Marvel's Hydra coupe 1/12 scale full scratch build

[stitchdup]

the movie car was built on an old land rover fire truck and sorta coincidentally the car from league of extroerdinary gentlemen was built on a range rover.

[François]

Not sure about the fire truck frame, the info I found states that the body was installed on a commercial truck frame. I guess a fire truck is a commercial vehicule.  Whichever frame was used, I based my frame on the Mercedes G4.

the prop car under construction 

 

[François]

I modeled the trunk lid hinges today, it wasn't easy to find the right pivot spot but I think I got it. Same goes for the suicide doors, those pivot points were even harder to find.  So far,  it looks all nice and feasable on the screen.  But the fun will start when I actually start building the freakin thing!!

[Big John]

that's the thing about trying to copy Movie cars, the engines really aren't what they are supposed to be. Even Professor fates car in The Great Race (had three different cars for various stunts) used a corvair engine in some of the variations.  You have completely free reign in your design.

[François]

Many more body details added today, tail lights ( I still have to figure out the wire routing and battery location), hook anchors, antenna holder and rear cockpit surround. I  also did the interior of the trunk space which is 100% hypothetical since I have no pictures of it. The prop car probably didn't even have an opening lid. I imagine that the round bump on the trunk lid is to clear the massive spare tire but again, 100% blind on this also.  About that bump on the lid, it stangely ressembles Captain America's shield. Maybe I'll paint the interior of the bump the same colors as the shield, make it a cameo of some sort. 

[François]

I added a few more details to the body. Left and right hood now open, did the interior shape(it will all be upholstered in red leather), added the dashboard top with 4 gage bodies and did the Captain America's shield on the inside of the trunk lid. Still a lot more body to do.

[François]

You might have noticed by now that I'm a science fiction movie geek. Especially when it comes to most Marvel films, they have some really cool stuff in them. In the very first one, they introduced a thing called a 'Tesseract', it's a blue glowy cube which is supposed to be a limitless power source. At one point, the cube is inserted in a cool looking devise. So I decided to add this devise in the car. It has no pratical use whatsoever, it's just looks cool!

Here's the movie prop

And here is my version 

I'll run some wires (red lines) from the gadget to the engine bay. I might even put a blue led inside to illuminate the cube.

I also did the dashboard and steering wheel (a lot simpler than the Bentley's)

And the door panels 

 

[Big John]

That's It!  The 16 exhaust pipes are simply a ruse and are really for thermal venting of the Flux Capasitor and Quantum Hyper Drive!

[François]

Oh, ok!! Flux capacitor, right... I was thinking it could maybe replace the battery, but flux capacitor works. I'll still but in the v16... but just for show.

[gtx6970]

My hats off to you or anyone else that has the vision , AND the capability to see something like this and go for it

[François]

Thanks gtx6970

I made the cube holder/ flux capacitor/ quantum hyper drive thingy. It came out pretty good. I installed a blue led inside to light up the cube which will eventualy be reprinted out of clear resin. I'll also install some micro leds, one per side to illuminate the 2 blue rings. They too will be reprinted in clear resin.

Here are the parts before assembly 

And assembled 

And lighted up

And again, the reference

 

I also test printed a wheel and the gas tank. The wheel came out great but the tank not so good. I could fix it and once installed with the spare tire on top it would probably be ok.

[BK9300]

This is going to be quite the car!  Enjoy watching it evolve from 3D concept to printed reality

[François]

I worked a bit on the tank and it's not half bad, but the walls are too thin which caused some printing errors so I'll reprint it. I also printed both filler tubes with the gas caps. So I have a fully assembled gas tank to play with. I also test printed a tire and it came out pretty close to perfect. I would really like to print them with a soft resin but this type of material is quite expensive.  I took a picture of the tank next to the Bentley's gas tank,  it give a good idea of the enormous size this model will be. Like I said before,  they are both 1/12 scale. 

The spare tire mount 

Tank with spare tire 

The hydra wheel next to the Bentley's 

The hydra tank next to the Bentley's 

 

[François]

Did some more cad work on the firewall assembly.  I've included a period master brake cylinder (comes from a 1940 ford) and clutch cylinder. They both have working spring loaded pedals.  I've also figured out a way to mount the dashboard on the firewall so that the body can be removed without removing the dash and steering column,  a bit like I did on the bentley. Ans lastly, I added a properly scaled human so I could position the pedals correctly.  

[H.A.K]

WOW!!!!! this is a wild build. Looking good sofar.

[absmiami]

way - way - cool ...

[Kenmojr]

Outstanding....

[François]

Finaly got around to model the fenders. Of all the parts modeled so far on this car, these were the hardest to do. I'm not 100% satisfied and I might play around with them a bit but I think it a case of 'leave well enough alone'. I also started the under fender storage boxes. They will have two hinges so they can be opened. Not sure what will be stored in them yet. I made the gas pedal which will eventually be linked to the carburators via a cable. 

Compared to the movie prop 

The windscreen frame

And the gas pedal 

[François]

I reworked the fenders and I think they are better. So with this done, the body is pretty close to being finished.  It is now composed of six parts so it can be printed. I also made a few cross members for the frame.

Here is the completed boby with revised fenders.

The 6 body parts

The frame with new cross members 

And the car as of today

Next up, the front suspension and steering. 

[Big John]

Yeah, the front fenders are looking good now!

[François]

Made some good progress on the front suspension and steering mecanism.  The front leafsprings are done, just need to add some dampeners. Not sure what type yet. As for the steering,  it's been close to 40 years since I designed a steering mecanism.  They are many rules to follow to get a proper steering geometrie but,  this being a model, I'm keeping it simple. I did try to get the ackermann close ( that's when the inside wheel pivots  more than the outside wheel since the 2 radii are different). 

I also designed the steering column, I went with a worm gear setup a bit like the one on the Bentley. it's quite difficult to get the different pivot points in the righ places but l'm getting close to something that works. Hopefully,  the steering box won't be too much in the way of the yet to be determined engine block.

 

[Mike C]

That's quite an amazing project you're working on!?

[iamsuperdan]

This is incredibly cool.

Looking forward to seeing more!

[Big John]

Might want to add some power steering what with that dinky steering wheel.

[François]

Big John,

At 17.5 inche diameter (scaled up), the steering wheel is not all that small.  But I'll admit that for a car that size it should probablly be bigger, I'm limited by the doors. At least it's bigger than the Bentley's which I find enormous for the size of the car. I might follow your advice and add some hydro fiiting and line somewhere.