My Stash Grew Again 2019

[Rheged]

Picked up another eBay win

1 x 1/72 Special Hobby Vautour IIN @Alamee de l@Air All Weather Fighter

Gondor

This one may be Swedish as a test aircraft as per a suggestion from my girl friend

Gondor

That is one imaginative lady!  I like the idea.

[Weaver]

From Ebay, Airfix 1/32nd 1912 Ford Model T

Victorian flying-machine fodder....

Something I didn't realise is that all these Airfix vintage cars have the same driver figure.

[Rheged]

From Ebay, Airfix 1/32nd 1912 Ford Model T

Victorian flying-machine fodder....

Something I didn't realise is that all these Airfix vintage cars have the same driver figure.

This Victorian flying machine concept has me most intrigued; I shall await further developments with interest.

As for Airfix having only one driver, this is one of the millions of facts I didn't know about  their vintage cars.  I'm sure that a small adjustment of their facial hair can get round any difficulty.

[jcf]

Victorian flying-machine fodder....

Thrown in a digital gauge and truly confuse most people. 

[PR19_Kit]

Something I didn't realise is that all these Airfix vintage cars have the same driver figure.

Is he the same one they supplied with the Old Bill bus, flat hat, moustache and his right arm out?

[The Wooksta!]

Fred, those Zvezda kits are Italeri toolings.  Think the La5 is late 70s, the mig either late 80s to possibly late 90s.

Anyhoo, was gifted another Ventura Spitfire mk IXc, this time the one with the Isreali/US markings.  The former are handy, the latter about as useful as a burst balloon.

[Weaver]

From Ebay, Airfix 1/32nd 1912 Ford Model T

Victorian flying-machine fodder....

Something I didn't realise is that all these Airfix vintage cars have the same driver figure.

This Victorian flying machine concept has me most intrigued; I shall await further developments with interest.

As for Airfix having only one driver, this is one of the millions of facts I didn't know about  their vintage cars.  I'm sure that a small adjustment of their facial hair can get round any difficulty.

The general set of ideas are the same as I came up with for the Unconventional Flying Machines GB. I did start an entry for it, but questions about the detail design plus real-life problems have kept it stalled.

https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=46299.0

Looking at the Ford kit, I note that it has a dickie seat on the trunk and an enclosed cabin 'bathtub'. My first thought is therefore to have the cabin in the front, the pilot on the dickie seat amidships above a flapping wing mechanism, and the engine at the back.

Another idea is to convert a 1/76th double-decker tram kit into a tandem-rotor helicopter...

My general problem with all of these is that I know too much. I tend to get bogged down in considerations of realistic mechanics and aerodynamics, instead of channeling the enthusiastic and optimistic ignorance of the 19th century artists who drew things like this:

[Weaver]

Something I didn't realise is that all these Airfix vintage cars have the same driver figure.

Is he the same one they supplied with the Old Bill bus, flat hat, moustache and his right arm out?

Not sure: it's this guy:

[jcf]

My general problem with all of these is that I know too much. I tend to get bogged down in considerations of realistic mechanics and aerodynamics, instead of channeling the enthusiastic and optimistic ignorance of the 19th century artists who drew things like this:

I have a similar problem with anything steam-punk having grown up with a Stationary Steam Engineer
for a Dad, and thus being exposed to the real workings and actual mechanical bits from an early age.
Because of that I'm afraid my default with steam-punk is "it doesn't work that way, none of it works
that way".

[Rheged]

I rather like the butterfly unicycle in the background!

[Weaver]

I have a similar problem with anything steam-punk having grown up with a Stationary Steam Engineer
for a Dad, and thus being exposed to the real workings and actual mechanical bits from an early age.
Because of that I'm afraid my default with steam-punk is "it doesn't work that way, none of it works
that way".

I read that as "having grown up with a Stationary Steam Engine for a Dad" on the first pass...


In much the same way, getting into Kerbal Space Program and a renewed interest in real spaceflight has spoiled a lot of space-opera for me. I just sit there going:

"Nope: spaceships don't slow down to a halt when you switch the engines off..."

"Nope: thrust axis doesn't pass through the centre of mass - you're going to go round in circles..."

etc...

[Old Wombat]

Always had a soft spot for the Vautour and must get around to building the couple I have one day. Including the resin one that Geoff found for me long before the SH ones came out 

Indeed, a smart looking aeroplane. 

I was Whiffing a Special Hobby Vautour kit recently, but totally mis-read the instructions, AND the pics I had of the real thing, and laboriously filled in and puttied the main landing gear bays on the outer side of the engines! 

It's difficult to UN-do that.................

So, you're going to have to go for extra-whiffiness, then.

[scooter]

I rather like the butterfly unicycle in the background!

It might also be a penny farthing

[Hobbes]

bought at the ESM yesterday, both in 1:144:

AMP DHC-8-106 Dash-8 in USAF Coast Guard livery (with a great big radar array on one side of the fuselage)
Masterkit Boeing 757. A company I've never heard of, this is a short run kit using strange plastic (somewhat translucent). I'm going to use this as the basis for a Fokker F-29.

[The Wooksta!]

Ebay tells me I've won an original tooling Pegasus Spiteful.  Which is nice.