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poky


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Hi guys

I'm making a 1/72 scale model of a monowheel armored car and this is you far I have got with it this week. Also I'm building a small dio with it where the monowheel is about to cross a German trench with a German soldier (or 2) running away in terror.
The model is completely scratch build as are the figures. Hope you like it even if its a what if model and more interwar then WW1.

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for more en larger pictures http://poky609.fotopic.net/
Thanks for looking
Patrick Mondria

-- Edited by poky at 00:50, 2009-02-21

-- Edited by poky at 00:53, 2009-02-21

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That's amazing, Patrick. Super job!

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Wow! Never heard of this. Amazing!

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elbavaro, you may not have heard of this one because it was a 'flight of fancy' or a 'pipe dream', meaning, it was never made. There was an optimistic period in science and engineering in the 1920s and 1930s. I think the article shown in poky's first photo is from Popular Mechanics or Popular Science magazine, and just wanted to show a practical application of the gyroscope effect. But the date, November 1933, is at the bottom of the page. It was not a 'Plan 1919' vehicle, nor even a WW1 proposal.

Still a good and fun model though!

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@philthydirtyanimal:

Well, I have heard of the monocyle. It could be that not only this Italian worked on it, also other persons. But as a tank it is brand new to me.

And: it remembers me on Star Wars 1

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Thanks guys

I know it has nothing to do with WW1 I just liked the Idea of that big wheel charging a trenches.
I someone have a idea for the camo let me know ad this point it will be olive drab or 3tone with black outlining but if someone have a better idea please let me know.

Patrick

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To my eye, the jagged edge splinter pattern looks more retro-futuristic (I think that makes sense), rather than the curvy lines.


Something like this, on Peter's Rolls Royce:


http://www.landships.freeservers.com/rolls-royce_ac_model.htm

Maybe.



 



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Worked on the wood work and sandbags. Also made a crater for a bit more live in the dio.

more and bigger pictures here

http://poky609.fotopic.net/

Patrick

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Looks great - I am looking forward to see the diorama.

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Very nice. What did you use for the threaded tyre ?

JCC

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Hi JCC

the wheel was first cut from plastic sheet then thickened with AB sculpt and sanded smooth wen dry a piece of thin flat plastic strip (0.25X0.75mm) was super glued in the middle of the wheel you can detail it more by cutting a zigzag pattern in the strip. Ones dry cut a lot of 0.25x0.5mm strip at a angle longer then you need the rest will be cut, glue the pieces level with the first strip let dry, then bend the rest off the strip down and glue down cut the rest of the strip to length with a sharp hobby knife can be at the side of the wheel or at the middle of the side.
Repeat the same on the other side in a pattern like this
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.\ \ \ \ \ \
thats the basis if you want more detail you can carve a pattern in the tread but for most WW1 tires that will not be necessary and also mud will hide the detail so I didn't make that this time.

Hope you understand if not let me know and I will make a few pictures of a new normal wheel I'm making.

greetings Patrick

-- Edited by poky on Tuesday 12th of May 2009 11:31:28 PM

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Thank you. Well that's the approach I immediately thought of but there is an immediate risk of death by boredom before finishing one tyre (tiring tyres?). So I had hoped for a simpler, magic solution...

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you can make one and then roll it in a piece of putty like AB, Magicsculpt or Miliput (something that drys rock hard) let is dry and fill it with a putty that can bent like Procreate or Green stuff wen dry super glue it to the wheel. Never try it for tread but it works for the tracks I made for a kettenkrad.


greetings Patrick

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