First FTL ship

[Mr Ten]

Hi everyone ! 
My next scratch is : " the first FTL ship from Earth "... A bit ambitious... and showy !
FTL is of course for "faster than light", and the name of the ship will probably be something like...  Alcubierre (guess why...  )

The first pic isn't impressive, not to say ugly


You can see my faithfull saw, and 2 sikorski s-58/Wessex fuselages mutilated and sacrified on the sci-fi altar !
This is the first step, and a there is looooong walk before the end !!

[Knightflyer]

Ahhhh, the wonders of Wikipedia! 

"proposed by theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre, by which a spacecraft could achieve faster-than-light travel if a configurable energy-density field lower than that of vacuum (i.e. negative mass) could be created. Rather than exceeding the speed of light within its local frame of reference, a spacecraft would traverse distances by contracting space in front of it and expanding space behind it, resulting in effective faster-than-light travel."

I'm presuming it 'warps' space then ....as referred to in an ever so slightly popular sci-fi show?

Looks intriguing so far, it'll be interesting to watch this develop.......as you boldly go

[Captain Canada]

Mutilated and sacrificed at the sci-fi altar ? I love it !

Poor choppers tho.....love that airframe 

But this does look intriguing !

[deathjester]

Okay, settle down people, break out the knitting, and prepare for a display of sheer professionalism!  This ought to be good...

[kerick]

Helicopters seem to lend themselves to space ship conversions as they don't automatically look like jet aircraft. Therefore, the source of the parts is a little harder to pick out. Makes it a lot more believable to me. Looks like a good start.

[Leading Observer]

 :unsure:Intrigued

[Old Wombat]

This should be good!



Guy

[kerick]

BTW, where did you get that razor saw, Pampered Chef? Nice handle.

[lancer]

BTW, where did you get that razor saw, Pampered Chef? Nice handle.

Nahhh, thats a Citadel razor saw. I've got one and they're bloody good to boot.

[Mossie]

Intersting use of two Wessexes, should be good watching this unfold.

[Steel Penguin]

Kerick  like Lancer,  the Razor saw looks a lot like the one games workshop sell in the UK.

[Devilfish]

Looks good. 

I'm amassing parts for a "not quite FTL" ship, which will be designed to explore our Solar System.  My idea being that at the speed of light it would take 5 hours to cross our SS.  Taking into account acceleration and deceleration times (this isn't Star Trek you know, lol) I reckon we can double that to 10 hours.  With a ship that can do 0.9 of the speed of light then I'm going to double that to 20 hours.  That makes it a feasible exploration and survey ship, also capable of intercepting rogue comets etc.

[kerick]

Those long boring commutes to Jupiter! 

[deathjester]

BTW, where did you get that razor saw, Pampered Chef? Nice handle.

The handle is patterned after a Space Marine Combat Knife - and yes, their tools are really nice.

[Mr Ten]

Hi ! And big thanks for your comments !
I'm happy to post on this fabulous forum ,but i actually have soooo little time to do !

Indeed... helicopters can make interesting starships, and I used 2 old revell kits (which are - according to Serious modellers - outdated now by newer ones from Italeri and MRC, so no regrets... ) as a base, and stuck bottom to bottom.
This breaks the original shape of the choppers, and creates also a kind of "symmetry". Of course, the undersides were erased before joining.
The next step is to reinforce the inner structure with... Simply big straws !!
They are easy to cut and very strong once glued with some cyano bond.


Now, the ship is ready to receive the fusion core with magnetic shields, titanium and other lead plates... Before a trip to the Oort cloud... Let's dream !