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Title: 50 cent challenge - the shack
Post by: Gunbird on September 03, 2017, 12:40:00 AM

Picked this kids toy shack up at the recycling centre for 50 cents. It felt like it had good 20mm potential so I took it home.

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I removed the base and the roof to be used at a later date and put those in the spares bin. Was surprised to find out the toy was actually meant to house a speaker etc? Not that one had ever been installed by the looks of it.

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Thought about glueing plasticcard to close the gaps and then use filler to make it neat, but fortunately KISS prevailed and I added tarps to the top to close the holes. Just a few layers of tissue paper and a 50% off bottle of translucent green Mod Podge. I added some stones and a spare wheel from my bits box and based it up.

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Where I am now. I want to get rid of the 2 levitating shovels in front, I'll go over the bits box tomorow to look for a bit of armour plate, pallet or whatever works to hide them, but other then that I'm pretty chuffed sofar. This should work fine as a beat up old shack for Gaslands, any kind of Post Apoc game or just a run down area of town, of any nation.

Title: Re: 50 cent challenge - the shack
Post by: von Lucky on September 03, 2017, 02:46:02 AM

Nice conversion work already.

Title: Re: 50 cent challenge - the shack
Post by: DintheDin on September 03, 2017, 11:15:09 AM

This is a good start! Cheers!

Title: Re: 50 cent challenge - the shack
Post by: Ultravanillasmurf on September 03, 2017, 01:22:39 PM

Nice find.

Title: Re: 50 cent challenge - the shack
Post by: Hupp n at em on September 05, 2017, 09:58:05 PM

Great work as usual Gunbird!  8)

Title: Re: 50 cent challenge - the shack
Post by: Mo! on September 09, 2017, 02:15:22 PM

Fun stuff... my 10 year old found a bunch of stuff like that in the Kringloopwinkel for cheap recently... same bases funny stuff.