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Miniatures Adventure => Pulp => Topic started by: moif on November 12, 2011, 02:38:17 AM
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Having enough tanks and trucks, I decided to trawl e-bay, looking for model cars for my Rocketman games. The lack of any decent vehicles has always been an annoyance when I've planned games in the past. I already had one or two toy cars but these were mostly Matchbox 'Models of Yesteryear' and in my opinion not really in scale for 28mm gaming. Here are those which I have so far repainted and mounted for gaming. I'm posting these images here just in case any one else is looking for the same kind of thing.
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This is a Ford Model T, from Lledo's 'Days gone by' range. It is available in a wide range of novelty vans and fuel tankers which suit 28mm scale quite well (see below), but it is more difficult to find as a car, which better suits my purposes. It has a nice 'gangster quality' and I can just see a wise guy standing on the running board with a Thompson in his hand. It cost next to nothing, less than £5 including P&P to Denmark from the UK.
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Another Ford, this time a Model A, and also from Lledo's 'Days Gone By' range.
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These two are some kind of Rolls Royces from from Lledo's 'Days gone by' range, but I don't know which kind (the roadster is often listed simply as 'yellow Lledo car' on e-bay). As far as I am concerned, they do fine as the type of grandiose automobile a flash civilian or gangster boss might own. Like all the other Lledo cars, they were dirt cheap.
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This one is a Matchbox 'Models of Yesteryear'; Bugatti, and I've seen these set for sale on e-bay for as much as £125 (presumably in mint condition). I haven't seen any one bid that much though, and I've also seen them set for as little as £0.99. As a 28mm scale model of a Bugatti, its a tad on the large side, as Bugattis were quite small, but as a generic red racing car, its perfect.
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I bought this one by accident, as I thought from the dark photograph and vague description that it was a Lledo Ford Model T. It was only when I opened the box that I realised that it was a '1933 Austin taxi'. I immediately went to e-bay and searched for other variants of this model but alas taxis in a variety of colours were all I found. It was cheap too. Like all the others, it was less than £5 including P&P.
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This is an Oxford Diecast 'original' and as far as I can make out, its not meant to be any specific marque of autommobile. I have three of them, and they are cheap quality, but make for decent enough commercial vehicles in 28mm though I prefer the Lledo Model A ford van.
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I have a couple of diecast traction engine models, and the others, which are slightly bigger are definately Corgi, in 1/50 scale, and this might be a Corgi too, but I'm not sure. As far as I can make out its just a generic traction engine.
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Those are fantastic, I must get me some steam engines :)
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Great collection of cars and trucks.
I like your painting.
May I ask the reason you put them on bases?
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Gorgeous work. I have a bunch of these Lledo as well, and I am totally stealing some of your painting ideas. For size comparisons, I have a whole bunch of photos of the Lledo models I purchased here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/coreyburger/5752833415/in/photostream
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Marine0846
My friends and I use the base as the point of measurement in our rules. The idea being to measure how much cover a vehicle, building or other terrain feature gives.
Burgundavia
Very helpful images, thanks. May I ask, what brand is the Citroen?
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The Traction Avant is a Siku car. 1:55, so nearly perfect scale. I bought two of them, and haven't repainted them because they are such beautiful models.