One use for the saucer might be as an "on location" 1950's sci-fi TV or film set. Prieser makes an HO set that includes cameramen with cameras and some other crew figures.
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/590-10062
tomikawaTTLast time I checked, an HO scale saucer is about 1.75mm across. How you get it to fly I leave as an exercuse for the student.
The news networks don't like this kind of thing. They regard it as a waste. An incontrovertible spaceship arrives out of nowhere in the middle of London and it is sensational news of the highest magnitude. Another completely different one arrives three and a half hours later and somehow it isn't. `ANOTHER SPACECRAFT!' said the headlines and news stand billboards. `THIS ONE'S PINK.' A couple of months later they could have made a lot more of it. The third spacecraft, half an hour after that, the little four berth Hrundi runabout, only made it on to the local news. -- "Mostly Harmless" Douglas Adams
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HO scale? Where did they get the measurements? How do we really know its 1/87?
Pete
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I provided the measurements based on my recollections of the time I was kidnapped and taken aboard an alien spaceship for medical experiments.
But does Preiser make HO figures of Scully and Mulder? Come to think of it, wasn't there an episode with an alien autopsy on a train? Has anyone modeled that yet.
Werner
Last time I checked, an HO scale saucer is about 1.75mm across. How you get it to fly I leave as an exercuse for the student.
At least it's more aerodynamic than the matching cup...
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - with non-flying flatware)
richhotrain vsmith: http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/bus/bus1010.htm Maybe this? Personally its a little too B-movie goofy to me, now the Polar Lights Forbiden Planet C-57-D is one hellova flying saucer kit but its almost 36" in diameter and 1/72 scale if I recall. Awwe, geez, who is gonna put that on his layout?
vsmith: http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/bus/bus1010.htm Maybe this? Personally its a little too B-movie goofy to me, now the Polar Lights Forbiden Planet C-57-D is one hellova flying saucer kit but its almost 36" in diameter and 1/72 scale if I recall.
http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/bus/bus1010.htm
Maybe this?
Personally its a little too B-movie goofy to me, now the Polar Lights Forbiden Planet C-57-D is one hellova flying saucer kit but its almost 36" in diameter and 1/72 scale if I recall.
Awwe, geez, who is gonna put that on his layout?
Me for one, this little tableaux was in one of the back corners of my former N-scale layout.
Of course I decided to forgo the stereotypical saucer, in favor of something more original.
I have figured out what is wrong with my brain! On the left side nothing works right, and on the right side there is nothing left!
Think about this..................
In so many different parts of the world and in various times in history, "aliens" have been portrayed as these smaller than human beings, with big eyes and long digits expanded on each end, and with a whitish pale caste.
Today, so many humans are constantly looking at tv, computer, phone, ereader screens, greatly increasing the use of their eyes over their ancestors. And at the same time, today's humans are using their fingers for long time periods typing or manuvering smart screens. Lastly, today's humans spend less time outdoors, preferring to be inside at their various electonic gizmos.
Putting all this together, maybe the future human will turn into that typical alien life form!
The good news is that this evolution will allow us to still "play with trains".
ENJOY !
Mobilman44
Living in southeast Texas, formerly modeling the "postwar" Santa Fe and Illinois Central
OK, I happen to know first hand that one particular flying saucer is about 50 feet in diameter and didn't have any fins. So that would make it about 6" in HO.
-Bob
Life is what happens while you are making other plans!
But think of the DRAMA!!!!
The hoohaws!!
Some people need a little frisson in their lives, don't you know....
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I will, next to the plastic Godzilla.
If I could get a half dozen little green men, they'd be surrounding a dead cow.
I used to be clueless, but i've turned that around 360 degrees.
Oh Oh!
Here we go again.
Did you remember to bring your tin foil hat this time?
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Tail fins?
Must be a '50's model.
Ed
vsmith http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/bus/bus1010.htm Maybe this? Personally its a little too B-movie goofy to me, now the Polar Lights Forbiden Planet C-57-D is one hellova flying saucer kit but its almost 36" in diameter and 1/72 scale if I recall.
Alton Junction
Maybe they got the measurements when they were visiting area 51?
Michael
CEO- Mile-HI-RailroadPrototype: D&RGW Moffat Line 1989
Have fun with your trains
Whatchu talkin' bout Willis???
I could use some HO scale dirt bikes and ATVs more then a UFO
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I started with nothing and still have most of it left!