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Thread: Futuristic Wooden Toys??
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27th July 2011, 11:23 AM #1rogerjenkins Guest
Futuristic Wooden Toys??
Anyone got any ideas, or had a go at constructing Futuristic Wooden Toys,- " Star Wars," type of spaceships, robots, war-machines,- all that sorta stuff ?
Kids are always asking me to, " invent something. "
Toy Hovercraft that look reasonably realistic ? Get asked quite often.
Modern Warbirds ? Kids are always asking me to make some.
I can design & make the older prop-driven WW2, " warbirds," as work off the actual artwork, but the modern, " Hi-tec, Stealth," type warbirds are out of my league.
Futuristic cars, trucks, & trains are another potential item for some modern-day kids.
Any good ideas anyone ?
One last item of interest,- Has anyone on this site / thread ever designed & made that," Classic Aussis Outback Icon," - The, " Road-Train. " in either 1:20, or, 1:15 scale so the end result is balanced, & looks reasonably realistic ?
*** Maybe the, " Chairman of the board of Directors," should organize a Toy Design Competition on this site, with some appropriate prizes from your sponcers, and see who can invent what ?
What do you think ?
( IF I could work 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week, then, maybe, I could design, & make everything that every kid has always asked me for. )
Roger.
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27th July 2011, 11:37 AM #2GOLD MEMBER
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Best toy hovercraft I've seen were plastic garbage can lids with model airplane gas engines, top center. Looked like a strip of bicycle inner tube for a skirt. I have been told that these can be fitted for RC. I saw tethered ones. Kid-sized FlyMo.
I suppose with an .049 balanced on the deck and an RC rudder, away you go.
You may find it hard to relate to this:
Many, many years ago, I had a cool snow sled, maybe 40cm long, 15cm wide and 10cm high. 6mm plywood bulkhead at one end, the runners & frame maybe 4ga or 6ga iron wire (rod?). It was powered by an English JETEX solid fuel rocket engine. It could do maybe 300m @ 50kph. I had a much more powerful JETEX Scorpion rocket engine but it over powered the sled (spins, tipped over, etc.) In the summer I played with the JETEX helicopter (2 small 50B rocket engines.)
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27th July 2011, 05:43 PM #3
is not so Futuristic Wooden Toy, but kid loves it...
look at wooden gun here... I made it from an used piece of wood
the gear was made by band saw
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27th July 2011, 06:22 PM #4
The rubbish bin lid hovercraft reminds me of one of my creations.
It was basically a balsa turbine fan with a Cox .049 bolted onto the hub. As the prop torqued one way, the body spun t'other to drive the fan..
My very own UFO!
Fitted a swivel on the bottom and hooked it up to fishing line. Never did get a successful flight out of it though, as I was stupid enough to launch it on it's maiden voyage near my childhood nemesis: the kite-eating tree.
- Andy Mc
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28th July 2011, 01:04 PM #5GOLD MEMBER
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Hey Skew!
I never looked very closely, it was years ago. How big a motor would I need for a rubbish tin lid?
I was thinking about fishing in lakes. I could use the machine to get my bait 100m offshore, easy. Drop the bait/lure/fly & come home. Heck, maybe even troll with it!
I have seen guys fishing with RC helicopters for hauling line but I need economical.
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28th July 2011, 10:56 PM #6
The thing with it is... there's no inbuilt steering whatsoever.
Mine was eaten by the tree before I discovered whether you could simply angle it in the right general direction at lift-off.
I also don't know what sort of payload the .049 would carry... or how you'd arrange a release mechanism. But these are just minor tech problems and there are bigger motors out there.
I don't see any reason why it can't be done!
- Andy Mc
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29th July 2011, 10:18 PM #7rogerjenkins Guest
Reminds me of a model aeroplane owner some years ago, who just had to have the biggest, and most expensive Radio-controlled model aircraft he could afford. Unfortunately he desided to," test fly," it on the clifttop carpark at the Edithburgh, SYP. foreshore. Model airplane took off ok,- but something went horribly haywire with the Radio-control system, and it was last seen heading out across the bay, in a South-Easterly direction, never to be seen again !!
He took to making static plastic models after that - can't possibly imagine why?????
Can't possibly ??????
Roger
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29th July 2011, 10:23 PM #8Reminds me of a model aeroplane owner some years ago, who
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30th July 2011, 03:27 AM #9GOLD MEMBER
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I've seen people fish lakes and rivers with balloons. Blow one up, grapefruit size, and tie it off. Fishing line held loosely into a paperclip on the stem of the balloon. Let it drift off with the breeze/current. Keep meaning to try it.
I don't think that dragging some free-spooling fishing line would be much of a load for a hovercraft.
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31st July 2011, 02:55 AM #10Senior Member
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We use plastic bobbers made for fishing. You can set your lure or spinner a distance you want from the bobber then cast the whole thing out as far as it will go and the current or breeze will do the rest. I haven't fished in a number of years, kinda getting me thinkin about it again.......
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9th August 2011, 10:24 PM #11rogerjenkins Guest
Another scary moment involving a Model Plane, which happened about 10 yrs ago;- Yorketown has an Airstrip located on high ground about a K out of town, with the approach / take-off path parellel to, and about 500 metres from the school oval, where someone decided to fly their nice new R/c Model plane across the approach path just as the RFDS Plane was coming in to land. Result;- one aborted landing. Someone on the ground got a good chatting up by the local man in uniform, plus one Model plane got, " arrested, " as evidence for flying into protected airspace
Aparently the culprit was a local teacher who didn't stop to check anything out regarding real Aviation Regulations
Roger
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