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Not much is known about this prototype. It came via trade from a prototype collector who wrote that this is, "The first stage of how iPhones come together; just to check chip sets and make sure all the components work together. There is a very special power board it needs to work; without it it doesn't."
Black M60 w/DOG Ammo Can
IT IS A PROTOTYPE. As of now, only Dan at Brickmania has the M60.
Check with him if you are looking to make one of them your very own.
I'll rev this design in the coming weeks and months, to tighten it up to my standards. Until then, please do not ask me when it will be available, If you do, you will be blocked because it will show me that you can't be bothered to read this first.
Prototype Zamor Spheres! (photo by Black Six, used with permission) These were among the prototype parts given out to BZPower Staff - I don't know if there are others.
Older photo (along with other prototype parts) can be found here: bzpower.com/black6/prototype/
just experimenting with my proto-Spriggan. the body is a little too heavy for the hip connections, so that tail-binder doubles as a third leg for balance. obviously, it still needs work
These are prototypes - not production.
They will be shown at BrickCon 2011, and included in the Castle Contributors Pack
I will not answer any questions in regards to trades and or sale. My source shall also be kept confidential.
What is prototype, what is mold test? I don't care~ May be u already get this, but it's not worth to show off, it's just some pcs of plastic u never seen before ;-)
Parked at Preston's 1970s brutalist bus station is GCW 461S. This was the prototype of the "B-series" Leyland National. Since the original Leyland National could hardly have been worse, any change was almost bound to be an improvement. I cannot now remember what the changes were. I think perhaps it was at this stage of the National's development that they re-positioned the batteries above the front axle to improve weight distribution. Poor road holding is intrinsic to rear-engined buses because the heavy mechanical units are at the rear. The early Nationals were heart-stoppingly prone to front-end skids when cornering on wet roads. In this particular example the "air conditioning" has been dispensed with and replaced by conventional heating, although I can't now remember whether this modification was a feature of all B-series Nationals.
At the time of this photograph, Thursday 18th May 1978, the bus was still owned by British Leyland, who no doubt found it convenient to test experimental vehicles under service conditions in the fleet of a local operator such as Ribble Motor Services. The Leyland-based independent J. Fishwick often operated Leyland prototypes in its fleet.
Black M60 w/DOG Ammo Can
IT IS A PROTOTYPE. As of now, only Dan at Brickmania has the M60.
Check with him if you are looking to make one of them your very own.
I'll rev this design in the coming weeks and months, to tighten it up to my standards. Until then, please do not ask me when it will be available, If you do, you will be blocked because it will show me that you can't be bothered to read this first.
Anthony's Mod Ken re-rooted as a blond to resemble the blond never produced Prototype Ken. He has a layered style cut. I tried to do a Beatles type styling here since I didn't want his cut to look too bob like. Not his body of course, in case you are wondering why it is tanned.
A Heavy Machine Gun. Still in the prototype stage. The H34VY has two barrels, firing in a LeftFire, Right fire, Left, Right. So its BANG (Left) then BANG (Right) etc etc.
There is a cloth box mag on both sides of the weapon. The left box mag feeds the top barrel, the right feeds the bottom barred. The H34VY is a Caseless MG.
The trigger is a Full-Hand Squeeze trigger.
The H34VY is meant to be mounted on a vehicle.
Comments, criticism appreciated.
This 145,712 square foot Target prototype store was opened on October 8, 2008. The first level is the store's parking lot and the second level is the store itself. Another nearby Target store closed in 2011. A car sales lot was previously located here.
Target #2178 - Telegraph Road - Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
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Daimler Fleetline TNB759K was one of the few prototype Standard vehicles that escaped the cutters torch and went on to have a second career.
It was sold on to the Middleton Scout and Guide Band as transport for the various walking days and marches the band would attend. It is seen in the former Bee Line yard at Oldham in the mid nineties in a vandalised state.
Ordered by Rochdale Corporation, the order was changed to allow the chassis to be sent to Northern Counties to be bodied to the style produced by the Selnec designers of what would become the Selnec Standard vehicle.
This moc was initially intended to be a batmobile moc, it wasn't successful and turned out having the shape of a Le Mans race car, so here it is! Before completing this moc, I hadn't think of using Speed Champs wheels, thankfully that crossed my mind before completion. It's also able to fit a minifigure with a helmet inside.
