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Lockheed P-38 Lightning Ideas and Inspiration
GTX_Admin:
P-38 75mm gun proposal:
Weaver:
That 75mm bird and the Griffon-engined ones make me think about a seriously "Britishified" Lightning: Griffons or Merlin engines and the guns and cockpit swapped around to something more like the Meteor/Hornet arrangment, where the cockpit is right in the nose with the gun barrels under the floor and the magazines behind it.
Jeffry Fontaine:
Switching the four Browning .50" machine guns out for an equal number of 20mm cannons would be a simple yet subtle modification that would be hard to spot.
elmayerle:
--- Quote from: The Big Gimper on February 04, 2012, 08:13:32 PM ---The radial version, XFV-1 Trident, was nicely done in 1/48 here: http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/rh/articles.php?id=6580
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Beautiful piece of work but he used the F5F-1's engines rather than the R2800s I suggested. It'd make for a larger cowl, but more capability.
GTX_Admin:
--- Quote from: Jeffry Fontaine on February 05, 2012, 05:57:14 AM ---Switching the four Browning .50" machine guns out for an equal number of 20mm cannons would be a simple yet subtle modification that would be hard to spot.
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For something more obvious, maybe switch a Westland Whirlwind nose in.
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