my twin mustang 40k / a new kind of flyer for the navy

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**earenciel**

first: i want to appologise to Penguin of death for stoling his idea ( in the work in progress forum)!
..........i m very fond of the P38 lightning of the second worl war so when i see the topic 'thunderbolt's big brother' i followed it .
i got the foolish idea of making a squadron of these.

using the plans Penguin posted and a friend of mine (cao-dao designer) we made templates for molding .
then i decided to use styrofoam for the core.

............ the beam is done so here is baby-doll my first twin mustang ( P40K) still WIP

.............. as you can see in the picture there will be a few version of this model
one seated , two seated , various weaponry( laser ,autocanon etc.)
still to do : gear hatches; cockpit ,wing weaponry

baby doll with her finished paint job and foxy lady just out from the factory

foxy lady version biplace avec 4 autocanons ( jumelés 2 a deux)

still some job to do

here some image of this project , now i consider it closed just some paint to do

i decided to make the cockpit in metal
here is the first attempt
baby doll got her new cockpit and some etching

still some paint to do !
here is the new version of the etching ( a little better)

one seated cockpit

two seated cockpit

comments are welcome

**The Dreadnote**

Mother of God.

Do want.

**CT GAMER**

Very nice!!!

If you designed a resin kit of an orky flyer of similar quality you would really get my interest...

**bubber**

sweeeeet!

**Redwunz**

That, I have to say, qualifies as shiny. Damn shiny!
It just looks like win on a stick

**Death Gear**

Nice job
and I relly like the idea

**Howard A Treesong**

Lovely idea and good finish. But are these Forgeworld kits you're working from?? They look rough as hell, nice one for persevering.

**StubbyGB**

That is totally awesome !

If you cast your own parts (not from FW) SELL THE KITS !!!

If you have recast FW/GW parts this is still awesome but you cant make any money :(

Well done though. they are very inspirational.

**insaniak**

Nice work. The casting looks a little rough, but it's a cool looking plane and the cockpit canopy is made of win.

**Mistress of minis**

I expected something a bit different being a WWII aviation nut.

The P-38 lightning, and the post-war F-82 Twin Mustang are very different aircraft.

Yours are very reminscent of the P-38 with the twin engine booms and the central pod for a cockpit. The twin mustangs were two full aircraft fuselages connected by a common wing. As I had a dear freind that was a test pilot through the 50's, he said they were fun to fly- but the bonehead engineers didnt think to have one set of props turn the opposite direction of the others- so it always was wanting to roll and it was scrapped in favor of jets.

So, history lesson aside- I love seeing people make thier own models. Sure, theres some rough spots on your casts, but most of us 'garage' casters are still perfecting our techniques and doing what we can with the gear we have. Im gonna guess you dont have a pressure pot? The hoses going into the engines look like theyre trapping air bubbles, which is a nuisance

I'd be curious to see how you set the molds up, I plan on putting together some kits that will be multipart molds, so its always nice to look at the rigs other people have success with ^_^

And, how did ya pull off the custom photoetching?

**swbruni**

Not bad . Could use alittle fine tunning but what cant ??

**CT GAMER**

StubbyGB wrote:That is totally awesome !

If you cast your own parts (not from FW) SELL THE KITS !!!

If you have recast FW/GW parts this is still awesome but you cant make any money :(

Well done though. they are very inspirational.

intakes are from one of the Imex kits

**earenciel**

everything is my own creation i use somes models to get the inspiration but all have been made by my little hands or my friends -intakes look like the Imex kit but were completely remade
the models you see were made with all the part that i would normally reject just to get an idea of the model

**Lormax**

Will you be selling any then?

**lukeslayerh3**

nice model

**earenciel**

here are the last picture of my model with the new cocpit ( etched part)
i just primed the model

comment are welcome

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Mistress of minis wrote:I expected something a bit different being a WWII aviation nut.

The P-38 lightning, and the post-war F-82 Twin Mustang are very different aircraft.

Yours are very reminscent of the P-38 with the twin engine booms and the central pod for a cockpit. The twin mustangs were two full aircraft fuselages connected by a common wing. As I had a dear freind that was a test pilot through the 50's, he said they were fun to fly- but the bonehead engineers didnt think to have one set of props turn the opposite direction of the others- so it always was wanting to roll and it was scrapped in favor of jets.

i explain i could not name it ligthning it allready exist,so i call it mustang as the name was not used and i add twin because it was two engine model and it makes a joke in french ( twin mustang---> deux chevaux) that's all

**Steve78**

Tre Chic.

**earenciel**

somes new pict of the mustang and a little surprise

the surprise:

only made with warped pieces of the mustang , i call it F40K Corsair

**Linked**

Waw.. I like it. A lot.

**SilverMK2**

These are significantly better than the "actual" navy fliers from GW/FW.

Great work

**fat patty**

This is some righteous work.

**Exarch_Nektel**

Woah, nice job! I wonder if you could make a heavy duty bomber model?

**earenciel**

it's part of my project(s) some kind of superfortress (B 29)
i also got a heavy carrier (to carry a leman russ) for the navy in project . and to please some friend an orky flyer but i still don't know if i'll try some kind of kopter or some pure flyer.

**Exarch_Nektel**

earenciel wrote:it's part of my project(s) some kind of superfortress (B 29)
i also got a heavy carrier (to carry a leman russ) for the navy in project . and to please some friend an orky flyer but i still don't know if i'll try some kind of kopter or some pure flyer.

If you use a pure flyer, you can use them as "counts as" fighta-bombers in apoc games.

**earenciel**

for the mustang we made somes stat with a friend of mine !
bomber-fighter TWIN MUSTANG:
Points : 260 points
Unit : 1 Twin Mustang
Type : very heavy flyer
Points de Structure : 2
BS : 3 - Blindage : 10 10 10
weapons and equipement :
- two twin autocanon
- load 4 bombs

Options:
- the twin mustang can change its autocanon for two twin lascanon for +30 pts.
- the Twin Mustang can use machine anti aircraft machine-guns for +20 pts
- the Twin Mustang can load two more bomb for+20 pts. two bombs only can be replaced by hellstrike missile for free

**Exarch_Nektel**

good rules. I like the 2 structure points or a TWIN mustang.