Fryske Falk - 1/32 - Landspeedrecord-car

[The Creative Explorer]

Next to the TR Spider, I will start to finish this project as well, it is a ambitious project, but on the other hand not to bad.

I've been walking for years now with the idea to make the North American Eagle, that was to be seen at Discovery, it is a F-104 Starfighter, a yetfighter/bomber converted to be a landspeed record breaker.

I've started somewhere last year, but it hasn't caught my passion yet. But I've had some interests in it and some new ideas, so I will finish it now. The main idea was to recreate the NAE, but I've let that one go. It is do-able, but appearantly it is too much asked to respond to my e-mails wherein I ask for some good reference pictures, on 10-some e-mails I've gotten no replies, so it is for me not worth to recreate that project. I'd rather build something that I would enjoy, therefore I started; the 'Fryske Falk', or Frisian Falcon in English. It is going to run on the great salt-plaines in northern Netherlands ( we have all included; 0 haha )

The livery will be mostly blue/white with on it's tail some red lotusleaves. And instead of an Eagle, it will get a Falcon on it's side. I was going to make a decal for that, but I decided to go and practice my airbrush techniques and will airbrush it on the plane.

We start with a previous build F104 Starfighter

And pull the wings off

Together with some more unusefull parts

The parts that will be clipped of

And the frame for under the fusilage

That needed some braces for strength

And so the putty-fest starts....

[The Creative Explorer]

Then we take the rear-wing, so I can use it for a nose-wing

That looks like this:

I will put this on the nosecone, for extra stability at high-speeds

And a idea for the falcon, the weird shapes are masks, that will help me with the basic-lines for the bird, the rest will be done free-handed.

[Foxer]

Now, this looks like fun!

[Mike Kucaba]

I bought a 1/32nd F-104 Starfighter kit just to try and do this car. If you Google F-104 Starfighter LSR you will get all kinds of reference.Check Images there.

Here's one I looked at.

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.ratrodz.com/bloodhound1000_bonneville/nae_f104.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.ratrodz.co

[Jim Keeler]

Check out: http://www.landspeed.com

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Eagle_Project

There are many photos of the North American Eagle on the landspeed site.

Also, for Land Speed Racing information there is nothing better than the http://www.landracing.com web site. They have Build Diaries of many lsr cars. Good luck on your project.

Jim Keeler

[The Creative Explorer]

Thank you for the links and information, but I already had these. The problem is that the pictures found on the web and on landspeed.com are simple photographs, and can hardly be used as reference material. I needed some good detailled pictures of the livery, wheels, suspension, cockpit and chair etc...

But I didn't receive anything. Basically because of that lacking attitude I got from them, I have no fun in recreating the NAE no more.

That is when I came up with a new idea, and because it is non-existent, I can do whatever I want and need no reference material But I do appreciate the help given by you guys, it is just them that I have a new plan.

[The Creative Explorer]

A small update, not a lot is happening, but whatever I am doing now, is taking a lot of time. The first structural difference in comparison with the NAE, is going to be aerodynamic changes. One thing I always thought was weird, was the open structure of the rear-wheel mounting. I can imagine that that would cause massive turbulence at high velocity. Therefore I am going to cover it with a wing-style cover. To add for stability and lower the drag.

3/4th of the wing is done, it shows in this picture that the rearwheel assembly will be covered up with a oversized wing

The wingshape is starting to come

It looks a little if there is a Concord stuck underneath ;-)

And a rear-view. Note that things are still very rough and needs to be adjustes.

[The Creative Explorer]

I haven't been very motivated to build a lot lately, nor had the motivation to post updates, it is a lot of work (time) and I don't get the feeling my builds are that interesting. Not that I am crying for attention, it is ok. But it just doesnt help with motivating ofcourse. Tonight I found a spark of motivation and will update some of my projects.

The updates of the Frisian Falcon

The wings had some weird dents in the wings, so I put some putty on it.

A bit hard to see, but the wingshape is starting to be there

And the ingredients for the wheels of the Frisian Falcon

I used 2 innerwheels of a 1/24 kit to get a solid front wheel

When I testfitted the rear-wheels, I got a new idea to use the fueltank, so I cut them and removed the middlepiece

Glued them together and let it hard

The 1/35th military wheels were sanded on my multitool

Just like the middlewheels

And the front wheel

[The Creative Explorer]

The original (NAE) had open wheels, but I question the aerodynamics of that, So I created from the fueltanks pods, to cover the wheels for the biggest parts, but not completely, I don't know why, but something told me it looked better and more logical

I have to adress this gap

And then it was time for the paintbooth

Starting with primer

And finish it with a nice blue color.