Aussie Mustangs

[inkworm]

looks like a standard photoshop filter to me, just used intelligently and to very good effect.

[GrubbyFingers]

Thanks, Supah.

Inkworm is right, it's a combination of artistic filters (Plastic Wrap and Chrome in the main) and layers, opacities, blending modes etc.

Don't ask me how much of what, there are so many layers there it takes me half an hour to work out what layer I need to change! It might even have been faster to paint it from scratch.

I do like prodding and poking around in the filter settings and seeing what I can make Photoshop do though.

The longnose Mustang is indeed A68-187. It had a RR Dart from a Viscount grafted on. It also had drop tanks from a Sabre fitted, although they would have fouled the flaps if the flaps had been used. Just a minor inconvenience!

I, too, used to peer at it through the chainlink fence at Canberra airport. Registration VH-UFO was assigned to it but never taken up.

Are you a Canberra boy, MC?

[gamary]

Did the Leech ever fly in this config?

How heavy was the modification? Obviously the front part... But I see that the lower rear part (aft of the wing root) seems different?

BTW, you've been squinting at the screen for too long, my friend: you typed your name backwards, xueniloM emearG. You need to take a break every few hours, for sanity's sake.

[mclaring]

Grubby,

Back in the 1980s I used to pass through Canberra during Navex for my PPL. Who could forget such a beast ? Been based all over Pacific and Indochina since.

MC

[GrubbyFingers]

That's my new name. Graeme Molineux wasn't exotic and international enough. Xuenilom Emearg is much better.

You can call me Xue (Zoo)

Zoo.

[mclaring]

Xue,

the name Xuenilom Emearg simply rocks. Welcome to our forum,

MC

[Otterkins2]

Would you people please wake up! This is just Sregnif Ybbyurg parading around in a Halloween costume. Geez some people are duped easily.

[gamary]

Would you people please wake up! This is just Sregnif Ybbyurg parading around in a Halloween costume. Geez some people are duped easily.

But Snikretto brought the Light and the Truth was revealed.

[BLOWHARD]

heheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheeh

[GrubbyFingers]

Hey, Yramag, I'll answer the first part of your question now the silliness is over ...

... It did not ever fly in this configuration. I don't know that it even got as far as an engine run. It must have been an enormous undertaking. The modifications included engine and front cowl from a Viscount, fabricated engine mount forward of the firewall (from photos this looks like it was made out of angle iron, and may have only got as far as a mockup). New fairing panels were fabricated between the firewall and the Viscount cowling. The radiator scoop was removed and the lower fuselage was reshaped accordingly.

Grubby.