Ship/Watercraft - what happened to my Bentley?

[Klaus not Santa]

Hi all,
as mentioned in my other project (The Hunt) I plan on "abusing" this Revell Bentley into a watercraft.
Besides the Bentley I will also use pieces of the BF-110 which is already missing some pieces.


So I first looked at the basic build of the Bentley


and decided to chop it up
I cut another "door" opening on theleft side and shortened the side walls considerably


Next I checked how I could turn this nice Bentley into a "watercraft".
Well, I definately want a loooooong hood


I added some reenforcing profiles


and started to look into the possible propulsion


That's as far as I got.
What do you think?
Cheers
Klaus

 

[Biskup]

Intersting idea and I will be watching closely. But wouln't it be more of Sci-Fi?

 

[Junkie]

Very interesting project. Curious to see where it goes. It could certainly become more sci-fi however we'll just watch for now. No worries.

 

[warped_one]

very nice idea there

 

[adampolo13]

Like where this thing is heading!!!

 

[Klaus not Santa]

Thank you guys!
Well, let's see if it'll be a watercraft or Sci-Fi - no sweat.

Since the pieces fro my main build were curing, I had some time to play with my "Swamp Thing" (ST)

I chopped the wings of the BF110 and positioned them on the ST - this could look nice


Then I looked into the hood


Then I cut a lot of little strips


and constructed some ventilation to the sides



and then I cut and bent the actual hood


I'm quite pleased

 

[Quaralane]

Going to be a very unique piece when you get her done

 

[Biskup]

Bentley hovercraft nice I'm really intrested where you will go with this

 

[Klaus not Santa]

Thanks guys
Unfortunately things didn't go as planned last night, so no images.
But the plan is to give it a shallow hull - like a swamp boat - and put swimmers/pontons at the wing ends...
Well, that's the plan

 

[JohnSimmons]

Two awesome builds on the go 8)

 

[adampolo13]

This thing is so neat! I'm really diggin' the creativity!

 

[Klaus not Santa]

Thanks!

Well, polymer clay curing time for "The Hunt", so I worked on the Swamp Thing

So I started to cut the pieces for the shallow hull


and used .25mm plastic card to build it out



the curved sides were a bit more difficult



and to save me some major hassle, I added a "grille" to the rear end


while forming the "nose" was a bit more tideous



Well, that's as far as I got.
Cheers
Klaus

 

[Junkie]

Great update. Starting to really see it now.

 

[JohnSimmons]

Yeah your an excellent builder.

 

[Belugawrx]

You sir, are a machine ;D
Cool stuff happenin'here
Cheers

 

[Quaralane]

Definitely some good work on this

 

[Tailor]

Great idea and great work on this project!
Will be looking forward to seing more of it!

Cheers,
Guido

 

[Klaus not Santa]

Thanks guys!
Well, I had a very productive weekend and got a lot of work done on the Swamp Thing.

Since the last update I mounted the Bf110 wings


Lots of putty needed


Also the one edge of the hull didn't look the way I wanted it, so "putty time" it was


Speaking of putty, the motor housing had some terrible gaps


But I think I pimped them well enough ;D


Then I closed off the passenger compartment


and then finally mounted the engines



Started some detailing to the engine mounts,


but now I have to continue with the other entry
Cheers
Klaus

 

[Biskup]

Nice progress there

I just thought what would happen if one of the engines fails at full speed now that would funny to watch

 

[Klaus not Santa]

Nice progress there

I just thought what would happen if one of the engines fails at full speed now that would funny to watch

Hehe, I made sure the rotors don't meet - close but they don't