Long Range Fast Attack Car / Walker pic Sep 10.

[OSHIROmodels]

Cracking ideas all round chaps 

Might join you on that Dean, would make for an interesting game next year 

cheers

James

[Dewbakuk]

Might join you on that Dean, would make for an interesting game next year 

That's the pub talk sorted for this year then

[OSHIROmodels]

That's the pub talk sorted for this year then

 I think a quick run down to model zone might be in order as well 

cheers

James

[Constable Bertrand]

Paul, a Spitfire and Bentley sound like a match made in heaven. The world's fastest truck just got quicker hey

Maybe the way to is to do the reverse and get a car body and add plane parts? It could at least lead to two interesting builds rather than one.

Scurv, that Hudson hornet is fantastic, the beautiful front ahead of a huge inline power plant. How do you think a lightning or a mosquito would go? Or even an early mug*. When I first saw blackwolfs FW I thought it was supposed to be a jet engine.

Edit: *MIG. Silly auto correct.

[Mason]

Have a look at those one man pre formula one 30's and 40's race cars.

Paul, a Spitfire and Bentley sound like a match made in heaven. The world's fastest truck just got quicker hey .

The Bentley is a 1938 Model so should blend well with the Spitfire.
We shall see.

I shall be referring back to scurv's notes for pointers.
 

[pocoloco]

Scurv: I have been eyeing the I-16 but my intention was to make a jet-fighter out of it

Paul: What Constable Bertrand said, two iconic vehicles combined should produce fantastic result, now hurry up and finish the moving business, it takes up your precious hobby time!

Constable: my LBAM is supposed to have a jet engine and four wheel drive for that matter (double wheels at back are just for better performance over the dunes and such). I would hate to be the driver  

[pocoloco]

Finally got some more decent pics of the LBAM. And speaking of driver (see post above) I think this chap fits the bill quite nicely. Looks futuristic/post-apoc enough, thus good enough for me.

The shine of the varnish is gone, not that much dust from pigments is visible, mainly placed it on the wheel hubs anyways. Small detail thing to do left still, drilling the cannon barrel, need to locate small enough drill bit for that.

Anyways, here's few pics:

[pocoloco]

That's quite a lot of food for thought, interesting to see where that leads.

You wrote earlier about the land torpedoes, made out of the drop tanks with prop engines mounted on their back... there were quite a number of belly tank race cars made after the ww2, pics I have seen in the net mention that P38 drop tanks were used and those cars do look wicked... just mount the prop engine at the back, maybe add machine-gun or two (if there's need for those) and presto! I think I will now look for P38 kits as well

[Constable Bertrand]

Hot looking vehicle pocoloco. 

Mmm, interesting point Scurv, I may see how you go with the bug before I start chopping up my p47 Jug and making 'another' project.

[Daeothar]

Awesome work; these designs are just so evocative and there is something very Machinen Krieger about them. Which of course is great! 

I will have to practice the utmost restraint to not drive by the local model shop on the way home and load up on WW2 planes and trucks to try and get some of that Scurv 2D dogfighting off the ground (as a matter of speak that, of course  ).

I have a Spitfire Kit that I am thinking of splicing with a Bentley.

And AHAH!! 

[The_Beast]

Doug: Lets keep our fingers crossed that you still have that B-25 and you can start working on it again!
...

Sorry, wasn't following the thread closely enough.

Crossing of fingers does make the search in the basement a bit problematic. Alas, I fear the box is:

a) in the back bedroom
 

b) in the garage.
 

c) in the storage shed.




Hello, my name is Doug, and I'm a pack rat...
What you hip younguns call  'hoarder'.

the I-16.

 I do recall thinking 'I wonder how a GeeBee racer would do?', then dropped it. Seemed like I could do as well with one of the Japanese Super Deformed kit thingies, or even a plastic Easter egg.

Doug

[pocoloco]

Daeothar: aww come on, buy just a few, you know you want to

Doug: easier to get a new kit, it seems

[Dewbakuk]

This strikes me as going the opposite way as some of the Crimson Skies designs




Speaking of which, does anyone know if the CS Desert Fox is based on a real plane (most of them are)? It would make a good basis for a car build.

[Westfalia Chris]

Speaking of which, does anyone know if the CS Desert Fox is based on a real plane (most of them are)? It would make a good basis for a car build.

Hmm, seems to take some pointers from Interwar racing floatplanes (Supermarine and Macchi-Castoldi). Don't nail me down, though, as the designers seem to have just dashed together planes after the original set (and the Wings over Manhattan supplement), and it shows - quality declined sharply after that, and Pride of the Republic was awfully poor on aircraft designs (and shoddy in the writing, too, IMHO).

[Dewbakuk]

the designers seem to have just dashed together planes after the original set (and the Wings over Manhattan supplement), and it shows - quality declined sharply after that, and Pride of the Republic was awfully poor on aircraft designs (and shoddy in the writing, too, IMHO).

Yeah, the later designs got ropey for the most part, although one or two good ones did sneak through. I think the Desert Fox was done for the computer game though so got some nice work done on it.

We should probably stop derailing the thread though.

hurricane by the look

Extending the nose of the Hurricane would make for a good build I think. Easy plane to get hold of too. Good start to the design list.