What's on the workbench!

[Rheged]

I wish there was a decent 1/24 kit of an Imp. 

Didn't you mention recently that you'd made a 12 inch to the foot scale Imp??

[PR19_Kit]

I wish there was a decent 1/24 kit of an Imp. 

Didn't you mention recently that you'd made a 12 inch to the foot scale Imp??

Sure did, but it wasn't a plastic kit, it was a scratchbuilt steel and aluminium one.

[McColm]

There's the Vanguard diecast series in 1/43 scale, but nothing in plastic so far.
Likewise CBS has the number one show N.C.I.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service.You would have thought one of the 1/24 or 1/25 kit manufacturers would have released a range of cars as this is now in series 12.
There has been Gibbs. Greenlight  1/18 1970 Dodge Challenger RT Hemi in yellow with black stripes. Revell does the same model in 1/25.
Whilst the rest of the cast could come from present stock:
1966 Ford Mustang
Morgan Plus 8
BMW Mini Cooper
Porsche Boxter
Honda (Accura) Integra
Chevy 1978 pickup truck

I haven't watched season 11 or 12 so I don't know what cars Eleanor "Ellie" Bishop drives or the new car Antony Dinozzo drives, as his oMustang was blown up and the Cadillac town car was hit sideways at a road junction.

Finding the correct 1931 Ford coupe hot rod for Abby, might have to result to a kitbash.
The NCIS/government cars are the four door Dodge Charger from season three onwards.
Fornell drives a 2006 Chrysler Aspen Crossover. I've seen the European equivalent. This looks like the Grand Cherokee with a different grill or from another angle the Voyager

[McColm]

Flying trains,
I haven't worked out the why yet. But it would save you having to change modes of transport at an air port or runway/dock yard. Rotodyne meets Midland Pullman. Landing on rails, well there's GPS and infra-red or laser . Reverse thrust to slow the train down, rotor and wings stored when in train mode.
Space 1999 Eagle springs to mind as a lifting jet kitbash, sort of idea if blasting isn't an option. Instead of going through or underneath just fly over it.
Good job that in Whiffingland daft ideas are possible.

Just need Kit to tell me someone actually tried to do this in the Real World, with pictures!

[Steel Penguin]

McColm,   the flying train thing  hit me a few years ago, the word Tornado  met itself in a crunch of plastic and bits,  I just need to get a train body to start it with.  funnily enough every rail / plane type ive mentioned it too ( who have a sense of humour)  gets a funny far away look in there eyes, and starts muttering a bought where the ejector seats should go 

[PR19_Kit]

Just need Kit to tell me someone actually tried to do this in the Real World, with pictures!

Hehehe, not that I know of, although there are some instances of various rail administrations seemingly trying to make their locos and rolling stick become airborne by appallingly bad track maintenance!

In 1973 or 4 we did some tests on a steep downhill curve near Dover to discover at what speed a railway coach became derailed, but I'm not sure that's quite what you had in mind..... 

[McColm]

Been on Google and although my idea sounds daft there are artists' impressions of a Train Plane where the carriages slot into pods under the wings of a four engine jet cargo aircraft.

The idea to fit a vertical lifting device(s) on the loco push-pull. The Eurostar train might be better than the Blue Pullman due to the carrige layout.
The APT could be used, not your train set but the Hornby or Lima version.

[PR19_Kit]

I'm suitably amazed.

An APT wouldn't work too well as it's articulated and splitting the carriages is a 5-6 hour job at least. Then you've still got to hold the ends up somehow.

[Rheged]

A GWR railcar that slots into the underbelly of a Bristol Bombay or HP Harrow.   1930's ultra-express to Paris  The Golden Wing  service.............even more exclusive than then Golden Arrow and the ferry

[McColm]

There's a French design "Clip Air" on YouTube that looks a bit like a cross between the Northrop B-2/ convex wing and three streamlined carriges underneath the wing with fixed undercarriage.

[Captain Canada]

Don't the Japanese have a train that uses electro magnets to hover above the track ? Technically it would be airborne 

[McColm]

Maglev
Or something similar. The Germans and the French tested this out. I had the Revell 1/87 static model of the TransRapid two car , track and pylons. You could have added bogies to run on 00/Ho track. I had to sell mine, haven't seen another on eBay for over a year.

[PR19_Kit]

We had a low speed Maglev test track and car at the Railway Technical Centre in the mid 70s, and it was developed into the Shuttle than ran between the NEC and Birmingham Airport, where it ran for some years. The company that built it went bust and BR had sold the technology by then (what a surprise...) so it was closed down and replaced by a wheeled system on the same track base.

The original test car and some of the track still exists and is stored at the Science Museum's Wroughton site, but that never seems to be open these days.



Original BT Mag-Lev car at Wroughton




Birmingham Airport Mag-Lev car on its dedicated track.

[NARSES2]

Is the Shanghai to International Airport high speed service a Maglev ?

If so then I've travelled on it. Flipping quick I can tell you  But as the start station is outside of Shanghai they have to bus you to and from it I didn't ask why it dosen't go into the centre of the city, didn't seem polite to.

[McColm]

Yes it is, but just like a standard railway line it passes around or through natural obstacles.
My Whiff is to fly over the obstacle and land back on the track or hover over it and continue your journey.
Maybe attach the railcars/carrige to an airship?