Downside to this is it's missing some stickers and a better colour scheme. My inability to make the F-duct fits onto this also makes this less of a modern day Le Mans race car, however personally I don't think F-duct is a pretty thing on a race car, especially in Formula 1.
This was submitted to Lego Ideas in May'17 but it's clearly not going to get enough support, but hey there is no harm trying :
ideas.lego.com/projects/f93ca4ae-9c54-4f0b-9dfc-60be1ae91bd4
Its LDD file is available for sale !
Visit www.facebook.com/kmpmocs
Prototypes as of now.
By popular demand.
*NO GIFTS ARE FOR TRADE*
Soon to be added:
-Short shotted Black BAR.
-Gunmetal Minigun.
-Possibly Time bomb.
-Possibly Panzerfuast.
These creations (many of which you may remember from my stream in the past year) have been outfitted with the newest BrickArms prototypes, and will be available on the Creations for Charity website very soon!
A GREAT BIG THANKS to Will Chapman of BrickArms for his generous donation for these figures!
The first Embraer KC-390 PT-ZNF starts its take-off roll at Farnborough Airport following its display at the previous week's trade show.
A BRCW class 110 DMSL heads North from the down sidings at Doncaster, hauling a vacuum-braked early Mk 2 BSO. It was very unusual to see a first generation DMU vehicle hauling conventional coaching stock, albeit only running ECS.
Note also that a traditional oil lamp is being used as a tail lamp - quite unusual by this date.
July 1989, Doncaster
I have had nothing to do in Albany except work on and improve (hopefully) prototypes. Want to give dragon girl a regular body.
So...I think it's time I reviewed my prototypes!
M16 w/ Masterkey attachement
I really do love this weapon, it's quite cool! The white color is very handy for winter scenes (WIP, look for one soon!) and overall is just quite nice. There isn't a whole lot of point in reviewing the design, since it is production now. :P My only comment is that I would love to see Mold #14 run in white, I think it compliments this weapon very nicely!
Mags
First-I love them. Perfectly scaled, and I would love to see a production run of them. I am lucky enough to have 2 black ones to go with my new production M16s, I can't wait to do a couple builds with them. I have no issues with the design, however as I would love to have more of them to go with the M16s, I would like to see a proto mold cut that allows many of them to be run at once, similar to the Derringer sprue. My favorite feature-They fit perfectly into the Brickforge utility belt!
Chakram
This is a pretty cool proto, and with a little creativity very handy! ;) I plan on painting the GiTD one with some black paint to make it more realistic. Not something I would hugely buy if put into production, but still handy to have on hand.
Derringer This is a nice proto, detail level is perfect as always. Although GiTD looks useless, I actually have an idea for a MOC with them which I'll be creating at some point. :P Nice for Steampunk scenes, I probably wouldn't get many as I don't build steampunk, but it's still a nice proto.
Advanced Battle Rifle
This is just a great weapon. I love it, all the details are great. It's hard to see, but it's in OD Green. I can see a lot of uses for it in both Apoc and modern. I love it in the OD green color, but I'd love to get a hold of one in rust too do some apoc figures. It's something I would just love to see in production, I would buy loads of them. I can also see many modding possibilities in this weapon.
Joint Force Sci-Fi Rifle (JFSR)
Oh yes. This weapon is just win, and in rust I love it. I am working on a apoc figure to display it with, even the WIP looks great with it. I love everything about it, it is amazing. <3 Personally I think it could use a little more detail, but not to much more. I really like the scope, I am planning on trying to mod it onto an AC8 if I can get one in GM or some other AC8 production color. For sure something that I would love in production.
Sprues
Although called useless by many, I actually think they are rather useful. As proved by DJB, They are rather useful for making gas-masks if modded. I personally like to use them as just random junk in apoc scenes.
SABR Shotgun (Not pictured)
I also have a SABR which I custom painted but forgot too add in the picture. So...Overall it's a nice gun, something I would love in mass production. I have seen a lot of custom painted ones, so I decided to try it myself. Came out pretty nice, I'll post a picture at some point.
So that concludes my review, enjoy!
