I'll be building one of these, suitably modified for United Earth Navy use.
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Oh my, life, I've NEVER seen that kit for real ever! :o
They must a fortune to get hold of these days, can't wait to see what you do to it Fred. :thumbsup:
:thumbsup:What ? This is going to be good
Very curious to see what yiou have in mind! :o
Kit: it's a reissue, so would cost only half a fortune. ;D
Looking at the car, I also get non-naval ideas for a conversion... :rolleyes:
Quote from: loupgarou on June 01, 2016, 05:15:48 AM
Very curious to see what yiou have in mind! :o
Kit: it's a reissue, so would cost only half a fortune. ;D
I don't even have a
tenth of a fortune so that counts me out, sad to say. :banghead:
Yes, recent re-pop.
I'll not be building it with the operating folding top (very tricky to get to work by all accounts) or the wheels or the engine or the chassis.
Think The Jetsons meets Gundam (but not the giant robots).
As a bonus it comes with two figures (driver and his main squeeze) which with a bit of slight modifying I am hoping will become uniformed United Earth Navy crewmen.
Dug the many parts out of the box today. Being a kit designed back in the dim mists of antiquity it has a multipart body. This is normally a PiTA but not in this case as it made it easy to trace the shapes needed to fill the front wheel arches onto styrene sheet.
One of the reasons I chose to use this kit is because it has large round tail lights.
And here was me thinking it was going to be the personal limousine of Captain Fat Hamster! ('coz I didn't read the line above the picture) :blink:
Quote from: zenrat on June 02, 2016, 02:26:54 AM
One of the reasons I chose to use this kit is because it has large round tail lights.
Hmmm, for the exhausts perhaps?
I didn't realise they'd re-popped that kit, how long ago did you get it please?
Quote from: PR19_Kit on June 02, 2016, 11:21:03 AM
Quote from: zenrat on June 02, 2016, 02:26:54 AM
One of the reasons I chose to use this kit is because it has large round tail lights.
Hmmm, for the exhausts perhaps?
;D
Quote from: PR19_Kit on June 02, 2016, 11:21:03 AM
I didn't realise they'd re-popped that kit, how long ago did you get it please?
Couple of years maybe. The 14 year old in me is attracted to working features like the folding roof but then the jaded older part of my brain takes over and I never get round to building them.
Even more intrigued now !
:cheers:
I finally got to Bunnings today and came home with a shovel, some picture hangers (both not relevant to this build) a 4m length of 20mm electrical conduit and assorted elbows, tees, connectors etc.
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You're building your own scale model closed circuit wind tunnel? :unsure:
Hover car! :thumbsup:
:thumbsup: United Earth Navy Hover Car. Possibly an Admirals Barge.
I should be in a position to glue the body parts together soon and then I can sit it on the tubes and take a mock up pic.
Well its glued - two sides, the rear part of the boot and nose section are now forming the outline of a car body.
I saw a kit similar to this in the LHS yesterday. I resisted the urge.
Yours is going to be a very interesting build.
Tube glue eat your heart out. Today's solvent of choice was Plumbers Solvent PVC pipe glue.
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Body will be mounted higher, but for mock up purposes...
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To say I'm intrigued is putting it mildly ;D
My brain hurts................. :unsure:
Quote from: NARSES2 on June 06, 2016, 06:26:12 AM
To say I'm intrigued is putting it mildly ;D
It's a joint venture with Geneva's CERN
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN
to develop a sewage synchrotron. ;D
Quote from: NARSES2 on June 06, 2016, 06:26:12 AM
To say I'm intrigued is putting it mildly ;D
Me to. I'm making it up as I go.
Today I started cutting the plate which will form the floor of the car and fit within the grav lift torus. This would have been much easier if I had done it before sticking all the bits of conduit together.
A rummage in my parts box came up with a pair of 1/72 MiG 29 burner cans which will provide propulsion.
The problem (OK, one of the problems) with using plumbing & electrical fittings for building models is that mould separation lines and sprue attachment points are not really what they are thinking about when they design the moulds. And they are not exactly taking care cutting them from the sprues either.
So I spent much of my modelling time today cleaning up all the conduit fittings with filing sticks and sanding sponges. They'll need some filler though. Hope it sticks to the PVC.
Quote from: zenrat on June 08, 2016, 03:48:34 AM
The problem (OK, one of the problems) with using plumbing & electrical fittings for building models is that mould separation lines and sprue attachment points are not really what they are thinking about when they design the moulds. And they are not exactly taking care cutting them from the sprues either.
So I spent much of my modelling time today cleaning up all the conduit fittings with filing sticks and sanding sponges. They'll need some filler though. Hope it sticks to the PVC.
If you apply some adhesive to the surface that you are going to add filler to that should soften the surface to help the filler to bond with the plastic. I have used this technique when filling shallow depressions on a shiny plastic in the past to good effect.
Gondor
Thanks for the tip Alastair.
I have some "special" glue for sticking PVC & styrene which I bought at last years Model Expo to use on the FW189 Tilt Fan. Tetra it's called.
I put some filler on the pipes today before reading your tip so i'll find out tomorrow if it falls off or not.
