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Post by Vermin King on Sept 13, 2018 17:36:16 GMT -9
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Post by Vermin King on Sept 14, 2018 13:37:05 GMT -9
This is a White Motor Company Model 706. I might be able to use some of the National Park Service buses to fill in some gaps in the info
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Post by cowboyleland on Sept 14, 2018 17:53:51 GMT -9
The toblerone bus is surprisingly close. (But I'm not really into auto's, like some.)
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Post by Vermin King on Sept 14, 2018 18:17:27 GMT -9
I am a bit of a car guy. I need to go back through and find all the Big Trouble in Little China minis
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Post by cowboycentaur on Sept 15, 2018 4:59:15 GMT -9
What a fun idea! Big trouble would be a very fun one off game to play. I wonder if one of the ravensbight semis could be modified to look like the pork chop express.
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Post by Vermin King on Sept 15, 2018 5:30:07 GMT -9
I'm collecting images of it, too, but hadn't planned on doing anything with it for a while. I was leaning towards the Norbtach trucks, like my Bud Holiday Truck, cardboard-warriors.proboards.com/thread/7989/christmas-wars-forum-hoard-november. I want to bump up the scale on it, though. The holiday truck was more like 1/60, not 1/55. It was a Peterbilt, not a Freightliner, but it shouldn't be too hard to change. I know Norbtach did a Freightliner, too, so I'll just have to play with it We also have a number of the characters in the Hoards, cardboard-warriors.proboards.com/search/results?captcha_id=captcha_search&display_as=0&search=Search&what_exact_phrase=big+trouble&who_only_made_by=0
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Post by Vermin King on Sept 15, 2018 10:49:13 GMT -9
Collected from the Hoards
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Post by Vermin King on Sept 18, 2018 7:26:24 GMT -9
I started working on this again last night when I started debating with myself on how to handle the haunted house formatting. The Toblerone papercraft doesn't get me very close, so I started looking at the Zis and the Japanese trucks, with an eye out for how to handle this. And then I looked again at @coyotepunc's bus, cardboard-warriors.proboards.com/thread/9052/manchukuo-village-firefight. I think that I can get the shape down by using a combination of all three. Having a rough idea of how to tackle the geometry, I started looking at the images I took and the images from the net, and I am not sure I can clean it up good enough. I don't speak Chinese, so the characters will just have to remain blurry. I need to find more images. If someone has this on dvd and can rip clean images, I would be appreciative
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Post by cowboyleland on Sept 18, 2018 7:32:10 GMT -9
I have the DVD. I can maybe get you some stuff tonight.
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Post by Vermin King on Sept 18, 2018 13:36:39 GMT -9
What a fun idea! Big trouble would be a very fun one off game to play. I wonder if one of the ravensbight semis could be modified to look like the pork chop express. The Norbtach Freightliner is actually slightly older than the one in the movie and has no sleeper unit. The Streetpaper/Racepaper Freightliners are too new. The old minimodel Coca-Cola Holiday truck is also too new and a Peterbilt. There's a Paper-Replika Borden truck that comes up when you do a search for Freightliners, but it is also a Peterbilt and way too detailed
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Post by cowboyleland on Sept 18, 2018 16:56:36 GMT -9
I am about halfway through the movie. Here are the bus shots I have taken so far.
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Post by Vermin King on Sept 18, 2018 18:15:55 GMT -9
Outstanding! And you got the full license plate! You have made me a very happy guy
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Post by cowboyleland on Sept 19, 2018 4:21:12 GMT -9
I actually didn't take any more pictures. If there is something else you need I will try to take a look. Windows DVD Player and Alt+Prt Sc is a clunky combination, you don't know what you get until you paste it into GIMP
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Post by Vermin King on Sept 19, 2018 4:41:17 GMT -9
I was thinking that when you volunteered. In the meantime, I found this That's the best image I have found for the lettering under Egg Foo Yong Tours. Thanks for the images, sir. You always have our backs
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Post by cowboyleland on Sept 20, 2018 6:06:18 GMT -9
You always have our backs It is actually so long since I have done a back for a fig I am beginning to doubt I remember how.
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Post by Vermin King on Oct 4, 2018 18:37:53 GMT -9
I was trying to work out having the rounded roof edge like on Punkrabbitt's Manchukuo bus, but with the round back end, it is too difficult to work out and build. With the advertising boards on the roof, the round edge isn't even all that noticeable. I guess eliminating the unnecessary isn't a bad thing
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Post by Punkrabbitt on Oct 5, 2018 6:00:10 GMT -9
Simple is always better.
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