Missile Silo 2.0 - Such an Improvement, and So Cool!

Very cool!!  I see that the site is close to your streets highway.  Perhaps you can have a military style vehicle - jeep, truck or sedan drive on site and exit back to the highway.

Well done!!

Version 2 is great! Nice speed and the build up around it is perfect! Terry

I think the lake should slide out of the way to reveal the hidden missile launch site.

I thought of that, but the lake is designed for another moving-boat-on-lake, this a very slow bass fisherman, and there will be a considerable mechanism below it so it can't move out of the way.  Besites, again the idea is the the secret missle base has to be out in the open like my Marx set was in the '50s.  

Kunde, it's not a lake but a hard surface.  Just like in James Bond, I forget which movie, the bad guys had a secret base hidden under a lake.  But, it wasn't really a lake but a hard surface painted to look like a lake.  I think!?!?!?   Or was it Austin Powers???

Rick

Yeah, in the bond movie - I think Moonraker, it was a fake lake surface that drew back to reveal the missile base underneath.  Nifty, but if we're going to have a secret base under water in the center of a volcano, I much much prefer Zombies of the Stratosphere.

That looks great Lee.  I can see that I'd better hurry up and build my bomb shelter before you reach full launch capability. 

Your safe Nicole. V-2's can't fly that far. Don

Lee,

Very nice! The antenna on my truck went up and down even slower than your 'launch pad'. The power lead went through some kind of control module, which I suspect was dropping the voltage to somewhere around 6V instead of 12V. Possibly to extend the motor life, but who knows?

You have started something. I'm sure you will make it very cool. I watched that video posted on your original missile thread, Many Times...... I was going to do maybe some kind of small Area 51 kind of thing, but after watching that rocket base, I had to have one of those Lionel Rocket Launchers. I opted for the newer version with digital display, smoke and lights to simulate ignition. I like the hidden idea, but may not have the space to do as I'd like. If you had the room there's a 1/48 model of the SR71 Blackbird. But it's over 2 feet long. A 1/72 at about 17" might actually look better as long as you're not a scale purist. Something else that might be interesting would be an X-15 peeking out of an open hanger. That one might be a 1/72 as well. I looked and the X-15 was just over 50' long, and I saw 1/65 which would be around 9.25", 1/72 around 8.3" and 1/48 (not found) would be around 12.5" inches long. Hmmmmmm a 1/65 th  tied down to a flat car...........

NOW SEE what you have started..........

Lee, your secret rocket base is very cool.  But,I thought you really outdid yourself with your heavy artillery.  Those are my favorites.

I am  not a Zombie fan.  Here's a conundrum I find with Zombies.  Zombies are the UNdead, right?  And, to me, UNdead means NOT dead, right?  So, if your NOT dead you must be alive, right?  And, we are all alive, right?  Soooooo, that must mean we are all Zombies, right?  Correct me if I'm wrong.

Rick   

Well, Zombies of the Stratosphere has a flying spaceship that hovers above the volcano,  very cool volcano, a lake with a secret base inside the volcano, etc.  .

And there is this: Leonard Nimoy is in it.  He plays the pilot of the alien spaceship - even if you didn't know that he was in the credits, if you watch the show you recognize him - he is young but he looks the same and believe it or not he has pointy ears (about the only alien makeup the movie's budget could afford), and being an alien he can breath under water, etc., so he can land the spaceship in the lake inside the volcano's crater and then walk over to the secret base's entrance, etc.  There is a scene where he is under water bereathing it and has to climb up the ladder out of the spaceship into the scret base, tc.  The movie was the first time he was on film.  Ironic, isn't it? - he plays an alien with pointy ears in his first screen appearance, and then goes on to . . . well, you know.

Lee, very cool. I'll have to come over and play spy vs spy one day...

Bruce

Cool as usual! Maybe a quanset hut?

Very cool! I like the 8 yr. old view point.

Since you have a military train, why not have a missile car to protect the big rocket?

PS-Olsen's has the Nike looking rocket in stock.

Lee, 

While your intentions were good, and you came up with a VERY cool addition to your layout, I must take issue with publishing such easy instructions on adding ICBM launch capabilities to a layout.  But upon seeing this article it did explain why my little (actually actual size) Kim Jong Ill... or Un.... or Dum.... whatever..... figure from my layout was gleefully ripping apart my Honda Civic in the garage this morning.  While I commend your great model making skills, I must ask that you be more careful in future as I feel my little North Korean leader will surely provide this vital information to his homeland as a viable way to present their toilet paper roll missle for launch.  

Lee,

Just spotted your thread on Missile silos - OUTSTANDING!!!

Back in the mid-sixties I was a Tech in the USAF working on Minuteman Missiles in silos all over Montana.  Minuteman sites have a massive concrete lid that was slid of off the top of the silo just before launch.

I'm always looking around for missile related items for my layout and here is a few pix of what I've accumulated so far.

Tom

P. S.  My prize item for my collection would be the Lionel Minuteman Boxcar (if the price ever comes down).

You're coming up with some really neat ideas!!!

Congrats on another one.

- walt

Hi Lee,

I'll have to try to find Zombies of the Stratosphere! I'm a film archivist for a major metropolitan museum, and manage their film vaults. (Also quite hidden!). The film that had the lake/missile base was You Only Live Twice. We hold the entire Bond collection.

Great concept!

Take care,

Artie

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Mark