Tnarg Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 This is the most amazing build I have seen for a while. I love the Polish version of this plane, but the What IF? scheme makes it even better. The conflict was real and brutal and the Polish people fought for their lives. This plane enabled that heroism. I won't reduce that in any way. However, as an artistic approach to the same airplane, this makes a wonderful and beautiful example. Thank you for sharing this. Tnarg Troy Molitor and Lothar 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quang Posted May 7, 2020 Author Share Posted May 7, 2020 (edited) 18 hours ago, Tnarg said: This is the most amazing build I have seen for a while. I love the Polish version of this plane, but the What IF? scheme makes it even better. The conflict was real and brutal and the Polish people fought for their lives. This plane enabled that heroism. I won't reduce that in any way. However, as an artistic approach to the same airplane, this makes a wonderful and beautiful example. Thank you for sharing this. Tnarg Thank you Tnarg for your kind words. When I started to build models as a schoolboy, my main issue was the craftsmanship: clean fit, no glue showing, clear canopy, etc. Years after with the advent of the modeling magazines came the time of historical accuracy: camouflage paints, markings, ... After that came the nuts-and-bolts period: anatomy of real machines, technical aspects, ... In recent times all three aspects of scale modeling have been more than adequately addressed: unequaled quality of the kits, introduction of numerous new modeling tools, tons of affordable historical and technical research, ... Blessed times indeed but somehow as a modeller I’m feeling cornered. What’s left to do when everything’s been done? Could it be that creativity is the final frontier of our beloved hobby? Cheers, Quang Edited May 7, 2020 by quang Tnarg, Alain Gadbois and Uncarina 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tnarg Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 (edited) Could it be that creativity is the final frontier of our beloved hobby? Yes.... the kits are wonderfully detailed. We can obsess about the accuracy of each fastener and the number and position of every victory mark and oil stain as recorded on a particular day and really "get it right". On the other hand, since I love science fiction, time travel and the thought of alternate universes, why not create the airplane that my Grandfather or Dad or I would have flown in an alternate situation whether at war, as my own airliner or private transport or as an air racer? Or the one that my Mom would have ferried in WWIi? This fascination explains some of the appeal of the Luftwaffe '46 stuff like a Triebflugel in Antarctic colors shown as one of the decal options in the kit. Beautiful, but terrifying. With all of that creative ability, why didn't they just roll over the Allies? It's like that movie, "Iron Sky". My friend said after watching it... "This is the worst movie I have ever seen, but I couldn't stop watching it". We just can't turn away from '46 and the dark side ("Join me on the Dark Side", says DV). I prefer Porco Rosso or Tin Tin. They are heroes that I can get behind. Creating something like this makes me think of their nobility, innocence or goodness, even if Porco is an anti-hero in many ways. It is a piece of art, but as was defined to me, "Art is something that makes you feel". I admire "Guernica", but prefer more pastoral scenes or struggles for greatness like they attempted in "Man Conquers Space", a movie that never got made, but had a pretty amazing trailer. Tnarg Edited May 7, 2020 by Tnarg (I had my Mom ferrying in WWI, before she was born...) Uncarina 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 Very philosophical Tnarg! Who'd have thought old Quang’s mythological build would raise so many erudite thoughts! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepp Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 I've loved following this build - and the what-if (I do like a good what-if) markings are a grand finish! Bravo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunnus Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 Beautiful work Quang! I love the bright splinter scheme! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quang Posted May 7, 2020 Author Share Posted May 7, 2020 Hi gents, glad to see that some of you out there also fancy a bit of my delirium. The what-if trend (or uchronia as it’s called nowadays) is not new and somewhat recurrent in sci-fi literature and film like the Horten flying wing in the first Indiana Jones and the Gee Bee in The Rocketeer. I just wish we could see more of them in scale model form. Now how about a Walrus of the Royal Syldavian navy polar expedition? Pelicans and artic red, mmm ..... Cheers, Quang Tnarg and mozart 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ray Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 That is a creative scheme, Quang, and you did an amazing job! BTW, wasn't Syldavia involved in a short tiff with Stephen's Vulgaria? They dropped paint bombs on each other or something like that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quang Posted May 9, 2020 Author Share Posted May 9, 2020 58 minutes ago, LSP_Ray said: That is a creative scheme, Quang, and you did an amazing job! BTW, wasn't Syldavia involved in a short tiff with Stephen's Vulgaria? They dropped paint bombs on each other or something like that... Thank you Ray. To my great shame I never read Vulgaria. But on another hand, a reader on a French forum reminded me that ex-shoemaker cum dictator Primo Calderon used laughing gas to take power in Massacara, a fictional South American republic in another comic book I’d never suspected that a what-if concept arises so much interest! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ray Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 No need to feel shame. There is no Vulgaria comic series I know of. It is a complete figment of Stephen's imagination. Though with all the weird comic/anime series out there, it could be! Girls und Panzers? I mean really... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quang Posted May 9, 2020 Author Share Posted May 9, 2020 Ray, I admit I’ve never heard of Vulgaria or Stephen but there is so much more in what-ifs than anime and girls and tanks. Uchronia or alternate history is a genre by itself in science fiction literature. Likewise, comic books are much more than anime. In the aviation domain, the works of Frenchman Romain Hugault have nothing to do with Dan Dare or Steve Canyon. So much food for thoughts for a single aircraft modeller Quang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ray Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 Here is a thread that explains it the best: It just seemed to me a country called Syldavia sounds like it could be a neighbor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RLWP Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 Vulgaria is featured in Chitty-chitty-bang-bang, it has an airship! Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quang Posted May 9, 2020 Author Share Posted May 9, 2020 46 minutes ago, LSP_Ray said: Here is a thread that explains it the best: It just seemed to me a country called Syldavia sounds like it could be a neighbor. Thank you Ray for the heads-up. Apart from the fact that they’re both located in Mittel Europa ( like the kingdom of Ruritania in The Prisoner of Zenda), Syldavia bears no semblance with Vulgaria. Syldavia was created by Hergé, the Belgian author of the Tintin books, in the mid-1930s as a reflection of the political turmoil in Europe and the rise of Nazi Germany. The fictional country was meticulously depicted in several Tintin volumes with its history, customs, geography, etc. Later on, the initial fantasy was enriched by Tintin fans all over the world resulting in dozens specialist blogs on the internet. Some links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syldavia https://www.tintinologist.org/forums/index.php?action=vthread&forum=8&topic=864&page=2 https://www.zompist.com/syldavian.html https://drapeaux-almanako.pagesperso-orange.fr/ZY1275-Syldavie.379.html Of interest are Andrew Forrester’s what-if Syldavian profiles Cheers, Quang Alain Gadbois, Kagemusha and Fanes 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ray Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 I'll have to check it out! I missed out on most of that, I spent my reading time on the extended Star Wars universe, which is now Star Wars Legacy since Disney has thrown it all away and went in a different direction. I was looking forward to seeing Thrawn on film, too. I did read several of the Jules Verne novels, though. Disney screwed most of those up, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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