Not even close. The nose was inspired by the Pond Racer, the engines are Westinghouse J-30s buried in blended wing root fairings inspired by a scale concept vehicle called the Miles M-30. The concept was a 55 seat transport. I'm easily inspired.
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Not even close. The nose was inspired by the Pond Racer, the engines are Westinghouse J-30s buried in blended wing root fairings inspired by a scale concept vehicle called the Miles M-30. The concept was a 55 seat transport. I'm easily inspired.
Hi everyone. About 6 months ago I started doing some illustrations for e of pi and Workable Goblin's excellent Eyes Turned Skywards thread. Someone (sorry I forget who) quite early on suggested I should also post them here, but somehow I never got round to it. If you're interested, the full 'canon' selection is up on the Eyes Wiki, but here are a few other views I thought might be of interest, starting with the Spacelab space station, a late-'70s follow-on to Skylab.
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Here's a cosmonaut heading out for a spacewalk from the ETS timeline's Mir space station, based around a 70-tonne core module and serviced by TKS crew transports.
Here's a view of an Apollo Command Module being yanked to safety from its Saturn-1C rocket during the Spacelab-28 launch failure. We used a different perspective for the 'canon' Eyes Turned Skywards illustration, but I thought you might like to see this one too.
From a better Time Line where Brazil don't take 20+ years just to decide about a 4th gen fighter comes Harpia the brazilian 5th gen fighter(not my creation):
That makes for a weird mental image, are you sure it wasn't the other way around?
I thought it was at first too but I think he just borrowed some features from it.
It seems to be a somewhat F-22 with many alterations. Some beautiful work and many dumb errors.
My backstory...
This timeline is set in a Scotland that shares a geographical and economic arrangement with England similar to modern day Canada and the USA but with a constitutional arrangement more akin to New Zealand and Australia.
Scotland and England have shared a monarch since the Union of the Crowns in 1603, when King James VI of Scotland inherited the English throne from his double first cousin twice removed, Queen Elizabeth I. Although described as a Union of Crowns, there are in fact two separate Crowns resting on the same head (as opposed to the implied creation of a single Crown and a single Kingdom). There have been three attempts in 1606, 1667, and 1689 to unite the two countries by Acts of Parliament, but ultimately all proved fruitless for a variety of different reasons. It was not until the early 18th century that both political establishments came to support the idea, of a constitutional, economic and by association, military alliance in the shape of a commonwealth of nations.
The Acts took effect on 1 May 1707. On this date, the Scottish Parliament and the English Parliament formally established the Commonwealth of Great Britain. On the Commonwealth, historian Simon Schama said "What began as an economic merger, would end in a full partnership in the most powerful going concern in the world ... it was one of the most astonishing transformations in European history."
During WW1, the armed forces of Scotland and England fought alongside the other major member nations of the now expanded Commonwealth (England, Scotland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India and South Africa). In a mirror of the formation of England’s Royal Flying Corps (RFC), the Army of Scotland (the Royal Regiments of Scotland) established the Army Air Corps (AAC). As the conflict dragged on into 1918, the lessons learned and technological developments in the employment of air power led the English to establish the world’s first independent air force in the shape of the Royal Air Force (RAF). Five days later the Royal Scottish Air Force (RSAF) stood up as an independent arm of service and thus became the world’s second air force.
During the interwar years, economic and military ties within the Commonwealth continued apace so that by the start of WW2 the militaries of each member nation, whilst not identical, shared common doctrines, training, tactics and the majority of their weapon systems.
Such was the cooperation and interoperability that the northern anchorage of the Royal Scottish Navy (Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands) was also home to a significant proportion of the Royal Navy (RN). Several air bases were constructed to provide local air defence for this critical naval base; the largest of which was Skeabrae Air Base (AB). With its northerly location also providing access to the Norwegian mainland and coastal waters, Skeabrae AB was, by 1944, home to no less than 9 Sqns of fighters and strike aircraft:
66 Sqn RAF (Spitfire)
118 Sqn RAF (Spitfire)
313 (Czechoslovak) Sqn (Spitfire)
329 (Norwegian) Sqn (Typhoon)
331 (Norwegian) Sqn (Typhoon)
622 Sqn RSAF (Typhoon)
51 Sqn RSAF (Beaufighter)
58 Sqn RSAF (Beaufighter)
253 Sqn RNZAF (Beaufighter)
My model depicts a RSAF Typhoon 1B of 622 Sqn - part of the Skeabrae AB, Long-Range Fighter Wing based on the Orkney Islands during June 1944. The Wing's primary mission is air interdiction over occupied Norway and escorting the Beaufighter Strike Wing also based at Skeabrae AB (although not immediately apparent from these pictures, the model is sporting 2 drop tanks). The Typhoon's two-tone colour scheme mirrors the dark grey of the North Sea and the medium grey of the cloud cover that is an almost permanent feature of the North of Scotland. The 'invasion' stripes are standard and part of the deception plan of Op Fortitude North which is intended to convince the Germans of an impending Allied landing somewhere along the Norwegian cost.
