950/60s  after the axis and allies develop Atomic weapons around 1944, causing an arms race and a "hot and cold" war with spasms of mass destruction.

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« Last Edit: March 04, 2012, 01:22:26 AM by taiidantomcat »
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Re: Hinamaru Havoc II
« Reply #26 on: March 04, 2012, 02:06:11 AM »
Thanks for the extra beauty shots, Mr Tomcat! You certainly made one sweet Havoc II!

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Re: Hinamaru Havoc II
« Reply #27 on: March 04, 2012, 05:50:54 AM »
Yes , thanks especially for the front view, I never built or bought that kit and wondered what its front profile looked like.

Mitsubishi or Nakajima would almost be a coin flip as they both built each others designs and both were engine and airframe makers. 

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Re: Hinamaru Havoc II
« Reply #28 on: March 05, 2012, 09:29:48 PM »
As far as Japanese flying wing stealth aircraft go, thats just about as good as it can get.

Great work.  ;)
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Re: Hinamaru Havoc II
« Reply #29 on: July 07, 2012, 09:48:46 AM »
Bought this B-17F from Cliffy B and I noted that this old 1/72 Revell kit really does not look like a B-17  :blink: So I cut out sections of the wings to save shelf space (for the back story it is meant to make it faster!) Lengthened the engine nacelles with 1/48 F-14 Exhausts (which also added some much needed detail) And then cut the fronts off of the 1/48 engine faces for the spinners on the props. The tail fins are from an old and busted 1/48 A-10. It was supposed to be a quick project but like all my builds took longer than expected!









Its a Repost , but I am trying to bring all my stuff together  :-\

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Re: Hinamaru Havoc II
« Reply #30 on: July 07, 2012, 09:51:33 AM »
It looks great.
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Re: Hinamaru Havoc II
« Reply #31 on: July 07, 2012, 12:21:57 PM »
*Tall undercarriage to help in the loading of these:



Is that the air version of the Kaiten?
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Re: Hinamaru Havoc II
« Reply #32 on: July 07, 2012, 03:05:54 PM »
wow! had to take a second look to see the change s all made!!
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Re: Hinamaru Havoc II
« Reply #33 on: July 07, 2012, 10:09:14 PM »
Thanks everyone! It sure looks like a Kaiten. Plan on attempting one soon.  ;)





Foreshadowing  ;D



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Re: Hinamaru Havoc II
« Reply #34 on: July 08, 2012, 07:20:39 AM »








The above Nakajima "Ben" (yes I named it after me!) Uses P-47 wings for fins and Mitsu Zero cowls for engine exhausts.

Another blast from the past... still consider it some of my better work.



« Last Edit: July 08, 2012, 07:36:04 AM by taiidantomcat »
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Re: Hinamaru Havoc II
« Reply #35 on: July 08, 2012, 07:25:51 AM »
I think its awesome !

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Re: Hinamaru Havoc II
« Reply #36 on: July 08, 2012, 10:21:35 PM »


Inspired by the last profile of the above (But I am not finished yet :wacko:):









So what happens when your brightly colored training aircraft suddenly need to be camouflaged for combat and you only have black paint on hand? Sometimes a solution jumps onto your foot:












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Re: Japanese Stealth Bomber
« Reply #37 on: July 08, 2012, 11:55:48 PM »
WOW! Dunno how I missed THAT one!

Absolutely SUPERB camo, inspired from a carrier.

And, of course, Nature give us SUPERB examples of "protective coloring", especially in its amphibians!!

(You might recall my He-1062 "Molch" and its "Alpine Newt" camo.)
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Re: Hinamaru Havoc II
« Reply #38 on: July 09, 2012, 12:02:07 AM »
Bought this B-17F from Cliffy B and I noted that this old 1/72 Revell kit really does not look like a B-17  :blink: So I cut out sections of the wings to save shelf space (for the back story it is meant to make it faster!) Lengthened the engine nacelles with 1/48 F-14 Exhausts (which also added some much needed detail) And then cut the fronts off of the 1/48 engine faces for the spinners on the props. The tail fins are from an old and busted 1/48 A-10. It was supposed to be a quick project but like all my builds took longer than expected!



