I got a wild hair and just could not stop with "TINKER BELLS" paint job. The turret will still need paint, then some future over the entire vehicle. Detail paint on the rockets, and exterior gear. Last I will weather and wash to give it that Appocolyptic feal. Ok my first splinter camo, there is some bleed but I can cover that with the filter. OK! "TINKER BELL" 1/2 done.








Bruce it is not as good as yours, but you gave me something to shoot for thanks.

Bob

Bob,
I like it! It gives the WWII splinter a refreshing 21st century feel to it. Well done!

Matt,
Thanks for the kudos, now the hard part begins all of that weathering.

Bob

Hey Bob, I just took a look at the at the Campaigns page. I shouldn't have !! I am currently enlisted in 20 Campaigns, 6 of which I am leading. What was I thinking ??

Super job on the camo on Tinkerbell mate, I love it !!

Cheers, D

Damian,

I thought I was bad with my Excel spreadsheet to keep track of my campaigns. Luckily of the five ending by the end of December I have at least started on four of them.

D,
We may just have to commit you to get ya straightened out. I bet you are having fun and more important, out of trouble I found this while surfing and it lets me know that I am getting old re: Omega Man. I remember when it first came out, but I thought that was later than 1971. Oh Well!.

LIST OF APOCALYPTIC MOVIES:
http://chriscoyier.net/2009/10/25/list-of-post-apocalyptic-movies/

List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_apocalyptic_and_post-apocalyptic_fiction

bOB

It's very interesting vehicle Bob.....Great....

Hakan,
Thanks for the kudos, I just painted the turret in the 2nd. color. Now to wait until I can mask some more and paint the last color then on to apply some future.

Bob

"TINKER BELL" now has clothes on and her turret. The large barrel is a flame thrower like those on the M3 Stuart Demons. The smaller barrel is a rapid fire 20mm gun. The pretty rockets on the side are 5" HAVR's. This is a one man self contained vehicle. The engine is a "HERMON SPECIAL" Dodge Hemi super turbo charged and spits fire like a dragon. Now to give it a weather bath to tone down that new car look.

Now with the turret:




Bob

Some tasty morsels to get ya in the MOOD

Here is some road music and inspiration for your builds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqO8KC1lIx8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7yiqHq__Bk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jAaOS8qmHc&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQlrg50EptY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aItKf1lREx8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gksi4WJisNk&feature=related

Ya'll have fun now ya here

Bob

Some body stop me please, I am going faster than my wittle bwain can go. Hey ! here is another goodie for ya.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifWtV--Si_Q

Dont get eaten by those smelly brain eaten horde

Bob

I was up until 3:am making a radar antenna for "CAPTAIN HOOK" and played around with some logos for both "TINKER BELL" and "CAPTAIN HOOK".

This is my process for making an antenna from scrap in the wilderness.



















And my favorite images to make into a logo for each vehicle, just to be able to choose which one now.



Bob

This looks like it could be fun.
Rather than a zombie killing battle wagon (the zombie genre is'nt really my cup of tea) I'm thinking something along the lines of a post-nuclear war Mad Max style hot-rod. I've had a look a look at the kits I've got and dug out an old airfix E-type Jaguar. An odd choice perhaps, but we already have a Ferrari on the go here!

I am glad for the extension because I'm still building, haha.

By the way, nice job Bob!

So whats the deadline?

I believe it's Dec 31st. Plenty of time yet to smash some zombies.

Cool.
I'm trying not to think up anything too severe to do to the E-type, I want to retain as best I can the look of the original, and perhaps its new owner takes some pride in owning and driving it. Sure the bomb's been dropped, civilisation and law and order have collapsed, and bandits and slavers roam the radioactive wastelands and countryside, but that doesn't mean a chap can't enjoy a sunday drive
So I'm thinking of the following mods:
- Roll bars
- chunkier front and rear bumper with maybe an armoured screen in front of the radiator
- Bullet-proof plate windscreen and on the sides and rear. Sort of like those sometimes fitted to Jeeps in WWII.
- Small arms in some sort of rack (rifle, smg, grenades etc..).
- New wheels, I dont think spoked wheels would survive the punishment for very long.

A nice sunday drive through the wasteland picking off the undead and mutant hordes, haha.

Be sure to take lots of pictures. I have a lot I've taken of my build but I've been incredibly lazy about putting any of them up.

[quote]A nice sunday drive through the wasteland picking off the undead and mutant hordes, haha.

Be sure to take lots of pictures. I have a lot I've taken of my build but I've been incredibly lazy about putting any of them up. [/quote

Could be a scene from zombieland ha
I'm sticking well clear of that scenario but going for a post-nuclear war Mad-Max type of thing. Although how an E-Type survives a nuclear blast I have no idea, they have a nasty habit of rusting away even in ideal conditions.
Theres a lot of potential to do whatever you fancy in this. I even thought of doing a post War of the Worlds sort of thing with a steam powered tank in the early 1900's. Just not sure how I'd go about it. Fitting a WWI Mk.1 tank with a chimney just seems too easy.

Mad max is the way to go. I built something along those lines in the last ACUTR campaign.

Something steampunk would be awesome; putting a chimney on a Mk. 1 might be cheating but it would be funny!

An E-Type with a Mad Max makeover, I wanna see that !

Very cool idea Stephen, make sure you post lots of progress for us pleeeeez.

Lovely progress on Tinkerbell Rip, and a great little tutorial on the antenna as well, thanks for sharing mate.

I really have to get back to my GAZ sometime soon, very soon.

Cheers, D

@Stephen, how about a plow on the front to push all of those stalled and abandoned vehicles off the road...and let us not forget those road barriers set up by post apocalyptic highwaymen. It could be as simple as a cow catcher or as complex as a hydro power dozer blade.

I've got a few ideas. I found a plan drawing of an E-type I can open up in windows draw to start sketching them out on. Its a very simple kit and is lacking a lot detail in the interior so its a good one for messing with. Real shame someone doesn't do a new tooling. I have found a driver that fits very nicely in the seat with little modification. I think he was from some old tamiya German tank, but with a little modding and a new resin head it should work.
Oddly enough Mad Max 2 was on the other night but I missed it.

I'm surprised someone hasn't taken the 1/32 Revell Tanker and turned it into a armed and turreted tanker like in the Road Warrior.

My entry, not the best picture I'll admit. Planning to start some work on it in the morning.