This is my first attempt at a car kit, and also my first post of pics of a project I’m working on. This is the Aoshima Road Warrior Interceptor, or at least the interior since the body isn’t finished yet. I drew inspiration for some of the details such as the binoculars, tool box, and box of Dinki Di dog food from a guy called SuperDave who did a superb job of detailing his version of this kit, so thanks go out to him for filling in some gaps on what the inside of the car might look like…the movie really doesn’t provide a lot that’s viewable.
Those items, as well as the mesh net behind the driver’s seat and the shackles that lift the rear end (thanks to SuperDave for the ideas for these details too) were all scratch built from card stock (shackles), sprue (roll bar), wooden dowels (the hanging pail and the binoculars), window screen (the mesh), gauze bandage (the netting on the floor) and carved balsa wood (the toolbox and other various boxes). The bed roll was made from a piece of old t-shirt airbrushed in olive drab and tied up with a piece of thread. MadMaxModels.com provided the images of the Dinki Di logo on the box of dogfood which I resized and printed out on brown construction paper.
Weathering was done with several materials - Doc O’Brien’s Weathering Powders, Tamiya’s weathering system, and the mud was made from sheetrock joint compound mixed with weathering powder and water and stippled on the wheels and wheelwells with a drybrush.The extra gas tanks in the rear were “rusted” with Rustall (good stuff).
I’d like to put this in a diorama, with a backdrop of a photo of the Mundi Mundi Plains, where the movie was filmed…still cogitating on that. When I researched this, I discovered there’s a lot of iron-rich red dirt in this region (also obvious in the movie), hence the mud and much of the weathering is a reddish-brown color.
Looking real good so far,can’t wait to see it done.I have always wanted to build this kit but its a little steep for me price wise. I made one when I was younger out of a Mach 1 Mustang .Came oiut all right for a 15 yr old or so.
I just looked on Ebay, and these are getting expensive. I got mine for $50 plus shipping.
There used to be a garage kit maker that made a resin conversion kit to build it as the original Interceptor from the 1st movie, but apparently that maker was less-than-scrupulous and there were complaints about delivery. I’m not aware of anyone who makes one now, but that would be a cool companion to the Road Warrior version.
This is going to be bichin Man. Very cool so far. I’m a big fan of Mad Max --an early hero of mine—so I’ll be tuning in to see this happen----As Dio guy myself–I gotta give a push that ya keep thinkin how that might all happen. Maybe include some of those other crazy vehicles>>???
Photo from the side of my High School notebook [:P]
I re-watched the movie several times after beginning this kit (unfortunately…some minor inaccuracies are present that I might have corrected otherwise, but oh well), and I was thinking the same thing about the other vehicles…personally I don’t know if it’s within my skills to scratchbuild or kitbash something like that though. Would be an interesting challenge though.
I imagine with some creative Photoshop work one could superimpose whatever they want on a photo of the Australian countryside. Print it and glue it to some foam board that would be attached to the dio base I suppose. I don’t have much dio experience.
As an interesting aside, if you didn’t know there are people out there who make 1:1 running, street-legal accurate replicas of both the original Interceptor and Road Warrior versions. I’d love to have one myself, heh.
This is looking really good. You’ve captured the red dirt and dust really well and all the survival gear stashed in the last of the V8s. I’ve been out to Broken Hill a couple of times and the dirt is very red around there, and it also has a distinct sparkle to it…very mineral rich. Can’t wait to see what you do the exterior of this one. I hope you are going to model it after the front fairing has dropped off.
Looks great, nice weathering effects. You’ve pretty much covered the entire list. some of the other details you might have considered is to remove the inner door cards (both are missing on the movie car), which also has mounted a bullet belt with a tin can in it and a big knife. he also has a plate stuck between the roof and the roll bar (visible when the dog jumps out of the car onto the gyro captain).
Here is a list of items and also some pics of a replica, which pretty much looks like your model as far as items go. he describes "1 x Metal bar tool similar (home renovation tool) is known in AU as a “Jimmy bar”
~Yeah~!! So increadible a likeness-- That’s great man, really great! (Thanks for giving me the heads-up too–I’ve been hoping you would turn-up with this finished–And you don’t dissapoint–
NOw…still thinking about a suitable post-apoctolyptic, barren ,outback , scenic base…or what?
