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Dora Wings
« on: September 10, 2017, 04:30:28 AM »
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Re: Dora Wings
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2017, 04:32:49 AM »
Bellanca CH-300 Pacemaker coming in both 1/72 and 1/48:





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Re: Dora Wings
« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2017, 03:59:59 AM »
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Re: Dora Wings
« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2017, 04:19:44 AM »
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Re: Dora Wings
« Reply #4 on: January 08, 2018, 11:51:11 AM »
Forget that nonsense, it's the range of Percival Gulls and Proctors I'm excited about!
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Re: Dora Wings
« Reply #5 on: January 09, 2018, 02:51:57 AM »
I was just looking at the TP-63E and thinking:  what if you removed the front cockpit and smoothed it over and added some additional exhaust stubs so as to give it a second engine?  Maybe turn it into a twin engined race plane?
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Re: Dora Wings
« Reply #6 on: January 10, 2018, 03:18:50 AM »
I was just looking at the TP-63E and thinking:  what if you removed the front cockpit and smoother it over and added some additional exhaust stubs so as to give it a second engine?  Maybe turn it into a twin engined race plane?
Either need contra-props or a combining gearbox and one big honking prop (six-or seven- bladed one?) and you would definitely need to add more cooling capacity (I'd argue for either an under-fuselage radiator/oil cooler installation (steering clear of the exhaust flow from the existing cooling system) or go with large leading edge radiator and oil cooler installations for both engines that would also replace the existing cooling system.  Or go with both (smaller) leading edge and under-fuselage systems and remove the existing cooling system.  This last is what I'm considering for a Ki-64-II with a combining gearbox driving one large propeller.

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Re: Dora Wings
« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2018, 07:20:53 AM »
A quickie twin-engined racer. Other than substituting another engine for the front cockpit, the nose has been shortened for contraprops and a P-51D belly radiator bath has been added (for the second engine). That radiator bath adds a little side area to help counter the effects of that second set of propeller blades. The fin and rudder have also been enlarged (although this aircraft would need even larger tailplanes ... but you can get away with madness when it's a racer).

Minor stuff was lowering the canopy (to make it more racer-ish), deleting the TP-63E's belly fuel tank, and moving the radio mast aft.

BTW: Another rear-cockpit Kingcobra whif: http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=7275.msg127718#msg127718
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Re: Dora Wings
« Reply #8 on: January 20, 2018, 08:05:12 AM »
Forget that nonsense, it's the range of Percival Gulls and Proctors I'm excited about!

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Re: Dora Wings
« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2018, 03:00:05 AM »
A quickie twin-engined racer. Other than substituting another engine for the front cockpit, the nose has been shortened for contraprops and a P-51D belly radiator bath has been added (for the second engine). That radiator bath adds a little side area to help counter the effects of that second set of propeller blades. The fin and rudder have also been enlarged (although this aircraft would need even larger tailplanes ... but you can get away with madness when it's a racer).

Minor stuff was lowering the canopy (to make it more racer-ish), deleting the TP-63E's belly fuel tank, and moving the radio mast aft.

BTW: Another rear-cockpit Kingcobra whif: http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=7275.msg127718#msg127718


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Re: Dora Wings
« Reply #10 on: January 21, 2018, 08:08:29 PM »
Work in progress ::

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Re: Dora Wings
« Reply #11 on: January 22, 2018, 01:59:26 AM »
You beat me to it.
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Re: Dora Wings
« Reply #12 on: January 22, 2018, 11:22:06 AM »
You beat me to it.
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I found it on my 1/72 kit page.  Maybe there is hope for reconciliation between the two scales. 
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Re: Dora Wings
« Reply #13 on: January 23, 2018, 02:28:11 AM »
I found it on my 1/72 kit page.  Maybe there is hope for reconciliation between the two scales.

Nope.  In fact, you finding it there just shows the popularity with 1/48 making steady inroads into 1/72 territory... ;)
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Re: Dora Wings
« Reply #14 on: January 23, 2018, 03:45:20 AM »
Forget that nonsense, it's the range of Percival Gulls and Proctors I'm excited about!

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Re: Dora Wings
« Reply #15 on: January 23, 2018, 08:13:57 AM »
Forget that nonsense, it's the range of Percival Gulls and Proctors I'm excited about!


 :smiley: :smiley:

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Ditto. However let's hope it's better than their Gee-Bee R, it has some major problems. :icon_sueno:

http://www.hyperscale.com/2018/reviews/kits/dw8001reviewlp_1.htm

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The cowling has noticeably too much taper.
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Re: Dora Wings
« Reply #16 on: January 30, 2018, 02:41:53 AM »

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Re: Dora Wings
« Reply #17 on: January 30, 2018, 02:49:57 AM »
Hmm, with those other P-63 variants, can we get an XP-63D with a bubble canopy?  I keep thinking that could make for a nice blend with an L-39-2.

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Re: Dora Wings
« Reply #18 on: January 30, 2018, 05:01:58 AM »
CMR makes a bubble D in 1/72 Evan.  But a styrene version would be nice.

I have just made space for several FD.2s.
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Re: Dora Wings
« Reply #19 on: January 30, 2018, 06:05:10 AM »
A Wapiti, now that is obscure.

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Re: Dora Wings
« Reply #20 on: January 30, 2018, 06:39:17 AM »
A Wapiti, now that is obscure.

Now we just need an aftermarket canopy and the big jar of yellow paint for the RCAF Wapiti Mk.IIa  ;D
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Re: Dora Wings
« Reply #21 on: January 30, 2018, 07:43:57 AM »
A Wapiti, now that is obscure.

Now we just need an aftermarket canopy and the big jar of yellow paint for the RCAF Wapiti Mk.IIa  ;D

I've got a CMR 1/72 Wapiti in the stash, I'd have to find it but I think you can do a RCAF variant

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Re: Dora Wings
« Reply #22 on: January 30, 2018, 10:03:37 AM »
I have just made space for several FD.2s.
I will likely do so, too.  So much whiffing that can be done with that, in addition to what was done (dare I hope for a BAC 221 at a later date??).

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Re: Dora Wings
« Reply #23 on: January 30, 2018, 10:22:38 AM »
Dammit, they used a picture of a Gull Six to illustrate the Vega Gull  >:(
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Re: Dora Wings
« Reply #24 on: April 11, 2018, 02:09:58 AM »
All hail the God of Frustration!!!

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