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08-16-2021, 10:11 PM | #1 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Northern Virginia
Posts: 1,586
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"Cobra's small but determined coastal Navy has just added a hovercraft to its lineup. The Rat is a one-man craft, ideal for scouting and fast attacks. It can transition effortlessly from water to beaches and back again, whether pursuing Joes or making a quick escape."
Cobra Rat by Magnus-L, on Flickr Even by the standards of the '90s, the Cobra Rat is considered a poor toy by most collectors and fans. Now, I am not going to build a Lego version of every last sub-standard toy that Hasbro ever produced, but there never were enough watercraft in the line, so I wanted to make sure I covered each of them. I decided early on that making the Rat a little more palatable would involve turning it into a hovercraft. The weapons needed to be dialed back from those four gatlings to something a little more plausible and honestly, a pair of heavy machine guns is nothing to sneeze at. The funny spinning blades lent themselves to be reimagined as lift fans, and I finished it off by giving it a paint scheme that brings it into line with Cobra classic sea forces. Still not the highlight of any nautical strike force, but hopefully less of an embarrassment for the Cobra Naval Wing. |
08-16-2021, 10:18 PM | #2 |
Tiger Force member
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Here with my boy , Jacob , and Mama:)
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Nice!
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08-17-2021, 04:08 AM | #3 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Boulder
Posts: 1,572
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This is great. Wasn't it always a hovercraft? Anyway even if it was, your version actually looks like hovercraft. And good call on the lift blades.
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08-17-2021, 08:29 AM | #4 |
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: South Carolina
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I loved the Cobra Rat, this is awesome. I think I still have this one.
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