That's pretty cool and defo different ! Nice use of materials as well.
:cheers:
Just nipped down and sanded the filler I put straight onto the PVC pipes. It has stuck well enough that it didn't all fall off.
Next step is getting paint to adhere. Hopefully my primer collection will have something acceptable.
Given the pipes a nice thick coating of etching primer. It appears to have covered OK.
Purchased a 1/48 Monogram Me 262 ($10 but still overpriced IMO) to provide thrust engines for this.
Started assembling them today.
Busy ! The engines sound good. 10 bucks sounds cheap !
:cheers:
They'll be a pig to mount as they are not on pylons (I really wanted a cheap 1/48 Viking but couldn't even find a not cheap one in the swap & sell) but I think they will go well with the 50's styling of the car body.
They're all together now but will need carefull PSR to fill the gaps without losing the panel detail.
These just in.
Photos smuggled out of zenrat industries secret skunkworks (buried deep under Stately Zen Mansions on the dank Northern slopes of Mount Martha) show Hover Car engines to be mounted onto a large tail fin.
Rumour has it they will be mounted higher up the tail to prevent ingesting passengers hats.
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Be careful going under a bridge!
Quote from: zenrat on June 27, 2016, 02:03:14 AM
Photos smuggled out of zenrat industries secret skunkworks (buried deep under Stately Zen Mansions on the dank Northern slopes of Mount Martha) show Hover Car engines to be mounted onto a large tail fin.
Rumour has it they will be mounted higher up the tail to prevent ingesting passengers hats.
At least hats can be removed. I'd be more concerned about toupees of high rank choking an engine
A really wild idea! :thumbsup:
Quote from: kerick on June 27, 2016, 10:52:38 AM
Be careful going under a bridge!
The United Earth Navy sneers at your bridges...
Quote from: Rheged on June 27, 2016, 11:29:25 AM
Quote from: zenrat on June 27, 2016, 02:03:14 AM
Photos smuggled out of zenrat industries secret skunkworks (buried deep under Stately Zen Mansions on the dank Northern slopes of Mount Martha) show Hover Car engines to be mounted onto a large tail fin.
Rumour has it they will be mounted higher up the tail to prevent ingesting passengers hats.
At least hats can be removed. I'd be more concerned about toupees of high rank choking an engine
Yes. Rear Admiral Trump has to wear a headscarf when riding in back.
Coming along.
Got the engines mounted onto the tail and the seats fitted to the interior.
I have also started on the figures.
I found out today that i've run out of bendy straws so will need to get more to complete this.
Bought more bendy straws today.
I also made the required adjustments to the driver so he fits behind the wheel properly and scratched up an air inlet for the bonnet.
This is ticking along slowly.
I've been painting the interior and the figures and have got the Anti-Grav tubes ready for paint.
Once i've finished painting the dash and door panels I can mask them and spray the body.
Printed the decals today.
This has been slowly ticking along.
Here is Rear Admiral Lucy Lastic and her driver/bodyguard Captain Johansson.
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Decals on today.
Quite a uniform for the Admiral! ;)
The Captain (yes, I get the pun in his name) seems to be taking liberties wa-ay above his pay-grade!
I follow the Star Trek:The Next Generation school of uniform design.
Particularly Deanna Troi's
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And Captain Johansson is very, very close protection...
The figures are those that come with the car kit. I have just modified their clothing slightly with my exacto knife.
Nice work ! The car looks excellent and the figures are outstanding !
:wub:
Thanks Cap'n.
It's all in one (surprisingly heavy - I blame the electrical conduit) lump now.
Shouldn't be too long.
Finished. But I need to take pictures and write some words.
Quote from: zenrat on August 24, 2016, 02:48:58 AM
This has been slowly ticking along.
Here is Rear Admiral Lucy Lastic and her driver/bodyguard Captain Johansson.
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More like Admiral Wanda Whataset!
She's not bad, she's just moulded that way...
Words have been plagiarised. Just need to take some pictures. I've been concentrating on the Loon but.
Fnord Galactic Skyliner Hovercar. United Earth Navy. UES Lagrange (Lunar Central Command Oversight) 2159.
As the hovercar glid to a halt at Gagarin Overlook under the light of a crescent Earth Lucy gave a little sigh, snuggled up closer to Captain Johansson and came to a decision – this was the happiest she had ever been.
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Feeling Admiral Lastic move closer to him Olaf Johansson glanced down her top and smiled to himself as he thought about what he had planned for later. Once he'd dropped her back at the base he was heading out again and this time he could carve up the switchback curves into the foothills of the Aldrin range as fast as he liked without being told to slow down.
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Like most of the known worlds' greatest successes the Galactic Skyliner owed nothing to any official specification but was the result of dogged persistence by far-sighted engineers.
In this case the Fnord company (Ford/Nissan Orbital Research Dynamics – by the 22nd Century a wholly owned subsidiary of zenrat universal industries) even had to overcome two years of official disinterest, and flat disbelief in the whole idea of Nestoriwskyj Mobius loop gravity modulation.
