![]() As I’ve mentioned, my colour vision is dodgy, so if you see something else you’re probably right. Now, this could be entirely my imagination, and if you watch the film you may see something else. I couldn’t decide whether it was a dark metallic colour or something else, but then I caught a hint that it was a dark red. However, the impression I wound up with was the ribs were a dark metallic colour, the panels surrounding the portholes were wooden, and the other panels of the sphere, where the blinds would be deployed were also dark in colour. With my dodgy colour vision, I was less sure about the colours used for the rest of the sphere. I thought about having one blind partially exposed, and maybe weathered so that the Cavorite covering is only partial, but ultimately I decided to keep it simple. If the blinds were deployed, and we had the brassy look, the sphere would probably not be – wherever it’s meant to be. But the thing about Cavorite is that it counteracts gravity when it’s a) cool and b) exposed. ![]() The yellow turned put to be metallic and reflective when the sphere was flying through space lit by the sun, so I could have gone for a very brassy look and it would probably have looked great. Having re-watched some key parts of the movie, the easiest thing to pick up visually was that the Cavorite itself was a yellowish substance painted on to white blinds. (If you’re interested in this story, the 2010 Mark Gatiss TV Movie is also worth watching). Visually, it’s based on the 1964 movie, which I re-watched parts of in preparation for painting this kit. It’s a 38-piece resin kit, of which 32 are railway bumpers and one is the Moon’s surface (or a small part thereof). The sphere is about 9cm across, from bumper to bumper, or about 3½” in old money. I first heard of it under a fortnight ago, ordered it less than a week ago and completed it today – this may be a record! And at this point I wish I’d included a 28mm figure for reference in the picture, as I had to ask the seller for the size and I’ve made it no better for anyone finding this – but you’ll just have to take Richard’s word and mine that it’s the right size. The other I discovered via eBay, and it’s made in the UK by Richard Helliwell’s company Infinity-Engine. One is relatively easy to find mention of, but is sold in the US and doesn’t seem particularly easy to order even there. ![]() I discovered that there are two on the market suitable for 28mm. Wells’ The First Men in the Moon – is something that I did not have, and I searched for such a thing. In his opening chapters Wells plays around briefly with the ideas and implications of the substance but he soon casts it aside in order to explore his imagined selenite society inside the moon.Ĭavorite also appears in the first collection of the Alan Moore comic book The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, it is used here as the newest gain in technology which our heroes seek to keep from reaching the hands of evil.It suddenly occurred to me that a Cavorite Sphere – as developed by Mr. The idea has not spread widely in SF, as opposed to the idea of propulsion, as demonstrated in the cannon which shoots travellers to the moon in Jules Verne's earlier work, From the Earth to the Moon. Or the production of cavorite may require an amount of energy which then dissipates as the cavorite is used. The idea of a substance impervious to gravity is likely to violate the second law of thermodynamics, since it implies that objects could be moved without using energy. Cavorite is also opaque to heat, light and electric waves. The protagonists in the novel create a sphere of cavorite in which they travel to the moon. Cavorite is a substance which is able to negate the effects of gravity, making objects shielded by cavorite weightless. In the book Wells' scientist character Mr Cavor creates and names this fantastic material. Cavorite is a fictional substance first described in the novel The First Men in the Moon by H.G.
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