Puddingwrestler's Crazy Taxi

[puddingwrestler]

Some of you may be familiar with Crazy Taxi, a game Sega made late last century. For those who are not, it involved driving aroudna city at break neck speed trying to drop fares off against the clock. I have the Game Cube version and play it throught the Wii. I am told the Dreamcast original is superior, but I don't have the hardware.

Anyway, I decided to have a shot at making a car similar to those in the game. They're all convertibles, all bright yellow, and all based on real cars, but not exactly real cars.

For my base kit I chose an AMT 51 chevy convertible, and bought some taxi checkers from eBay. I got a bit carried away and added a sort of boat tail look to the boot by grafting on a 50 Chev truck hood. not very well actually, after paint I found some holes in the putty work, but couldn't be bothered fixing them...

Anyway, It's almost done now, I'm working on the decals at present. These pics are a little old and show the build stages.

Interior:

The aforesaid boot:

On the paint stand:

Incidentally, the whole build process is documented on the What-If modelers forum, here.

[SSNJim]

Incidentally, the whole build process is documented on the What-If modelers forum, here.

I looked over both your builds, very neat. I just spent some time looking over the What-If forum. Fascinating.

[puddingwrestler]

I looked over both your builds, very neat. I just spent some time looking over the What-If forum. Fascinating.

We're trying (well, I'm trying) to get more car modeling happening over there, it's a bit aviation-o-centric, and I think there asre plenty of great what if scenarios with cars.

Anyway, I've gotten past the swearing at decals phase. Hopefully final assemlby can happen tommorow.

[Van Halen]

this is an AWESOME idea !!!!

i always loved the white guys car.. i have no idea what models these are but its the top one..

NOTE: the guys car your doing, i can make that licence plate for you if you want ?

it says "Gus" (his name) and below "ONLY777".

[David G.]

What an excellent idea. I had that game on Dreamcast and not only was it better that the Nintendo port, I think it looked better than the arcade version that inspired it. I have an old glue bomb '59 Caddy convertable that I've been trying to figure out what to do with. I'll have to put this idea in as one of the possibilities.

From what I've seen so far, you've got a good start on the project. I'm interested to see what you do with it.

[puddingwrestler]

Thanks for the offer Van Halen, but it's not actually any specific car from the game, just a build in the style of the game.

The white guy's car is a sort of cadillac I think... I remember doing some research on the game at one point, and I think wikipedia listed the cars which the playable machines are based on.

The '59 caddy is not in the original game (unless it's a hidden bonus and I have not found it), I think it was in the second, but it makes perfect sense. In fact, I always associate the '59 caddy with the game above all other cars.

I should be able to do final assembly later today after I finish writing reports (I'm a teacher, and it's that time of year... )

Edited June 13, 2010 by puddingwrestler

[puddingwrestler]

It's a public holiday over here (Queen's Birthday). UNfortunately I had to spend the morning finish my thrice cursed reports. I'm a teacher you see.

Anyway, this arvo I got the crazy taxi finished.

Here's the last 'on the bench' photo - still missing a few final things.

Now that it's done, I've opened up a show-off-o-matic thread in the 'Under Glass' section of the forum.

And because I rate convenience higly, here be a link!

[W-409]

You bought Checkers...? Model kits from Checker, diecasts...? Anyway, great project and very nicely you made those modofications and that paint looks nice! But one thing from Checkers, in Finland here were the olympics in 1952. From USA came lots of old taxi Checkers. Now in 2010, here is only one Checker what is moving with no help. And also it's original I mean no parts changed ever!!! That Checker is from 40's.