Some background:
The VF-1 was developed by Stonewell/Bellcom/Shinnakasu for the U.N. Spacy by using alien Overtechnology obtained from the SDF-1 Macross alien spaceship. It was preceded into production by an aerodynamic proving version of its airframe, the VF-X. Unlike all later VF vehicles, the VF-X was strictly a jet aircraft, built to demonstrate that a jet fighter with the features necessary to convert to Battroid mode was aerodynamically feasible.
After the VF-X's testing was finished, an advanced concept atmospheric-only prototype, the VF-0 Phoenix, was flight-tested from 2005 to 2007 and briefly served as an active-duty fighter from 2007 to the VF-1's rollout in late 2008, while the bugs were being worked out of the full-up VF-1 prototype (VF-X-1).
The space-capable VF-1's combat debut was on February 7, 2009, during the Battle of South Ataria Island - the first battle of Space War I, and was the mainstay fighter of the U.N. Spacy for the entire conflict. Introduced in 2008, the VF-1 would be out of frontline service just five years later.
The VF-1 proved to be an extremely capable craft, successfully combating a variety of Zentradi mecha even in most sorties which saw UN Spacy forces significantly outnumbered. The versatility of the Valkyrie design enabled the variable fighter to act as both large-scale infantry and as air/space superiority fighter. The signature skills of U.N. Spacy ace pilot Maximilian Jenius exemplified the effectiveness of the variable systems as he near-constantly transformed the Valkyrie in battle to seize advantages of each mode as combat conditions changed from moment to moment. The basic VF-1 was deployed in four minor variants (designated A, D, J, and S) and its success was increased by continued development of various enhancements including the GBP-1S "Armored" Valkyrie and FAST Pack "Super" Valkyrie weapon systems.
After the end of Space War I, the VF-1A continued to be manufactured both in the Sol system (notably on the Lunar facility Apollo Base) and throughout the UNG space colonies. Although the VF-1 would eventually be replaced as the primary VF of the UN Spacy by the more capable, but also much bigger, VF-4 Lightning III in 2020, a long service record and continued production after the war proved the lasting worth of the design.
The VF-1 was without doubt the most recognizable variable fighter of Space War I and was seen as a vibrant symbol of the U.N. Spacy even into the first year of the New Era 0001 in 2013. At the end of 2015 the final rollout of the VF-1 was celebrated at a special ceremony, commemorating this most famous of variable fighters.
The VF-1 Valkryie was built from 2006 to 2013 with a total production of 5,459 VF-1 variable fighters with several variants (VF-1A = 5,093, VF-1D = 85, VF-1J = 49, VF-1S = 30, VF-1G = 12, VE-1 = 122, VT-1 = 68)
However, the fighter remained active in many second line units and continued to show its worthiness years later, e. g. through Milia Jenius who would use her old VF-1 fighter in defense of the colonization fleet - 35 years after the type's service introduction!
Equipment Type: all-environment variable fighter and tactical combat battroid
Government: U.N. Spacy, U.N. Navy, U.N. Space Air Force
Accommodation: pilot only in Marty & Beck Mk-7 zero/zero ejection seat
Dimensions:
Fighter Mode:
Length 14.23 meters
Wingspan 14.78 meters (fully extended)
Height 3.84 meters
Battroid Mode:
Height 12.68 meters
Width 7.3 meters
Length 4.0 meters
Empty weight: 13.25 metric tons;
Standard T-O mass: 18.5 metric tons;
MTOW: 37.0 metric tons
Power Plant:
2x Shinnakasu Heavy Industry/P&W/Roice FF-2001 thermonuclear reaction turbine engines, output 650 MW each, rated at 11,500 kg in standard or in overboost (225.63 kN x 2)
4 x Shinnakasu Heavy Industry NBS-1 high-thrust vernier thrusters (1 x counter reverse vernier thruster nozzle mounted on the side of each leg nacelle/air intake, 1 x wing thruster roll control system on each wingtip);
18 x P&W LHP04 low-thrust vernier thrusters beneath multipurpose hook/handles
Performance:
Battroid Mode: maximum walking speed 160 km/h
Fighter Mode: at 10,000 m Mach 2.71; at 30,000+ m Mach 3.87
g limit: in space +7
Thrust-to-weight ratio: empty 3.47; standard T-O 2.49; maximum T-O 1.24
Design Features: 3-mode variable transformation; variable geometry wing; vertical take-off and landing; control-configurable vehicle; single-axis thrust vectoring; three "magic hand" manipulators for maintenance use; retractable canopy shield for Battroid mode and atmospheric reentry; option of GBP-1S system, atmospheric-escape booster, or FAST Pack system
Transformation:
Standard time from Fighter to Battroid (automated): under 5 sec.
