View Single Post
 
Old 12-12-2010, 02:36 PM
nando's Avatar
nando nando is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Turin (Italy)
Posts: 780
Total Downloaded: 942.12 MB
First vectored PDF

This weekend was productive. I learned to use Inkscape a bit more and I released the first vectored PDF of the TF39.

Lockheed C-5 Galaxy design & build-tf39_07.jpg

No tabs, no instructions but a scalable design with some stencil and panel.

I'd like to propose to Peter Taft to substitute one engine of his B-52 with my TF39. Ok we have to enlarge it 4,36 times (from 1/144 to 1/33), but could be a good test for his scalability.




In my research I found on the War Birds #36 this note about the nickname:

"... The C-5 was nicknamed "Fat Albert" after a comic character - a rotund youth with a small head perched a top a trunk of great girth held upright by stubby legs - an apt likeness when viewed from the front. Detractors dubbed it "Fred", for Fantastic Ridicolous Economic Disaster - the version for polite company (DoD)"



May be someone at the Blue Angels knew the comic character and saw the same likeness with the C-130.

Nando
__________________
My builds
Last Udon's LM @ 1/96;Collier’s Ferry Rocket (1952);Gundam Sinanju MS-06S
Current Apollo CM 1-24
Fat Man & Little Boy available here
Reply With Quote