Airfix SRN4-Hovercraft ideas

[Gondor]

Just a silly thought and only slightly still on topic....... but.....

Would a Scottish Hovercraft have a Kilt rather than a skirt 

Gondor

[PR19_Kit]

Wonder if I've got any tartan decal sheet, I could try it on the skirts (kilts...) of an SRN4 and see if they fit.

JayBee will be on this thread before long, you mark my words. 

[Rheged]

Wonder if I've got any tartan decal sheet, I could try it on the skirts (kilts...) of an SRN4 and see if they fit.

JayBee will be on this thread before long, you mark my words.  

Would you want MacHinery , Mc Nearly or Mc Notquite tartan?


.............and dare any of us even contemplate  what the "delectable" Radish might do with this?

[JayBee]

Hunting Mcleod if you do not mind
That's to please Mrs. JayBee who is a McLeod, and as the old Scottish way was that the male married into the female's clan that makes me a McLeod as well
Of course for special occasions it will have to be redone in Dress McLeod.

[Rheged]

Hunting Mcleod if you do not mind
That's to please Mrs. JayBee who is a McLeod, and as the old Scottish way was that the male married into the female's clan that makes me a McLeod as well
Of course for special occasions it will have to be redone in Dress McLeod.

Personally, I'd have any craft of mine in MacQueen or, by specific  permission given by the Late  Lord Charles MacLean of Duart and Morvern (it's a looooong story) Hunting MacLean.  A his and hers pair  would have to dress Mrs Rheged's craft in MacAllister tartan.

[Gondor]

This has given me an idea for a build.

Calidonian McBrayne SRN4 hovercraft

So all I need is one old Airfix kit and someone kind enough to print off some specialised tartan decals for me 

Gondor

[PR19_Kit]

Calidonian McBrayne SRN4 hovercraft

So all I need is one old Airfix kit and someone kind enough to print off some specialised tartan decals for me 

Hehehehe, I LOVE that idea! 

You'd need about two A4 sheets of tartan though, the skirts (kilts....) go on for EVER round the hull, and they're moulded in zillions of small parts too.

And didn't I say that JayBee would surely contribute? 

[McColm]

I thought the kit would be a lot bigger than it is, hence buying two and super-stretching.

[Rheged]

This has given me an idea for a build.

Calidonian McBrayne SRN4 hovercraft

So all I need is one old Airfix kit and someone kind enough to print off some specialised tartan decals for me 

Gondor

??Red hull , cream cheat line and that funny green coloured upperwork like their buses, or black and white with black and red propellor pylons like the boats?

[PR19_Kit]

I thought the kit would be a lot bigger than it is, hence buying two and super-stretching.

But remember the kit is of a Mk 1, as they were originally built. In later years the only ones still operating were the two Super 4s, confusingly called Mk 3s. They were a LOT bigger, but they built them the same way as you're thinking of, they took the Mk 1s and stretched them!

[Gondor]

This has given me an idea for a build.

Calidonian McBrayne SRN4 hovercraft

So all I need is one old Airfix kit and someone kind enough to print off some specialised tartan decals for me 

Gondor

??Red hull , cream cheat line and that funny green coloured upperwork like their buses, or black and white with black and red propellor pylons like the boats?

Like the boats as the Hovercraft would be for over water use.

Gondor

[PR19_Kit]

I'm warming to that idea of Caledonian McBrayne SRN4s, I wonder why they didn't do it for real? Probably cost reasons of course, but it's a great idea nonetheless.

Now where's my book on tartans..............? 

[rickshaw]

Where in Scotland would you use such a beastie?  Loch Ness? 

Personally, I'd want this tartan:

[Rheged]

I'm warming to that idea of Caledonian McBrayne SRN4s, I wonder why they didn't do it for real? Probably cost reasons of course, but it's a great idea nonetheless.

Now where's my book on tartans..............? 

I think that I can offer a reason why Calmac didn't use hovercraft. In December 1988 my new wife and I crossed the Channel in rough weather on an SRN4. It was VERY bouncy! Probably  the only water that they could reasonably operate on would be the Inner Firth of Clyde, and the level of ferry traffic might not have been appropriate.................................but this is Whiffworld, so  why not a Calmac SRN4, complete with a couple of their buses on board?   There's the old Sunderland flying boat base at Ganavan, just north of Oban, that has a beaching ramp ready built for them.   Ah, the peace and tranquillity of thr Firth of Lorne.......

[kitnut617]

I'm surprised that something like the SRN4 hasn't been used on the supply lines up in the Canadian Arctic.  Having been up there one time I would of thought it was an ideal terrain for hovercraft use, no impacted on the ground etc.