Add your "What if" whiffry and modelling mischief here. From Luft 46 and other "paper" projects to your own crazy ideas and off-the-wall creations, rehashes, etc.
A couple of years ago, I was helping my mother pack up and move out of her house. While going through my old room, I re-discovered a box that contained a bunch of models I built back in the 1980s and 1990s. I stashed the box at my mother's house before heading for a 3 year...
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Pretty sure you are correct. And even if you weren't, a fellow Melburnian on Britmodeller did a nice bit of Whiffery with .
Personally, I wouldn't have minded an ekranoplan or two operating on Port Phillip Bay! :lol:
As mentioned last weekend in the What are you working on this weekend? board, I was going to start this project, the Twin Spitfire, using Mark I Models kits of the Spitfire XIV/XVIII as the base models.
twinspitfire1.jpg
Some months ago, I found the picture...
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With Conversions being a definite chance for GB17 based on recent discussion, I have to admit that I've been looking at my He111Z resin conversion, too (the long-OOP CatHouse version, not the Retrokit one). Like you, I do have a couple of Minicraft He111 kits (actually, one IS a...
What do you do with a vehicle that really didn't see the light of day as a weapon's system, but still exists as a kit? Here's how I finished one of the two models that comes in the Armory box. I'm still working on the second one so will provide more details later....
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Another gorgeous build, Matt. Every time I see a P.13A, that elongated intake reminds me of the snout of a pipefish. Then again, maybe it's just me! :roll:
This is the Fox One F-16D resin kit.
Always thought the Wild Weasel mission called for a two-seater.
The decals came from the DML F-16D kit #4523 480th TFS, 52nd TFW
I scratched built the Harm Targeting Pod for the left side fuselage mounting.
(The newer Revell F-16 kit comes...
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Matt,
I am very interested in seeing pictures of your Trumpeter & Fox One Models F-16 when you're done painting.
Good to know the Fox One parts fit the Trumpeter F-16.
DML/Dragon put some nice modern weapons in some of their A-10 and Super Hornet Kits - JSOW, JDAM and CBUs.
I...
Grumman G-36A, Aeronautique Militaire Belge.
1/I/2Ae, Schaffen Airfield, April 1941
this build is more a could have been then a What If, as Belgium did order 10 G-36A's Wildcat/Martlets in 1939, but were never delivered and transfered to France and then the Royal Navy as...
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Great idea and execution of this might have been !
I started this kit early last year, but after assembling the main parts I wasn't sure what scheme I wanted to do and so it's been in the WIP draw for quite a while now. Fast forward to a few months ago when I was doing some research on Regia Aeronautica Bf 110s - I thought it...
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Of course, some Luftwaffe 110's had squiggles rather than smoke rings, with the odd example operating in the Western Desert (e.g. the Bf110C-6 Trop 3U+XS ). Mind you, many of the squiggles on the on display at Hendon are definitely smoke rings!
While my RB-45C in the Cold War GB is entering its final stages albeit with a setback which I have finally overcome, I decided to start something else. My initial plan was to tackle a Mark I Mirage III but this one barged in and I'll be dealing with the Mirage...
Fairchild A-10A Thunderbolt, in the Area 88 manga, this is Greg Gates his second aircraft as his A-4E Skyhawk (to be built aswell at a later date) proved to be insufficiently effective when fighting the Land Carrier.
the kit is the Heller 1/144 A-10A Thunderbolt II, combined...
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Lovely job sir! I really like A-10s.............if only someone would do a 'state of the art' kit!! (and a two-seater!!)
My range so far includes a 'was nearly' FireHog (there was a real project to use retired Hogs as firebombers - even had two airframes assigned - the USAF...
Hi everyone. I just finished up a couple more Area 88 projects. First up is Friendly Fire - featuring a flashback scene from the manga from Mickey's days as a fighter pilot in Vietnam.
If you want to read the manga pages that inspired the build (or what to follow along on the...
