1/32 C-21A Learjet 35

[Archimedes 187]

The burning question in my mind....Does this mean a ‘Capricorn 1’ diorama is now possible? 

[LSP_K2 24,562]

3 hours ago, LSP_Kevin said:

Thanks, Brian. I'm kind of infatuated with the idea of large scale civil aircraft at the moment.

 

Kev

 

The largest I currently have, is a 1:100 L-1011, and soon (very soon) a 1:100 767, that'll probably be done up as a KLM machine.

[LSP_Kevin 31,611]

14 minutes ago, LSP_K2 said:

The largest I currently have, is a 1:100 L-1011, and soon (very soon) a 1:100 767, that'll probably be done up as a KLM machine.

 

Mine would be a Heller 1/72 707 (actually an AWACS boxing, but will be a Qantas 707 when I'm done). I've got a pair of 1/72 737s coming eventually, so I'm looking forward to building those, too.

 

Kev

[thierry laurent 6,664]

Very nice but where is the Ouragan and the other already announced kits...? It would be nice to clarify what will be released and in which steps...!

[Landrotten Highlander 602]

9 hours ago, Out2gtcha said:

JetMads!

 

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=719288352326786&id=302443914011234&anchor_composer=false

 

I could definitely be tempted for sure, especially if my Viggen ends up being as nice as I think it will

me too

[Smokeyforgothispassword 74]

I’m still waiting for their 1/18th Tweet and 1/72 Wedgetail, but if I have to buy a Lear Jet in the mean time, that’s a cross I’ll just have to bear.

[Out2gtcha 35,350]

I'd love a T-37!

[Pete Fleischmann 4,027]

1 hour ago, Out2gtcha said:

I'd love a T-37!

Me too!

how do you model in 1/18th scale the smell of vomit, sweat, and fear though?

meh. I’ll figure it out

 

 Cheers 

 

Pete

[Jennings Heilig 15,029]

Who could NOT want to build this!?!?!  

[seiran01 4,660]

Yeah! 

Or these?!

 

 

 

 

 

[Jennings Heilig 15,029]

17 hours ago, LSP_Kevin said:

 

Mine would be a Heller 1/72 707 (actually an AWACS boxing, but will be a Qantas 707 when I'm done).

 

I might hold up on starting that 707 project if I were you.  Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.  That old Heller kit has SO many problems.

[Jack 5,437]

But on the Learjet subject, ya'll know that actually Hughes had this aircraft in the "fighter competition" in the past and that THAT failed to be a reality, but it turned out to be one of the fastest business  jets of all times in that era, and it's still looking as if it were a fighter...........

[Juggernut 2,490]

24 minutes ago, Jack said:

But on the Learjet subject, ya'll know that actually Hughes had this aircraft in the "fighter competition" in the past and that THAT failed to be a reality, but it turned out to be one of the fastest business  jets of all times in that era, and it's still looking as if it were a fighter...........

That’s the first time I’ve heard the Learjet is a Hughes design and is in direct conflict with my knowledge based on several years of close association with Bombardier Learjet and a certain Learjet 35A s/n 498.  Can you provide me a source for that information; I’d like to dig into it a bit.

[Oldbaldguy 380]

If the original Lear was a Hughes design then why was it named after the guy who invented the 8-track?  I thought the wings and tail came from a failed indigenous Swiss fighter design that Lear bought the rights to and turned into the first biz jet or something more or less along those lines.  Hughes modded Lockheed Lodestars into biz planes but nobody on the planet would ever mistake a Lodestar for a Learjet.  Did I get all that right?  Sometimes I confuse even myself.

[LSP_Kevin 31,611]

2 hours ago, Jennings Heilig said:

 

I might hold up on starting that 707 project if I were you.  Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.  That old Heller kit has SO many problems.

 

If you're nudging and winking in the direction that I think you are, well, I'm still waiting for my 737 kit!

 

Kev