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Current and Finished Projects => Physical Models => Aero-space => Topic started by: Bladerunner on December 23, 2011, 05:27:44 PM

Title: Some of my built and work-in-progress models
Post by: Bladerunner on December 23, 2011, 05:27:44 PM

Hi guys,

Here's a few pics of some of my built models and some work-in-progress models, I thought I'd share with you guys. :)

First is the V-29 Akula.

(http://i589.photobucket.com/albums/ss337/ScaleWorx/SAM_1908.jpg)

(http://i589.photobucket.com/albums/ss337/ScaleWorx/SAM_1913.jpg)

(http://i589.photobucket.com/albums/ss337/ScaleWorx/SAM_1911.jpg)

(http://i589.photobucket.com/albums/ss337/ScaleWorx/SAM_1910.jpg)

(http://i589.photobucket.com/albums/ss337/ScaleWorx/SAM_1914.jpg)


Yakovlev Yak 130D

(http://i589.photobucket.com/albums/ss337/ScaleWorx/SAM_1906.jpg)


CG-1 Dynablade

(http://i589.photobucket.com/albums/ss337/ScaleWorx/SAM_1915.jpg)

(http://i589.photobucket.com/albums/ss337/ScaleWorx/SAM_1916.jpg)

(http://i589.photobucket.com/albums/ss337/ScaleWorx/SAM_1917.jpg)


BAC Pike

(http://i589.photobucket.com/albums/ss337/ScaleWorx/SAM_1918.jpg)


F-4-F40 Freebooter

(http://i589.photobucket.com/albums/ss337/ScaleWorx/SAM_1920.jpg)

(http://i589.photobucket.com/albums/ss337/ScaleWorx/SAM_1923.jpg)

(http://i589.photobucket.com/albums/ss337/ScaleWorx/SAM_1921.jpg)

Cheers
John

Title: Re: Some of my built and work-in-progress models
Post by: Jeffry Fontaine on December 23, 2011, 10:39:50 PM

Nice work! 

All 1/72nd scale? 

That VTOL based on the MiG-29 looks real nice with the forward swept wing arrangement.  Your Corsair hybrid is also interesting, always wondered what a V engine corsair would look like in solid form. 

Title: Re: Some of my built and work-in-progress models
Post by: sotoolslinger on December 24, 2011, 12:10:02 AM

Those are frikken brilliant :want: The Akula is one of the coolest builds I have seen and you must tell me what nose you used on the Corsair hybrid so that I may steal your idea :in-love: :want: :yarr:

Title: Re: Some of my built and work-in-progress models
Post by: GTX_Admin on December 24, 2011, 03:23:31 AM

Love the MiG!!!!

Quote

you must tell me what nose you used on the Corsair hybrid so that I may steal your idea

Looks a bit like a nose from a Yokosuka D4Y1 or maybe even a XP-37???

Title: Re: Some of my built and work-in-progress models
Post by: Bladerunner on December 24, 2011, 03:41:04 AM

Hi gang,

Thank you for the kind compliments... :-[

The are all 1/72.

The Akula was built in 2001 from many model parts!
-Mig-29 airframe from which I chopped the engine bulges and intake trunks.
-Grumman X-29's wings and cockpit.
-F-5 canopy.
-Mig-23 intakes (turned them horizontal on the model.
-Kfir tailfins, small intake vents, nosewheel leg and main wheels.
-F4U4 main legs that retract backwards into the halves of a Hawker Hunter fuel tank.
-Matchbox Lynx rear fuselage inserts to go behind and extend Mig-23 intakes.
-M-1 Abrams turret behind that.
-Refueling probe from a Buccaneer.
-Smoke-stacks from a toy/Lego ship for exhausts that rotate on a koki-pen on a shaft.
-Tornado exhaust nozzle between the intakes as a typical russian lift-jet.
-Scaratchbuilt canards and airbrake.
-Decals from the Italeri Mig-37B Ferret E, Soviet Navy flag from Italeri Su-27 Sea Flanker and the sharkmouth from a Heller Vampire/Mistral.