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Fortunately the company prevailed, and once the first car was hovering it dominated every field it entered until by the end of its service life – which was long and varied – it was by far the most versatile United Earth transport.
The original idea in 2152 was a four seater version of the Albatross air cushion vehicle, but by October 2153 this had changed to a twin tokamak vehicle with such ruggedly stable lift characteristics it could dispense with air cushions altogether and fly on gravity modulation alone.
Like the Albatross however it was designed to look like an antique Terran personal transporter with its light but strong whiffium panels forming curves and fins stiffened by decorative looking but strong and light mouldings of foamed and polished unobtanuim. The trouble was that nobody believed in gravity modulation, far less fitting it to what looked like a relic of a long gone age.
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By sheer relentless effort (and a little creative persuasion) the board of zenrat industries managed to get specification T.1/55 written in January 2155, and after the Fnord Galactic Skyliner had twice been cancelled in the panics over genetic defects, the prototype flew at Mount Martha on 25th November 2155. According to an anonymous source, "When they saw it fly, even the UEN understood what the Skyliner was all about."
By 2158 anywhere the United Earth Navy went, so did the Skyliners. Every ship of the Terran surface fleet carried at least two Skyliner Utilities with additional Provost, Flatbed, Ambulance or even Armoured subtypes as required.
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This Fnord Galactic Skyliner was one of the Admiral's Barges fitted with boosted Blackburn-Beriev VD-69 Matroska propulsion engines. The increased maximum speed necessitated an enlarged vertical stabiliser in order to maintain longitudinal stability at velocities of over 500 km/hr. Designated the Skyliner 500 these much sought after vehicles can be identified by the cast zenratium "500" badge mounted beneath the base of the taller fin.
It's the personal hovercar of Vice Admiral Lucy Lastic, political commandant of UES Lagrange, the United Earth Navy's Lunar Central Command and Oversight facility (commonly known as Tranquility base it is the former Trump Lunar Tower) and in The Moon's low gravity and thin atmosphere has been known to top out in excess of 590 km/hr.
Some text plagiarised from Aircraft of World War 2 by Bill Gunston (Octopus books 1980).
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The Model.
Recent reissue (2006?) under Revells SSP program of the sixties 1/25 Monogram 1959 Ford Skyliner kit.
Gravity Modulation Torus built from electrical conduit, resin treadplate & bendy straws.
Engines from 1/48 Monogram Me262.
Scratchbuilt tail fin.
Figures provided with the car kit then modified.
A few other bits & pieces from a 1/24 Italeri Truck Accessories kit.
Home made decals.
The car looks awesome! :thumbsup:
Not sure about the morals & driving habits of your officer corps, though. :o
;)
I'm telling the PC Police on you :wacko:. Great fun...what makes this hobby so interesting.
Great stuff ! Love the story, and too right....how many men can't wait to drop off the missus so they can go out and play lol
Love the creativity of it. Both the story and the model.
:wub: :thumbsup:
Well done mate :thumbsup:
:thumbsup: Very good, well done!!
:thumbsup: of course
Absolutely AMAZING Fred! :thumbsup: :bow:
I knew it was going to be a tad 'off the wall' but that beats all. ;D ;)
Thanks folks. Glad you like it.
Just don't ask me how it works... :mellow:
Quote from: zenrat on September 13, 2016, 03:54:04 AM
Just don't ask me how it works... :mellow:
I'd have though that the principles of the Nestoriwskyj Mobius loop gravity modulation were pretty self evident actually............ ;)
Quote from: zenrat on September 13, 2016, 03:54:04 AM
Thanks folks. Glad you like it.
Just don't ask me how it works... :mellow:
A) I like it very much indeed
B) It's really quite simple, assuming that you don't allow the cyclonic vorticity of the gravity modulation to reach a negative value.....
Love that "thing"... but the story is just superb, excellent! :bow:
Quote from: Rheged on September 13, 2016, 02:06:38 PM
B) It's really quite simple, assuming that you don't allow the cyclonic vorticity of the gravity modulation to reach a negative value.....
Weren't the series 500s fitted with the anti-negative cyclonic vorticity modulation spin stabilised gyro compensator? Or was that only on the later Series 600s?
Holy crap! That is so sweet! One of the coolest things I've ever seen.
Quote from: zenrat on September 13, 2016, 03:54:04 AM
Thanks folks. Glad you like it.
Just don't ask me how it works... :mellow:
we already knows it can cause genetic effects, so we'll keep clear from asking
Thanks folks.
DFZ - it really was plagiarised. The middle section. I was having trouble with my muse so I got out my copy of Bill Gunston's Aircraft of WW2 and copied a chunk of text changing things like 'Mosquito' and 'unarmed bomber' to 'Hovercar' and 'gravity modulation'.
Kit - the 600 series was the long "wheelbase" hardtop limo. Limited production run. Armour, four engines, three rows of seats. Senior United Earth Committee members only.
Does anyone know how to pronounce Nestoriwskyj? I found it on a gravestone and can only guess a Nestor-iv-skitch.
Take off the "tch" - Nes-tor-iv-ski
Thank you sir.
:thumbsup: