Alternative drives for Nefs…

[Zophiel]

Gravity Shielding:

There isn't much data online for research but the following is true:

In the 1920s, Italian physicist Quirino Majorana measured a decrease in gravity inside spherical shell containing mercury that had been subjected to electric current.

The ratio of input energy to weight loss was found to be impractically large to be able to develop any useable antigravity mechanism.

But even if it didn't result in flying cars today, imagine what this would do for Aeronef science.



Anyone else got an idea for unusual engines?

[Zophiel]

I think I'll try scratch-building this:



There will be two experimental cruisers:
• Duillier
• Le Sage

[Zophiel]

Then there's the possibility of Nefs that can land and walk (bridging the gap between the sky and the realm of the land ironclad). Though I designed it for something else, it could look like this on the ground:

[Zophiel]

I saw these (from Dream Pod 9) in a store recently and thought of a Nef with helicopter masts instead of the somewhat more covert methods seen on other ships. The trouble would be — what to do with the little infantry men left over?

[Zophiel]

A bit silly?

[Hawkeye]

[Brigadier Tony]

[Zophiel]

A bit involved as an animation but I've wanted to post something like this for a while:



Yes… it runs on clockworks.

[Zophiel]

This is a test:

[Zophiel]

And here is the completed animation:

[Tas]

Found these great rotor driven nefs somewhere out there on the web:

[Zophiel]

Not exactly an alternative Nef drive, but...



...and maybe this version moves a tad quickly. I may have to slow it down.

[Tas]

Irregular make a quad walker in 2mm that looks excalty like this !

You can see Ogrefencer's British Land Ironclads based on these at my Blog
http://pauljamesog.blogspot.com/

Tas