As promised: Monowheel challenge

Cafe Society
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As I promised in another thread, here are pictures of the outcome of the Monowheel Challenge. The Challenge started when my modeling friend, Mad Paul, looking for a way to get King of Greeblies out of a slump, tossed him a rubber off-road RC tire and challenged him to build a monowheel. I looked pathetic, and they let me in on the fun. In fact, I ended up building two monowheels, and Space Battleship Inafuku also dealt himself in. The big unveiling was this last Thursday at the Galaxy Hobby Sci-Fi Club meeting, and without further ado, here are pictures, courtesy of Space Battleship Inafuku:

Mad Paul’s (the shock absorber works)

Rocketeer’s second build (straight from the box, no mods, paint it and put it together)

Rocketeer’s Mittelgrosses Kriegsrad

King of Greeblies’ entry (he used a lot of leftover guns he had lying around)

Space Battleship Inafuku put together this little Dragonball monocycle.

Here’s a link to SBI’s Flickr album.

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Amazing work. I’m impressed as always.

GaryM

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I love yours and Mad Paul’s.

Questions:

What world was your kit from?

How does Mad Paul’s driver get down form his seat? :stuck_out_tongue:

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Aren’t some of those technically unicycles and not monowheels?
Impressive in any case.

Brian

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I’m not sure whether your lass is unsure about how she ought to be driving her contraption, or if she knows exactly how to drive it.

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I’m not sure what the girl on the blue monowheel is supposed to represent; the kit had a nondescript name: “Monowheel Girl” or some such. The Mittelgrosses Kriegsrad is based off half-remembered Blackhawk comics, but set in a prolonged Great War, not the Blackhawks’ WWII.

Paul’s driver alights, I’m sure , with a graceful vault; and mounts with an undignified clamber up the side of the machine.

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I am so jealous. The Maddest of Skilz!