Fiddlers Green

Howzit all

A couple years ago FG had a competition for 'weird' plane building (or something like that). Why not repeat the idea or something similar to encourage some lateral thinking or even just have bit of a laugh. It would at least draw some interest to FG and card model building.

What do you say?

Niki

That would be nice.

Unfourtunately, I found FG too late for the previous contest, so I'd like a chance to do it.


Food for thought.

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Painter of Airwolf
Current project: A-7 Corsair II Desert Storm

Just wondering, is the above offered as a model, or do you have to convert your own B-17?

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Current project: A-7 Corsair II Desert Storm

It's one of those nasty PhotoChopped things. They physically hurt my eyes to look at, for some reason...

Maybe I'm too traditional, too much a purist, but IMNSHO, anyone who would do that today to a 12"=1' original-build WWII-vintage B-17 should be SHOT. You wanna build a new one from raw metal and try it, it's your money, your plane and your funeral, but leave priceless historical artifacts ALONE...

Yes, I disapprove of chopping P-51s up into radically-altered raceplanes too. Like I said, you wanna leave spec beyond a bolt-in engine change or modern materials, build it new--save the vanishing supply of warbirds for museums, collectors and historians.

Alex, I highly doubt a canard B-17 would fly, due to weight and CG. The wings and bomb-bay are roughly co-centered, and on that chop, once the cargo was out, the bird would be nose-heavy beyond compensation if the bomb-bay was relocated, or tail-heavy to a similar degree otherwise.

Re the model, you'll have to cut and gut your own, probably.

Back when that comp was on, I thought about entering an "Old Dog", but couldn't quite figure out how to graft a Concorde nose and V-tail to a B-52 airframe.

I agree, original vintage WWII aircraft should be preserved for future generations.

You're right, it probably wouldn't fly, I just thought that the plane (Photoshopped, of course) looked kinda neat.

I might, in that case, after the desert storm A-7, see about trying to do my own conversion. (But don't anyone hold their breath. )

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If a tree falls in a forest, and no one's around to hear it, who really cares?
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Painter of Airwolf
Current project: A-7 Corsair II Desert Storm

here are my nominees


the Hansa-Brandenburg D1
http://www.arizonamodels.com/product_in ... cts_id/125


and the Blohm und Voss BV 141

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blohm_&_Voss_BV_141

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The Blohm und Voss BV 141 definitely qualifies as weird! How anybody could conceive of such a lop-sided design and expect it to fly is amazing, but even more surprising is that it actually flew, and pretty well too by the looks of it .

We mustn't forget the b***ard child that resulted when careless RAF maintenance technicians left a Lancaster and a Lysander alone in a remote hangar for a few days!



That's the Airfix model - here's a photo of it actually flying:

what on earth is that??????

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THAT is a Westland Lysander P12

http://www.unrealaircraft.com/hybrid/lysander.php

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I'm not wierd! I'm normality impaired!

Oh, you gotta see this one!

http://www.flyingflea.org/docs/SprattControlwing.htm

is it a car, a boat or a plane? maybe all 3! whatever it is. it's weird!

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Ya know, I almost thought that Lysander was a hoax or one of those Photoshop-ed things, but it turns out that this was actually a real aircraft!

How about this beauty?

Is that one of your creations Tom? Looks like something funny is going on with the ultra-white background and the white edging of the plane.

...and what might that 3-fuselage nazi werdo be?????

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Currently working on: Brewster F2A Buffalo, NA BT-9
Recently completed: P-38 Lightning in 1:172