TWINSET 1793 Posted January 22, 2018 Mokei Kagaku just posted these, and loads more, on FB These are custom builds for The 9th RC Modelers' Contest, not production kits/prototypes 9 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WillyChang 1814 Posted January 22, 2018 Amphibian Willy is cute but the Dancing Xwing is inspired! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
njmlondon 570 Posted January 22, 2018 1 hour ago, TWINSET said: Wild Schwimmwagon! Love it! If you could actually make it fully amphibian too that would be special. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
markbt73 5316 Posted January 22, 2018 Nice! I love "Wild Schwimmy." This is the kind of stuff Tamiya should be doing with this chassis, not cramming some undersized VW bus or Suzuki body on it. The X-wing is cool too, although personally I would have gone for a Battlestar Galactica "Viper." More obscure reference, and less chance of snagging a wing on the ground in turns... 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grastens 2795 Posted January 22, 2018 SOMEONE FINALLY DID THE THUNDERBIRDS ELEVATOR CAR These designs really push the possibilities for the Dancing Rider! The X-wing is ambitious, and the fighter plane is cute It is amazing how natural the Wild Schwimmwagen looks - like it should be a mass-produced kit... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MadInventor 3884 Posted January 22, 2018 I like the schwimmwagen too. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
njmlondon 570 Posted January 22, 2018 I am thinking that the Dragon 1/6 Schwimmwagon may well be the base kit for this excellent rendition. Surely not beyond the capabilities of you, Mad Inventor, to pull this off. Although I would expect your to be made out of metal and to be a fully functioning amphibian! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MadInventor 3884 Posted January 22, 2018 1 hour ago, njmlondon said: I am thinking that the Dragon 1/6 Schwimmwagon may well be the base kit for this excellent rendition. Surely not beyond the capabilities of you, Mad Inventor, to pull this off. Although I would expect your to be made out of metal and to be a fully functioning amphibian! Nah, I'm pants at doing bodywork with curves on it................ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WillyChang 1814 Posted January 23, 2018 6 hours ago, MadInventor said: Nah, I'm pants at doing bodywork with curves on it................ Me too. That's what she says. So I'll be at the workbench, polishing Willy's big helmet 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Country Mike 120 Posted January 23, 2018 I'm for the swimmer too 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MadInventor 3884 Posted January 23, 2018 The only things I'd have differently would be to have painted the driver figure in German WWII 3 tone camo and to have retained a machine gun. If Tamiya released it, it could then be called the 'Fast Attack Frog' 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WillyChang 1814 Posted January 23, 2018 25 minutes ago, MadInventor said: The only things I'd have differently would be to have painted the driver figure in German WWII 3 tone camo and to have retained a machine gun. If Tamiya released it, it could then be called the 'Fast Attack Frog' shhh, don't mention the war the frogs got occupied, didn't they? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Supercoolnothing 721 Posted January 24, 2018 Loving the Thunderbirds elevator car, "Trapped in the sky" is one of my favourite Thunderbirds episodes. Fun fact: the bit where car number 3 goes out of control, veers off and crashes into a parked up plane wasn't actually in the original script. The car actually went out of control during shooting and Gerry Anderson liked the way it looked and the extra drama it created so much he rewrote the scene on the fly to keep the footage in. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mokei Kagaku 2706 Posted February 7, 2018 On 22.01.2018 at 6:42 PM, njmlondon said: I am thinking that the Dragon 1/6 Schwimmwagon may well be the base kit for this excellent rendition. Surely not beyond the capabilities of you, Mad Inventor, to pull this off. Although I would expect your to be made out of metal and to be a fully functioning amphibian! It's actually the Schwimmwagen from defunct US company 21st Century Toys. As a collector of models of aircooled VW's, I have a couple of that one and a comparison left no doubt. The conversion shouldn't really be hard as it seems the body/hull? basically only needs to be shortened, and as the sides are pretty straight, matching the front and back after cutting away a section in the middle shouldn't be too hard. Another Japanese modeller built a WR02-based "comical" Schwimmwagen, but made the body by heavily modifying a Wild Willy body. Using the 21st Century model is clearly a simpler route! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nitomor 2122 Posted February 7, 2018 On 22/01/2018 at 2:57 PM, markbt73 said: The X-wing is cool too, although personally I would have gone for a Battlestar Galactica "Viper." More obscure reference, and less chance of snagging a wing on the ground in turns... My first thought exactly, along with, I can see myself getting one of these just to do that!! Of the classic Colonial variety obviously. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites