Not Just Things with Wings: Other forms of Wiffing....A Challenge

[sotoolslinger]

And I love you.... no seriously I have a Monster crush....also and 18 wheeler and tank crush But hey this is a family site and one of those guys is obviously horny

[Geoff]

Technicals meet Lukis !(hover tanks)
A hover gun-truck?

[Daryl J.]

No-no boys, you've got it all wrong!       A 54mm steam powered, computerized back woods whiskey still!   That's a whiff ne're before seen.   LoL


FWIW, I may actually have to do that one as the 1 week group build if time allows joining in the first place.    After that, it's open season on the idea for whomsoever wishes.   



Daryl J.

[Weaver]

Here's some things-without-wings that have the dual advantages of a) using some aircraft parts, and b) looking wierd:



Full article with loads of pics here:

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/12/unique-soviet-snowmobiles.html

[Mossie]

Kits of the RF-8 are availb in both 1/72 & 1/35:
http://www.modelsforsale.com/catalog/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=RF-8

There's also a 1/72 kit of the German version due out:
http://www.hannants.co.uk/search/?FULL=ATK72842

[Damian2]

I have a couple of sci-fi kits stashed with my bro, mostly Macross so they have wings but I want to get a couple of 1/48 Mechs for this crazy diorama idea I have with a mech punching an attack chopper out of the sky.

Pic of the Mech I want:



I'm thinking of a MARPAT style camo and a knife from an action figure?

Also as soon as Tamiya pulls its finger out and gets a little over WWII I'd like either an Abrhams or Challenger II for my SANDF...

D

[Weaver]

Kits of the RF-8 are availb in both 1/72 & 1/35:
http://www.modelsforsale.com/catalog/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=RF-8

There's also a 1/72 kit of the German version due out:
http://www.hannants.co.uk/search/?FULL=ATK72842

Excellent - could have some fum making your own up though....

[sotoolslinger]

I have got to get me one of those!!!!    I mean a real one..... I wonder where I could use one in Texas???  ...also need a PPsH

[Daryl J.]

Do any of you with Seattle connections have pictures from some years back of the Lockheed aircraft  whiffed into a temple?   That was pretty wild.   

Who says the what if build has to start with an actual kit?   The little fishing bobber steambouy was about as much fun as can be had model building.    The long end of those big plastic easter eggs from a craft store could serve as 1/48 or 1/35 scale huts in some alternate society or alternate time for example.




Daryl J.

[Weaver]

Do any of you with Seattle connections have pictures from some years back of the Lockheed aircraft  whiffed into a temple?   That was pretty wild.   

Who says the what if build has to start with an actual kit?   The little fishing bobber steambouy was about as much fun as can be had model building.    The long end of those big plastic easter eggs from a craft store could serve as 1/48 or 1/35 scale huts in some alternate society or alternate time for example.




Daryl J.

Funny you should say that:

http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,20005.0.html

[anthonyp]

No wings?  Easy!  Ships!  I know between JoeP and I, we've built a small fleet (of course, none of mine have gone beyond "builders trials," but still...)

I'd post links, but I'm being especially lazy at the moment.  Go look for threads by me or Joep to see what I'm blathering on about.

[John Howling Mouse]

Spy vehicles and gadgets of all types, sizes and scales.

[Weaver]

No wings?  Easy!  Ships!  I know between JoeP and I, we've built a small fleet (of course, none of mine have gone beyond "builders trials," but still...)

I'd post links, but I'm being especially lazy at the moment.  Go look for threads by me or Joep to see what I'm blathering on about.

Funny you should say that, I wandered into the local Hobbycraft store today, on the shelves they have some 1/300 scale King George V and 1/600 HMS Nelson kits, and I got to thinking....hmmmmm.... modernised battleship, ditch the turrets, re-work the superstructure to fit in a kick-arse Radar system, and add VLS units for Harpoon/Seawolf/Tomahawk...



Duncan

Or for a change from VLS, how about modernised in the late 1960s for NGS in support of the marines, like an early, British New Jersey? Main turrets all kept, secondary turrets replaced with twin 4.5" or 3" Mk.VI, multiple Seacat in place of 40mm, Ikara in place of seaplane & catapult, 984 radar (the thumping great "bass drum" fitted to some carriers).

[Weaver]

Spy vehicles and gadgets of all types, sizes and scales.

Some inspirations:

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/02/miniature-spy-guns.html
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/04/miniature-spy-guns-part-2.html
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2006/11/vintage-miniature-cameras.html

I can also recommend this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Spy-Book-Keith-Melton/dp/0789404435

Utterly fascinating!

[Joe C-P]

No wings?  Easy!  Ships!  I know between JoeP and I, we've built a small fleet (of course, none of mine have gone beyond "builders trials," but still...)

I'd post links, but I'm being especially lazy at the moment.  Go look for threads by me or Joep to see what I'm blathering on about.

And what of us, anthonyp?

What of us?

JoeP, now pondering moving beyond ships and planes-that-go-on-ships 

Maybe _tanks_ that go on ships! An amphibious M-1 Abrams! Imagine something like that charging up the Tigris and Eurphrates rivers! (No politics, please, just an example!)