Vanvlak's Mono-paddlewheel FS02

[Vanvlak]

BT = Building Thread, and not a lettuce-deficient meal/snack.

I have a major problem, which I whine about consistently: storage space.
So my 'built conveyance' (we'll call that a BC, just to keep things messy) will not take the immensity prize.
I'll admit I was toying with 145mm diameter wheels yesterday evening, but the beastie sporting these would've been too big to stash away until the blessed age of 78 when I might just have time to dig up all my models and do some gaming.
I will probably be (a) reducing the number of wheels (no give-away there, I had a 10-14 wheeler in mind originally) (b) reducing (regretfully) the diameter.
I can safely guess the BC, being a BC, will not be a road or bridge or anything similar, but beyond that I still have visions of things that float (with 12 wheels?!) or fly or crawl around milling about the old BB*.

Scale? undefined, possibly 15mm (this too helps storage)
Period? almost certainly VSF
Colour? whichever of my foundation paints is most full.... it might even be purple....
Affiliation? no idea - well, too many to list, to be precise

*brain box, an Mk1.0 with limited capacityand excessive mileage

[Vanvlak]

OK,
discipline won out and as (1) I have limited time and (2) even more limited storage it's going to be at the smaller end of the scale.
Curious to see how many people opted for buildings related to travel - this actually only barely crossed my head, which is trying to make sense of a few weird ideas.
But at least I now have a concept; I won't show it to you as I'm rubbish at sketching, so I'll just show you some IMPORTANT BITS. Especially the grubby pale yellow one.

[OSHIROmodels]

I think buildings have been chosen by most people as that is what they build more.

I'm interested to see what the big yellow wheel is going to be used for 

cheers

James

[Dewbakuk]

Ooh, good paddle wheel there!

[Vanvlak]

Dewbakuk is of course right 

Some progress has been made. Here is a sort of cartoon:



Spot of explanation:
1st pic shows the wheel and the starboard side.
The yellow 'paddle wheel' is part of some sort of rotating brush thingy found scrapped in a dump!
The green object is a whiteboard marker cap.
Barely visible amongst the gears is a grey pinion taken from a scrapped printer.
The red bits seen in all the pics are parts from 2 Revell kits of the Jupiter C rocket and launcher purchased at low cost and currently serving as very useful bits collections; the launcher, from which all red parts are taken, consisted of pairs of railway wagons riveted together in the original model.

2nd pic - port side.
The white hollow cylinder (almost hidden under the red platform, and more easily seen in the last pic) is an old light bulb fitting.
The white ribbed thing is obviously part of an old contact lens case (donated by the wife).
The red platforms and frames come from the kit mentioned above.

3rd pic: both assembled.
This is the first pic in which what I am building can be more or less made out - the first ever (is it?)
MONO-PADDLEWHEEL 

For the aficionadoes:
The book in the background is a paperback Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian - better than the film!
The wine glass contained (until a few minutes before the pics were taken) a 2007 Castillero del Diablo Merlot from Chile.
I love Chilean wine.

[former user]

You are drinking wine with a knife in Your hand?

diehard! 

[Vanvlak]

You are drinking wine with a knife in Your hand?

diehard! 

And I've still ot ten finers - er - han on, where's the one that does the '' ot to?
Oh buer. Wait, I'll use a different finer: I meant the one that does the 'g'..... 

Anyways - the little beastie has a name - it's now called a Conveyancer class vessel, and it has been allocated number FS02.
That's not Ferrovie di Stato (Italian State Railways) but Flotta della Serenissima - the Venetian Fleet.

Stuff added - a small boiler, a huge exhaust, a mysterious-I-beam-with-a-purpose, a balcony (Oh, Romeo, Romeo wherefore art though sort of thing, sans creepers), a ship's wheel and a telegraph (both from a lovely 15mm pack of Peter Pig sailors). I have also built a small barbette cannon but am still undecided about how to incorporate this.

Pics tonight, I hope. 

[Vanvlak]

The promised pics - incidentally, I sawed off a smal segment of the wheel as I will be basing it.

The spherical boiler:

which is a beer can widget (Guinness).

The big copper exhaust and the I-beam-with-a-purpose:


The wheel and the telegraph:

both from Peter Pig 15mm range 22 pack 61.

[Doc Twilight]

Looking great so far, V. Keep it up!

-Doc

[OSHIROmodels]

This is getting really interesting 

cheers

James

[gamer Mac]

Interesting bits but I am not getting what you are aiming for at the end.
 
Does it go on land or sea

[Vanvlak]

Interesting bits but I am not getting what you are aiming for at the end.
 
Does it go on land or sea

At a very VERY late stage in its conception I decided it would go on sea.
It's a monowheel device, only in this case the wheel in question is a paddlewheel.
And to mess people up, it's upside down in the pic showing the exhaust.
 

[former user]

copper piping !

now that's a first...

looks very interesting, yet mysterious 

[Vanvlak]

Thanks guys.
The best part is that even I don't quite know what it will look like in the end!
The copper tubing - that's a mega-funnel inspired by Japanese carrier design in WWII.

Here are some - ah - ancient sketches:

Front view:


Side view:


Plan view - with 'something' detached and placed to one side in this view.....

[former user]

impressive

I always shy away from using too many different materials, cause I have problems glueing them together and I constantly fear they would fall apart

I try to use only plastic, metal only if necessary, and then I glue together as much surface as posiible or use screws