Thanks again for the critiques and kind words!
Working on the base for the dio…oval pine bought at Michaels. I’m toying with different ideas for the dio scenery, and right now leaning towards placing it on asphalt pavement with the desert surroundings more or less based on that seen in the 1st chase scene at the beginning of the movie. I’d love to hear any suggestions anyone might have though.
Finished the dio, going to enter it a local contest tomorrow. Besides some issues with the celluclay base, I think it turned out O.K., if unspectacular. It would have been cool to do something larger “on the road” with wreckage and stuff, but I think it would have turned out too big. Anyway, hope you like, it’s my first attempt at a dio (and scratchbuilt trees).
awesome model, really impressed with all of the extra detail - easy to go nuts on this (1/24 is a great scale to work in). All we need now is a 1/24 Max to go with it!
I have the kit sitting on my shelf as well, and wanted to do a pristine car to go with my other police cars - I recall an after market kit, does anyone know the web address? I read that it may be a less than honest guy, so if anyone knows another site or wants to sell theirs, let me know!
Thanks!
Damn celluclay warped the crap out of the base (it’s still drying and warping).
The only AM kit I know of made to convert the kit into the pre-Road Warrior Interceptor was made by the guy you’re referring to, and he had a poor track record for actually shipping the product from what I heard. AFAIK, that kit isn’t available anymore.
Well it seems like forever since I first started this kit. I guess the positive and encouraging comments I’ve read here and elsewhere must have been on the right track as it won another Silver, this time at SuperCon today.
Thanks again to those who offered their kind words!
Congradulations Buddy!
I’m not the least bit suprised—well deserved!
I really like that base with the asphalt road through nowhere–VERY Mad Max!!
Thanks, good to hear from you again.
It was largely due to your positive input that I made that base for it, both for presentation reasons as well as the base material I ended up using…it’s made of that wood filler stuff that you suggested, great stuff to work with and the base is as light as a feather. The original base was too cluttered and detracted from the model as you correctly pointed out, as well as being too warped by the celluclay I used. It wasn’t useable. I’ll save the trees I made for another project though since I think they turned out pretty well. The rest is garbage.
So it’s fair to say I couldn’t have done it without you, or at the very least it wouldn’t have turned out as well. [t$t]
nicely done!!!Makes me want to go back and do more to the one I built.Great job on the weathering[:D[
it certainly does lend itself to more detail. If you want to make the car pre-road warrior (aka Mad Max) it’s pretty straightforward to scratchbuild the missing pieces. you need the lower front air dam, a rear seat and trunk w/spoiler.