On 3/29/2010 10:37 AM, wrote:

And the rebel cargo ship from Star Wars:
http://www.google.com/patents?id=yV4qAAAAEBAJ

I always like that design; something of a big beetle about it.
In the case of the F-19, they got ripped off by Revell in fairly short
order:
http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpo...-19a_144-i.htm
....but the Testor's design itself owed a lot to a drawing Japanese
aviation artist Hideo Maki had done of it for Air Review Magazine as the
"RF-19".
That drawing also had some influence on the Monogram design, which was
mainly inspired by this Loral ad from AW&ST:
http://ultraclearance.com/f19/Loral-f-19.jpg

Pat