Exxcellent, looks quite professional!!

smiles, might be fun to build and drive in SL

neat

That's got to be one of the more unusual depictions of chakats that I've ever seen.

Wow! I could see this being built!

Renwal and AMT, take note!

N'heeeh! Ahim tooo CRAZY fohr da liikes of dem! Neehah!

Excellent!

Nifty idea, seat backs that swing down for taurs.

I was trying to understand the seat arrangement on the tow truck picture, but this one makes much more sense of it. Neat little concept and a fun drawing.

A shame you don't know how to use an autocad program or the like. Especially if you considering all those rapid prototype shops these days.

Yeah! One of my big dreams is to win the Lottery and go back to school and learn to work on Cad Cam systems. Those "3-D" type printers are a real boon to the model builder as well. Shoot... Even Jay Lenno has invested in a system to produce one off prototypes in order to keep his fleet of rare and antique cars in running order.

There are cheaper programs like Turbo CAD they are more user friendly I've even seen some of those shops offer simple programs to make simple things. Here's a link : http://www.emachineshop.com/

Ah, the smell of model cement in the morning.......

Smells like - victory!

(or possibly brain damage) 7@=Q

Well... Most of us don't use that brain rotting Toululine based model glue these days. We prefer fast acting ACC types such as Super glue, or Kwik Mend. Of course there a greater risk we'll either glue out fingers together, or glue our hands to our models.

Yeah..... it was more of a flashback from childhood.... 7@=e

seeing this and the elongated seats with the raised headrest for tauric comfort has made me invision encapsulated motorcycles of sorts, elongated comfort, but then again, with an extra set of arms and your usual delicious designs of mecha, it's another mannerism of control, idmagine for but a moment of mobile infantry in quads, trikes, etc with a support weapon system, it's Venus wars all over again! *assuming that's the right name for the old anime movie* then again, one could just make such a singular sustem sexy, call buick! Chrysler! or BMW! I'm sure there'll be one with leather seats and pod-top down convertables in no time XD

I must confess the most difficult part of my drawing-designs was in coming up with brand names for these yet to exist, 23rd Century vehicles. Originally I wanted to use the "Hino" logo, but I feared copyright problems. On the plus side, James L. Brandt and a whole host of "Friends" over at the Chakat Heaven Website agree that the Economic, Technical, and Manufacturing systems already established on the Frontier World of Chakona will permit privately owned vehicles. Unless Chakona gets outright invaded, there's really no need for out and out mechanized warfare. On the other handpaw, the Police, Security, Peacekeeping and Civil Support forces will still need their specially adapted vehicles.

Brainstorm some companies, get some friends together for a nice long night session with caffeine, yum caffeine. Take into account the different needs of a company, topography, who built the company, the needs and intents of the company, and develop around that, you can make all sorts of designs from cleaver names mish mashed together, develop several different logos both grandeous and simplistic. Heck it's one of the things I've enjoyed personally, from mass effect, to armored core, corporation wars in sci-fi is more commonplace be it for economic, political or resource control. It can make for an entertaining evening if anything, espishally if you have somebody silly with popcorn. Indulge to the fullest.

Wow, haha, that's brilliant! Some of those pieces sure look tiny - better be sure not to build this over carpeted flooring!

YES Sir! Do I know about THAT Sir! It is an often written subject of the Model Builder's and Watchmaker's creed that "Pile carpeting and tiny parts do NOT mix," Sir!

especially if the carped has a colour mix of mostly dark colours. it starts to make sense why the forensics at CSI make a room dark, then come up with really bright torchlights to find tiny things. hell, you can even lose chromed parts in some carpets...

you beat me to it. seeing many artists omitting pieces of the figures for better views of anatomical areas where the sun don't shine anyway made me wanting to come up with a model kit manual. all I would miss with your version are the "scrape plating where cement must go", "Details omitted for clarity", and "remaining parts may be discarded" notes. ^^

also, I'd build that kit, too. :)

Thank you for the kind words. I noticed that I left out one crucial clue that would indicate that this is the final page of a set of assembly instructions for the plastic model kit. I was hoping one day to draw up the entire set of plans which show that this little car may look "Conventional" on the outside, but is very, very different on the inside. For one thing, each tire and wheel assembly is it's own motor, generator and brake, linked to a highly reliable, central computer that follows the command cues from the driver. Of course by the time the Chakats are around, Model building might still be a challenging and fun, "Old fashioned" pastime like quilting bees or raising barns. I like the idea though that a clever and talented youngster building scale models in the 23rd Century might be required to create the three dimensional renderings and programs that instruct the transmuter devices the proper way to create the parts needed for the model. It is then up to the young model builder to assemble and finish the kit the way he or she would prefer it. Simply pushing the right buttons and watching the Transmuter assemble the finished model molecularly line by line just wouldn't be that challenging creatively.

one approach could have been faskimiling a typical AMT manual, for example, with the stylized rendition of the actual vehicle on the first page. ^^

sounds like something nowadays' "hybrid" cars actually should have: one electric motor for each wheel. instead they abuse a 40HP thingy for some extra boost...
anyway. very futuristic thoughts here. maybe we will see them actually come to life... I'll still climb into my ol' '74 Ford and turn the engine and use the handful of switches... and use my brain for safe driving. :)

and yes, the whole sense of model building is building it, not having someone build it. or, something.

meanwhile, I lately found an old Lindberg kit of a Ford GT40 Mk2, fired by a rubber band... it's almost primitive, but fun to build. ^^

Love it! You gave me a dangerous idea too. I think I'll clean that image up, and write a short article explaining the idea behind the Chakats and my challenges concerning 23rd Century model builders and submit it to Fine Scale Modeler. It might not make print, but it may give the guys a Kalmbach a few laughs.

As for those older model kits... How I dearly recall those days when plastic model car kits were made to be built as a "Static" display piece or included parts to turn the model into a scale slot car racer. I often pick up the "Retro" kits to build them and see if my recent modeling skills would make them look better or turn out the same way when I put them together many decades ago. That is one of the more fun aspects of model building.

absolutely! and who knows, maybe they'll ask for a more detailed view and even bring out a new sci-fi model kit line... :)
and next we know, LEGO chakats. XD

I have found a few of those old things. the #49 Ford sedan by Lindberg is relatively common in germany (saw at least five at the last modeler's fair), but there is that Palmer '40s covnertible, and a Life-Like '38 roadster. they forgot to set in a piece of the form, so I have a huge rectangular blob where the front axle should sit... challenge time! ^^

but then again I aim for the older stuff anyway. I can always go back and buy what's new.. my current oldestmodel is of a german Ford V8 sedan from '38, which ist about as old as the original, and must have accompanied some boy all through WW2... I wished I knew the story behind it.

Love it! Reminds me of the instructions from some 80's Japanese kits I have? 🙂

Heh! Well, when I took drafting in college in the late 1970s, it was my desire to draw the instructions for Revell model kits when their production plant was in Venice, CA.

Ahh, the good old days! And wish your's there were real kits! 🙂

(And a sidenote: I'll still take a 25-60+yo. Revell, Lindberg, ect. kit - accurate or not - over some of the over-complicated kits today... 😂)