Author Topic: Hunter & FW189, yellow : hybrid aircraft/animals e.a.  (Read 588808 times)

Offline Tophe

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Re: 2cv & VW combi Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #750 on: November 25, 2016, 11:51:11 AM »
Yes, good!
Just a question: to reach the seats above (or to go down from them), do you need external ladders (that are folded inside during travel?) or is there internal stairs inside the lower compartment? ??? ;)

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Re: 2cv & VW combi Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #751 on: November 25, 2016, 12:13:39 PM »
I reckon that depends on whether or not the Kombi you used has a sunroof.  If it does, there's probably an internal ladder.  Alternatively, if it doesn't, I could see an external ladder unfolding from the back door of the 2CV when the vehicle is at rest.

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Re: 2cv & VW combi Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #752 on: November 27, 2016, 03:29:21 AM »
thanks !

a few technical mysteries maybe, so after all it is a whif ;-)


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Cobra helicopter and Aladin's lamp, red Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #753 on: December 01, 2016, 07:47:28 PM »

After the flying teapot helicopters shown previously in this thread, I try this oriental lamp, coupled with a Cobra :
a bit of magic ...






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Cool. Can I make 3 modeling wishes?  ;D
Work in progress ::

I am giving up listing them. They all end up on the shelf of procrastination anyways.

User and abuser of Bothans...

Offline Tophe

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Wow! It seems even more powerful than the original one (helicopter-less)...

Offline ericr

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thanks !

make wishes indeed, who knows, it might work  ;)

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Buccaneer & banana, flying, blue Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #757 on: December 08, 2016, 12:14:18 AM »


one more plastic foam banana, this time powered by a Buccaneer
(remember that the Matchbox/Revell one has engines and wings easy to detach and reuse elsewhere  ;) )
the fit went very nicely and easily








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Re: Buccaneer & banana, flying, blue Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #758 on: December 08, 2016, 01:16:41 AM »
Looks like a transport. 8)

I like the cobra lamp too
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Re: Buccaneer & banana, flying, blue Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #759 on: December 08, 2016, 01:00:46 PM »
Looks like a transport. 8)
Well, the curved rear reminds a loading ramp cargo rear, it is right, but the curvature is so big it would not work, and this design failure would be very funny, thanks!

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Re: Buccaneer & banana, flying, blue Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #760 on: December 08, 2016, 06:23:45 PM »

in whif world, there are no failures, only undocumented features  ;D

Re: Buccaneer & banana, flying, blue Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #761 on: December 08, 2016, 08:12:00 PM »
A Banananeer? ;D

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Re: Buccaneer & banana, flying, blue Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #762 on: December 09, 2016, 05:51:01 AM »
 ;D :)

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Re: Buccaneer & banana, flying, blue Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #763 on: December 09, 2016, 10:31:51 AM »
I like that cross of Buccaneer and banana.  Perhaps the upraised portion houses conformal antennas (antennae?) for an AEW variant.

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Re: Buccaneer & banana, flying, blue Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #764 on: December 10, 2016, 04:57:25 AM »

thanks  ;)

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flying banana (for real this time !), red Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #765 on: December 12, 2016, 01:40:03 AM »

one more banana, maybe the last? this time it deserves its name fully :
I bought especially a 1/72 H_21 fying banana from HobbyCraft, and used the rotors and wheels here
(the rest is under use in another project to be seen soon  ;) )







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by the way I am of course not the first one ;-)







or even :



so I am doing quite normal stuff after all

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*laughs* Beautiful and quite in keeping with tradition.

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I sent mine to Telford long long ago.

There's something fun aboot turning bananas into aircraft.
I like the Buccaneer. Truly the Blackburn ARNA!
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great ! thanks for sharing !
bananas have a lot of potential : right now I am out of bananas now in my stash,
but who knows? maybe some time in the future?

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push-pull windmills, liliensternus Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #770 on: December 13, 2016, 08:42:27 PM »
in the series of propellers windmills hybrid animals,
I just had to try the push-pull twin-propeller :
the liliensternus seemed an appropriate candidate
for this peculiar evolutionary possibility :





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Re: push-pull windmills, liliensternus Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #771 on: December 15, 2016, 01:41:44 AM »
 :-* Interesting... I just have a question: now the propellers don't rotate, but when are they rotating? When the animal runs? or attacks? or else? ;)

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Re: push-pull windmills, liliensternus Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #772 on: December 15, 2016, 07:02:12 PM »

the original motivation comes from windmills, so the purpose is to acquire energy ;
but then maybe propellers can help locomotion as well ...  ;)

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Re: push-pull windmills, liliensternus Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #773 on: December 16, 2016, 01:45:02 AM »
Thanks for the explanation, Creator! (God?) ;)

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P-61 black widow & Space Shuttle, blue Re: hybrid aircraft/animals and others
« Reply #774 on: December 17, 2016, 03:08:24 AM »

The wings and booms of this P-61 are going to be used elsewhere ( ... teaser ...  ;) ) here is the fuselage,
used by Northrop to test, with an existing airframe to make it simpler and cheaper, ideas about a space shuttle design :







The P-61 is Revell 1/48, the Shuttle and Booster Academy 1/144