The Yak-130 is an out-of-the-box Amodel kit with decals from MAV Decals.

The CG-1 Dynablade I built when I was still in highschool. This was also built from a lot of stuff.

The Pike is a BAC Lightning airframe with F-8E forward fuselage. F-8E tailplanes used as canards, and the main wings are from a TSR.2.

As for the Corsair, old Matchbox kit with a scatchbuilt engine based on the P-40B Tomahawk. The idea was to make a mould of the nose and share it, but I just never got to do it. The Corsair started off as a profile, but I encountered a big problem when trying to fit a Tomahawk engine to it. The Corsair airframe is a perfect circle in cross section, and the Tomahawk oval.

(http://i589.photobucket.com/albums/ss337/ScaleWorx/F-4-F40FreebooterUSNavy-1.jpg)

Cheers
John

Title: Re: Some of my built and work-in-progress models
Post by: Scooterman on December 25, 2011, 12:35:02 PM

The SAAF Yak.................. :in-love: :in-love: :in-love:

Title: Re: Some of my built and work-in-progress models
Post by: AXOR on December 29, 2011, 08:07:35 PM

V-29 Akula it's so interesting !!!
Very nice models .

Alex

Title: Re: Some of my built and work-in-progress models
Post by: Tophe on December 30, 2011, 03:34:33 AM

Several gorgeous beauties there... :)

Title: Re: Some of my built and work-in-progress models
Post by: finsrin on December 30, 2011, 01:09:04 PM

Am on board with the other comments.  Like all your builds and creativity.  Get many ideas from what the rest of you do.  In particular, would not have thought of the Lightning/F-8 combo and it flows together well.

Bill

Title: Re: Some of my built and work-in-progress models
Post by: ChernayaAkula on December 30, 2011, 03:27:27 PM

Quote from: Bladerunner on December 23, 2011, 05:27:44 PM

BAC Pike

([url]http://i589.photobucket.com/albums/ss337/ScaleWorx/SAM_1918.jpg[/url])

 :omg-: HELL YES! AWESOME!

Title: Re: Some of my built and work-in-progress models
Post by: Doom! on December 31, 2011, 12:11:10 AM

Wow! Some great stuff, the Akula is Bad-Ass!!! (http://www.doomisland2.com/images/avatars/drool.gif)  (http://www.doomisland2.com/images/avatars/wub1.gif)

Title: Re: Some of my built and work-in-progress models
Post by: The Big Gimper on December 31, 2011, 12:20:05 AM

Quote from: Bladerunner on December 24, 2011, 03:41:04 AM

As for the Corsair, old Matchbox kit with a scatchbuilt engine based on the P-40B Tomahawk. The idea was to make a mould of the nose and share it, but I just never got to do it. The Corsair started off as a profile, but I encountered a big problem when trying to fit a Tomahawk engine to it. The Corsair airframe is a perfect circle in cross section, and the Tomahawk oval.

([url]http://i589.photobucket.com/albums/ss337/ScaleWorx/F-4-F40FreebooterUSNavy-1.jpg[/url])

Cheers
John

Yeah, I hate when A/C manufacturers did not take into consideration that one day we modelers were going to mix-n-match airframes and engines and that we need a consistent engine and fuselage cross-profiles to build our dream A/C.

How rude of them.

 :yush:

Title: Re: Some of my built and work-in-progress models
Post by: John Howling Mouse on January 03, 2012, 09:48:53 AM

F A N T A S T I C !    All of them!    :in-love:

Title: Re: Some of my built and work-in-progress models
Post by: Stargazer2006 on January 03, 2012, 06:39:18 PM

All nice, but the V-29 Akula is definitely the showstopper here!!

Title: Re: Some of my built and work-in-progress models
Post by: AXOR on January 03, 2012, 06:59:04 PM

 :in-love: F-4-F40 great design,I would like to make myself some profiles using this lineart,if is possible,of course.

