Volkswagen/Bell Type 2 HeliCombi

[Alvis 3.14159]

Where this departs from our timestream: The 1960 US Presidential Election: Nixon wins!

Things went badly for Richard Nixon and his country after that. Cuba became a serious hot spot in the cold war, and in 1962, it boiled over. There was a brief but terrifying nuclear exchange between the USA and the USSR, that fortunately was low in casualties, but pushed many voters towards the more pacifistic parties that emerged. By 1964, the US Peace Party was able to win all major federal and state elections, and there arose a new superpower: Hippie Nation.

President Abbie Hoffman charged his country with a new course, one of Peace, and "volunteers" flooded to join the new Peace Army. They travelled the world, bringing peace and love to strife torn areas. Often they flew in the newly designed Volkswagen-Bell Type 2 Helicopter, knows as the "Hippie Huey", or the "HippyHoppy".









Alvis Pi

[Alvis 3.14159]

[Alvis 3.14159]

Spray bar fitted "HippyHoppies" were instrumental in ending the Vietnam War. Professor Ellsberg, heading the Pentagon, and Dr. O'Leary, inventor of Aerial LSD, won the Nobel Peace Prize for ending the Vietnam War in 3 days. The Viet Cong, after having been sprayed with LSD, spent 2 days running from imaginary dragons, and were quite happy to surrender to the US Peace Army. Truly, times, they were a changin'....







Alvis Pi

[Alvis 3.14159]

Screaming, Richard Nixon sat up in bed. "What a horrifying dream" he thought, and he wondered what he'd eaten earlier to cause it. He was utterly exhausted, and hoped he would get back to sleep. He had a big day the morning, a televised debate against John F Kennedy...

Yes, it was all a dream!















I used the 1/24 Revell Germany VW Van as the main body for this project, and an old Revell 1/32 Huey Cobra for the main rotor, boom, skids and tail rotor. I scratch built most of the interior, to match what a helicopter would have, and scratch built the spray bars and tank as well. The green transparent top windows were made from a plastic Fresca bottle, which was already transparent green. The hippies came from Ebay. Decals are from my inkjet printer and Testors decal paper.

Alvis Pi

[PR19_Kit]

FAR OUT MAN! 

[McColm]

Brilliant

[zenrat]

Almost perfect.  All it needs is a destination board over the windscreen reading "further".
No, scratch that, it is perfect.
This could well be my favourite build of the year.
Humour, drug references, a great story and thinking so far out the box the box is in a different state.

Is that a very young Ozzy Osbourne standing second from the right?

[major]

Love it!
Kinda reminds me of a Kaman Huskie.

[Captain Canada]

Is that ever groovy Alvis ! Love it ! Neat and fun...and great job on the model itself.

[sandiego89]

What a great concept! Really well done!

Do we have a "funny" class for the whiffies?

[NARSES2]

 

[kerick]

Groovy Baby!!!!!

[Go4fun]

Your concepts are way out there, your execution of them perfect. Just keep this up.

[Hotte]

Genial 

Hotte

[su27rules]

Absolutely genius!!  Fantastic work!!