Life Extension and Upgrade Inspiration

[GTX_Admin]

A place for any inspiration.

[GTX_Admin]

Antipodal Armoured Collaboration

[perttime]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_PA-48_Enforcer

[Kerick]

Both #1 and #2 look like potential Ukrainian anti drone conversions/upgrades.

I have an F-16XL kit I was planning to combine with an Israeli Sufa. Would that qualify as an upgrade?

[elmayerle]

Both #1 and #2 look like potential Ukrainian anti drone conversions/upgrades.

I have an F-16XL kit I was planning to combine with an Israeli Sufa. Would that qualify as an upgrade?

Keep the Sufa 2-seat cockpit/

[elmayerle]

Hasegawa does a F-2A-Kai kit with various add-ons.  I'm thinking of crossing that with a F-2B kit and bits from a late-model F-16D with the spine.

[Old Wombat]

Antipodal Armoured Collaboration

Thanks, Greg (& Stephen)! Now I'm torn between two GB's for which I have projects that would fit! 

And, no, I can't build seven things simultaneously! 

Guess I'll have to do one for the Op Downfall GB over on WiM & either of the Antipodal Armoured Collab builds for this GB, then alternate until the GBs run out. 

[Kerick]

Both #1 and #2 look like potential Ukrainian anti drone conversions/upgrades.

I have an F-16XL kit I was planning to combine with an Israeli Sufa. Would that qualify as an upgrade?

Keep the Sufa 2-seat cockpit/

Definitely a two seater!

Hasegawa does a F-2A-Kai kit with various add-ons.  I'm thinking of crossing that with a F-2B kit and bits from a late-model F-16D with the spine.

That’s a good one too!

[JP Vieira]

This look very interesting. I am keen to participate and have allready thinking of something for it; it envolves a rather famous 1930s airliner thrown into modern warfare :)

[Kerick]

The Ukrainians are using an AN-28 cargo aircraft with a side firing minigun to shoot down drones. As of the date of the article, it had shot down 150. That’s quite an upgrade.

[raafif]

Looks like Ukraine also has a Leopard 1-Cockerill -- new turret with 20-40-90mm options.

[apophenia]

Looks like Ukraine also has a Leopard 1-Cockerill -- new turret with 20-40-90mm options.

Actually, as the Cockerill 3105 turret designation suggests, those re-turreted Leopard 1 hulls have 105 mm guns.

[The Big Gimper]

Cavalier Turbo Mustang III/ Enforcer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalier_Mustang

[GTX_Admin]

And in a similar vein, a turbo-prop P-47 I drew years ago:

[The Big Gimper]

How about a B-58 with 8 J97s?

B-58   
4 x J79 41,600
8 x J97 42,160

The General Electric J97 is a single-shaft turbojet engine designed and built by General Electric as a compact high-performance engine for light attack fighters and eventually a number of drone projects.



B-58-J97-01 by Big Gimper, on Flickr

[arc3371]

Many moons ago I did a converted F-84 that replaced its worn out jet with a turboprop for use as a coin aircraft

[GTX_Admin]

How about this '50s era Ar234F (with the real world Ar-234B-2 included for comparison) that I sketched up over a decade ago:

[apophenia]

How about this '50s era Ar234F (with the real world Ar-234B-2 included for comparison) that I sketched up over a decade ago:

Nice! Is that a Grumman Panther canopy?

[Kerick]

Looks more Phantomish to me. But it would be a cool project.

[GTX_Admin]

I seem to recall it was a modified F-4 one though we are talking about something from about 15yrs ago…