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Re: Danish Navy project HM-III 1937
« Reply #50 on: January 07, 2019, 04:24:43 AM »
Great stuff.

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Re: Danish Navy project HM-III 1937
« Reply #51 on: January 12, 2019, 04:33:29 PM »
Some work in progress:
As the Danish Army airmen waited in Sweden for deliverence and return to Denmark 1945 they dreamed of a new aircraft that would take the role of fighter and Army air support; discussing the types available they decided on the Hawker Typhoon as the best choice.
This is the ooooold FROG 1/72 Typhoon with added seat and pressure bottle as well as the oil cooler from a Hobbyboss one



Around 1970 the NATO powers realized something was needed to stop the Warsaw Pact tanks once they come rolling across the Iron Curtain and Western Free Europe; the French were quick to get out the door and propose one taking a little bit of this and little bit of that to win contracts:



More to follow.  ;D


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Re: Danish Navy project HM-III 1937
« Reply #52 on: January 12, 2019, 07:12:25 PM »
This be good  :smiley: do continue.

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Re: Danish Navy project HM-III 1937
« Reply #53 on: January 13, 2019, 05:41:34 AM »
the twin boom is interesting! The Yak-15 is great, too!

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Re: Danish Navy project HM-III 1937
« Reply #54 on: January 13, 2019, 07:59:20 AM »
Cheers guys  :D
Update on both - Typhoon ready for decals



Twin booms booming! Had to use loads of lead to make it sit on all three!! Ain't much room inside so the canopy is going to get the Brian treatment of gloss black to hide all the lead..


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Re: Danish Navy project HM-III 1937
« Reply #55 on: January 13, 2019, 12:20:07 PM »
Two props and two jets.  Can't tell what type (mission) aircraft it will be.  Has 1950ish look.  :smiley:
So happens am also over half finished on Magister fuselage based build right now.  Remains a trainer.

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Re: Danish Navy project HM-III 1937
« Reply #56 on: January 14, 2019, 01:58:15 AM »
Typhoon finished. Camo is the Danish pre-war fighter scheme. Bombs some Czech stuff scourged from a Luftwaffe trash heap. Cartoon characters was a typical noseart in post-war years (its DD from an old Airfix Spitfire Mk.V sheet). Main wheels donated by the Hobbyboss Typhoon in the spares box.






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Re: Danish Navy project HM-III 1937
« Reply #57 on: January 14, 2019, 03:30:13 AM »
The Typhoon looks like a completely different beast in those colors and the bubble top looks amazingly clear.

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Re: Danish Navy project HM-III 1937
« Reply #58 on: January 14, 2019, 08:57:27 AM »
That Danish Typhoon is pure eye-candy!

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Re: Danish Navy project HM-III 1937
« Reply #59 on: January 15, 2019, 12:45:13 AM »
Cheers  :smiley:
I almost brought out the vac-form Typhoon canopy I have but decided not to when I realized how clear the kit one is.

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Re: Danish Navy project HM-III 1937
« Reply #60 on: January 15, 2019, 07:52:02 PM »
 :smiley:
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Re: Danish Navy project HM-III 1937
« Reply #61 on: February 07, 2019, 12:05:41 AM »
The kitbash Starfix 1/100 Fouga Magister - 1/170 Nordatlas - 1/72 Matchbox Bf-109E needed to get off the bench. Changing the look of the traction props didn't work well must find other ones another day.  :-X
As already written around 1970 NATO needed something to counter USSR tank armies across the Iron Curtain. As the US looked to choppers and the UK had the Harrier the French Army wanted their own too. Fouga came up with an offer of a turboprop tri-motor 2 man crew expanded Magister. Wings had been enlarged to carry more ordenance but the aircraft though promising drowned in inter-service rivalry!
The Army wanted control of all the aircraft as they would support it - the Airforce wanted control of all flying but didn't want a ground hugging slow abomination - the Navy wanted to annoy the other services and did so by supporting the Army!  ;D
In the end nothing but a flying prototype got into the air and then was parked off at some remote testingground and forgotten.  :icon_crap:




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Re: Danish Navy project HM-III 1937
« Reply #62 on: February 07, 2019, 02:24:51 AM »
Nice fun project! Looks great to me!

