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Another one of my more "Ambitious" model building projects. Here in 1/35th scale is "The Judge's car" built mainly from parts gleaned from plastic model kits, toys and various household items. The "Car" itself is supposed to be the vehicle in which the Judges of a Transcontinental Steam Powered Robot race would ride about the course in, but in this diorama, the "Judge" here has gotten off on the wrong "Track." (As evidence by the rusted rails and forlorn looking railroad crossing sign.) Built in 1989, and finished in 1990.
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Kinda. I think the kit is still available in re-release from the SF-3D line. It's the lower half of the "Krote" (Sorry, no ummlaut on the "O.") from the series. I turned the legs around backwards to give them a "Chicken leg" appearance, and rigged up the valve gear to run from the steam train cylinders to go into the mechanisms moving the legs.
Wow, this took me a little by surprise when I saw this. Very interesting concept I must say, though I kind of wish I could get a better view of the mechanics of this contraption.
The "Locomotive" part reminds me a WHOLE LOT of the steam locos that once ran on the Manitou & Pike's Peak Cog Railway in Colorado.
http://www.discoverlivesteam.com/ma.....4/P8130007.jpg
The "Locomotive" part reminds me a WHOLE LOT of the steam locos that once ran on the Manitou & Pike's Peak Cog Railway in Colorado.
http://www.discoverlivesteam.com/ma.....4/P8130007.jpg
To tell you the truth, when I built this model, I knew very little about how real steam locomotives worked. Using the cut away drawings of a 4-6-4 from the 1956 version of the Encyclopedia Brittanica, I "Faked up" the greeblies in a fairly "Logical" manner. I've been told by steam enthusiasts that my guesses were pretty good, and I've won three trophies with the model at various contests.
Yeah. I gotta admit I made a lot of things up as I dug through my parts boxes to find just the right "Greebly" to glue in place. I actually got the legs from an SF 3-D kit, and reversed them 180 Degrees. The Mechwarrior game did influence me a bit, and I was also inspired by a story that appeared in Omni magazine, (I think.) called "The great Transcontinental steam powered robot race." Somethings that's slipped through the sans of time and into obscurity.
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