WHIFS found while Google-ing

[Dizzyfugu]

How about the (massive) Hotellicopter, inspired by the Soviet Mil V-12 helicopter?



More about here: https://www.mbandf.com/en/parallel-world/the-hotelicopter-point-to-point-luxury

[Captain Canada]

Looks cool and that would be a great way to travel...bloody expensive tho I bet !

[zenrat]

And noisy!

[Caveman]

Ok, so not technically a whif

[chrisonord]

 
Brilliant

[Captain Canada]

Haha cool ! Looks like a good port defender...with the way those things can move she'd be hard to hit !

[CANSO]

Nicely done walker from an Italian site - the other models are very interesting too.

More photos of the above model here.

[NARSES2]

That is really nice 

[Captain Canada]

It sure is ! Great job. Love the details on it. I thought it was a 'hopper' at first, looked one legged !

[DogfighterZen]

Not my type of thing but that is superb work!

[NARSES2]

It sure is ! Great job. Love the details on it. I thought it was a 'hopper' at first, looked one legged !

Really glad I wasn't the only one ! Didn't post a comment because I thought I was bing daft, or at least dafter than normal 

Mind you I still can't work out how it moves ?

[Old Wombat]

Mind you I still can't work out how it moves ?

Chicken legs!

Part of the power would come from a dynamic recoil system, partly that rod between the "toe" & the heel, partly an internal (probably coil spring) system.

Can't see enough of what's behind the armour on the "thigh" but your motive system could be one of several types, including electrical or hydraulic mechanisms, or a combination of the two (the lack of a large-enough engine minimises the likelihood of an ICE mechanical system). Also, unless acceleration is of high importance, the mechanism need not be overly large or powerful because the dynamic recoil system could, eventually, build up to quite a significant force.

Note: Chickens, & other flightless birds, have large thigh & calf (leg) muscles to exert high acceleration forces. Once in motion most of their speed comes from the tendons in their feet. Depending on the alloys used this thing could use metals to do the same thing.

[NARSES2]

Ah, right. Cheers 

[zenrat]

Naval Blohm & Voss BV P.194 by Dana Griffith on Modelling Madness.

http://modelingmadness.com/review/axis/luft/griffp194.htm

[NARSES2]

It's a nice scheme on an aircraft I find strangely attractive.

Somewhere I've seen another naval version with folded wings (or wing), can't remember where though