But I've decided to change the scope of it's operations. Instead of it being a 'long-range night-fighter' I think I'll do it as a 'long-range night intruder'. The idea now it would work very deep into enemy territory creating havoc for seemingly ""safe"' areas for the enemy.
So I got thinking of what it would need for weapons (apart from the 20mm's). I remembered something I'd seen in one of my books, Spitfire by Alfred Price. It was of a Spiteful which had a 180 Gal. center drop tank and also had four of what the caption said was "Triplex rockets with a 7.5" artillery shell for a war head powered by three 3" RP-3 rocket motors. Just what the doctor ordered I think ----
So I decided to have a go at making them. These pics are of my 'practice' run at it but I need to refine it a bit. I had found some round styrene rod that scales out to about 4" diameter, it really should be 3 1/2" but this was close enough in 1/72 scale. I then found some round-ish sprue that scaled to about 8" diameter.
But what I need to know is what the length of a 7.5" shell is, it would be a British one though. But I can't find anything on the internet about it, there's a 7.2" shell but still no info on dimensions