Endzeit - Porsche 911 "Zombinator"

[MaxHeadroom]

...and there is "Denglish"!!!

O.k., it's a bit off-topic, but please let me explain:
There's a plague in Germany called "Denglish" or "Denglisch" a mixture of german (Deutsch) and english where ever you go, where ever you stand, read, look or listen!
In the railway station there is no "Fahrkartenschalter" (ticket-counter), there is a "Ticket Point" and no "Auskunft" (Information), there is a "Info Point"!
While talking you can hear the phrase "das macht keinen Sinn" - this is a 1 to 1 translation of "it makes no sense"... brrrrrr... horrible! Correct german is "das hat keinen Sinn" or "das ist sinnlos" (1:1 translation: "it has no sense" or "it is senseless").
Nearly every TV-spot (-add) is a mix of german and english, most of the slogans are english: a german TV-station's motto (Pro 7) is "we love to entertain you"...
And sometimes it's only funny, because of the grammar... and if it is not funny, it's an eye-abuse and/or an ear-rape!!

Most of this makes brain-spasms!

Norbert

[Old Wombat]

 

Sorry!

I really understand your pain (even Americanisms hurt) but (much more than French, Japanese, Chinese or any other language) English (especially American English) is becoming the global, international lingua franca. Largely because the British introduced it to almost half the nations of the world during the colonial era & the Americans followed it up with their trade/financial-imperialism post-WW2.

There is three kinds of English; British, American and Australian. And this does not include different dialects!

Don't forget New Zealand English - the Kiwis'll get really ticked off if you lump them in with us - & Canadian English - same thing vis a vis the USA.



Guy

[kerick]

I was on a plane flight from San Francisco to Hawaii back in 1987. There was a New Zealand football team on board and I made the mistake of asking what part of Australia he was from.......

[NARSES2]

I was on a plane flight from San Francisco to Hawaii back in 1987. There was a New Zealand football team on board and I made the mistake of asking what part of Australia he was from.......

In certain parts of London when I was younger it was helpful to learn to distinguish Aussie from Kiwi. The NZ barmaids were very, very impressed when upon being served you asked "and what part of NZ are you from ?" Sometimes led on quite nicely 

[MaxHeadroom]

Strange: why weren't wipers part of this 1:25-scale kit, when it was released?
O.k.; a "do it yourself"-task.
Looking at a pic of a real 911-F-model and taking two tiny cylinders of plastic as the axises and some aluminium from the hull of a tea-candle, some glue and a bit of bright and pale (mat?) black colour and... ready!

(I hope I can remove the blind splodges from the windscreen. Unfortunately I was careless with superglue.)
And on the right you see my 2 steps making a mask of paper for the wiper-field . I will use it later when I apply some dust to keep the wiper-field clean.

Now how it looks, when body and frame will be finally assembled later:

You see highen suspension 10 Zentimeter (4 mm). This will be useful if the way leads over some field- or dirttracks.
The tires are shining a bit (are a bit bright), but I will change it later. To change the position of the seat, I will apply a chromium or aluminium console, also later.
The kit's (Kronprinz-)rims were completely chromium-coated – now they are looking original!
Unfortunately the chromium was damaged, but after applying the black color, the problem was getting much smaller. But still at some points you can see the red-orange plastic... Damn!
O.k., let's say it is fresh blood from some zombies. LOL

Norbert
(will be continued in short time)

[MaxHeadroom]

The next issue!

Additional (protected) headlights (highbeams and foglights) are allways useful, especially in a world without working streetlamps (or better: -lanterns?). So:

But this way, you can't see them properly.

Therefore: from behind:

Incl. Cables (wires?) and fixing bands.

Now the original Rallye-Porsche-kit has two holes in the fronthood for additional highbeams...
Should I close them?
No!
Instead of closing, I added two holder:

Naturely painted with anti-rust-primer "Mennige" to fix a self-made short-stick-spade (in front of the hood).

Fixed with leather belts:


And now again an overview:

You can see the additional gasoline barrels secured by a band (ribbon?) of steel.
Unfortunately you can't see the gasoline-tubes very well; I will deliever a better photography later.

(More to come, soon)

Norbert

[MaxHeadroom]

(If you have clicked at "latest new post" in the overview, look at the 2 posts before, please!)

"Soon" is now!

Four more pics for your pleasure (I hope).
No 1:

The well known dashboard, now completed by a gun-holder with pumpgun (and without the flying microphone of the CB-radio ).

At pic No. 2

you now can see (as I promised) the gasoline-tubes from the barrels to the engine (through the bottom of the trough).

Photography No. 3

shows the antenna of the CB-radio.
It is fixed with a holder at the gutter!
Yesss, gentlemen! Not much far in the past cars were built with such a thing alongside their roof-lines. And you could drive through rain and with working wipers with an open window without the need of wearing a diver-suit!
The spiral spring at the base I'd created by using a sewing-needle: I'd opend the needle's eye a bit to insert the (later) antenna's wire.
Then, I did the first half-winding, removed the wire from the eye again, turned the needle for 180° and did the rest of the windings for the spiral.
I'd only need a flat needle-nose pliers (duckbill-pliers?) to make the first half-winding.
And: the spring works... like in reality!

And the 4th photographic reproduction

shows the errect antenna for the car radio.
Remember (some do, I think): In the past this antennas weren't  integrated into the windscreen... you could physically touch them and you could rise and down them by your own hands... if they didn't work electrically in the luxury version!
Such a car radio is not a fault: Maybe a radio-amateur is surviving and is broadcasting on one of the formerly wellknown frequencies, you can find some other survivours.
Who knows!

But now it will be the end of my Zombinator-report for the present.
Don't be sad, I will tell you the reason immedeately:
Now, the Porsche is finished, except some equippement for the passengers cabin and applying some dust and other weathering and/or crap.
Now I will reassemble the Peterbilt-Zombieplough, adding primer and paint it and built some additional equippement for both the vehicles.
While working at the truck the Porsche will completed step by step and when the Peterbilt is ready, the Porsche will be ready also and I will present them together in a special issue.

Norbert

[kerick]

  I'm looking forward to your update!
Great work here. This car riding on the back of the truck will make an awesome sight.

[Captain Canada]

Wow ! I love checking in on this one....great job !

[Father Ennis]

Outstanding !!!  You are to be congratulated on you work. Very original and very well done.         

[MaxHeadroom]

You make my face blushed!


Norbert

[Go4fun]

What an excellent piece of modeling! Love your CB antenna  and how you built it. Can not wait to see the truck build progress and how the pair look together.

[ysi_maniac]

WOW. What a job!

[Father Ennis]

 

[Weaver]

Just catching up with this one and it's awesome: what excellent and painstaking detail work!

Few random things:

UHU glue is well known in the UK at least.

"Denglish" is a new one on me, but the French have been complaining about "Franglais" for years. There even used to be a humerous column in one of the British newspapers called "Lets' Parlais Franglais!"

On linguistic and accent misunderstandings: just after WWII, my mother, who was a bus conductress, had a man get on her bus whose speech was completely unintelligble to her. However, she knew that there were a number of Polish refugees in the area, so she put two and two together, decided the man was Polish, and went to get her driver, who'd served with Poles during the war to see if he could understand the man. When her driver heard him, he burst out laughing because the man wasn't from Poland, he was from Hyde: three miles up the road....