Project Seagull

[Tobsen77]

Hello... long time no see Been busy running the shop and painting my new Blood Bowl Team... but now I'll start a new (small) project: The Seagull



http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/06/10/sea-gull-boat-skims-water-at-seventy-miles-an-hour

Maybe upgraded with some guns

Tobsen

[Mancha]

Fantastic pulpy vehicle!

[Operator5]

That is awesome! I want one!

[Gluteus Maximus]

Put a covered cockpit onto it and it would make a great pulp sf spacecraft 

[Wirelizard]

Now that is cool!

Not sure what craft like these would be classified as - not quite a hydrofoil, but not quite a "Wing In Ground Effect" (WIG or WIGE) craft either.

Another use for Copplestone's 28mm pilot figures - the head-and-shoulders-only ones designed for cockpits.

A two-place one - perhaps with a WW1-style machine gun mount around one cockpit - would also be very cool to see!

[Wolf 359]

  Oooooooooh...! Now that got my attention. Looking forward to seeing how this pans out.

[Bako]

Pretty cool, should make for a fun project.

[Tobsen77]

[Grimmnar]

Hey Tobsen,

if this has been asked before i missed it. But where you get the source for inspiration? Do ya Google "wierd creations of a madman" or is there a different way you go?  :-)

Grimm

[Tobsen77]

Hey Tobsen,

if this has been asked before i missed it. But where you get the source for inspiration? Do ya Google "wierd creations of a madman" or is there a different way you go?  :-)

Grimm

Hi Grimm,

whenever I find an interesting image on the web it goes directly to my bookmark list... there is enough stuff for years in there. A great source are those "The 10 strangest/silliest/funniest whatever" websites like cracked.com or similar. Another neverending list of strange things is on http://www.darkroastedblend.com/... just now this is on their homepage:



I mean... this is seriously crazy stuff:

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/06/coolest-submarines-showcase.html
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/12/unique-soviet-snowmobiles.html

It's full of these... btw, search google images for "weird vehicles" actually is a good find

Cheers,
Tobi

[The Dozing Dragon]

If you want crazy then try this one;

http://www.joeld.net/snowcruiser/snowhist.html

I think I picked this up off LAF a year or so ago...........................

[Dewbakuk]

That aerotrain is awesome!

[Tobsen77]

[dampfpanzerwagon]

I was aware of the speedboat featured, and have even thought about modelling it, but this thread has really made me wish I'd started modelling it earlier.

The model so far looks fantastic, a great job and I cannot wait to see it finished.

Well done.

Tony
http://dampfpanzerwagon.blogspot.com/

[majorsmith]

i like this alot, nice concept