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Let Let Let - Warplanes => Warplane Art => Topic started by: No.1 on March 29, 2011, 10:42:21 AM

Title: I.A.R. 80
Post by: No.1 on March 29, 2011, 10:42:21 AM

This is one of the greatest fighter development from my point of view. Romanian experts get very smart decision to make conversion from the hight wing, fixed gear PZL.24 and convert it into the sleek designed fighter plane. They develop it into the I.A.R.80 which adopted whole production tooling and equipment. It use the same radial engine as PZL fighter which is licensed and manufactured in Romania and in regard to its small power (compared with other constructions), this fighter give great performance and managed to get in fight with far better fighters. Its great improvement is the frame less cockpit canopy, maybe very first in the world used on the series production fighter aircraft.

So lets go with profile of this machine  :-tri

Title: Re: I.A.R. 80
Post by: No.1 on March 29, 2011, 02:24:28 PM

All panels and nuts in place, now to make some bolts used for access panels. Also here you are resize of some archive images I use as reference  :-flo

Title: Re: I.A.R. 80
Post by: No.1 on March 29, 2011, 03:39:04 PM

More progress in last twenty minutes :))

Title: Re: I.A.R. 80
Post by: Sall on March 29, 2011, 04:08:32 PM

 :-clap :-clap :-clap

Title: Re: I.A.R. 80
Post by: Second Air Force on March 29, 2011, 04:36:14 PM

Another great subject! 
I once knew a gentleman (now deceased) who was in one of the B-24s that flew the Tidal Wave mission. He still remembered the "radial engine fighter" quite vividly sixty years later as he and an I.A.R. were shooting at each other.

Title: Re: I.A.R. 80
Post by: No.1 on March 29, 2011, 08:12:55 PM

Tidal Wave bombers was main target of this fighter in one period and at end of war they was used against Germans. Nice to hear that you have talk with crew of B-24 who have flew those dramatic missions  :-danger

Profile get layers with shades

Title: Re: I.A.R. 80
Post by: Sall on March 29, 2011, 08:31:09 PM

Nice! :-clap

Title: Re: I.A.R. 80
Post by: samuraj77 on March 29, 2011, 09:22:24 PM

I really like this plane, but somehow it was never in the plans of the mainstream kit manufacturers...
 :( :-roll :-/

Title: Re: I.A.R. 80
Post by: No.1 on March 29, 2011, 10:03:43 PM

Thank you for comments. To regret I also did not spot this kit at all and I am wonder who make this kit?

More progress on the profile  :-crazy

Title: Re: I.A.R. 80
Post by: samuraj77 on March 29, 2011, 10:48:20 PM

1/72
A-Model
Formaplane
MPM

1/48
LTD

Title: Re: I.A.R. 80
Post by: No.1 on March 29, 2011, 11:27:12 PM

Thank you ;) So there is some options for 1/72 scale and just one in 1/48 scale.

Title: Re: I.A.R. 80
Post by: santynus on March 30, 2011, 07:51:41 AM

great work No.1  :-ok :-clap :-wave

Title: Re: I.A.R. 80
Post by: No.1 on March 30, 2011, 11:41:25 AM

Thank you and here you are first profile :))

Title: Re: I.A.R. 80
Post by: Sall on March 30, 2011, 11:50:52 AM

Great machine,and very nice work! :-ok :-clap

Title: Re: I.A.R. 80
Post by: g-1reaper on March 30, 2011, 03:45:02 PM

This is one of my favourites too! I'd loooooooooove to see some more pictures! Well done with this first drawing!

Title: Re: I.A.R. 80
Post by: Profa on March 30, 2011, 04:29:47 PM

Just like our IK-fighters, simply forgotten in the mainstream of all those Mustangs, 109s and 190s...
Nice job here, No.1!! :-ok

Title: Re: I.A.R. 80
Post by: No.1 on March 30, 2011, 10:12:51 PM

Thank you for comments ;) To regret many of the files I have received many years ago from the director of the museum in Bucharest but after me leave in '98 friend who get this files to keep for me simply refused to return it back. So I have almost nothing today.

Title: Re: I.A.R. 80
Post by: Sall on March 30, 2011, 10:37:43 PM

He is a thief. :-bat :-kr :-danger
But now it is too late for anything! :-roll

Title: Re: I.A.R. 80
Post by: Paul Bradley on March 31, 2011, 02:20:15 AM

Mmm, very nice. I have the old LTD kit and it would look great in that scheme.

Title: Re: I.A.R. 80
Post by: No.1 on March 31, 2011, 07:58:52 AM

What to say but you are lucky one with this kit ;) I think it is hard to find it