MustangManiac Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 Hello everyone, I want your opinion on this website I found on supposedly "secret" versions of the Spitfire. It's a website based in the Netherlands I believe. I will say if it's not a bunch of Photoshop pictures some of the versions would be a fun challenge for an unusual conversion. I'm mainly looking at what is being called a Mk 199 Twin Spitfire. I'm just curious if ivI' stared at these pictures too long and begun to be fooled by someone's Photoshop skills or if I'm not crazy and they're really real. If I'm not crazy I kinda have tinkered with the idea of doing one in 1/48 scale with some leftovers of the 1/48 Airfix Seafire Mk 46/47 for the wings and a couple Mk XIVs for the fuselages. Here's the link to the website: http://www.strijdbewijs.nl/birds/spitfire/secret/spitproject.htm Please tell me what you guys think of it and if it's just another Photoshop job. Thanks, Brady Zero77, Swatto and Out2gtcha 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martinnfb Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 Bottom of the crack pipe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kagemusha Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 Walk slooowly away from the computer, have good night's sleep, and never, ever, visit that website again. Jack, williamj and MikeC 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssculptor Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 EXCELLENT!!! We need to see and encourage more imaginative projects like these. They are wondrous, humorous at times and stretch the imagination. Very very good! By the way, they are no more unusual that some of the projects the original manufacturers proposed, and sometimes worked on. After all, the twin Mustang actually entered service. Stephen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cees Broere Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 (edited) Those are all real propositions. The turret version at least was. Edited February 28, 2018 by Cees Broere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alburymodeler Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 I particularly like the oil sump being at the top of the Camelot engine. Swatto 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thierry laurent Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 Funny. I loved it. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hubert Boillot Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 Beware of the Amsterdam « coffee+seeds' shops » ... Hubert Cees Broere 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeC Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 I can see why the perpetrator called it a Camelot, sadly the Merlin engine was - in common with other RR engines at the time - named after a bird of prey not an Arthurian reference. And that's just for starters. I want my two minutes back. Swatto 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 Man, that first "Camelot" version if ever actually made would have turned the Spit from one of the most beautiful aircraft ever, to possibly the UGLIEST one ever............like cartoon/circus ugly. The rest of the ideas were no beauty queens either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 http://www.strijdbewijs.nl/birds/spitfire/secret/spitfiles.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tnarg Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 One might ask "Do you have to use so many cuss words?" as the cowboy correctly did in Big Lebowski, and receive further enlightenment as to the identity of the source of these photos. On the other hand, we could wonder what a bored modeler would do with several crates of 1/72 scale Spitfire kits, and lots of time on his hands. It reminds me the work of an assembly sculpture artist I know; you just have to ignore the source of the parts and enjoy the result. Looks like a lot of fun. Tnarg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MustangManiac Posted February 28, 2018 Author Share Posted February 28, 2018 Wow, I usually don't get this much response in such a short time to most of my posts. I'm getting the vibe that most of you guys think this was photoshopped too. I'm still entertaining the idea of doing a 1/48 "Twin Spitfire" because it looks interesting and fun more than anything. I always liked the out of the ordinary subjects, thus why it takes me forever to build, other than having a family. The only other place I have found anything similar to this subject is here at another blog or forum and I personally just think it's a load of malarkey because they're asking for help saving their blog more than anything. But it has a couple pictures. The hand drawn illustration looks like a rip off of the Bf-109Z that was destroyed in a bombing run by our boys in the last months of the war. I say that because it has a cockpit only on the left side and the right fuselage was made a fuel tank in this drawing, just like the Bf-109Z. Here's the only other thing I've found near to the first post: https://www.google.com/amp/s/hushkit.net/2012/06/29/the-ultimate-what-if-siamese-supermarine-the-twin-spitfire/amp/ Cheers, Brady Swatto 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MustangManiac Posted February 28, 2018 Author Share Posted February 28, 2018 Harold, I had seen that link before and I just forgot to post it. I will say that someone did a decent job at a couple versions of these in real model form. Maru, I have to say that when I saw the name OLE.A.HOEL. I was thinking the whole website was a scam and you just have to think about what the name says and even the name might be a joke. It reminded me of a kinda dirty trick someone played at my old place of work one time when they were giving away baseball tickets to a minor league game that was local and they signed up an imaginary person up to win and "she" won tickets and her name was posted on the bulletin board. They named "her" Willis Phitincider with a made up employee number. I'm just wondering if that's what this original website I posted a link to is doing to us. Brady GusM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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