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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #450 on: May 13, 2021, 02:36:12 AM »
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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #451 on: May 13, 2021, 07:07:47 AM »
Not only a cool whif, but also nicely finished.  :smiley:
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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #452 on: May 13, 2021, 03:02:03 PM »
Not only a cool whif, but also nicely finished.  :smiley:

Agreed! :smiley:
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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #453 on: June 01, 2021, 05:51:44 PM »
Found on Facebook.

Model Railroader magazine
Maybe the railroads could have maintained passenger service longer if they took a can't beat 'em, might as well join 'em approach.

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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #454 on: June 01, 2021, 10:35:59 PM »
Ooh! Nice!  :-*

These schemes, but on zeppelins and aircraft for the 20s/30s GB?
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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #455 on: June 02, 2021, 03:56:28 AM »
Found on Facebook.

Model Railroader magazine
Maybe the railroads could have maintained passenger service longer if they took a can't beat 'em, might as well join 'em approach.


Very nice, 'cept the Feds shut them down after WW II when they tried it.  The ATSF (Santa Fe) railroad was definitely into developing an air cargo operation and both DC-4's and Dc-3's flew in a variation of their "Warbonnet" paint scheme.  Since D&H did a variation on that with the Alco PA-2's they purchased from the Santa Fe, 'twould be interesting to see that scheme, in their colors. on a modern aircraft.

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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #456 on: June 02, 2021, 09:17:09 AM »
These schemes, but on zeppelins and aircraft for the 20s/30s GB?

Ooo ... nice! Careful Moritz, this idea might just get stolen  ;)
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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #457 on: November 14, 2021, 07:23:30 AM »
Via Les @ FB.

Notes says photo taken at Telford.  Scale not mentioned.

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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #458 on: November 14, 2021, 07:39:07 AM »
Notes says photo taken at Telford.  Scale not mentioned.
I would guess the scale to be 1/72nd and that is only because there is an ESCI 1/9th KettenKrad on display behind it. 
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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #459 on: November 14, 2021, 09:14:19 AM »
Via FB. Photos by Geoff Baker.

Just a couple of shots of Project Cancelled SIG display at SMW 2021. Models by Martin Higgs, Joe Warner Cherrie, Norman Church and Geoff Baker.
And from What-If.





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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #460 on: November 14, 2021, 09:20:02 PM »
Wow, particularly like the Canberra interceptor (with F-89 Scorpion-like wingtip missile pods)😯👍
Also trying to assertain what's deemed different with the Invincible class model?🤔

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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #461 on: November 19, 2021, 12:01:04 PM »
That cartoonish looking airplane in front of the carrier looks like a Supermarine drawing board design.

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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #462 on: November 19, 2021, 11:33:04 PM »
That cartoonish looking airplane in front of the carrier looks like a Supermarine drawing board design.

No, it's a prone-pilot Hunter. The modeller merely took the experimental prone-pilot Gloster Meteor F8 a step further.
https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=49649.0


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloster_Meteor_F8_%22Prone_Pilot%22

Also trying to assertain what's deemed different with the Invincible class model?🤔

It's a Dutch what-if; HNLMS Karel Doorman, what-if the Dutch had purchased an Invincible class carrier.
The aircraft behind it are also Dutch what-if's.


https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=49664.msg940941#new
« Last Edit: November 19, 2021, 11:35:33 PM by Old Wombat »
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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #463 on: November 22, 2021, 03:11:51 AM »
Also trying to assertain what's deemed different with the Invincible class model?🤔

It's a Dutch what-if; HNLMS Karel Doorman, what-if the Dutch had purchased an Invincible class carrier.
The aircraft behind it are also Dutch what-if's.


https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=49664.msg940941#new

Thank you for the clarification Old Wombat 👍

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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #464 on: August 11, 2022, 01:11:49 AM »


Here's Halberd models  excellent 1/48 Cavalier Turbo Mustang III conversion finished as a "whif" SAAF Atlas Swartkraai Mk 1, based somewhere in Angola during the Border War in 1978. A full article will appear in SAM - Scale Aircraft Modelling soon.
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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #465 on: August 11, 2022, 02:10:36 AM »
Nice build !

I like how the underside camouflage colour wraps around the lower fuselage and up over that huge, honkin' fin  :smiley:

And I love the 'Cape Crow' name  ;D
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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #466 on: August 13, 2022, 02:24:14 AM »
Gorgeous model!   :-*
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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #467 on: December 05, 2022, 07:06:25 PM »
Found on a Canadian What-if Group.



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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #468 on: December 05, 2022, 08:59:05 PM »
 :smiley: :smiley:
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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #469 on: February 19, 2023, 09:59:09 AM »
Found these by an artist called Aleks - aka DixiClipper

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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #470 on: April 20, 2023, 05:04:49 AM »
Found on the internet:



anyone care to guess what it started as and what went into it?


Masterpiece.   Now design a model box (Airfix, Lindberg, whatever) with this picture on it.

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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #471 on: April 20, 2023, 01:02:56 PM »
Found on the internet:



anyone care to guess what it started as and what went into it?


Masterpiece.   Now design a model box (Airfix, Lindberg, whatever) with this picture on it.

Start with a 1/72 SU-22=UM3 "Fitter", add intakes from a 1/48 A-4, and perhaps the nose, from the front of the windscreen forward, of a 1/48 F-4E or F-4F?
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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #472 on: April 21, 2023, 09:47:48 AM »
And some SEA camo to go with the markings.

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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #473 on: August 29, 2023, 02:22:29 AM »
Spotted at 26th Model Show of the GPC - Plastic Modeling Group of Campinas, Brazil.



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Re: Random whiffs you have found
« Reply #474 on: August 29, 2023, 03:25:43 AM »
Cool. A Porax-38 starfighter?

Ref: The Porax-38 appears in Revenge of the Sith as a starfighter piloted by the native Utapauns during the Battle of Utapau. Although featured in a full two-page spread in the Revenge of the Sith Incredible Cross-Sections book, the fighter's role was significantly reduced in the final film. This was due to the fact that the P-38's digital model, being a late addition to the film, was not completed to the level originally planned, and so was relegated to a background craft.[55]
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