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These ground effect craft have civilian (rapid commuting) and military (fast attack, ground support, radar evasion) capabilities. During the Cold War, the Russians developed a military ground effect craft for use on the Black Sea. It had missle launching tubes. It was a scary-looking thing.

The ducted fans tilt. That craft has great shuttle potential for destinations that are too close together for regular aircraft, and too far away for for bridge or ferry-boat commuting. Will the ground effect flight work just as well over land?

My computer doesn't play videos very well; it's dial-up, and videos show slowly and irregularly. But from what I am seeing, it's an interesting craft. An inverted gull-wing lifting body. High-speed over-the-water transportation, unaffected by waves, and not subject to the hazards and weather...

I'm praying that with medication and time, your condition will improve. Thank you for carrying on the responsibilities of being a moderator, and for encouraging me in my model building, through your kind posts.

Obviously, you don't mind a challeging project. Keep at it; it looks like you're off to a good start. I'm surprised that the Russian design bureau for this thing was so open with their information. Anyway, it's going to be an interesting model of an unsual subject when it's done.

The trunk section.

Installed clear plastic (from transparency covers) for the windshield and rear window. I cut it in one piece, then glued in the cardboard headliner to hold the "bridge" of the plastic in place. Applied colored paper over the center body strip. For the hood scoop sculptures, I glued two...

I realize that the padding on the back of the front seat is much too thick, but I just don't have the heart to tear it off and do it over.

With front and back seats. I still have a way to go with this interior.

The rear seat.

I discovered that I needed two more brackets on the back of the front seat.

Dash, steering wheel, and rear seat. I'm now convinced that I spend more time building the interior of a model car, than I spend building the body. In paper modeling, we have to make the parts first, before we can glue them in place. The steering wheel is a 1/16th inch wide strip of...

I hope I did the backside of the front seat correctly. I was working from photos downloaded from the internet, plus factory photos from a book.

Those Caribbeans are indeed beautiful. I hope this model can come close to doing the real car justice. Instead of using the corrugated slabs (above posts)for seat cushions, I made the cushions and seat backs as strip-and-panel boxes. If I had used the corrugated pieces, I would have had to...

Thank you, Zathros. Today: Seat base brackets. Seat base on brackets. Corrugated seat cushions.

I was able to post photos from Photobucket, so now you see the curved surfaces of the new center body section, and what I have completed so far of the interior tub assembly.