2 x 1/48 bac vultures (tsr2s) part 1 is done woop

Modeling Subjects Aircraft
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it consists of 2 1/48 scale tsr2s 1 will be raspberry ripple scheme and will be a tech demo and will have features including canards lerx wing roots leading edge slats massively blown wings/flaps much longer and probably different air intakes fly by wire controls and hugely powerful thrust vectoring versions of the olympus engines (circa 55-60,000 lb of thrust each)

sounds ridiculous BUT iv not plucked anything out of thin air eg apparantly an engineer told somebody they had an olympus engine running at 68,000 lb of thrust in the 60s! etc etc

version 2 will be the in service version of that probably with an rwr tube out the back like a flanker and probably with an f15 style bubble canopy because it will be a fighter bomber like the strike eagle

1 thing id need to do is move the canopy back which would require me to lengthen the fuselage to keep the cockpit the same distance from the wings

the tech demo (and record breaker) will look something like this

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nobody appears to be interested but a tsr2 shape parcel arrived today :slight_smile:

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im watching

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don’t panic; we are waiting for some WIP pictures…

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got 1 so far will post it later

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slight change of plan i think its gonna have straight leading edges rather than curved purely because it doesnt look right

im currently making a cardboard mockup of it

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LARGE ENGINES…= Lurking… [Y]

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the olympus engines for the production variant had 42,500 lb of thrust. apparantly they had an engine running at 68,000 lb in 1965 ish!!!

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the olympus engines for the production variant had 42,500 lb of thrust. apparantly they had an engine running at 68,000 lb in 1965 ish!!!

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iv made a start although its suprisingly complicated

i might make the intakes deeper i just dont want them to look to tall and thin

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iv no idea how im gonna join the square intake to the round body yet

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the basic shape is beggining to appear its an absolute git going from square to curved everywhere

it looks a little like a massive draken to me

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really got your hands full with this one .

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yup iv got another 1 to make yet with even more modification lol

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its starting to look something like now

the more i look at it the more it looks like im making a bigger vigilante!!!

let the sanding/filling commence lol