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Miniatures Adventure => Pulp => Topic started by: War In 15MM on July 28, 2011, 11:49:46 PM
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The lighthouse was a broken toy (for ages 3 to 6) I bought for $1.00 at the swap meet. I sanded off the oversized door embossed on the front and built a new entrance. I had to make a number of other repairs, added some bushes made from Milliput to hid a new problem areas and painted as you see it. The island base is a Lemax piece I got cheap at the Michael's after-Halloween sale. The unpainted figure is a Copplestone 28mm added to allow you to see the scale.
(http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j366/rgarretson/P1012033.jpg)
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Pretty cool 8)
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That is GREAT!!!
I love the island. Wow I wish we had stuff like that in Australia. Definately going to have to make one of these.
Pete
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I've got nothing!!!
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Great work!!
Hitman
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That's a lot of good stuff you posting '15mm'. You just need to get your figures painted now, but that'll be easy compared to your terrain!
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:o :o :o :-* :-* hey why we haven´t such a swap meet here in germany ?!
fantastic for a innsmouth game
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Grimm's right - perfect for an Innsmouth game, along with all the rest of your water vehicles. Spectacular stuff!
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Fantastic!
Reminds me of the movie "Eye of the needle" :-* :-* :-*
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I too would like to find the swap meets you go to.
Another cracker :-* :-* :-*
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gamer Mac, I'm very lucky to leave where I do both in terms of the weather and my hobby. I live southern California in the small city of Huntington Beach which places me about 15 minutes from Arnie's Trains, 25 minutes by Fwy from The War House Hobbie Shop, and 25 minutes the other direction from Brookhurst Hobbies. These are all wonderful places, but in addition I am bless with wonderful swap meets held each Saturday and Sunday in the Golden West Community College parking lot. The swap meets are big affairs and best of all the stalls are filled with people selling their unwanted junk which is to say treasure for me.
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I might have to start going to swapmeets. Awesome stuff mate.
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I might have to start going to swapmeets. Awesome stuff mate.
I'm thinking I might have to go to California instead! ;) ;)
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You bastard... I have had plans for a lighthouse for some time now, aiming to bowl everyone over with its amazingness. Here you go and find this ready made thing of pure cool. Fort a dollar! I am heartbroken...
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Thank you for the generous comments about the lighthouse. It was one of my first efforts at repairing and modifying a broken toy found at the swap meet and making compatible with and for 28mm Pulp. It was a lot of fun and has led me to many new projects as you can see from my postings. As you can see from the tugboat I posted, I get things from places other than the swap meet, but the beauty of the swap meet is you never know what you'll find in the next seller's booth. It's an adventure in itself. Thanks again for the kind words. They mean a lot coming from the talented people on this forum. Richard
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That lighthouse - and the warehouse in your other thread - are great conversion jobs!
I'm thinking I might have to go to California instead! ;) ;)
If you can find stuff like that there I'm on the first plane after I win the lotto! :D
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Colonel, I went to the swap meet this morning as I do most Saturdays and my big find was the Disney Pixar play set Luigis Casa Della Tires from the movie Cars which I got for $1.00. Just for fun before writing you this note I check to see what Amazon was asking for this play set and believe it or not the first one that popped up was priced at $99.99. Now that's for a new one and mine is missing the tire statue in front (which I was not going to use anyway). But I'd say I got a heck of a good deal. If you know these play sets from the movie Cars, they are great buildings that are wonderful with 28mm. Mine is going to be an Italian eating place in my Gangster city. I'll probably call it Luigis. So as you can see, I had no need for the statue of tires. Love the swap meet.
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awesome idea !!! i really love the creativity in this project!!!!!!!!! :o it looks great !!!!! :D
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Richard,
I hope that you will do build thread for your planned Luigi's eatery. I'm sure that we would all be interested in the nuts and bolts of these very nice conversions.
LB
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Marianas, when I start working on Luigis I'll take some pictures and post them, but one of the real beauties of this particular set of toys is they are almost perfect the way they come. Probably the biggest thing I'll have to do other than the painting is add normal doors; since the movie Cars is about cars a lot of the buildings have drive-in entrances. In the meantime, if you want to see one of the play sets from Cars that has been done beautifully, I recommend going to Atomic Cafe 57 on this Pulp site and looking at a posting entitled "Painted: Atomic Diner & The Reststop" by uti long simile. The play set he did from cars is the Radiator Springs Curios Shop. That is where I became aware that these toys existed. His worked is wonderful. It's on page two of Atomic Cafe 57 and was posted on January 9, 2010. Richard
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Love the lighthouse! :)
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Marianas, when I start working on Luigis I'll take some pictures and post them, but one of the real beauties of this particular set of toys is they are almost perfect the way they come. Probably the biggest thing I'll have to do other than the painting is add normal doors; since the movie Cars is about cars a lot of the buildings have drive-in entrances. In the meantime, if you want to see one of the play sets from Cars that has been done beautifully, I recommend going to Atomic Cafe 57 on this Pulp site and looking at a posting entitled "Painted: Atomic Diner & The Reststop" by uti long simile. The play set he did from cars is the Radiator Springs Curios Shop. That is where I became aware that these toys existed. His worked is wonderful. It's on page two of Atomic Cafe 57 and was posted on January 9, 2010. Richard
Awww bless ya - but it isn't a patch on your stuff!
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Splendid! :-*
And I relly got some inspiration for a quick detour in the Pulp campaign when the adventurers depart from San Fransisco in pursuit of Leonardo Da Vinci's evil brain :)
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uti long smile, you do great work, and your kind words about what I have done have made my day! Richard
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Silversixx, I couldn't ask for a better comment than "Splendid!" Thank you. Richard
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sweet lighthouse :D
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Wolf Girl, Thank you. I had a lot of fun doing the repair and conversion work on it. Richard
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Yep! Fantastic lighthouse, love it :-*
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Superb work! Love it.
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I wanted to add spelndid as well, but ... it is also superb :o
It is a little bit pitty, that You did not use a glassy light at the top. Maybe with a lightbulb like this (http://www.querfurth-licht.de/images/content/beratung_halogenlampe.jpg) within?
Anyway ... it really looks great ... a terrainian inviting for gaming! :D
best wishes
Drachenklinge