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Re: Tu-22 Blinder & HP Victor, yellow Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #975 on: August 06, 2017, 05:11:01 AM »
Saw this image and thought it was perfect for you Eric:

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Re: Tu-22 Blinder & HP Victor, yellow Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #976 on: August 06, 2017, 04:55:19 PM »
Ericr is not "the only dreamer" in the World, just he is "my favourite dreamer" in the World... ;)

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Re: Tu-22 Blinder & HP Victor, yellow Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #977 on: August 06, 2017, 08:47:06 PM »
Saw this image and thought it was perfect for you Eric:



thanks a lot !
quite inspiring indeed, maybe I'll have a look for appropriately scaled ingredients  ;)

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Whale and sails, blue Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #978 on: August 06, 2017, 09:33:57 PM »

this was inspired by images that can be seen here and there, of whales with sails, and a Heller kit for a Corsair boat :




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Re: Whale and sails, blue Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #979 on: August 07, 2017, 12:48:10 AM »
AWESOME !!!
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Re: Whale and sails, blue Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #980 on: August 07, 2017, 01:11:45 AM »
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Re: Whale and sails, blue Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #981 on: August 07, 2017, 03:36:13 PM »

thanks  ;D

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Re: Whale and sails, blue Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #982 on: August 08, 2017, 04:21:41 AM »
Superb whale, and as for the blinder/victor, ooh lala, just right.   :P
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Re: Whale and sails, blue Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #983 on: August 10, 2017, 03:44:47 AM »

thank you for both !


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Whale and u-boot, yellow Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #984 on: August 10, 2017, 03:51:43 AM »

another whale figurine happened to cross a Type XXIII U-boot (Revell, 1/144) in a chance meeting;

and, as any decent submarine, it had to go yellow :






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Re: Whale and u-boot, yellow Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #985 on: August 10, 2017, 06:42:09 AM »
Usually I am interected only in "aircraft" models, but once again, you tend to make me change my mind... Your whale with sails, most of all, is very lovely... :-* :-*

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Re: Whale and u-boot, yellow Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #986 on: August 10, 2017, 01:53:16 PM »

thanks !

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Re: Whale and u-boot, yellow Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #987 on: August 11, 2017, 02:31:10 AM »
 :smiley:
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remainings of the day :

so what do we have today :
 - the landing gear and struts if the Spirit of Saint Louis, which have an interesting shape
 - the wings and tail surfaces of a MC 72 (1/48)
 - a crocodile (probably bought together with an elephant, in order to combine postage, and then you get that kind of stuff in your stash without knowing what to do with it, I guess you know what I mean ...)

and all that fits and lives together quite well actually, in red :





and now I still have four crocodile legs in the spare parts box ...

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 :-* Wonderful crocodile airplane!
I just have a question, remaining ??? Is the tail asymmetric on starboard or mobile, moving from port to starboard with the muscles of the crocodile basis? ;) (this question is funny but not a joke, getting an answer is important for me to know if I add this model in my collection of asymmetric planes or in a brand new part of classification! wow anyway!)

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thanks !

the tail is flexible indeed, controlled by the mind/spirits/moods/brain of the crocodile


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Good! So... piloting with AI does not refer to Artificial Intelligence but to Animal Intelligence! ;)

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All hail the God of Frustration!!!

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Uniquely different.  The legs and feet from the crocodile should go on a stol transport (Short Skyvan, perhaps?) for adaptability to 'most any terrain.

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thanks for the idea  ;)

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Tu-144 & crow, yellow Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #996 on: August 17, 2017, 08:39:59 PM »


quite some time ago I was shown a picture out of a comics with a Concorde-like aircraft with claws and head of an eagle ...
Remembering that, it took me a while to find an appropriate plastic bird to build that with a Tu-144 (1/144 scale) :






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Re: Tu-144 & crow, yellow Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #997 on: August 18, 2017, 01:33:35 AM »
Amazing! :-* :-*

Addition: have you created the first airplane ever with only 2 legs? ;D
« Last Edit: August 18, 2017, 01:35:45 AM by Tophe »

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Re: Tu-144 & crow, yellow Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #998 on: August 18, 2017, 06:41:03 AM »
All it needs is a top hat and a glass of aviation fuel and it's a bigger version of this:




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Re: Tu-144 & crow, yellow Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #999 on: August 18, 2017, 03:17:26 PM »

thanks  ;D