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Today's efforts:

I'd like to see model door handles that fine!

People seem to forget that Mad Max has always been about extreme cars. Face it, the black interceptor was extreme to begin with, even in MM1. Then running around a fuel starved world driving cars fitted with supercharged V8s is ridiculous. Finally, cars fitted with jet engines? Again superchargers all over the place. The only way they can "better" their previous extreme vehicles is to .... well, we can see what they had to do.

What? Using minifigs in this build??? (says the guy using My Little Ponies)

Stuck some big "salvaged military" guns on the Equestrian. I think the driver might like to leave the driver's spot before firing, or at least, wear ear muffs. Current state of the chevy - the random slopping of paint stage! Bigger fuel cell. Still needs more fuel capacity though. Supercharged 421 Pontiac engine with weird intake positioned to suck up minimum road dust, though how well that works will be anyone's guess! Looking at the pulley ratio, the boost is minimal, probably serving only to compensate for restrictive air filters.

What we are doing comes later than this. Orgainised troops are gone. People are gone. All that is left are the innovators and the living that are harder to kill than the zombies themselves.

It's a bit extreme, isn't it. It does rather raise the standards too. So who will be the first of us to build a giant two-engined two-bodied monster?

http://www.marauderinc.com/servlet/Detail?no=358 It isn't styrene though, so be warned! I had to araldite it on in the end.

and as ridiculous as that may look..... I think we are done here.....

Between health issues and constant rain, not a lot has been done this week, and what has hasn't been easy to photograph. Left: Chopper from $5 set of three crappy toy models.The tyres are the most offensive thing about it. Right: Tamiya racing bike. Oh, made in China. What a surprise. 36 Chev racing car. Practically a ready to go road warrior. Nameless, all finished bar giving the windscreen a wipe and taking decent photos. ... and a magazine for the rotary cannon.

In the 60s Hotwheels did a wonderful sectioned custom of this. I had one.

We did discuss it earlier in the build. It was also part of the reason I chose an 09 Dodge to do my latest build - because it was bucking the trend. Originally people were suggesting a SBC would be transplanted into it to deal with the inevitable electronics issues, but in the end I decided my intrepid zombie slayer has probably scavenged a few from here and there that somehow survived.

Is this engine something you have made, or something you found?

An idea I am playing around with... Thoughts? Interest? A build in the spirit of the '60s Can-Am racers. This means you are building an unlimited class racing car. It may have: -any sort of engine that could navigate a race track. -and sort of induction -any engine size -any number of engines -any number of wheels (minimum 4) -current technology is okay Rules: Vehicle must have two seats. (not one, not four) Wheels must be enclosed. Body should be aerodynamically styled - i.e. no sedan style bodies. (no age restriction on body) No "out of the box" builds. You may use parts from a Can-Am or Le Mans model, but, at the very least, substitute a different engine. Reworking old builds, restarting stalled projects, starting from new are all okay. The bulk of the model should be styrene. Rocket engines and huge jet engines would be inappropriate, but smaller helicopter style jets are acceptable. Time limit: 1 year.

And that happened a lot in real life too. The HMS Rodney did more damage to itself than than the Bismark did to it. EMP protection: Use vacuum tubes as per the Mig fighters from Russia. Use Mu metal shielding. Use a fiber optic based system.

A couple of pics of the movie cars: http://www.madmaxmovies.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=9228&start=310

My thoughts on this? You are dead right. A person petitioning for a place in this really should not advertise themselves at the exact sort of person that causes these builds to fail in the first place! (I'll go away now.)

If you need to find other glue, you may as well put that money to other plastic, and get yourself a sheet of evergreen styrene

None of the above. Anything that will stick the transparent plastic will also etch into it, making it cloudy. That leaves araldite and water based PCV, of which there is one (super clear??) made for sticking in headlights and windows. You would be better off if you could find some other way to hold the firewall in - perhaps captive in a slot, or some small pins used as rivets or something like that.

That's what I'm starting with too. I have the one that is a twin pack with the coupe. My first model T was a Revell one and that kit was not fun! My second (incomplete) one was the AMT variant with the barrel at the back, also a twin pack. This coupe twin pack is just another variation on the same kit.

Getting quiet around here! My Equestrian zombie hunter didn't make the last video? Nameless, earlier today. Too many ideas, not enough parts.....

I've been gathering parts to make a 23 T. Last time I was working on it, I stuck the incomplete vehicle and all its parts on ebay, so I have to start from scratch.

The way we do it is to use an external site such as http://www.fotki.com/ . Once our image is uploaded there, we click on it's "share" option to get the link. We then click on the image button on the second row of the forum editor box (sort of looks like a polaroid photo or a small TV). We past the link into that, and hey presto, a properly presented image!

I'm thinking a gatling where the blower would sit. It isn't the first time I've done that, but some mongrel stole my last one from the display case at the hobby shop I worked at.