Alternate Reality Fighter circa 1932

[Forcemaster2000]

I like it so far!

Maybe keep the "wings" as stabilisers and make some larger fantasy looking wings further back towards the cockpit.

That would give you the opportunity to create some hardpoints to attach bombs to.

Speaking of the cockpit, it looks like it could be just a little bit bigger, the pilot looks like he'd have trouble getting in and out as it stands right now.

I don't have a problem with the blunt forward end...bad for gas mileage is all Pershaps you could sweep back the bottom front end to make it just a tad more aerodynamic.

[SCLRSIGS]

I didn't realise how much of a need there seems to be for fantasy to be grounded in practicality and physics. Granted, you do have a point. The more feasible something is, the more your audience will believe is could exist. Probably why shows like the reimagined Battlestar Galactica has done so well. It just seems that much for plausible than the original.

So with all that in mind, I have refined the fuselage to make is ever so slightly more aerodynamic and thrown in a double set of wings at the back. Could have put them on the forward third of the fuselage, but then is starts to look too normal.

I have no illusions that in reality this would battle to get off the ground, but that's why fiction is such a wonderful thing. You can do what you want.

Anyway, enough ramble. Have a look and tell me if I'm getting warmer.

Ps. I have got a reasonably detailed backstory hovering around in the grey matter. It involves elements that will possibly give me a little more 'artistic license'. From these elements will come the Mk II, III, etc. But telling now will be like reading the last page of a mystery novel first... I've also got to come up with a few other bits and pieces (including the baddies). Sure Manfred von Richthofen will evade his 1918 death and continue to be elude Allied aces.

[Aethernaut]

I like the direction this is headed and I like the era and alternate history that you've cooked up. Those stub biplane wings are pretty awesome and the thing looks like it's got a huge engine.

Though it's fantasy, and I can certainly appreciate that(!), one suggestion I would make to get around the real-world flight physics issue and make it feel a little more like an experimental real-world plane from the period would to be turning the flat nose into one big air scoop for the engine and mounting the prop on the tail to make a pusher. Or perhaps use that idea for the German designs?

Of course, it's your world, so ultimately the level of speculation and artistic-license is up to you and I'll certainly enjoy watching it develop.

[SCLRSIGS]

Thanks for the advice and interest, Aethernaut. Currently doing the engine at the moment and have coincidentally put a large air scoop under the propeller. Will hopefully get a WIP of the engine out soon.

[SCLRSIGS]

The flurry of advice from you all got me to thinking that if the plane lacked lift, it would need a lot of 'umph' under the bonnet to get it off the ground. So I though who better to make the unflyable fly than Rolls-Royce.

Don't know much about engines except they have pistons, need fuel, must be kept cool and need exhausts. Let me know what you think...

Ps. Will put it in the context of the Elf Owl fuselage as soon as is humanly possible.

[RedEye]

Your engine looks like a V-8 with a mini-radial grafted on the front Still very very cool looking.

[Andrew Boulton]

Reminds me of the Gee Bee racing planes.

[Forcemaster2000]

I really like the texturing on your engine!

Looks nice and "beefy" as well!

[Larsen]

Nice...

Only crit would be the front end... but that's allready been mentioned!

I rather liked the two rudders you had in the first draft!

Keep at it, this is certainly diferent!

[SCLRSIGS]

Thanks, Larsen. May still put the rudders in. Focussing on the front and moving my way back. Keep the advice coming. Always welcome.

Ps. Excellent work on the BSG projects. More than a few man hours. Are you going to finish the Galactica?