I always intended for the mobile landing pads to be like forward deployed mobile bases from which to operate small one-man (grymn) recon and light support fliers.
Initially I had hoped to use the long awaited and fabled Hasslefree Grymn Grav Bike to operate from these bases.
When it became clear that the Grav Bike had been abandoned and Hasslefree had prototyped a new Flier I hoped this one would be commercially available, but it wasn't to be.
So finally I thought that a8 years of waiting and begging was probably enough time and I should do something about it. After hunting for suitable commerical fliersand getting recommendations from a few forums (fora?) I decided the only thing to do was to build it myself.
Aims
- One man crew
- Lightly armed - nose gun or maybe a small missile pod.
- Highly manoeverable
- Clean panels to match the feel of the Old Crow 25mm vehicles these will be towed by. No rivets, skulls or other Gothic nonsense here.
- VTOL - lift fans / rotors
- Small enough to both land on and be shipped by the mobile landing pad.
I liked what I did with the rotors on the Grymn Flier that I painted as a diorama a few years ago, so I thought I'd do something similar.
Rotors/Fans from Zinge Industries:
Revell Pocket Snap Kit - Jedi StarFighter
So far I have this...
I'm pretty happy with this prototype but still figuring out how to do a short stubby tail fin and landing gear. I have three to make in total.
I like what you're doing with this! And it looks not to hard to make more of the same, should you wish a small flotilla. Shame about the HF version falling through... but artists, what can you do?
ReplyDeleteYou should know by now that *one* is never enough :-)
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