Min time from Fighter to Battroid (manual): 0.9 sec.
Armament:
1 x internal Mauler RÖV-20 anti-aircraft laser cannon, firing 6,000 pulses per minute
1 x Howard GU-11 55 mm three-barrel Gatling gun pod with 200 rds fired at 1,200 rds/min
4 x underwing hard points for a wide variety of ordnance, including
12x AMM-1 hybrid guided multipurpose missiles (3/point), or
12x MK-82 LDGB conventional bombs (3/point), or
6x RMS-1 large anti-ship reaction missiles (2/outboard point, 1/inboard point), or
4x UUM-7 micro-missile pods (1/point) each carrying 15 x Bifors HMM-01 micro-missiles, or a combination of above load-outs
Optional Armament:
Shinnakasu Heavy Industry GBP-1S ground-combat protector weapon system, or
Shinnakasu Heavy Industry FAST Pack augmentative space weapon system
The kit and its assembly:
This is one more 1:100 Bandai VF-1, IMHO a design masterpiece created by Shoji Kawamori and one of my favorite mecha designs ever, because it was created as an late 70ies style jet fighter that could transform into a robot in a secondary role, a simple, purposeful military vehicle.
I’ve built more than a dozen of these kits over the last 25 years, so I know it pretty well, especially its weaknesses. But the small Valkyries, originally manufactured by IMAI and now still on sale through Bandai (they pop up every 5 years when another Macross anniversary occurs…) are simple and easy to modify, and to me a kind of clean canvas for weird and colorful ideas. The VF-1 carries a huge creative potential.
This VF-1A was built almost OOB. I just made some minor mods, partly based on the design benchmark (see below). These include a pilot figure for the cockpit – actually a modified, HO (1:87) scale sitting soldier from Roco Minitanks; 1:100 pilot figures are hard to find, but I found that these squatted figures fill the cockpit and the relatively flat seat pretty well. A few characteristic blade antennae (four under the lower front fuselage and two behind the cockpit) were added.
Since this VF-1A was to be displayed in flight, the landing gear could be omitted and the covers mounted in closed position. The underwing ordnance was omitted and the pylons’ attachment points faired over. The handgun, hanging under the fuselage in flight mode, was replaced by a smoke generator and an associate tank - actually a drop tank from an Airfix 1:72 Saab Viggen. It also holds an adapter for a scratch-built display, which is taller and less obvious than the OOB offering.
Painting and markings:
This is where the actual work took place – and this Canadian VF-1 is a personal interpretation of a fictional custom Valkyrie profiles by CrazyCanuck, posted at macross.net in the fan art section (check
www.macross2.net/m3/forfansonly/crazycanuck/layouts-snowb... for reference).
There’s hardly a livery that does not suit the elegant VF-1, and I found the Snowbirds scheme very pleasing. I also liked the idea that the VF-1 would be used all over the world, with national adaptations like a Royal Navy(!) variant backed by official publications and source books. So, why not a Canadian Valkyrie?
For easy painting the kit was built in separate section (cockpit, fuselage with wings and butterfly tail, legs, head and the smoke generator), and the use of white AND red –together with yellow IMHO the most challenging tone to work with on models – scared me.
Due to the kit’s tininess I painted everything by brush with enamels. The basic tones are Humbrol 130 and 19, the latter turned out to be a very good representation of the Snowbirds’ deep scarlet red tone.
The cheatline all long the VF-1, literally from nose to feet, was created with decals. Most come from an 1:72 Snowbirds CL-141 Tutor sheet from Victoria productions in Canada (excellent stuff!), part of the trim had to be improvised and extended with generic blue and white decal sheet.
