Professor Fate's "Hannibal 8"

[andybot]

Man, that's awesome!!! I love your vehicle models, I'm impressed with your attention to details. One detail I'm very curious about - how is the steering linkage maintained when the car is scissored up? It looks like in the one display photo you have, there's a vertical shaft coming down that's possibly a steering column...

Maybe this should show up in the "retro cool" thread too!

[hellnbak]

Thanks for all the kind words.

Andy, the steering is hydraulic (notice one of the red hydraulic lines going forward along the frame). The "shaft" you mention seeing in one of the cars on display is actually a support, one of two, to keep the car raised during it's stint at the museum.

[sebisebman]

Ah - i loved the movie when i was a kid.

Great Work!

[numbthumb]

What the heck...
Some wires you got there. Could you show the oil level too?

[Cyberdactyl]

Looks awesome.

My, you have some hours invested there.

[markpyvi]

hellnbak, you know you're sick!

[mwm5053]

@markpyvi said:

hellnbak, you know you're sick!

That is awesome, the decals are they textures? you gotta do a mini publication dude I would buy for sure.

[david_h]

One of my all time favorite movies. . .

I can hear it now. . .

**Push the Button MAX!**

[hellnbak]

@mwm5053 said:

That is awesome, the decals are they textures? you gotta do a mini publication dude I would buy for sure.

Thanks. The decals aren't textures, they're just cut out by hand and placed about 1/8" from the doors, set to not show shadows, and then I adjusted the opacity so they would look more realistic

@markpyvi said:

hellnbak, you know you're sick!

Yeah, I've been told that before

@hieru said:

Really inspirational work!!!
I keep returning to the thread and pouring over the images - each time finding some amazing details and wondering how you pulled them off. In particular the folded umbrella has really got me scratching my head.

It had me scratching my head too. Would have been a lot easier probably if I could have used Artisan, but that dang plugin is still beyond me.

@unknownuser said:

Very cool vehicle!

Thanks much

@numbthumb said:

What the heck...
Some wires you got there. Could you show the oil level too?

Here ya go

@cyberdactyl said:

Looks awesome.

My, you have some hours invested there.

Nah, whole thing took about 15 minutes

@unknownuser said:

Very cool.

Glad you like it

@unknownuser said:

One of my all time favorite movies. . .

I can hear it now. . .

**Push the Button MAX!**

Yeah, I hadn't thought about this movie in years, came across a reference to it while I was researching the Munster Koach and it popped into my (feeble) mind later when I was looking for something interesting to do.
From what I've read "Push the Button, Max" became quite the catch phrase after the movie came out. One of the Hannibal's made an appearance in another movie, a real turkey called "The Charge of the Model T's" in 1977. Made me sad to see it in such a terrible movie.

[david_h]

Well it's an awesome model . . .and I wish I had your skill and your time to do stuff like this.

[hellnbak]

@unknownuser said:

Well it's an awesome model . . .and I wish I had your skill and your time to do stuff like this.

Awww shucks, twern't nothin

Now I'm looking for something else interesting to tackle. Something that hasn't been done before. Really would like to do a couple versions of the Batmobile, but they're all over the Warehouse. Anybody have any suggestions?

[andybot]

weinermobile?

[tadema]

Steve your crazy, now that really should be added to the Most impressive SketchUp modelling thread!
John

[david_h]

@andybot said:

weinermobile?

That one occurred to me as well--for me to try.. . but its always time . . .time. .. time. . ..

and plus it's kinda nasty . . .

[mwm5053]

@tadema said:

Steve your crazy, now that really should be added to the Most impressive SketchUp modelling thread!
John

I agree

[hellnbak]

@tadema said:

Steve your crazy, now that really should be added to the Most impressive SketchUp modelling thread!
John

I appreciate the thought, John. And crazy is one of the nicer words used to describe me

@andybot said:

weinermobile?

Actually this got me interested, until I checked into it. The one you show is the 1952 version, and it has (IMO) the most character of any of the ten versions built over the years.
The generic lower section of the current version is butt-ugly
Admittedly the interior of the new version would be a lot of fun

But I have been unable to come up with a single photo of the interior of the 1952 version. It is on display at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI, but all of the photos of it there show that it is blocked off from anyone getting inside of it.
So I'll leave this one to you, Dave
Thanks for the suggestion though, Andy

[hellnbak]

Actually it's probably just as well, as I'm about to take a long break from SU to take care of some things.

[dale]

That is absolutely incredible modeling. Thanks for posting.

[Bryan K]

Jeez Louiz! Wow.

[hellnbak]

@dale said:

That is absolutely incredible modeling. Thanks for posting.

@bryan k said:

Jeez Louiz! Wow.

Much appreciated