Snecma C-450 Coléoptère

[jqavins]

I'm glad for the update, as it bumped the thread up to where I saw it, and it was a good read that I missed last year. Nice job of a scale build. At first I didn't realize the original was meant as a horizontal flyer and thought "Oh my God, that's a huge ring! He could make it a quarter the height and it'd still be plenty big enough while reducing the aft end weight." But then, scale is scale.

Cut off the external dowel parts and sand it down to the surface, once primed and painted you won’t even see the holes, and Bob’s your uncle!

Bob Smith, that is.

 

[BigMacDaddy]

I'm glad for the update, as it bumped the thread up to where I saw it, and it was a good read that I missed last year. Nice job of a scale build. At first I didn't realize the original was meant as a horizontal flyer and thought "Oh my God, that's a huge ring! He could make it a quarter the height and it'd still be plenty big enough while reducing the aft end weight." But then, scale is scale.



Bob Smith, that is.

The tail sitters are so interesting -- basically developed in an era when bombing airstrips resulted in grounding an air force. VTOL to fighter-plane like flight was the dream, somewhere I think it mentioned swarms of these just taking off from anywhere around a city to defend the skies.

I did take a little liberty with the length of the body tube -- I pulled the nose cone forward about 2cm to help make this stable.

 

[BigMacDaddy]

By the way -- I was finally able to model this in the new OR...



Also I listed a very limited run of 3D printed kits for sale in Facebook for those of you that were asking for kits (you can message me here or there if interested)...
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1078069588922549/?multi_permalinks=5784396924956435
Hope everyone is having a good holiday weekend.

 

[Cape Byron]

Excellent! Put me down for one.

Incoming PM.

 

[jqavins]

By the way -- I was finally able to model this in the new OR...

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Also I listed a very limited run of 3D printed kits for sale in Facebook for those of you that were asking for kits...
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1078069588922549/?multi_permalinks=5784396924956435
Hope everyone is having a good holiday weekend.

So, you only sell to FacePalm users?

 

[Cape Byron]

So, you only sell to FacePalm users?

PM @BigMacDaddy here. I just did...

 

[BigMacDaddy]

So, you only sell to FacePalm users?

Happy to send you a kit whether you squander your time on social media or not! Message me.

 

[novahobbies]

This is so cool, happy it got bumped! This reminds me of the ship they repaired in the cartoon movie Titan A.E.....