… on the BoMi and BWB drawing booklets:
Oct 242013
Oct 232013
Oct 192013
Oct 192013
Fantastic Plastic has re-released some kits I mastered for ’em:
This is a “missile only” lower-cost version of the earlier kit.
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And FP posted photos of the still-available SPECTRE rocket, assembled and painted (really well) by a customer:
Oct 062013
I’ve put a few sets of 11X17 diagrams on eBay:
Northrop F-23 predecessor and derivatives diagram booklet
Lockheed Archangel Diagram booklet (SR-71 predecessor designs)
McDonnell-Douglas/General Dynamics A-12 Avenger II Diagram Booklet
I don’t really know if these’ll do at all well on eBay, but what the heck. I’m hoping they might serve as a bit of advertising, though. The Archangel set is very likely a one-off, a result of the printer actually spitting out two copies rather than one.
For those of you who were generous a good long while ago and have been wondering “what the hell?!?!” the technology and techniques I’ve been developing and requiring recently will prove relevant.
Sep 172013
Two models I mastered for Fantastic Plastic are getting close to being released. First, the 1/48 Soviet LK lunar lander:
Next will probably be the 1/72 “Avengers” Quinjet:
Sep 142013
Finally got around to creating web pages specifically for the US Bomber Projects publications:
http://www.aerospaceprojectsreview.com/bomproj.htm
and
http://up-ship.com/blog/Book/bomproj.htm
You can order all of them from either of those pages. And feel free to do so… sales for #3 and #4 are half what they were for #1 and #2. Can’t help but see that as an unfortunate sign. Did the customer base go stale that fast? Hmmm…
Anyway, here are two illustrations from #4… the Lockheed-Martin FALCON Hypersonic Cruise Vehicle and the Lockheed nuclear powered cruise missile carrier from the 1970’s.
Sep 112013
Issue number 4 of US Bomber Projects is now available (for background, see HERE). This issue includes:
McDonnell System 464L: McDonnell’s entry into the initial Dyna Soar contest, 1958
Lockheed-Martin Falcon: A recent design for an unmanned hypersonic global range bomber
Lockheed Senior Peg: Lockheed’s competitor to the Northrop B-2
Boeing Mobile Missile Carrier: A giant hydrogen fueled amphibian
Boeing Model 701-273-4: A very asymmetrical supersonic predecessor to the B-59
Lockheed Cruise Missile Carrier: A large nuclear-powered cargo plane converted to carry 90 cruise missiles
Boeing Model 462-5: A six-turboprop B-52 ancestor
Martin Model 223-4: A twin-fuselage design on the road to the B-48
USBP#04 can be downloaded as a PDF file for only $4:
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Sep 112013
Turns out Fantastic Plastic released the 1/72 scale SPECTRE rocket kit (from “You Only Live Twice”) late last month. I made the CAD model the kit was grown from.
SPECTRE Rocket from “You Only Live Twice” (1968)
Jul 202013
Issue number 2 of US Bomber Projects is now available (for background, see HERE). This issue includes:
- Rockwell D 645-1: LH2:: A variant of the low-cost missile carrier using liquid hydrogen for fuel
- NAA High Performance Penetrator: a 1963 design for a supersonic bomber, led in part to the B-1
- Boeing Model 701-273-1: Second in a series on the evolution of the XB-59
- Lockheed GL-232: A subsonic nuclear powered bomber
- Boeing Space Sortie: A small unmanned spaceplane
- Martin Model 233-2: Second in the series on the development of the XB-48 – a wartime turbojet powered medium bomber
- Boeing Model 461: Second in the series on the development of the B-52… and early postwar turboprop heavy bomber
- Northrop Low Altitude Penetrator: A competing idea for what became the B-2
USBP#02 can be downloaded as a PDF file for only $4:
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