HO scale? Where did they get the measurements? [%-)] How do we really know its 1/87?
Pete
I could use some HO scale dirt bikes and ATVs more then a UFO
Whatchu talkin’ bout Willis???
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.
Maybe they got the measurements when they were visiting area 51? [:D]
Awwe, geez, who is gonna put that on his layout?
Tail fins?
Must be a '50’s model.
Ed
Oh Oh!
Here we go again.
Did you remember to bring your tin foil hat this time?
I will, next to the plastic Godzilla.
If I could get a half dozen little green men, they’d be surrounding a dead cow.
Lighten up folks, guess he is just having some fun with HIS trains/layout LOL. I have the Polar Lights Jupiter II and use it for background pics for personal fun and my freinds love it. Also have a F-22 that I used for a pic for th 4th of July for a friend in the service who also has a layout at home. Relax, breath in and out and enjoy !!! Just my thoughts, Gary
But think of the DRAMA!!!
The hoohaws!!
Some people need a little frisson in their lives, don’t you know…[:-,][:-^]
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
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”.
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.
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)
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
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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. [alien]
Well, Vectorcut is not selling plates nor pie pans just yet (just the HO scale hot dogs and hamburgers), but maybe Busch or Woodland Scenics do? We know Presier sells various figures w/ cameras, so we are OK there - after gluing the two model pie pans together (concave sides together) and painting them silver, the problem then will be modeling the near invisible transparent monofilament fishing line in HO that the accomplice uses to suspend the ‘flying saucer’ from a pole (to be cropped out of the image, of course) while the other guy photographs it to send in to the papers. This works only if your modeling pre-1952 - after that, the UFO fakes needed to get more sophisticated, so you might consider modeling a weather balloon with lights inside of it, or jet contrails during sunset on foggy evenings, or maybe paint Jupiter in conjunction with Venus on your backdrop and have your scale “UFOologist” taking photos of that.
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
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.
