Ryan Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 Gentlemen, Marian has inspired me...I have tossed aside all of my WNW kits and have decided to go big! Please send me all drawings and information on the rocket for this project, oh and I will be starting on the gantry first. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Clunkmeister Posted October 8, 2019 Administrators Share Posted October 8, 2019 yeah yeah yeah but my mind is working..... maybe contract it out and rent space on top so clear channel radio stations to use the escape tower as an antenna mount. Or even AT&T might consider hiding a cell tower in the thin fiberglass adapter rings between the LEM housing and the third stage booster. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wumm Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 By the beard of Evil Spock! First Jim abandons the Hobby, and takes up building little wooden ships, and now this! What's the world coming to? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted October 8, 2019 Author Share Posted October 8, 2019 Well Wumm I have seen the light. Jims building ships? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wumm Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 Maybe... Not sure. Not even sure if he's sure. Topsy-turvy World. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlrwestSiR Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 I was going to suggest the recent Lego Saturn V set as it's quite nice and would be a great reference. Then I saw you you wanted to start with the gantry tower. Maybe if you started with the crawler that would be easiest. That way you could move it around as needed. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted October 9, 2019 Author Share Posted October 9, 2019 Good point 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted October 9, 2019 Author Share Posted October 9, 2019 25 minutes ago, Wumm said: Maybe... Not sure. Not even sure if he's sure. Topsy-turvy World. Small confession, I have always wanted to try one of those. Good for him. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Clunkmeister Posted October 9, 2019 Administrators Share Posted October 9, 2019 38 minutes ago, Ryan said: Small confession, I have always wanted to try one of those. Good for him. Shhhhh, but me too. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Clunkmeister Posted October 9, 2019 Administrators Share Posted October 9, 2019 43 minutes ago, BlrwestSiR said: I was going to suggest the recent Lego Saturn V set as it's quite nice and would be a great reference. Then I saw you you wanted to start with the gantry tower. Maybe if you started with the crawler that would be easiest. That way you could move it around as needed. I hate it when someone displays much more logical thinking than I do. Said the guy with a 1/48 B-36 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlrwestSiR Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 1 hour ago, Ryan said: Small confession, I have always wanted to try one of those. Good for him. I picked up a book called Canoe Craft on how to build a cedarstrip canoe basically the same way. Even got as far as clearing out my parents' garage so I'd have the space. But then my dad saw all the free space and promptly filled it up again. One day... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krow113 Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 Got that done yet? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted October 9, 2019 Author Share Posted October 9, 2019 No, but I bought every nut and bolt from my local Home Depot....I’m on my way. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Clunkmeister Posted October 9, 2019 Administrators Share Posted October 9, 2019 10 hours ago, Ryan said: No, but I bought every nut and bolt from my local Home Depot....I’m on my way. I really hope you have bins to store them by size. Probably grain bins might be large enough? Have you thought about an “as if” retro version build? As in an alternative version designed by Dr. Hugo Junkers, using his patented metal airplane structural process. You could use aluminum and steel from old Quonset Huts and culverts for that classy and timeless Junkers corrugated look. Or, you could have old Tony Fokker, the crazy as a fox Dutchman help with internally braced steel tube framed substructure and plywood engine nozzles. And if you used Fokker's steel truss structure, you could skin the exterior with papier mâché. It's be light but strong. At least until it rains. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sluggo Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 16 hours ago, Ryan said: Gentlemen, Marian has inspired me...I have tossed aside all of my WNW kits and have decided to go big! Please send me all drawings and information on the rocket for this project, oh and I will be starting on the gantry first. Sheesh! I better get to work. Can't have a 1:1 scale rocket with no 1:1 scale Moon.......................... 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted October 9, 2019 Author Share Posted October 9, 2019 sluggo I appreciate this collaboration, this is turning into a great diorama idea. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted October 9, 2019 Author Share Posted October 9, 2019 12 hours ago, Clunkmeister said: I really hope you have bins to store them by size. Probably grain bins might be large enough? Have you thought about an “as if” retro version build? As in an alternative version designed by Dr. Hugo Junkers, using his patented metal airplane structural process. You could use aluminum and steel from old Quonset Huts and culverts for that classy and timeless Junkers corrugated look. Or, you could have old Tony Fokker, the crazy as a fox Dutchman help with internally braced steel tube framed substructure and plywood engine nozzles. And if you used Fokker's steel truss structure, you could skin the exterior with papier mâché. It's be light but strong. At least until it rains. Actually, I'm having Shapeways do the whole thing for me. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Clunkmeister Posted October 9, 2019 Administrators Share Posted October 9, 2019 The crazy thing is, this has been done before, as I mentioned above. On a side note, that sure must be one of the most beautiful aircraft ever to fly. She just looks "right" without a single out of place corner anywhere. I'd have loved to have seen one of these fly. Perfect Cold War Interceptor: Just go blisteringly fast in a straight line, attack the bombers with nuclear tipped rockets, then RTB to do it all over again. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted October 9, 2019 Author Share Posted October 9, 2019 Yes wasn't there a documentary somewhere about this? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Clunkmeister Posted October 9, 2019 Administrators Share Posted October 9, 2019 1 minute ago, Ryan said: Yes wasn't there a documentary somewhere about this? Yes, it was about the original development of the Arrow. It was a decent production but drifted into politics and conspiracy theories instead of totally dealing with the aircraft. The Arrow got lost in a big sea of similarly capable aircraft that were available for much less money. Sad, but it's life. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlrwestSiR Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 CBC did one a few years ago with Dan Aykroyd in it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Arrow_(miniseries) The plane is in a hanger somewhere in the GTA but I'm not sure where. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krow113 Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 The Arrow is the most effing gorgeous plane ever built , the high water mark in Canadian aviation , ruined by politicians. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 3 hours ago, BlrwestSiR said: CBC did one a few years ago with Dan Aykroyd in it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Arrow_(miniseries) The plane is in a hanger somewhere in the GTA but I'm not sure where. I thought it was in Wetaskawin Alberta?? Am I mistaken on this?? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Clunkmeister Posted October 9, 2019 Administrators Share Posted October 9, 2019 2 hours ago, Jeff said: I thought it was in Wetaskawin Alberta?? Am I mistaken on this?? It got moved to the GTA 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 2 hours ago, Clunkmeister said: It got moved to the GTA shows what I know.... thanks Ern, always interested in learning something new 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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