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I'm trying to find it's equivalent and I'm having a hard time.
I was looking at the Thunderbolt, but it's tail is all wrong.
Help?

Definitly looks like a F-86 Sabre to me

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_F-86_Sabre

Maybe a Sabre, but nothing really looks that much like Ork technology which would never really work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_F-86_Sabre

Actually, second thought, here's what we're looking for:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-15

There ya go. The Sabre is what I was imagining, but I just couldn't place the era.
Thank y'all.

Ninja'd

My first thought was the MiG-15.

Either one would do.

Howard A Treesong wrote:Maybe a Sabre, but nothing really looks that much like Ork technology which would never really work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_F-86_Sabre

What a beautiful world that would be!

Are you actually looking for something with the general silhouette of the orc aircraft or something which looks orky?

Pretty much the entire attack/fighter jet catalog from the late 1940s and early 1950s shared that common design scheme (big intake up front, swept wings, high cockpit...). Whether they were US, Soviet or one of the various European jets (British sort of went their own way though).

However, they tend to not really say Ork to me. For that, I would probably look at the special planes from WWII. Things like the Blohm and Voss BV 141. Just doesn't look like something a right minded human would design...let alone fly in.

If you want to get off the beaten path some - take a look through the Luft46 site:

http://www.luft46.com/

Lots of German X-planes (including the ones which the Sabre and MiG were based off from). There is a listing of the kits if you are looking to bash something, or you can cobble things together from various other kits to make it more orky.

So very many options from the late 40s and early 50s. The SAAB Tunnen, any early Yak or MiG jet, some of the earliest USN jets or anything French before the Mirage delta wings.

Any of the could easily be orked out to the extreme.

Deathshead420 wrote:Either one would do.

I think the reason I always pictured the MiG rather than the Sabre is the MiG looks more like a barrel with wings and the wings are mounted in in the middle of the fuselage (vertically speaking), where as the Sabre looks more shaped and smoothed and the wing is low mounted.

spincr wrote:

Howard A Treesong wrote:Maybe a Sabre, but nothing really looks that much like Ork technology which would never really work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_F-86_Sabre

What a beautiful world that would be!

An Ork Bommer could probably fly, it just wouldn't fly "well" so no one would actually do it. Some of the Imperial aircraft look more unrealistic to me than the Orky ones.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

Deathshead420 wrote:Either one would do.

I think the reason I always pictured the MiG rather than the Sabre is the MiG looks more like a barrel with wings and the wings are mounted in in the middle of the fuselage (vertically speaking), where as the Sabre looks more shaped and smoothed and the wing is low mounted.

spincr wrote:

Howard A Treesong wrote:Maybe a Sabre, but nothing really looks that much like Ork technology which would never really work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_F-86_Sabre

What a beautiful world that would be!

An Ork Bommer could probably fly, it just wouldn't fly "well" so no one would actually do it. Some of the Imperial aircraft look more unrealistic to me than the Orky ones.

Agreed. The stormraven with it's square wings & blunt nose comes to mind. Or the valkyrie/vendetta/vulture with no control surfaces on the wings!

Holy Ork I found the real world version

I've always felt that the Brewster Buffalo is pretty orky.

Pancritic wrote:I've always felt that the Brewster Buffalo is pretty orky.

Reminds me of this.

http://puppetswar.com/product.php?id_product=77

Red_Starrise wrote:

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

Deathshead420 wrote:Either one would do.

I think the reason I always pictured the MiG rather than the Sabre is the MiG looks more like a barrel with wings and the wings are mounted in in the middle of the fuselage (vertically speaking), where as the Sabre looks more shaped and smoothed and the wing is low mounted.

spincr wrote:

Howard A Treesong wrote:Maybe a Sabre, but nothing really looks that much like Ork technology which would never really work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_F-86_Sabre

What a beautiful world that would be!

An Ork Bommer could probably fly, it just wouldn't fly "well" so no one would actually do it. Some of the Imperial aircraft look more unrealistic to me than the Orky ones.

Agreed. The stormraven with it's square wings & blunt nose comes to mind. Or the valkyrie/vendetta/vulture with no control surfaces on the wings!

Well, the Stormraven and Valk/Vendettas also have thrusters in other places that will compensate for stability issues. Not to mention they arn't flying at extremely high speeds like a proper fighter craft.

They're gunboats and have more in common with helies.


Real Imperial fighter craft are more streamlined. http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Imperial_Navy

Specifically the Avenger, Lightning, Thunderbolt, and Marauder bomber are all more reasonable aircraft.

It reminds me of a Fairey Gannet(RAF) or even a Lightning

Red_Starrise wrote:Well, the Stormraven and Valk/Vendettas also have thrusters in other places that will compensate for stability issues. Not to mention they arn't flying at extremely high speeds like a proper fighter craft.

They're gunboats and have more in common with helies.


Real Imperial fighter craft are more streamlined. http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Imperial_Navy

Specifically the Avenger, Lightning, Thunderbolt, and Marauder bomber are all more reasonable aircraft.

Yeah, I see what you mean, but you have things like Storm Ravens and Thunderhawks which are supposed to be reasonably high speed drop ships and they have these huge squared off edges that would make that damned near impossible and most of them would need some sort of special magical devices we don't yet have to fly even at low speeds. Even the more "fighter" like of the Imperial aircraft despite having huge arse jets look like they'd struggle to keep up with your average WW2 propeller powered plane. The term for it in aerodynamics is "bluff", Imperial fighters are covered in bluff faces that you won't see on any aircraft made since, I dunno, before WW1, if at all. Even on boats (the variety that sail on water) figured out bluff bodies aren't good for sailing thousands of years ago. The Orky aircraft look more like an actual working aircraft (albeit covered in Orky bits and made with poor construction) than most the Imperial fliers.

I dunno, I'm not gonna build them to test, but the Orky fliers just look like realistic planes with poor construction and random orky bits which would destroy performance but the base design is still reasonable, the Imperial fliers look like nothing no engineer human, ork or otherwise would ever design in the first place.