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Having a Bad Tank Day...

Started by Weaver, July 21, 2021, 05:06:45 AM

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Weaver

Youtube channel Cone Of Arc has done a couple of vids on bad movie tanks that make interesting viewing for a whiffer:

Top Ten Fake Movie Tanks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-YKYvOxG6Q
Top Ten Cursed Movie Tanks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OL4CBFl99k

Lots of other interesting/amusing stuff on his channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1_oUtCGIqUMbIyRPeJsSyw
Including his "Cursed By Design" series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgZo_Ac00jc&list=PLW8JzDrsS3_tTLjF0gzSq3l40sUPWUdHa
"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."
 - Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Neil Gaiman

"I dunno, I'm making this up as I go."
 - Indiana Jones

Weaver

ConeOfArc again, this time with Frank Tinsley's amphibious tank concept from 1950:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYJJxIR1Bwc

"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."
 - Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Neil Gaiman

"I dunno, I'm making this up as I go."
 - Indiana Jones

Weaver

"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."
 - Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Neil Gaiman

"I dunno, I'm making this up as I go."
 - Indiana Jones

scooter

I really want to know what Tinsley was smoking.
The F-106- 26 December 1956 to 8 August 1988
Gone But Not Forgotten

QuoteOh are you from Wales ?? Do you know a fella named Jonah ?? He used to live in whales for a while.
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Old Wombat

Quote from: scooter on September 12, 2021, 06:36:04 PM
I really want to know what Tinsley was smoking.

I'd say he'd gone wa-ay past smoking; he'd gone into dermal absorption, ingesting & injecting, as well as smoking, all simultaneously!
Has a life outside of What-If & wishes it would stop interfering!

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veritas ad mortus veritas est

Nick

That design would work well for Lunar or Mars exploration. Just needs a larger cabin.

Gondor

Quote from: Nick on September 13, 2021, 08:02:13 AM
That design would work well for Lunar or Mars exploration. Just needs a larger cabin.

And somewhere to store the fuel and air, food and other necessary equipment.

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....

PR19_Kit

I can't see a 'Boiling Vessel' either.............
Kit's Rule 1 ) Any aircraft can be improved by fitting longer wings, and/or a longer fuselage
Kit's Rule 2) The backstory can always be changed to suit the model

...and I'm not a closeted 'Take That' fan, I'm a REAL fan! :)

Regards
Kit

scooter

Quote from: PR19_Kit on September 13, 2021, 02:40:44 PM
I can't see a 'Boiling Vessel' either.............

It's 'Murican.  We throw our field rations on the engine block to heat them up.
The F-106- 26 December 1956 to 8 August 1988
Gone But Not Forgotten

QuoteOh are you from Wales ?? Do you know a fella named Jonah ?? He used to live in whales for a while.
— Groucho Marx

My dA page: Scooternjng

Weaver

Quote from: PR19_Kit on September 13, 2021, 02:40:44 PM
I can't see a 'Boiling Vessel' either.............

With two guys, five guns and an engine in there, the whole thing is the boiling vessel...
"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."
 - Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Neil Gaiman

"I dunno, I'm making this up as I go."
 - Indiana Jones