The Landships GB proposal

[cthulhu77]

Be sure to buy the book, "My Tank is Fight" !!!  It is fantastic.

Would love to do a gb landship.

[Mossie]

Got that one last Christmas!

[Doc Yo]

Be sure to buy the book, "My Tank is Fight" !!!  It is fantastic.

It has its moments... (wish it had plan views for the hydrofoils, but hey...)

I think this is a fine idea for a group build, and given the lead time, I might actually finish something...

[Sauragnmon]

Scale-o-rama a 1/72 Maus into the 1/700 scale, oh yeah, I'm in on this.  Yeah, this is a build born for the mad scientists.

[rallymodeller]

Be sure to buy the book, "My Tank is Fight" !!!  It is fantastic.

It has its moments... (wish it had plan views for the hydrofoils, but hey...)

I think this is a fine idea for a group build, and given the lead time, I might actually finish something...

Well, if the good Doctor Yo is here, we certainly got the Mad Scientist thing covered.

I'm thinking of something like Heinlein's Land Battleships from "Revolt in 2100". Booster guns, multiple tracks, and so forth...

[philp]

For a frozen planet, could build a sail ship on skies/skates like the novel Icerigger.

[puddingwrestler]

OO! OO! FORTRESS ROMMEL! Anyone remember the bosses from the ol' video game top down shooter 1941? There be them there huge dang damn ding damn land ships as bosses... and the rocket zepplins... and the PS2 version supports the ability to turn yor TV sideways to play in porper arcade aspect ratio... although I don't recomend it, Da Frog did it and screwed the TV...

[plasticmech]

Smashing...

[Weaver]

For a frozen planet, could build a sail ship on skies/skates like the novel Icerigger.

Or Michael Moorcock's Ice Schooner, for that matter:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.rodneymatthews.com/rmstore/images/items/rmcp365.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.rodneymatthews.com/cgi-bin/rmstore/RMCP365.html%3Fid%3DqKBxJpgd&usg=__BPrQuLpUTXSEghjxMnMja0JaAmA=&h=256&w=346&sz=20&hl=en&start=11&um=1&tbnid=PwHtOFYxkSsUIM:&tbnh=89&tbnw=120&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dthe%2Bice%2Bschooner%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26rls%3DRNWN,RNWN:2007-40,RNWN:en%26sa%3DN

(Rodney Matthews' version isn't the most faithful to the book, but it's the most visually impressive!)

[Sisko]

Here are some ideas

http://davidszondy.com/future/war/land_fortress.htm

http://davidszondy.com/future/war/megabattleship.htm

http://davidszondy.com/future/war/battleship.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Big_Tray_Class_Land_Battleship_(Gundam).jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2b/Hannibal_%28Gundam%29.jpg



Can yah tell I am excited!!!!

[philp]

And a few more:



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[Daryl J.]

.........I may have just found a use for the remaining 2" fishing bobbers left over from the Steampunk Pirate Light Bouy project........
A twin turret Miyazaki'd/Anime'd USS Monitor had been in design, but putting said bobbers on a Land Machine..................oooh.



Daryl J.

[BlackOps]

That Tzar Landship is awesome! 

Daryl, your land monitor sounds like a good project 

[jcf]

Don't forget the original...

H.G. Wells 'The Land Ironclads'

http://www.scribd.com/doc/6318599/Land-Ironclads



Free downloadable paper model, main page:
http://www.currell.net/models/ironclad.htm
Parts and instructions:
http://www.currell.net/models/files_ironclad.htm

Jon

[anthonyp]

So, would a Buick Roadmonster, er, Roadmaster, or Cadillac Fleetwood count?  Always thought they were land battleships...