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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #400 on: July 14, 2020, 02:44:16 AM »
How bloody good does this operational VJ 101 look!!😯

I've always wondered what the VJ 101's weapons arrangements would have been had it entered operational service. I don't know if this model's weapons layout is WhatIf, but it looks far more warlike than I ever envisaged!!

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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #401 on: July 14, 2020, 05:53:47 AM »
How bloody good does this operational VJ 101 look!!😯

I've always wondered what the VJ 101's weapons arrangements would have been had it entered operational service. I don't know if this model's weapons layout is WhatIf, but it looks far more warlike than I ever envisaged!!

MAD

What was the source for this one?

Ah crap.....didn't realise I hadn't submitted it...
I'll have to find it again 😩

Wait out....

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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #402 on: July 14, 2020, 05:58:29 AM »
How bloody good does this operational VJ 101 look!!😯

I've always wondered what the VJ 101's weapons arrangements would have been had it entered operational service. I don't know if this model's weapons layout is WhatIf, but it looks far more warlike than I ever envisaged!!

MAD

What was the source for this one?

Ah crap.....didn't realise I hadn't submitted it...
I'll have to find it again 😩

Wait out....

MAD

Re my last....

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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #403 on: July 14, 2020, 06:22:50 AM »
I suspect a rather reduced weapons load for VTOL operations, probably something equivalent to what the Bell D-188A could carry.

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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #404 on: July 16, 2020, 04:41:10 AM »
Not sure how well those Sidewinders would last with the lift jet blasting out between them.

Might have to tweak the IR seeker cryo-engines a smidge?  ;D
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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #405 on: August 27, 2020, 09:01:32 AM »
Not sure if this has been seen here before...

A Ferrari 330 P4 powered by a 4-poster Pegasus built (I think) by Stefano Marchetti back in 2016. From IMPS UK.
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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #406 on: August 28, 2020, 02:01:43 AM »
 :smiley:
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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #407 on: August 28, 2020, 03:38:57 AM »
Won "Best of Show" even, I think.  :smiley:
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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #408 on: August 31, 2020, 02:48:23 AM »
There's a lot going on here:

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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #409 on: August 31, 2020, 03:35:05 AM »
From MikroMir's Facebook page:







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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #410 on: August 31, 2020, 05:44:42 AM »
 :-*

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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #411 on: August 31, 2020, 06:51:29 AM »
Nice target!

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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #412 on: September 01, 2020, 01:49:52 AM »
I love the WW1 - M1 - Sherman - Gatling Gun one.  More modern tanks in WW1 schemes would be great.
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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #413 on: September 07, 2020, 02:49:48 AM »


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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #414 on: September 07, 2020, 03:00:30 AM »
Another wanna build with BdB flair.  :smiley:
More look at it, more I like it.
Note the two cannon and four machine guns.
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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #415 on: September 07, 2020, 03:11:28 AM »
That really looks like a BdB creation - except for the canopy and cockpit.
This looks like a US version of the  Westland Whirlwind. Maybe make a Whirlwind with two Allisons - although that may tear the Whirlwind apart...

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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #416 on: September 10, 2020, 05:53:51 AM »
^ That's pretty cool!  8)

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Interesting idea:


SOURCE + additional pics
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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #417 on: September 11, 2020, 01:31:32 AM »
The P-40 twin engine is based upon this real world creation:



I've seen a few attempts to model it over the years.  there doesn't appear to be much info on it apart from this single photo.
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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #418 on: September 11, 2020, 07:35:06 AM »
I’ve thought about applying this idea to a P-51B Mustang. Need regular size wings outside of the engines then extra wing between the engines and fuselage.

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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #419 on: September 11, 2020, 09:39:22 AM »
Sounds good. Do it!  :smiley:
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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #420 on: September 11, 2020, 11:08:26 AM »
I’ve thought about applying this idea to a P-51B Mustang. Need regular size wings outside of the engines then extra wing between the engines and fuselage.
Move main landing gear into the extra wing so that it retracts as on a stock P-51B.  I could see either standard P-51B radiator scoops on each nacelle or leading edge radiators, as on the Mosquito, between the nacelles and the fuselage.  I've been tempted to try something like this as an early iteration toward the P-82.

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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #421 on: September 14, 2020, 06:43:55 AM »
Deviant Art. Artist: jimbowyrick

When strategic materials were not in short supply. And runways could be as long as needed.









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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #422 on: September 14, 2020, 08:18:37 AM »
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It can't get much better than this.     Am thinking Amodel 1/72 releases for coming holiday season.    Perhaps another company.....
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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #423 on: September 20, 2020, 03:06:16 AM »



More here
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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #424 on: September 23, 2020, 11:48:47 PM »
 Via Facebook.

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