Hover Pickup Truck

[Scotaidh]

I wandered over here from StarShipModelers.com, mostly because they'd become boring and not doing much, expecially in the way of challenges and contests.

I like making models of 'found' objects - in this case, a remote control I found in a dust bin at work.  Having made a hover-truck out of an old remote once before, I thought that this time I'd make a pickup truck - see if I could tempt Richard Hammond into sci-fi. 


Here's the remote stripped out.  The battery hole will be the driver's cab, and I cut away the back to make a bed for the truck - it's lined with sheet plastic with coffee stirrers on top of that.  {The nut is simply to hold the wooden sticks down flat whilst the glue sets.)


The driver's seat and top of the dashboard (yellow bit) only went in today; the driver is just sitting there for 'effect' - he's not permanent yet.  (What is the proper name for the bit of car interior that goes from inside the windshield over the dahsboard?)

That's it so far.  Anyone else ever do one of these?  I'd love to see your work. 

[Wardukw]

 
This im gonna keep me eye on 

It's called the crash pad matey or dash pad . 

[kerick]

If Robby the Robot were driving it it might be from Forbidden Planet. Looks cool!

[Weaver]

Nice one! 

You could reasonably call that bit of car interior the "coaming" (i.e. "comb-ing") in aircraft style. "Dashtop" is another one I've heard.

[Scotaidh]

Thanks, lads - "coaming" it is!  According to 'my' free on-line dictionary, 

coaming  [ koh-ming ]
noun
a raised border around an opening in a deck, roof, or floor, designed to prevent water from running below. 

So now I know. 

[but why does the site have the word red-underlined, to indicate an error?]

[NARSES2]

[but why does the site have the word red-underlined, to indicate an error?]

No idea, I think it's spelt the same in English and US English so that wouldn't account for it.

[Old Wombat]

Probably because the dictionary used for the site is not as comprehensive as Oxford, Webster, etc. & "coaming" isn't an exceptionally commonly used word.

[buzzbomb]

Love builds like this.

Keep it coming

[Wardukw]

Probably because the dictionary used for the site is not as comprehensive as Oxford, Webster, etc. & "coaming" isn't an exceptionally commonly used word.

In all the decades I've been working on cars I've never heard of "coaming" .
When I've ordered a new dash pad its always been called a dash pad.

Another thing is a dash pad doesn't keep water out of anything..it's there to just cover all the gubbins underneath it and it's padded so you can slam ya nut into it when ya crash.

[zenrat]

I second DUKWy.  Dash Pad at the front...


...and Parcel Shelf at the back.