This timeline is set in a Scotland that shares a geographical and economic arrangement with England similar to modern day Canada and the USA but with a constitutional arrangement more akin to New Zealand and Australia.
Scotland and England have shared a monarch since the Union of the Crowns in 1603, when King James VI of Scotland inherited the English throne from his double first cousin twice removed, Queen Elizabeth I. Although described as a Union of Crowns, there are in fact two separate Crowns resting on the same head (as opposed to the implied creation of a single Crown and a single Kingdom). There have been three attempts in 1606, 1667, and 1689 to unite the two countries by Acts of Parliament, but ultimately all proved fruitless for a variety of different reasons. It was not until the early 18th century that both political establishments came to support the idea, of a constitutional, economic and by association, military alliance in the shape of a commonwealth of nations.
The Acts took effect on 1 May 1707. On this date, the Scottish Parliament and the English Parliament formally established the Commonwealth of Great Britain. On the Commonwealth, historian Simon Schama said "What began as an economic merger, would end in a full partnership in the most powerful going concern in the world ... it was one of the most astonishing transformations in European history."
During WW1, the armed forces of Scotland and England fought alongside the other major member nations of the now expanded Commonwealth (England, Scotland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India and South Africa). In a mirror of the formation of England’s Royal Flying Corps (RFC), the Army of Scotland (the Royal Regiments of Scotland) established the Army Air Corps (AAC). As the conflict dragged on into 1918, the lessons learned and technological developments in the employment of air power led the English to establish the world’s first independent air force in the shape of the Royal Air Force (RAF). Five days later the Royal Scottish Air Force (RSAF) stood up as an independent arm of service and thus became the world’s second air force.
During the interwar years, economic and military ties within the Commonwealth continued apace so that by the start of WW2 the militaries of each member nation, whilst not identical, shared common doctrines, training, tactics and the majority of their weapon systems.
Such was the cooperation and interoperability that the northern anchorage of the Royal Scottish Navy (Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands) was also home to a significant proportion of the Royal Navy (RN). Several air bases were constructed to provide local air defence for this critical naval base; the largest of which was Skeabrae Air Base (AB). With its northerly location also providing access to the Norwegian mainland and coastal waters, Skeabrae AB was, by 1944, home to no less than 9 Sqns of fighters and strike aircraft:
66 Sqn RAF (Spitfire)
118 Sqn RAF (Spitfire)
313 (Czechoslovak) Sqn (Spitfire)
329 (Norwegian) Sqn (Typhoon)
331 (Norwegian) Sqn (Typhoon)
622 Sqn RSAF (Typhoon)
51 Sqn RSAF (Beaufighter)
58 Sqn RSAF (Beaufighter)
253 Sqn RNZAF (Beaufighter)
My model depicts a RSAF Typhoon 1B of 622 Sqn - part of the Skeabrae AB, Long-Range Fighter Wing based on the Orkney Islands during June 1944. The Wing's primary mission is air interdiction over occupied Norway and escorting the Beaufighter Strike Wing also based at Skeabrae AB (although not immediately apparent from these pictures, the model is sporting 2 drop tanks). The Typhoon's two-tone colour scheme mirrors the dark grey of the North Sea and the medium grey of the cloud cover that is an almost permanent feature of the North of Scotland. The 'invasion' stripes are standard and part of the deception plan of Op Fortitude North which is intended to convince the Germans of an impending Allied landing somewhere along the Norwegian cost.
Cool back story and very nice model! I really like the Scottish Roundel.
I don't suppose you'll be building any alternate Naval vessels anytime soon?
Cool back story and very nice model! I really like the Scottish Roundel.
I don't suppose you'll be building any alternate Naval vessels anytime soon?
Thanks.
Funny you should mention that.... NAH!
Oh come on doesn't Scotland deserve a Royal Navy?Thanks.
Funny you should mention that.... NAH!
Oh come on doesn't Scotland deserve a Royal Navy?
I used to have a kayak, if that counts.
Just flicking through this thread and I see that Color-Copycat is banned. When did that happen? What did he do? Do people just spontaneously explode on this site?
I remember once working out how large an airship would need to be to lift one of his air-battleships... I think I gave up when it passed the size of Brazil.
I remember once working out how large an airship would need to be to lift one of his air-battleships... I think I gave up when it passed the size of Brazil.
He's fishing and will be back in December. You're the fourth or fifth to ask.
BTW, impressive Typhoon. Love the thistle roundel !
Oh wow I didn't know Color-Copycat had been banned, I just found out that Nietzsche had been banned the other day.Just flicking through this thread and I see that Color-Copycat is banned. When did that happen? What did he do? Do people just spontaneously explode on this site?
I remember once working out how large an airship would need to be to lift one of his air-battleships... I think I gave up when it passed the size of Brazil.
I think its a purge!