SHC Nefarious 1 - Steam-powered hovercraft.

[Colonel O Truth]

Hi All.

I have just unveiled on my blog the latest terror from the secret factories of the Nefarious Doktor Nefarious...









This monstrosity has 1,950 rivets and is based around a large computer fan.

I hope you like it.

Talky-stuff and buildy-stuff on the blog.

http://colonelotruth.blogspot.co.nz/2013/10/the-nefarious-machinations-of-nefarious.html

All the Best!

[OSHIROmodels]

That's very impressive indeed 

Love the concept as well, just fits in with my view of VSF 

cheers

James

[d phipps]

Amazing work, Colonel! You continue to inspire.

[The_Beast]

Again, at first glance at the title, no, Colonel! How could you divert your attention from your magnum opus! How could you allow, to languish, that great feat of...

Oh, I say, that is nice, isn't it? Well done!

"I really must try harder not to get distracted by side projects..."

*ahem* Of course, we've already admitted you need to keep your keen talents whetted by other ideas. Strange, each is superlative in its own way. Case in point!

I will say, it is yours, and it will be what you say it is. I still see a flyer. However, I suspect the crew will demand hazard pay on the catwalk anywhere near the sucking wind from that rotor. 

Doug

[fastolfrus]

Just to be picky, as a Victorian hovercraft, shouldn't it have a crinoline or a bustle?

[The_Beast]

I believe the chimney is sitting on the bustle. 

Doug

[Fuzzywuzzieswiflasers]

Great work as usual Colonel! 

I love how in true VSF style you have ignored any desire to improve OH&S issues by putting a safety cage over that huge spinning fan that could cut a man to mincemeat if he slipped and fell on it. 

Cheers
Fuzzy

[Traveler Man]

Luvverly work, as usual sir! 

That huge fan would make life interesting - and possibly brief - for any avian enemies that decide to attack the craft. 

[Colonel O Truth]

Thank you, Gentlemen!

It's nice to have received such a great response on this one - I really wasn't sure if it was going to work.

Health and Safety? Risk of evisceration from giant spinny blades?! This was built by The Nefarious Doktor Nefarious - the man who created Giant Clockwork Tortoise Suicide Landmines...

"If it doesn't terrify your own men, how can it possibly intimidate the enemy?" - TNDN

I rest my case.

[Fuzzywuzzieswiflasers]

The good thing about this is I now have another use for the fans in my old computers 

Fuzzy.

[FramFramson]

This gives a whole new meaning to the term "chuffed"!

[Mancha]

Totally unique shape - great stuff!

[Andym]

Now that is GREAT!! I must say a bustle or skirt would finish off nicely. Maybe some in the style of some sort of Victorian dresses, reinforced with steel frame/brackets.

[Andrew May]

Amazing work!

Now that is GREAT!! I must say a bustle or skirt would finish off nicely. Maybe some in the style of some sort of Victorian dresses, reinforced with steel frame/brackets.

 

[The_Beast]

Now that is GREAT!! I must say a bustle or skirt would finish off nicely. Maybe some in the style of some sort of Victorian dresses, reinforced with steel frame/brackets.

I really do think I 'covered' the bustle; I suppose you could add crinoline and lace...

Hovercrafts do need 'skirts', though. The good Colonel suggests a skirt with the flare at the bottom. Slatted-armored floating panels might suggest it more forcefully, but I'd be happy with it the way it is. The usual 'fingered' rubber skirt would look too mod-dren.

Doug