Beyond The Sprues
Modelling => Ideas & Inspiration => Aero-space => Topic started by: Litvyak on October 09, 2012, 12:24:06 AM
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I don't imagine there's ever been a kit released, in any format, of the Boeing YC-14.
I'd be curious to hear your ideas, how you'd go about building one? (EDIT: If you'd even try to build one...)
(http://www.aircraftimages.net/pics/0/83_800.jpg)
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Hey that's pretty freakin' cool! I'd never seen this before, can't help with any suggestions but thanks for posting this.
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I would sell my 14 year old for a 1/72 YC-14 or YC-15.
He is being miserable right now so I am willing to put him up on the auction block. >:D
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I'd probably make one using the same method used to produce foie gras, but with an An-72 instead of a goose.
Cheers,
Logan
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Thanks, Logan. I haven't had a real, proper belly laugh like that in a long time.
I couldn't help but picture an An-72's nose sticking up between my knees, nose cone open, and me stuffing food down its open maw...
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http://www.anigrand.com/AA2100_YC-14.htm (http://www.anigrand.com/AA2100_YC-14.htm)
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Now whiff it by giving it 4 engines... >:D
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[url]http://www.anigrand.com/AA2100_YC-14.htm[/url] ([url]http://www.anigrand.com/AA2100_YC-14.htm[/url])
But it has to be under $100.00 else The-Carl-who-just-spent-too-much-money-on-a-single-model alarm goes off and I to have present my losing case the C-in-C home. :icon_crap:
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Hmm......doable, but not for under $100 !!
I think a Hercules for the nose & fuselage, AN-72 for the wings & engines, C-17 for the tail. Lot of expensive kits to make that one bird.
Of course, you could then have a Coaler with Herky bird wings & engines - sorta like a high wing
P-3....
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Hmm...!!
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I made a 1/350 scale, 4 engine version STOL jet from a C-5A: http://frank.bol.ucla.edu/USAFCargo.htm (http://frank.bol.ucla.edu/USAFCargo.htm)
(http://frank.bol.ucla.edu/Images/USAFCargo/CargoD.JPG)
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So just checked out the options that deathjester suggested.
In 1/72, the only C-17 option I can find is from Anigrand anyways, and at $185 to boot, so for that scale, may as well just go for the Anigrand YC-14.
In 1/144, which I'd prefer for such a large aircraft, going by Squadron's prices, it'd be $30 for a Minicraft C-130, $28 for an Amodel An-72 and $36 for a Revell C-17... so total $94 before shipping. Add all the putty etc., and then you're left with a huge pile of leftover plastic...
Too bad Anigrand doesn't do this in 1/144. At the $100 average their kits in that scale seem to go for, I could probably (at a stretch) justify one to myself. At $150 for one in 1/72... well, that's a reasonable price, all things considered, but I have no idea where I'd put it...
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In 1/72, the only C-17 option I can find is from Anigrand anyways, and at $185 to boot, so for that scale, may as well just go for the Anigrand YC-14.
Combat models do a vacuform 1/72 C-17, I've got one. But I also picked up the Anigrand 'correction' forward fuselage set to use on it (I won't have to put any ballast in the front either ;D )
http://www.combatmodels.us/ (http://www.combatmodels.us/)
If you going to use just the tail then at US$55 it's a better option. Plus you can always write to them and see if they have a fuselage where the front end didn't form very well like I did when I was looking for a 1/72 737 forward fuselage for my Atlantic project
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So just checked out the options that deathjester suggested.
In 1/72, the only C-17 option I can find is from Anigrand anyways, and at $185 to boot, so for that scale, may as well just go for the Anigrand YC-14.
In 1/144, which I'd prefer for such a large aircraft, going by Squadron's prices, it'd be $30 for a Minicraft C-130, $28 for an Amodel An-72 and $36 for a Revell C-17... so total $94 before shipping. Add all the putty etc., and then you're left with a huge pile of leftover plastic...
Too bad Anigrand doesn't do this in 1/144. At the $100 average their kits in that scale seem to go for, I could probably (at a stretch) justify one to myself. At $150 for one in 1/72... well, that's a reasonable price, all things considered, but I have no idea where I'd put it...
Ouch!! That's all very pricey. There must be a cheaper way to do a 1/72 version!?!
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I'm tempted to do a operational C-14 in RAAF Caribou scheme:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Royal_Australian_Air_Force_DHC-4_Caribou_-_A4-299.jpg)
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That'd be cool. :)
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Now whiff it by giving it 4 engines... >:D
Agree Greg!!
I've read one of the greatest concerns with the USAF re the YC-14 two-engine arrangement was its concern about the designs ability to operate in a single-engine failure situation - a good example of this configuration would be that of the NASA modified C8-A Buffalo 'Quiet Short-haul Research Aircraft' (QSRA) program (see attachment)
M.A.D
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Is that QSRA landing... or taking off and being outrun by the carrier?? :)
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It's landing and it's managing to land on a carrier without arresting gear.
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It's landing and it's managing to land on a carrier without arresting gear.
Not that hard a trick, if there is a fast wind over the bows. Now, a Fairy Swordfish could take off and have the carrier go faster than it, with a stiff breeze over the bows. ;D ;D