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Author Topic: 15mm Matchbox motorhome  (Read 3382 times)

Offline Fjodin

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15mm Matchbox motorhome
« on: November 27, 2011, 02:15:41 AM »

http://matchbox.wikia.com/wiki/MBX_Motor_Home
Just bought this 1/87 scale Matchbox Motorhome.



Why do I think its 1/87? Well, here is photo of real (not Matchbox) 1/87 motorhome and car.


Now have a look at these photos



I wish Matchbox to make truck based on this Motorhome, so I can place car in there. This Motorhome have some furniture inside wich block my car from getting in. Of course I alway can make a conversion :)


I need to repaint right car…

Offline aecurtis

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Re: 15mm Matchbox motorhome
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2011, 02:34:59 AM »
The reason it won't hold an automobile is that the real-world versions that the model is based on aren't *designed* to hold an automobile.  An enclosed auto-hauling trailer is a very different thing.

These vicious machines are called "toy haulers", and they're intended to carry a couple of dirt bikes (motorcycles) or perhaps an all-terrain vehicle (little four-wheeled horrors whose only virtue is that, occasionally, they remove their foolish owners from this plane of existence). 

The "furniture" provides a basic self-contained living space that allows the owners of said toys to drive out into remote areas (like the desert around here) and tear up the fragile ecosystem, while providing a place to sleep and keep the beer cold.

I recommend that the reasonably-armed figures in your photos engage and destroy the darned thing before it can be used as a base to to terrorize innocent wildlife.

Allen
What fresh hell is this?

Offline darthfozzywig

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Re: 15mm Matchbox motorhome
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2011, 12:46:27 AM »
With a little effort, this could be the centerpiece of a "The Walking Dead" convoy.

Offline aecurtis

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Re: 15mm Matchbox motorhome
« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2011, 01:24:15 AM »
I'd get a proper Class A RV model for that.

Allen

 

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