What The Heck Do I Do With This?

Gary · December 20, 2007, 05:18:56 AM

Well, now I've done it.

With my club in town I suggested a C and E build. We exchange wrapped kits of a certain value or more and drew numbers to see who got to get what. We have to have the finished product ready by the Easter meeting.

I got a freaken huge Monogramme Space Shuttle. Cripes almighty, what do I do with that behemoth. Anyone have any suggestions?

I thought about a great grey over grey USAF thing with an anti sattelite weapon in the bay, but that would need a bit of thought and I'm real short on that material these days.

Help

frank2056 · December 20, 2007, 06:53:13 AM

QuoteStick some RAF markings on it and do it as the Moonraker shuttle that we were supposed to get but Drax stole at the start of the film.

Or RAF roundels and two big honking jet engines near the tail, rounded off wing tips and call it a Ministry of Space Whiff shuttle.

Mossie · December 20, 2007, 07:04:02 AM

Add a conventional wing, trim the rockets off the end & replace with a cargo tail & you've got a cargo aircraft. The cockpits in the right place for a nose door too. You could apply the same basic idea to an airliner, bomber, AWACs or some such.

EDIT, you could even keep the same wing if you didn't want as much work, it'd look pretty unusual although it'd betray it's ancestory.

MartG · December 20, 2007, 07:05:54 AM

Paint it in the colours of your favourite postal service/courier/Pizza delivery company and bill it as making deliveries to the ISS

datguy · December 20, 2007, 07:12:25 AM

Build it all closed up. Paint and decal it for one of the airline tour operators or "Virgin Space." Use decals for airliner type passenger windows.

Convert the wing roots to jet intakes, modify the aft fuselage to include big jet nozzles, twin the tails and mount some sort of thruster box between them. Paint it green with yellow trim, and mark it as "Thunderbird 2.1." Thunderbirds are GO!

DG

Captain Canada · December 20, 2007, 08:44:18 AM

Paint it all black and call it 'the black chicken'. Good place for Bush to hide the next time the poo-poo (with an english accent) hits the fan.

Or make it into a submarine.......or put it on ebay. or just pretend you lost it. or beg somebody in the club to trade with you.

Captain Canada · December 20, 2007, 08:46:09 AM

I just had a thought.....make a dio of it flopped upside down after falling off the rockets and fuel tank on the launch pad. CDN sappers strike again !

Jeffry Fontaine · December 20, 2007, 09:49:52 AM

Quoteor beg somebody in the club to trade with you.

Gary, I think Todd wants to trade you something for that space shuttle kit...

jcf · December 20, 2007, 10:14:10 AM

Paint it like a school bus.

Just the Shuttle or full-stack?

Jon

Aircav · December 20, 2007, 10:54:00 AM

You could put CCCP on the wings

P1127 · December 20, 2007, 11:08:13 AM

Paint feathers on it and make it a Space Shuttlecock

Ian the Kiwi Herder · December 20, 2007, 11:16:43 AM

QuotePaint it in the colours of your favourite postal service/courier/Pizza delivery company and bill it as making deliveries to the ISS

Now that works for me !

Ian

Daryl J. · December 20, 2007, 11:51:53 AM

Mount ports on the sides, fill with lasers, and voila, its the AC-Shuttle-H laser ship providing top cover from 150 miles up. (Been thinking of watching James Bond this weekend... ^_^ )

How about Fed-Ex markings.

Daryl J.

Martin H · December 20, 2007, 01:03:41 PM

QuoteYou could put CCCP on the wings

How about PRC markings? well NASA might as well sell em off to a good home for futher use when they retire the survivors.

Captain Canada · December 20, 2007, 08:44:23 PM

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Gary, I think Todd wants to trade you something for that space shuttle kit...

No no no....he's screwed ! He suggested the swap, and now he's got his kit and he has to build it. Maybe you could turn it into a roadside Cafe ? You could combine it with a gas station like the olden days, and the Canadarm could take care of the full serve !