Nord 500 "Cadet"

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Hanno Kleinecke
Very unique subject, never saw this one before. Promises to be a lot of work.........

 29 May 2018, 08:08

Bart Goesaert Author
Looks like it will be a base to start from, but I've never seen such a resin kit before... garagemold is even better then this... just found this report about someone tackling this kit: maquette72.free.fr/a..cadet/index_ao33.php

 29 May 2018, 14:54

Hanno Kleinecke
Looking at his build log, I only can say, you are a very courageous man........ That lump of resin would take met o insanity and beyond.... Bonne Chance ! 🙂

 29 May 2018, 17:44

Łukasz Gliński
That's a really cool topic Bart 🙂

 29 May 2018, 20:20

Glenn
May the force be with you. That's gonna be a lot of work. Hanno is right, unicraft kits are just lumps of bubbly crusty resin! Made from crusty old blocks of soap i think? Nothing lines up or fits and you have to scratch build most every thing. The box should read... resin kit for insane modelers.... 🙂 GOOD LUCK!

 30 May 2018, 03:00

Alec K
Interesting subject, following 👍

 30 May 2018, 11:27

Gordon Sørensen
Very interesting subject! Good luck, Bart! The resin looks..... challenging?

 30 May 2018, 12:01

Bart Goesaert Author
thx, I had something else in mind: f***ed up... sorry when small children are reading over the shoulder...

 30 May 2018, 14:19

Martin Oostrom
Don't forget to post a picture of yourself with fume coming out of your ears 😉

 30 May 2018, 14:42

Bart Goesaert Author
Lol, I'm afraid that won't be possible, to much sanding dust...

 30 May 2018, 16:04

Rene Scheiblich
This contraption looks like it came straight out of some old-school sci-fi. I like it 👍
I will definitely follow your brave journey into madness on this one. 🙂 I would be stumped. I already cursed upon finding a badly molded spot and 2 bubbles on my Eduard 262 Resin wheels 😄

 30 May 2018, 16:12

Alex
The warning about "brittle resin" is REALLY encouraging .... not! Good luck with this one.

 30 May 2018, 17:38

Ekki
I'll be watching this.

 30 May 2018, 18:02

John Thomas
Very cool

 31 May 2018, 00:16

Glenn
I've made the mistake of buying 3 or 4 very interesting subjects from unicraft. Such as the Boeing Bird of Prey, Lockheed Martin RQ-3 Darkstar, Rutan Proteus and a Blohm & Voss P.188.02 It's hard to describe the type of resin used but part brittle toffee with a dash of old crushed biscuits mixed together sounds about right. I think they will take the last fragments of my sanity to build them.

 31 May 2018, 00:23

Album info

The Nord Aviation N 500 Cadet was a single-seat VTOL research aircraft built by Nord Aviation in 1967.

A model kit presenting the concept was first shown at the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget in 1965. The aircraft was driven by two ducted fans, with three blades per fan, mounted on short wings that were able to pivot between providing vertical and horizontal thrust.

Two prototypes were constructed, one making its first (tethered) flight in July 1968.

General characteristics

Crew: 1
Length: 6.58 m (21 ft 7 in)
Wingspan: 6.14 m (20 ft 2 in)
Max takeoff weight: 1,250 kg (2,756 lb)
Powerplant: 1 × Allison T63 turboshaft, 236 kW (316 hp)
Performance

Maximum speed: 350 km/h (217 mph; 189 kn)

I'll try to make something from this heap of resin...

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