Well, please allow me a moment to introduce myself as this is my first thread.
Preface: 1982, I'm 7, and HBO is playing The Road Warrior like 3x a day. I manage to see it, and I'm hooked. I record it, watch it every day, (and I mean every day, I have seen it more times than the the guy who edited it. LOL) It becomes a driving influence in my life and my art. I'm like a Trekkie but for Mad Max.
I built models as a kid, but like many of us, I typically burned or smashed them. For some reason, around 16 or so, I picked it up again, and realized I could get all those Mad Max ideas out in plastic! My first several kits weren't that great, and most got torn down or rebuilt over time. I now have a veritable army of post-apocayliptic vehicles. Not wanting to step on Barry Harker's awesome build thread of his Post-Apoc machines, I am posting my own threads to share my work. Hopefully more and more people will give this genere a try, it's so much fun, and allows for such creativity.
So, with that out of the way, here is my build of Aoshima's Mad Max 2 Interceptor. A 1973 Ford (Australia) Falcon XB/GT Coupe. Using extensive use of my DVDs pause and zoom feature, I have re-created the weathering and details as closely as possible. (given that there were 2 Interceptors used in filming MM2, there are some on-screen inconsistancies. IE; one car had windshield wipers, one did not.)
I added lines & fittings to the Scott injector hat (blower), scratchbuilt the rear tray and "dog's" area, ultra-detailed the interior, lengthened the rear shackels for a correct stance, etc. Max was modified from a 1/24 Panzer tank commander. Puttied, painted, w/ scratchbuilt shotgun, pads & leg brace.
Source: http://cs.scaleautomag.com/scacs/forums/thread/914921.aspx
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