Its a Repost , but I am trying to bring all my stuff together  :-\


  This closely looks like a real-world flying machine, picture a improvement to the existing 4 engine design dogma by assimilating the US heavies of the day (1943) plus the Lancaster and Halifax and meld with the Nakajima G5N. What would emerge would look like this.

As for the Tomcats and Arado, its just tons of fun, and the overall orange one is really  :-*
« Last Edit: July 09, 2012, 12:05:28 AM by RussC »

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Re: Hinamaru Havoc II
« Reply #39 on: July 09, 2012, 01:14:46 AM »
That Float Viggen is sensational!
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Re: Hinamaru Havoc II
« Reply #40 on: July 11, 2012, 11:34:42 PM »
I was looking at that "newt" again just a couple days ago sequoiaranger!  :)

Russ, Thanks for the compliments on the B-17 conversion!

Litvyak, Zacto is talented isnt he?







Japanese Iowa class battleship. No back story, just think the Iowa class looks good anywhere.  :-*

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Japanese classic in modern colors.  :)
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Re: Hinamaru Havoc II
« Reply #41 on: July 12, 2012, 03:32:42 AM »
Finishing F-14s in Japanese W.W. II schemes is a stroke of sheer genius, Mr Tomcat!

Bravo!!!

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Re: Hinamaru Havoc II
« Reply #42 on: July 12, 2012, 06:37:01 AM »
Lovely Zeros!!!!  I still can't understand why the IJN never painted their carrier planes for sea duty.  Geee, we're flying over water, namely the VAST Pacific, let's paint em dark green and or a light gray so light that it might as well be white!!!!!  :-X
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Re: Hinamaru Havoc II
« Reply #43 on: July 12, 2012, 11:18:37 AM »
I got this 1/48 B-29 from an Ebay auction really cheap and already built. The seller wanted to cancel the transaction because he didn't know how to ship it but I convinced him he could cut it up and I wouldnt be upset, so long as i got it:







But then it became a bit of an albatross, the original idea I had for it, didn't really work out so I was stuck with a very big model, that I needed to make smaller somehow kicked around a lot of ideas, asked for help here as well, and finally decided to make it a kind of Japanese Mig-23 Flogger:






Its still in progress but I got a lot done on the engines, and epoxied the front and back half together (no pic of that sorry) . Still a lot of work left.





Made from Otaki "Jacks" in 1/48 scale with parts of a Monogram Mig-29 Drop tank half added. BTW if you are ever looking for a prop that is a ready made lookin jet engine this kit fits the bill. Plan on doing a jet version of it and ordering a few more for other big jet looking projects.

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Re: Hinamaru Havoc II
« Reply #44 on: July 12, 2012, 11:37:52 AM »
Japanese stealth, four engine prop bomber, now this B-29 & Mig-23 meld  :-*
Such imagineering.  All are way cool  8)
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Re: Hinamaru Havoc II
« Reply #45 on: July 12, 2012, 02:16:01 PM »
 ??? :-\ :-*
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Re: Hinamaru Havoc II
« Reply #46 on: July 12, 2012, 08:45:09 PM »
Wow...

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Re: Hinamaru Havoc II
« Reply #47 on: July 12, 2012, 10:28:27 PM »
waw this looks like its going to be something pretty special  8)

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Re: Hinamaru Havoc II
« Reply #48 on: July 13, 2012, 01:29:15 AM »
Damn! :icon_surprised: Yer not messin' around, are ya?  >:D
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Re: Hinamaru Havoc II
« Reply #49 on: July 13, 2012, 03:35:47 AM »
I don't know how in the heck you manage to continually top your own work, but that kind of talent is so far off the scale it's astounding. Those engines are gems in their own right too.

I really like your SuperF-14MiniFortress, Mr Tomcat!

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