Once again, Motocar doesn't create the cutaways. At most he can be credited with locating, scanning, and minor edits. Credits are due to Frank Munger, John Weal, Tim Hall, Mike Badrocke ("Aviagraphica"), Joe Picarella and other hugely talented artists.
Except that when he began this thread he said that
"in order to give an identity to the hundreds of projects that lack a modest cutaway" ...
"I never claimed to be a professional and it is important to note that they always say 'Free Interpretation' or 'provisional Interpretation.'" If you look closely at the BV P.210 wing root fairing you will see his signature - and no credit to anybody else. Maybe some of his cutaways are drawn from published sources and cleaned up, but his avowed purpose is to create original cutaways for types which have not yet been well served and this appears to be one of them. So Paul, with due respect, I simply cannot agree with a word of your claim.
I cannot recall who it was who prepared the original cutaway of the F-104 Starfighter for
Flight, but he was so spot-on for a supposedly top secret design that the US authorities interviewed him to find out where he got his information from. He explained that if you were Lockheed then you had a certain track record and if you then went on to create
this airframe with
these rivet lines using
that technology, then his drawing was what you would end up with.
Motocar certainly aspires to such heights but none of that design awareness is evident in the P.210 drawing, in fact wholly the reverse. It bears no comparison to the superlative technical quality of Mike Badrocke or Frank Munger. If you want to know more about the gentle art of cutaway drawing, I can recommend Bill Gunston's
Classic World War II Aircraft Cutaways, Osprey, 1995 (and since republished by others). It contains much informative discussion alongside its many beautiful reproductions. So let's have no more of these unfounded claims.
This P.210 drawing was first posted in a supposedly factual thread on B&V types. In such circumstance it is important that its departure from reality should be made clear, this forum has a reputation for serious research and we do not want to dilute that.
I see that both the drawing and my initial criticism have now been moved here from that historical B&V discussion. That is good as far as it goes. But as a piece of research it is a poor example, no matter what apologia for the artist one wishes to make. If it is not to be moved to the fantasy/What-If section then it is fair game for exposing as the collection of mistakes that it is. Besides my earlier criticisms, if you compare it with the original drawings posted by newsdeskdan, you will see that even the profile of the nose and canopy is wrong. B&V's designer Richard Vogt used a trademark circular sheet steel main spar which doubled as an armoured fuel tank. For these high-speed jets the wing was too thin so he flattened the spar into an elongated D section torsion box which formed the whole front half of the wing structure. The rear edge of this sheet steel D is visible on the original B&V drawing but there is no sign of anything like that here, just a conventional light alloy framework. As a result the mistake of placing the main wheel wells too far forwards, as if the wing was unswept, has not been prevented. Do I really need to go on?