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I've seen it done a few times with airplanes, but you're right - mostly with ships. I also used it on my F-111 Aardvark project, but I kind of chickened out when it came to taking a saw to the kit itself, so I just drilled a hole, hid the bulb, covered it in hairsprayed and...
This is the Popy Projekt Flieger Gashapon of Gerd Focke's VTOL design study (which he pursued into the late 1950's!). Nicknamed Rochen (ray, fish) because of its shape, it might eventually have worked if somebody added an automated reaction-control system for vertical flight...
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Holy crap that looks real! Amazing work and effort!
Here's the other Area 88 build project I just finished. It's based on the very last dogfight of the manga series - Shin Kazama in his F-20 Tigershark vs. Satoru Kanzaki in the all-grey F-18 Hornet in a fight to the DEATH!
If you'd like to find out how the manga ends (even AFTER...
Crikey. This is a pretty unfamiliar corner of the forum for me - haven't dabbled in whiffery yet.
On holiday in a Welsh cottage the next 8 days, quite a long way from anywhere really...
And I thought that I needed a resin outlet after days spent in the mountains...
So...
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The story is excellent. You do realise this could be the start of something. A fellow Melburnian, John Baxter has written no less than five books using the premise of alternative history to cover the Luftwaffe (3 books), the Kriegsmarine (1) and the RAAF (1). I have the and it...
Another whiffer involving the gashapon He-100. I decided to turn a second-hand He-100D into the hoped-for (by Ernst Heinkel) D-2 production variant. I read that the armament would have been 1 x 20mm cannon in each wing root, so I fitted them. Then I decided that to enhance...
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Brilliant. A very sharkish aircraft and I love the reversed camo as two fingers the Messerschmitt- inspired!
Dassault Mirage F-1, flown by Kitori Palvanaff in the Area 88 anime. the kit is Mini Hobby Models 1/144 Mirage F1, decals are from the kit, additional stenciling from the sparesbox and DIY emblem.
depicted configuration is from this scene:
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Great work, nils! :mrgreen:
And Greg, I think you mentioned a Kfir elsewhere. Well here is a limited edition Area 88 version complete with 1/12 scale figure ...
a second F-16A model i finished next to Charie's F-16.
this is an early Block 1 version, modified with the tail from a Block 5 version, housing a drag chute.
this is the aircraft from a fan character known as Marcel, a Belgian mercenary pilot.
kit: Revell 1/144 F-16A Fighting...
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One of the houses I deliver newspapers to on weekends has several Smurf garden gnomes. Just waiting for the day when a mis-thrown Sunday paper knocks one flying! :P
This is great work, Nils. The markings for Charlie's F-4E aren't really all that clear in the manga version, but once I get around to building it (paired up with Shin's Draken) I think I'm going to go with the white version from the anime. I've been toying with the idea of...
The DKM Wiesbaden was first layed down in 1935, but was never intended to be an aircraft carrier.
It was orriginally constructed as a fast destroyer for the German Navy, but in 1938 was converted into an experimental airacraft carrier to test the systems for the...
this is the third Area 88 model to be finished in the series.
this is the famous Northrop F-20 Tigershark, flown by Shin Kazama in the OVA and the manga.
the kit is a 1/144 Mini Hobby Models F-20 Tigershark, witch ittself is a rebox of the old LS/Crown kit (that was also...
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Smart colour scheme and your home made decal skills are superb!
...or maybe late '45. F-Toys Spit XIV, mild repaint, (mostly along the seams) 64th sentai Ki-100b repaint, and Hasegawa 61st sentai Ki-67.
Actually not too happy with this one. Since I was going simpler/quicker using cellphone camera and holding the models up to the sky, I...
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Excellent stuff Ryan, both in terms of the modelling and the photography. Looking at some wartime footage, it never ceases to amaze me that more aircraft didn't prang into each other with so much going on in such a confined area.
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