Vought V-1100 fighter to LWF specification

Awesome donation and work allysonca
Thanks for sharing with us.

Regards
Pioneer
 
allysonca said:
I was fortunate enough to meet the daughter of the famed Dallas-based model maker "Brownie" a few weeks back at our local museum where she donated a lot of his work for display. Brownie had worked at the Vought model shop back in THE day, and after retirement, he continued to do his own work for Bell Helicopters as well as other Texas-based manufacturers. I knew of him from some of the Bell Heli's I had collected over the years that were outstanding, and always have been on the prowl for more. I was lucky to get a couple of unfinished models, one of which was this ultra rare V-1100. I was thrilled and immediately commenced repairing it (it was a reject) and finishing it to my liking. As there were so few models out there (I know of 1 in a friends collection that is silver) and one at Vought that is in a camo as seen here in this forum, but I thought, well since this was a LWF design, and I always loved the Blue/White YF-16............................. Soooooooooo here you go!

Oh, I also used the same type of base that the V-1000 made by Precise Models had utilized. BTW, the model was gifted to me as that blank and now resides in my collection.
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@allysonca was positioning the Sidewinders under the wing your idea, or from the original model? All other models and drawings show either wingtip or fuselage side mounting.
 
Under wing on original model. There were small indents and
you can see that the wing tips were not shaped to have launch rails. Here is one of Brown’s originals. 1786935007282.jpeg
 
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allysonca said:
Under wing on original model.
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Cheers, just wanted to confirm. This seems to a third intermediate version of the design, with the wings of the first version but the intake of the submission version, and the Sidewinders leaving the wingtips heading to the fuselage :)

Was the fuel tank also part of the original model? Don't know how much license you granted yourself on it.
 

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Similar but different markings.
 
Robert L Brown was born in Hoisington, Kansas, but spent much of his life in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and worked at Vought aircraft as a toolworker. He learned to make wind tunnel models at Vought and became a model maker. Brown pioneered the model making technique of foam filled models. He went on to build many models for LTV, Bell, and Aerospatiale. His daughter Margaret Brown Coates donated a collection of his models, pictures, and molds. Included in the collection was a model of an Aerospatiale helicopter. The archive’s preservation of this collection will ensure that the artistic component of the aerospace industry is remembered.
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https://stemmagazine.com/tSEPT24/89616E75611662A40D8799B82F4E0122/tSEPT24 final.pdf
 
I am the Model Expert for the Ft. Worth Aviation Museum and I was there when she brought in the collection that Brownie had accumulated over the years and had not been lost. We scanned all the photographs and preserved the donated models. Thankfully I was given a few damaged, broken or blank ones that the museum did not care to keep. His models were always desirable to me for the quality and the accuracy.
 
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