Sentinel Concept Car.

**markcrowel** · #1 03-20-2009, 04:43 AM

In the Zealot Hobby Forum, Angevine, also a member here, posted pictures of futuristic concept cars by Spanish designer Cristobal Vila. The designs are under Mr. Vila's copyright, but he invites modelers to try to replicate them. One of these is the Nixus, which appears in another thread in the Paper Modelers Designers Corner. The other is the Sentinel, a flying car, and the subject of this thread.

The actual design has too many compound angles for me, and, being an "old school" designer (no CAD), I simplified the design to fit my method of gluing parallel sided, profile shaped sections side by side.

Instead of using lightweight cardboard hollow sections, as I usually have, I'm using layers of corrugated cardboard to build up the shape.

**markcrowel** · #2 03-20-2009, 04:48 AM

Here the plans I drew, with the surface details shown.

**Papercut** · #3 03-20-2009, 04:57 PM

Looking forward to another one of your builds/designs.:D

**markcrowel** · #4 03-21-2009, 12:06 PM

Here is the link for Mr. Cristobal's drawings of his actual design: http://www.etereaestudios.com/docs_h...entinel_20.htm

**Golden Bear** · #5 03-21-2009, 03:21 PM

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**Golden Bear** · #6 03-21-2009, 03:22 PM

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**markcrowel** · #7 04-03-2009, 04:32 PM

The corrugated cardboard pieces were glued together into subsections. Lightweight cardboard strips were glued around the corrugated edges, and lightweight cardboard panels were glued on the surfaces of the subsections.

**markcrowel** · #8 04-14-2009, 04:05 PM

Here it is, covered with colored paper, with details of colored paper or printed on by my photocopier.

The Sentinel is supposed to be a flying car, with jet thrusters on the bottom, toward the front, for lift. Those semi-circular attachments at the rear are supposed to be rotating jet thrust vectors, to control the vehicle's direction, depending on which direction in which they are rotated.