Anastasia anyone?

hobby · Post by **hobby** » 22 May 2007, 20:20

Hi Kit

Is your 1/72 "Anastasia" in the loft? If so a digital photo would be appropriate.

Pity about the FSDS2 version - scrapped I suppose?

hobby · Post by **hobby** » 22 May 2007, 20:57

This might bring back some fond memories:

http://www.dandare.org/dan/anastasia/anastasia.htm

kit · Post by **kit** » 23 May 2007, 01:46

hobby wrote: Is your 1/72 "Anastasia" in the loft? If so a digital photo would be appropriate.

It never got that far, it was a whole house move ago and I junked the very fragile bits when we moved. A bit of a heartbreaker but I'd moulded it in far too thin a thickness of plasticard and the wings were WELL warped. The transparent roof panels were all yellowed and 'orrible. Maybe I should do another one, check back in 2009..........

hobby wrote: Pity about the FSDS2 version - scrapped I suppose?

Very! It was AWFUL! Full of holes in the sides and wings. I hadn't got an clue about it then, but I'm learning fast doing some scenery in FSDS3 so you never know. Try for 2010........

kit · Post by **kit** » 23 May 2007, 01:49

hobby wrote:This might bring back some fond memories:

http://www.dandare.org/dan/anastasia/anastasia.htm

It does indeed. Somewhere I have that centre-spread of her out of the Eagle. All in colour and showing the internals as well.

How would one design the gyro-car cockpit so that it could drive away on its own? Maybe make the rest of it 'droppable bomb' so it would depart rearwards with a Ctrl-H or Ctrl-W maybe? I'm not sure if the wings would still fold if it did that though.........

Post by **DelP** » 23 May 2007, 18:02

Strangely enough, one of the first conversations I had with Leif eons
ago was about getting Anastasia into FS... :think:

Hmmm..I'm busy right now but.....caught, like a Treen in a disabled spaceship

Derek

hobby · Post by **hobby** » 23 May 2007, 20:07

Half a century plus in the past the best hand held water pistol I ever owned was an all metal 'Dan Dare' special modelled on the SF weapon. Very thin water jet with and, for those days, a large water reservoir - much better than Form IVBs 'spud guns.'

In those days 'Anastasia' was regarded by all my classmates as the MG D sportscar of the future!! We particularly liked the twin bubble cockpit and the fact that the wings folded for space travel and extended for flying through the atmosphere. Heat shields did not seem to be needed for re-entry. I cannot recall whether 'Anastasia' used STOVL techniques but the craft certainly had an undercarriage.

Post by **DelP** » 23 May 2007, 22:29

Hobby..

Welcome to the 'Old farts I know exactly what you're talking about' Forum

Derek

TobyV · Post by **TobyV** » 24 May 2007, 00:12

hobby wrote:In those days 'Anastasia' was regarded by all my classmates as the MG D sportscar of the future!!

Only MG D I was aware of was this one :think:

http://www.austin-rover.co.uk/index.htm ... ado21f.htm

Perhaps I am just too young

kit · Post by **kit** » 24 May 2007, 16:03

'Anastasias' landing gear was pretty clever, the main bit, with the folding wings and power plant (whatever that was....) was a bit like an F-104, in that it folded down, out and forward from hatches under the wings. But the tricky bit was the 'nosewheel' as that was the bottom half of the gyrosphere that formed the entire running gear of the cockpit bit when it was in 'road mode'. Quite what it did for suspension I can't remember, but I'm sure there was some anti-gravity business mentioned a few times.

Re MG-Ds etc, that site is a mine of interesting stuff, much of which I worked on. Have a look at the Maxi GT, ugly as sin but went like the clappers. I had over 120 on the clock down the then very short M5 back then.

hobby · Post by **hobby** » 24 May 2007, 21:09

Well I suppose that the acft cfg and AIR files could be developed from a Harrier to obtain STVOL performance with wing folding from a Tornado.
'Anastasia' would qualify as a 'Classic' for Frank Hampson must have designed 'A' at about the same time as the first 'Flying Bedstead' was taking shape on a real drawing board.

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