Alex

Title: "Tomahawk" Nose for the Corsair
Post by: sequoiaranger on January 05, 2012, 01:35:50 AM

Nice job! Did you carve it out of soap from your padded cell??

 :slow:

Title: Re: Some of my built and work-in-progress models
Post by: Bladerunner on January 05, 2012, 01:04:11 PM

Hi Gang,

Thank you for the flattering comments... :-[

The F-4-F-40 was a tricky mod, but the Pike also had some challenges, as the Crusader fuselage is much wider than the Lightning. I had to wedge the Lightning fuselage wider, then added the forward section of a 1/48 Mirage III ventral fuel tank to complete the spine to the rear of the canopy. I've discovered three more half-built whif projects during my move to the new house. Will take some pics and post them later today.

Quote from: sequoiaranger on January 05, 2012, 01:35:50 AM

Nice job! Did you carve it out of soap from your padded cell??

 :slow:

You get padded cells? :o   I'll have to speak to the matron...  :yarr: 
Didnt have any soap, so I used a chunk of resin.

Cheers
John

Title: Re: Some of my built and work-in-progress models
Post by: Bladerunner on January 05, 2012, 09:37:01 PM

As I mentioned a few models I forgot about, here they are. :D


A Super Etendard with Kfir/Cheetah wings. Canards to be added.

(http://i589.photobucket.com/albums/ss337/ScaleWorx/SAM_1957.jpg)



A Draken with Mirage IIIE tail piece and J-79 nozzle, intakes slanted to the rear, new tailfin, nose centreline dropped, ACES II ejection seat. Canards still to be added.

(http://i589.photobucket.com/albums/ss337/ScaleWorx/SAM_1960.jpg)



The Thunderhawk was a Matchbox Hawk 200 with elevators used as winglets, 1/48 Impala mk.1 gunpods over the intakes, Vigilante nose cone, A-10 engines with J-79 nozzles, Kfir canards as vertical fins and a fueltank extending between the engines.

(http://i589.photobucket.com/albums/ss337/ScaleWorx/SAM_1964.jpg)



Cheers
John

Title: Re: Some of my built and work-in-progress models
Post by: AXOR on January 05, 2012, 10:30:16 PM

That Thunderhawk is awesome,the kind of kitbash that I love !!!
 :want: :in-love:

Alex

Title: Re: Some of my built and work-in-progress models
Post by: Bladerunner on January 06, 2012, 01:33:49 AM

Thanks Alex. That Thunderhawk was started in 2001! >:(

I discovered yet another half-built project! This one is of the cancelled Project Carver. It was supposed to be the SAAF's next generation indigenous fighter. An artist impression appeared in a magazine in 1986. This 1/72 model I'm busy building, is based on that, although far from what it was to look like.

-I used an F-15 forward fuselage
-Tornado rear fuselage
-Mirage IV tail cone
-Spine made from a fuel tank
-1/48 Mirage III wings
-ATAR 09-K50 nozzles from my F-1AZ conversions
-Kfir canards
-Made my own canopy


(http://i589.photobucket.com/albums/ss337/ScaleWorx/SAM_1975.jpg)

Cheers
John

Title: Re: Some of my built and work-in-progress models
Post by: Tophe on January 06, 2012, 01:51:27 AM

Many interesting things there!
It is fine to see pictures before completion, to understand this is not normal buiding at all! (this is far better)

Title: Re: Some of my built and work-in-progress models
Post by: GTX_Admin on January 06, 2012, 02:31:07 AM

The Thunderhawk reminds me of one of the the PZL-230 Skorpion designs:

(http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z29/davidtou/PZL-230SkorpionIII_Pologne.png)

Title: Re: Some of my built and work-in-progress models
Post by: RussC on January 06, 2012, 06:08:06 AM

Great work on all of these ! The Mig VTOL is singularly unforgettable and the freebooter is a great concept too.

 :ninja:

Title: Re: Some of my built and work-in-progress models
Post by: ysi_maniac on March 08, 2012, 10:14:55 PM

Very interesting ideas, above all Pike, Freebooter and Mirage related. :-* :-* :-*