Well, I could tell you who was close but I ain’t gonna! [:p]
You can send as many replies as you wish. Although if someone starts spamming me, then the ‘IGNORE’ button is pushed quite quickly… [;)]
I will give a clue, however… this is a one-off…
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You have mail, Rene’.
I’ve made two guesses now, thinking I might be one of those on the right track. then again, I could be chasing up the wrong tree.
woof, woof
stinger
Fetch, boy, fetch! [;)]
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E-mail sent. Probably wrong. Just making sure.
Oh darn it.[:D]
I still think it is a particular manufactuer, but all of my searches have turned up zip, nil, nada.
even particular countries are not revealling thier secrets…feh
this tells me so much, yet nothing at all.
THis time I think I got it.
Okay, I’m going to take a stab here. Check your email
Alrighty, I guess I gotcha on this one. Most of you, anyway…
We had over thirty replies to this quiz and only one of them hit the nail on the head. That one:
Tailspinturtle
He eventually guessed what this actually was and even had one of the particulars correct. One other reply did mention ‘photo editing’ but it didn’t come out and say it point blank. I think that was a bit of fishing, actually…
Anyhoo… the answer?
APRIL FOOL!!! [;)]
This was a composite image made using three different images.
The quiz image started off as this:
Barracuda
I then added the nose, tail and wings from this:
Skua
I then re-thunk and decided that the tail of the Skua would be a dead give away and decided to use the tail from this:
B5N Kate
The end result, after adding the horizontal stabs from the Barracuda and a few other little things:
Not the cleanest job, but I guess it was enough to fool most of ya’ll! [:P]
My intention was to lead you to think that this was either a captured B5N ‘Kate’, a re-engined Fairey Battle or a Vought Vindicator and to cause much confusion in general.
Okay, there’s only one first of April each year, so the next quiz will be… ‘genuine’… [;)]
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Well done Steve-O!!!
As you know from my emails, I knew the tail and engine were different from any of the pics I had found, and in fact I had looked at most of those you show above.
I must be working too much…I didn’t even notice what date it is. [D)]
Good job!!
stinger
Good show BW… that’s great. It didn’t occur to me what-so-ever… I was searching everywhere for a Kate captured by the RAF. Happy April fools.
I couldn’t get past re-engined Fairey Battle.
Boy! I remenber last year on April Fool, it was the ‘eight engine’ Soviet transporter. Wow, Steve, you kick my bu** this time. BTW wish all of you have a great April Fool laugh.
Oh man, i’ve had some headaches and sleepless nights over this one, and it’s a fake! It drove me nuts.[8-][party]
I was going for the kate… I’ve been had![:O]
Hehe… [oX)]
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Just when i thought I was loosing my mind! Good work Blackwolf! The only problem now is I have a hole scratched in the side of my head from trying to figure this one out 
Happy April Fool’s Day
Hey Steve,
Do I get partial credit for the Skua guess? I mean it would be about 1/3 right. OKOK…My record is still intact - 0 for 38.
Kurt
BW you had me going, I thought it looked like a cross between the vincator and something from Vultee. Boy was I wrong. Maybe next time you should make a composite and see if we can guess the all aircraft it is made from?[:D]
Here I was kicking myself for not figuring it out. I never even thought about April fool’s day. Even though you mentioned Friday. I feel like the class [D)].