One of the many real world proposals for the Vulcan in the early 60s was a modification to carry three Gnats. These Gnats would carry a nuclear bomb and the mission profile left it up to the pilot as to whether he ejected before the explosion or rode it in. Understandably it was a short lived idea...
But in the WHIF world this idea lead to the Red Fly cruise missile. instead of a piloted Gnat carrying a bomb, the Gnat was modified into a long range cruise missile with a nuclear warhead.
So far the modifications to the Gnat structure include:
Replace nose with super-duper pointy nose
Removing vertical tail
Remove/fill horizontal tail slots/fairings
Clip wings by 1 scale foot
Fill in cockpit with scrap sprue and fair in the cockpit are with milliput.
I'm still experimenting with the tail configuration. In the pics the first one has a V-tail made from trimmed down Heller Jaguar H-stabs. These are pretty thick and if used need more thinning down.
The other pics use the kit H-stabs in a V configuration. I initially thought they were too small, which is why I made bigger ones to try, but the more I look at it the more I like them. I think the smaller fins make it look more missile-like. Also added as a ventral fin is the top of the kit V-stab.
I'm really liking the look of it, and after I got the main mods done I really considered retrofitting a cockpit and making it a single seat parasite fighter with wingtip missiles. This may be my plan for my next Gnat build but for now I decided to proceed with my unmanned missile build. I've ordered another kit though so the parasite fighter may show up soon too.
It will end up in non-operational prototype colors for the Prototype GB on the other forum.
Anyhoo, here is the first day's progress. Input very welcome as always.