Lee White Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 John has found the molds, and has posted on FB that will soon be available. Jack, LSP_Paul, LSP_Kevin and 3 others 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandiego Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Oh yeah!! Out2gtcha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chek Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 As this thread may attract some Hustler fans, my Monogram Hustler resurfaced which reminded me. I have a single photo of the intake interior of a working Hustler, and it shows three scoop intakes set into the intake outer skin. I've wondered if all the jet pods were similar, or just the inner engines, or just a single one. Not that you can see much with the shock cone in the way Most preserved examples have intake blanks, or bad angles. Does anybody know? Out2gtcha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 I might have some pics of our Hustler at the SAC museum............Let me check. I also have the Monogram kit in *THAT* scale. And about every single piece of AM made for it, including Paul's Flaparons. Im just not brave enough for a vac. CANicoll and Rick Griewski 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMaben Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 (edited) This pic ? ... Looks like some sort of intake relief. Figgers they'd all be the same. Wonder what the big Ts are for ... test ??? Edited March 16, 2020 by MikeMaben Marcel111, Gazzas, CANicoll and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chek Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Thanks Mike, that's like the one I have too, with another scoop at the 1 o'clock position, also of the port inner pod. It'd make sense that all the interiors would be the same. Depending of course on the purpose of them. My guess would be that the 'T's indicate maintenance marking limits of travel for the shock cones, but that's just a complete guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silver Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 Large great metal finish project to take on.You can goggle 1/72 scale B-58 Hustler and you can come up w/my Italerie 1/72 B-58 photo under finescale modeler gallery named Ben Zayas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMaben Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 (edited) This one ? Looks nice. Aaaaah !! wrong scale !! Edited March 17, 2020 by MikeMaben Gazzas, CANicoll, Tony T and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chek Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 On 3/16/2020 at 7:37 AM, MikeMaben said: Looks like some sort of intake relief. Figgers they'd all be the same. I just saw a photo of the Fisher Model parts, and Paul has those three interior intakes on all the engines. While I would prefer first hand evidence, I'd consider Paul's research to be conscientious enough to take his findings as definitive. MikeMaben and CANicoll 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony T Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 6 hours ago, Chek said: I just saw a photo of the Fisher Model parts, and Paul has those three interior intakes on all the engines. While I would prefer first hand evidence, I'd consider Paul's research to be conscientious enough to take his findings as definitive. I believe those are bypass doors for engine cooling, common to aircraft using the J79. The Phantom II inlet had a bellmouth ring near the front of the engine that performed a similar function. TBH this is the kind of project only Tom can do justice. For injection heads, Hong Kong Models should seriously consider the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft delta jets: Deuce, Six and Hustler. Tony MikeMaben and firefly7 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chek Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 8 hours ago, MikeMaben said: This one ? I was looking at that model and idly thinking a foiled 1/32 Hustler on such a stand with watchmaker engineering quality motorised retracting and extending landing gear could very well be the 'executive' toy I'll commission when I inherit a fortune from a hitheto unknown rich relative. Pretty sure I could watch that for hours. MikeMaben 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee White Posted March 17, 2020 Author Share Posted March 17, 2020 I don't know if you ever noticed this about the B-58, but in addition to funky retraction sequences, America's sexiest '60's bomber rolled around on wheels/ tires that looked like they came off of go-carts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chek Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 (edited) Consequence of the wing 4% thickness ratio in action. And that's with an added bulged fairing overwing. Although similar could be said of the Victor and Vulcan undercarriages' multi wheel bogies, which weren't quite so dimensionally constrained Edited March 17, 2020 by Chek Lee White 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony T Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 To spread the weight and also, I believe, to lighten the undercarriage assembly. I heard that at maximum (nuclear wartime) takeoff weights the KC-135s would have effectively destroyed the runways they surge sortied from. The original B-36 had h-u-g-e single MLG wheels before a major rethink. I never, ever ever, understood why the Horton flying wing possessed that obscenely out of scale large nose landing gear. Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackbetty Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 maybe for takoff/landing on grass/unpaved runways? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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