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US Land Battleship Miantonomoh

Started by proditor, April 03, 2010, 05:31:52 PM

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proditor

More details over in the Let it Snow GB.

http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,28127.0.html

But, here's one of the latest pics!


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I love the concept :)

one question... what is the crane for and where does the seaplane land?

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proditor

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Well, the crane is for the seaplane and to haul up anything to the main "deck" that would be too difficult to bring up through the Land Battleship.  As for the seaplane, it's steampunk, so it lands on anything I say it does.  ;)

More seriously, the plan for the plane is for extended undercarriage in the pylon for the float, and for the float itself to have a "collapsing" mechanism like memory metal so that it turns into a ski for snow landings.  The wingtip ski/floats retract like a catalina.  It's 1/700 scale; one x-acto swipe and it'll look close enough.

The crane I think is standard issue, but the plane was an addition for the specific mission of the Miantonomoh.

EDIT: New pics over in the let it snow thread!

jcf

You don't need to turn the float into a ski to land on snow, bush pilots in Alaska in the '30s and '40s
used to land float planes on snow and iced over lakes fairly regularly.

Ditto flying boats, probably most famously the Dornier Wal:


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Quote from: puddingwrestler on April 11, 2010, 03:25:24 PM
I see you've gone with the pulp magazine cover school of giant war machine painting.
Doncha just love all those covers with dramatic orange and blue hunks of army gear?
I do indeed.  Listening to the John Carter audiobooks during the build probably prodded the brain subconsciously.  ;D

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Oooh good, another man who listens to audio books when modeling!
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It was for operation at the Martian Pole, so probably red for the same reason many other things get painted red in that environment: to aid rescue if they get stuck.
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