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Re: Danish Navy project HM-III 1937
« Reply #63 on: February 07, 2019, 04:07:45 AM »
oooh nicely done!,  looks great

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Re: Danish Navy project HM-III 1937
« Reply #64 on: February 07, 2019, 04:21:18 AM »
Now that's a mighty fine bit of Scale-O-Rama!

Mixed power and twin-booms to boot! You hit on all the whiffy cylinders with this one!

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Re: Danish Navy project HM-III 1937
« Reply #65 on: February 07, 2019, 08:07:43 AM »
OOH YEAH !   :-*    Congrats on creative parts and scale mix.  Is toooo good, needs a name.
Way up there on kind of configurations that click with my kitbash DNA.
Relate extra well cuz used Magister fuselage on T-170.

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Re: Danish Navy project HM-III 1937
« Reply #66 on: February 07, 2019, 08:13:41 PM »
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Re: Danish Navy project HM-III 1937
« Reply #67 on: February 08, 2019, 11:13:35 PM »
Thank you all.  :smiley:
@finsrin how about Fouga Hyène (Hyena)? Looked up the Spider Venom - sure like it  :icon_ninja:

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Re: Danish Navy project HM-III 1937
« Reply #68 on: March 04, 2019, 12:43:13 AM »
Amid growing tensions in the Arctic with squabbles over who owned the North Pole and such the Norwegian armed forces wanted a light transport aircraft with great endurance able to land on improvised runways in all weather conditions. Contacting various manufacturers and in the process getting Denmark into the boat as such was also seen needed in Greenland to supply the Sirius Sleigh Patrol and other scattered outpost in the great white just as well as Norwegian Jägers in Finnmark or Svalbard; a design was finally approved.
Looking like an Antonov 24 with a kinda Noratlas nose but having jets indstead of turboprops the most striking feature was the winter landing skis. Earning the nickname of Bigfoot when first going to Alaska but known to Danish Sleigh Patrol and Norwegian Jägers as Mother Goose - it soldiered on earning the pay by doing the job around the clock. No payload too odd weather too bad or runway too short Mother Goose would deliver ammunition, mail, christmas presents, fresh sleigh dogs or evacuate wounded. She really turned out to be a golden egg.  :D





Having as leftovers the fuselage of the Starfix 1/170 Noratlas the front third became the nose when that had been cut off the 1/157 Plastyk Antonow AN-24. A FROG 1/72 Tupolev SB-2 provided two skis while some parts from the spares box and a q-tip provided bits to change the engines to jets - oh and a Revell 1/72 Mystere provided the tiptanks.
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Re: Danish Navy project HM-III 1937
« Reply #69 on: March 04, 2019, 01:43:32 AM »
Oh now that is most delightful!

I've never seen a better combination of user name/build subject.

Very nicely done, very nicely done indeed!

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Re: Danish Navy project HM-III 1937
« Reply #70 on: March 04, 2019, 03:28:25 AM »
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Re: Danish Navy project HM-III 1937
« Reply #71 on: March 04, 2019, 05:37:25 AM »
Damn, that's beautiful and everything goes together so well.

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Re: Danish Navy project HM-III 1937
« Reply #72 on: March 04, 2019, 07:02:31 AM »
Damn, that's beautiful and everything goes together so well.


Same goes for me.  :smiley:

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Re: Danish Navy project HM-III 1937
« Reply #73 on: March 05, 2019, 12:01:23 AM »
Oh now that is most delightful!

I've never seen a better combination of user name/build subject.

Very nicely done, very nicely done indeed!

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Re: Danish Navy project HM-III 1937
« Reply #74 on: March 05, 2019, 05:37:53 AM »
Love your Noratlas/'Coke' mélange!  And great Siriuspatruljen tie-in  :smiley:
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