^Nothing we’ve been privileged to share in so far regarding your build threads, leads me to believe anything is beyond your skills my multi-talented friend !
So, please remember - to paraphrase a line from a favorite film of mine ... “if you build it,
they will come .”
(Admirers of your work)
Ged
I'm embarrassed but thanks, Ged-san,
You always cheer me up.
Thank you !! Analyzer-san.
Thank you! Korben-san. I need your help soon.
I bet more than a few engineers at Mitsubishi or Kawasaki would be drooling if you showed them the finished model.
Thanks, Tom-san, I try my best to fly her to the destination.
Amazing engineering work here, Katsu-San! The multiple degrees of freedom of the nacelles is superb!
Thank you, g0rb-san, This was one of a little mile stone but I'm so happy that I could bring her here.
Thank you very much for your support, my friends.
Today, I did a small metal works to connect the nacelles strongly.
Because I have been afraid that if I give it poor job on the connecting point it might even torn off sooner or later.
This metal piece is made of 1 mm thick aluminum sheet and be fixed on a nacelle with four screws and hold the hinge with claw.
This is the view from the nose.
I designed this arrangement to avoid the jet wash of front engines interfere the aft engines.
I checked several picture of those quad duct fan engine aircraft. Most of all was designed opposing to mine. unlike mine, front wing is short span. But it's OK with me, my baby carries multi tons AAV and armed with many bomb and rockets under its front wing.
Although I haven't named this aircraft yet but, a few day ago,
I drew a rough sketch of the insignia of the fictional squadron of US Marine Corps.
This is one of the Japanese God of nature, 'Rai-jin' 雷神 God of thunder.
Red body, golden hair and wearing a tiger striped pants.
He grabs a pair of drum stick and beats the drums above him.
It's the sound of thunder.
I drew four drums to symbolize quad engines.
And coincidentally he drops a ' Rai-jyu' - Thunder beast - at a battle.
When I was a kid, my mother used to told me 'Don't take a nap with bare belly. Or Kaminari-san will come to stole your navel'.
So, I could survive the hot summer days without having a stomach ache. Kaminari-san (Kaminari-sama - Mr.Thunder) also means Raijin . Sounds very similar with Kami-san which means wife. No big difference.
Above is the pics of 'Rai-jyu' 雷獣. 'Rai' 雷 means thunder, jyu 獣 means beast.
I guess you know 'Kai-jyu' 怪獣 like 'Godzila'. Kai 怪means unknown, suspicious and scary.
Rai-jyu has six legs. It might give me some inspiration for the AAV or AFV design later.
So the squadron name of nose art will be RAIJINS.
Help me Koben44-san, are those squadrons operate these aircraft called VF-### or VFA-### ? Or some other proper name?
Thanks for looking.
katsu