In contrast to the CrazyCanuck illustration, I decided to add Macross insignia instead of Canadian roundels – keeping in line with similar “nationalized” VF-1s in official source books. Some Canadian symbols like the flags on the fins, the roundels in the round depressions at the ankles and the huge Canadian flag on the starboard wing (a personal addition, the maple leaf is a decal while the rest was done with paint) were adopted, though, and they suit the Valkyrie well.
After basis painting was done I followed the engraved panel lines with a fine, very soft pencil. An experiment, because I just wanted a subtle emphasis esp. on the white surfaces, not the 2D/comic-style full black panel lines of former builds.
No other weathering was done, since this VF-1 was to look clean and bright. Finally, everything was sealed with a coat of gloss acrylic varnish, and the characteristic clear parts (visor on the head, position lights on the legs, laser muzzles, position lights) were laid out with acrylic silver and filled out with various shades of clear paint. Just small things, but they enhance the overall impression of the simple model kit a lot.
After a long time it’s a good feeling to build an VF-1 again, and creating a rather bright one was fun, even though the paint job was challenging. But patience and clever improvisation paid out: that Snowbird really stands out, the Snowbirds livery suits the VF-1 well! :-D
Not much is known about this prototype. It came via trade from a prototype collector who wrote that this is, "The first stage of how iPhones come together; just to check chip sets and make sure all the components work together. There is a very special power board it needs to work; without it it doesn't."
Prototype 8 wheel Atlantean bus chassis, but never bodied as far as I can discover. I assume the basic idea was for the export market, the US perhaps? They certain like 8 legger buses now anyway.
it would appear that Leyland may have later renamed it as 'Dromedary' and it was built as a tanker by Thompson Brothers of Bilston. Thanks to all below for the extra info.
I am working on a dieselpunk style tank based on the German A7V tank. This was the only German tank during ww1.
Since the Nazi's had some insanely large tank concepts which were never built because of their sheer size and weight and also the land under their tracks whouldn't hold the weight.
So I thought it clever to build a hovertank instead.
I am also building a viarant which merges the A7V prototype with a 'slightly' enlarged Karl gerat style mortar.
Prototype museum Hamburg
Helmut Polensky (10 October 1915, Berlin – 6 November 2011, Saint-Tropez) was a German moto racer, racing driver and racing car constructor.
Polensky was the youngest of four sons. His father was an architect. After leaving school and finishing military service, he began a career as a professional motorcycle and auto racer. After the Second World War, he married. He spent the last decades of his life in Saint-Tropez.
Polensky began racing motorcycles as a club racer in the mid-1930s. In 1939, he switched to sports car racing, piloting a used BMW 328. The same year, he signed as an engineer apprentice with Auto Union, and also joined the National Socialist Motor Corps.
Polensky spent the Second World War as a logistics specialist in Berlin. In 1945 he escaped from a Soviet prisoner of war camp, fleeing to Hamburg. He worked there in 1946 as managing director of a small motor company.
In 1947, Polensky returned to Berlin and in the ruins opened one of the first Vespa dealerships in Germany. He also began racing again, designing and in his own workshop constructing a Formula Three racer with a 500 cc motorcycle engine, akin to the Cooper 500. Polensky's first model was the Kurpfalz. This was followed by the Monopoletta, a BMW-powered monoposto. Polensky raced his Monopoletta throughout the late 1940s across West Germany. In 1950, he was fifth overall in the West German Formula Three Championship.
In the early the 1950s, Polensky began to concentrate increasingly on sports car races. He entered the Mille Miglia in 1952. His wife served as co-driver several times in the Tour de France. Around the same time, he moved his family to Karlsruhe, where he opened a Volkswagen dealership. Driving a Porsche, he won the 1953 Coupe des Alpes and European Rally Championship, coming first overall in the championship. He was also eighth overall at the 12 Hours of Reims in 1954.
Polensky entered the 24 Hours of Le Mans three times. In 1955, he was shared a Porsche 550 with journalist Richard von Frankenberg, coming fourth overall and earning a class win. He also took the 21st Biennial Cup.
In 1956, Polensky quit racing to become a successful automobile dealer.
An older shot Will took of the Time Bomb prototype that I've added to my Flickrstream for use on the BrickArms Forums
These are prototypes - not production.
They will be shown at BrickCon 2011, and included in the Castle Contributors Pack