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DONE@p.3 +++ 1:72 ббс-I armored aerosan; Karelian Isthmus, winter '44/45

Started by Dizzyfugu, December 01, 2024, 02:18:37 AM

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Dizzyfugu

Early post. Work is already in progress but there's nothing to show yet. But this one will be a bit ...scary, at least from a "Imagine, what if..." perspective.

Stay tuned.  :mellow:

zenrat

Fred

- Can't be bothered to do the proper research and get it right.

Another ill conceived, lazily thought out, crudely executed and badly painted piece of half arsed what-if modelling muppetry from zenrat industries.

zenrat industries:  We're everywhere...for your convenience..

Dizzyfugu

Aerosan is a good guess, but it's ...bigger.  :angel:

Gondor

My Ability to Imagine is only exceeded by my Imagined Abilities

Gondor's Modelling Rule Number Three: Everything will fit perfectly untill you apply glue...

I know it's in a book I have around here somewhere....

Dizzyfugu

Finally, there are things to show from this ...thing. First of all the major ingredients/donor banks, it's more or less a kitbashing project with some add-ons:


1:72 Tupolev BBS-1 (бронированные боевые сани/'Armored Battle Sled') aerosan
by Dizzyfugu, on Flickr

Things started slowly, with the OOB KV-1 turret that will also be the main armament of this aerosan behemoth:


1:72 Tupolev BBS-1 (бронированные боевые сани/'Armored Battle Sled') aerosan
by Dizzyfugu, on Flickr

The main body consists of a Soviet armored draisine from Trumpeter, but I found the body to be too long and symmetrical for my plans, so that I took out a ~2cm plug and glued everything back together...


1:72 Tupolev BBS-1 (бронированные боевые сани/'Armored Battle Sled') aerosan
by Dizzyfugu, on Flickr

...with this "core" result:


1:72 Tupolev BBS-1 (бронированные боевые сани/'Armored Battle Sled') aerosan
by Dizzyfugu, on Flickr

More to follow soon! Muahahahaha!  :wacko:

Wardukw

If it aint broke ,,fix it until it is .
Over kill is often very understated .
I know the voices in my head ain't real but they do come up with some great ideas.
Theres few of lifes problems that can't be solved with the proper application of a high explosive projectile .

Dizzyfugu

More add-ons, since we need propulsion. The engine comes from a MisterCraft PZL 23 bomber, an ugly one-piece blob that I never expected to find a good use on a model. It was modified to look a bit more delicate, and at its rear an extension fairing was added, partly consisting of a piece from a plastic ballpoint pen casing.  ;)  The pusher prop consist of a reversed F8F piece, with a metal axis and a spinner transplant from an Italeri F4U.


1:72 Tupolev BBS-1 (бронированные боевые сани/'Armored Battle Sled') aerosan
by Dizzyfugu, on Flickr


1:72 Tupolev BBS-1 (бронированные боевые сани/'Armored Battle Sled') aerosan
by Dizzyfugu, on Flickr

If this does not look scary yet...?  ;D

kerick

If this thing will ever move it's going to need a bigger motor! Much bigger. Or maybe a couple of them. Just my tuppence! Yes we did watch Mary Poppins!
" Somewhere, between half true, and completely crazy, is a rainbow of nice colours "
Tophe the Wise


Wardukw

In 72nd scale that's gonna be a bloody big engine and that propeller is massive in that scale ..yeah that should move it but it being russian that's no guarantee it will for long  ;D  ;D
It would be damn impressive to see moving around .

Bugger!!! ..that prop has me wondering now just how big it would in the RW 😆
If it aint broke ,,fix it until it is .
Over kill is often very understated .
I know the voices in my head ain't real but they do come up with some great ideas.
Theres few of lifes problems that can't be solved with the proper application of a high explosive projectile .

Dizzyfugu

It would be MASSIVE! And the scariest thing is that it has NO physical brakes (AFAIK no aersoan had any?), just a reversible prop that I gave it in my imagination. Imagine a British WWI30 ton tank on ice going 50 mph...  :wacko: 

Rheged

Quote from: Dizzyfugu on December 04, 2024, 10:14:46 AMIt would be MASSIVE! And the scariest thing is that it has NO physical brakes (AFAIK no aersoan had any?), just a reversible prop that I gave it in my imagination. Imagine a British WWI 30 ton tank on ice going 50 mph... :wacko: 
I can, with considerable difficulty, imagine  "Little Willie"  on ice,  but my imagination adds a pair of heavy duty Admiralty-pattern anchors as an emergency braking system.
"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you....."
It  means that you read  the instruction sheet

Wardukw

Quote from: Dizzyfugu on December 04, 2024, 10:14:46 AMIt would be MASSIVE! And the scariest thing is that it has NO physical brakes (AFAIK no aersoan had any?), just a reversible prop that I gave it in my imagination. Imagine a British WWI30 ton tank on ice going 50 mph...  :wacko: 
Yeah same thoughts..like a 20 foot diameter sort of massive  :o
I love it 😀 😍
As for brakes you just cut power or feather the prop and have deployable ice brakes under the monster which bite into the snow or ice ..might work 😆
If it aint broke ,,fix it until it is .
Over kill is often very understated .
I know the voices in my head ain't real but they do come up with some great ideas.
Theres few of lifes problems that can't be solved with the proper application of a high explosive projectile .

Dizzyfugu

More things to show - the aerosan slowly rather looks like a Warhammer Orc vehicle...?

Suspension has been mounted, taken wholesale from the 1:35 kit, even though I had to lengthen some of the control struts.


1:72 Tupolev BBS-1 (бронированные боевые сани/'Armored Battle Sled') aerosan
by Dizzyfugu, on Flickr

While safety is not an inherent design feature of this thing I thought that the prop needs some protection, so I started to scratch/construct a cage for it from soft iron wire, and his ugly intersections behind a pair of fins (actually sections from an 1:72 Panzer IV side skirt). Turned out better that hoped for.  :angel:


1:72 Tupolev BBS-1 (бронированные боевые сани/'Armored Battle Sled') aerosan
by Dizzyfugu, on Flickr

In parallel, the four skis were put together, too - again taken OOB from the small 1:35 aerosan kit:


1:72 Tupolev BBS-1 (бронированные боевые сани/'Armored Battle Sled') aerosan
by Dizzyfugu, on Flickr

zenrat

The protection would be to prevent the prop from getting damaged by a steel helmet (with a live human head inside).
Fred

- Can't be bothered to do the proper research and get it right.

Another ill conceived, lazily thought out, crudely executed and badly painted piece of half arsed what-if modelling muppetry from zenrat industries.

zenrat industries:  We're everywhere...for your convenience..