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by Blackhawk
Thu Dec 01, 2016 1:01 pm
Forum: Hover Tank Challenge
Topic: Hammer's Slammers
Replies: 17
Views: 50201

Richard Baker wrote:Thanks for the new link- that is a fantastic build!
Any chance you could update your links to the other projects listed above?
It's easier to give you the link to my portal where links to all my models can be found:

http://www.ourworlds.net/models_and_props/
by Blackhawk
Thu Dec 01, 2016 12:07 am
Forum: Hover Tank Challenge
Topic: Hammer's Slammers
Replies: 17
Views: 50201

Somehow, over all these years, I have failed to comment on this build! :oops: This takes the image from the cover & brings it to life! A great build! :bravo: Thanks. I'm glad you like it. Also, the link I posted originally is no longer functional since Google Photos absorbed Picasa. So please t...
by Blackhawk
Sun Mar 13, 2011 1:58 pm
Forum: Scratchbuilding
Topic: Cheap Plastic globes
Replies: 9
Views: 13635

Go Flight wrote:I never read the book, but it's a nice build!

I like to that you used captions to tell the story of the build and not have 50 links here that we have to back and forth on. That's my one pet peeve of this forum... :roll: Yeah I'm cranky today...
If you are refering to my Heinlein models, thanks.
by Blackhawk
Tue Feb 22, 2011 4:24 pm
Forum: Scratchbuilding
Topic: Cheap Plastic globes
Replies: 9
Views: 13635

It's also the time of year to by Christmas ornaments on sale. Generally speaking, anything label 'outdoors' or 'unbreakable' are styrene. It's too late now to find ornaments on after-holiday sale, but I do agree that they are a good source and worth remembering to look for them after the next Xmas ...
by Blackhawk
Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:25 pm
Forum: Hover Tank Challenge
Topic: Taipan Class Hover tank
Replies: 8
Views: 25637

Very cool, indeed. I'm also a fan of steampunk and this is a fine example.
by Blackhawk
Mon Apr 12, 2010 1:36 pm
Forum: Hover Tank Challenge
Topic: Hammer's Slammers
Replies: 17
Views: 50201

I wrote the author several years ago, and he considered the Life Probe series done. Oh well. I agree that there are more stories that could be told but if the author isn't interested then we probably wouldn't like anything he did write. The Gibraltar series is very readable and has both the strengt...
by Blackhawk
Fri Apr 09, 2010 8:10 am
Forum: Hover Tank Challenge
Topic: Hammer's Slammers
Replies: 17
Views: 50201

Re: Hammer's Slammers

Blackhawk wrote:Here is my model of a hover tank from Drake's Hammer's Slammers. Completely scratch built.


http://picasaweb.google.com/sfscalemode ... SSlammers#
Since there was interest in how I made the lift fans for the hover tank, I added some more pictures and explanation to the album linked above.
by Blackhawk
Fri Apr 09, 2010 8:08 am
Forum: Hover Tank Challenge
Topic: Hammer's Slammers
Replies: 17
Views: 50201

Love the tank! Also love the ASNS Discovery, now if he would only continue the Life Probe novels, I'd be a happy man. Thanks. Have you been reading McCollum's Gibraltar series? They are very good, too. I haven't gotten the last one yet but am looking forward to it. I did enjoy the Life Probe novels...
by Blackhawk
Thu Apr 08, 2010 11:28 am
Forum: Hover Tank Challenge
Topic: Hammer's Slammers
Replies: 17
Views: 50201

I know I've seen your Galileo before, and possibly your WoW dio, but the Discovery is new to me. Splendid work, all of it. The WotW diorama was featured in an article in Fine Scale Modeler magazine a number of years ago so you certainly could have seen it. I only finished the Galileo recently and h...
by Blackhawk
Thu Apr 08, 2010 8:25 am
Forum: Hover Tank Challenge
Topic: Hammer's Slammers
Replies: 17
Views: 50201

Very sharp! Nice to see somebody working from cover art-there's a lot of very good stuff out there, but it doesn't get modeled all that much. Thanks. I often work from cover art. Check out my models of the Rocket Ship Galileo ( http://picasaweb.google.com/sfscalemodels/RocketShipGalileo# ), War of ...
by Blackhawk
Thu Apr 08, 2010 8:17 am
Forum: Hover Tank Challenge
Topic: Hammer's Slammers
Replies: 17
Views: 50201

Nice What are the turbines from? As I described in the caption to one of the photos, the lift fans were made from a part of a woman's razor that was manufactured in the early '80s. I don't remember what it was called, but it was round and had a band blade that could be rotated by a center knob. The...
by Blackhawk
Wed Apr 07, 2010 4:11 pm
Forum: Hover Tank Challenge
Topic: Hammer's Slammers
Replies: 17
Views: 50201

Hammer's Slammers

Here is my model of a hover tank from Drake's Hammer's Slammers. Completely scratch built.


http://picasaweb.google.com/sfscalemode ... SSlammers#