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Re: AKULA’s After the Bomb project 1980s imagination - pg25 - Ice cream?
« Reply #375 on: 16 October 2022, 01:02:43 AM »
But 'Greensleeves' means they've run out!  :'(

Doesn't it....?  :o

 I did feel a bit sorry for my pair after sending them off on a couple of fruitless quests. In our old place, the odd acoustics of living slap bang against a creek and at the bottom of a dip meant the sound coming from some distance away and across the raging torrent/ stagnant pool. Now we are on a major road in a bit more 'stabby' part of the world so I suspect that training will go to waste. On the other hand, the time spent teaching my daughter the rudiments of bayonet fighting may come in handy.

Now that he has the ice cream van hopefully Akky will include the boys from the KLF. Tammy Wynette optional.  :D
Em dezembro de '81
Botou os ingleses na roda
3 a 0 no Liverpool
Ficou marcado na história
E no Rio não tem outro igual
Só o Flamengo é campeão mundial
E agora seu povo
Pede o mundo de novo

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Re: AKULA’s After the Bomb project 1980s imagination - pg25 - Ice cream?
« Reply #376 on: 16 October 2022, 09:45:39 AM »
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Now that he has the ice cream van hopefully Akky will include the boys from the KLF. Tammy Wynette optional.  :D

That might be 'Justified' but definitely 'Ancient'  lol lol lol

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Re: AKULA’s After the Bomb project 1980s imagination - pg25 - Ice cream?
« Reply #377 on: 16 October 2022, 10:28:39 AM »
So cool, and that's not just the ice cream. Over here we had the Popeye the sailor man theme, and that's what came to mind when I saw the pic  :D
This thread a spectacle, but the ice cream truck takes the cake.

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Re: AKULA’s After the Bomb project 1980s imagination - pg25 - Ice cream?
« Reply #378 on: 16 October 2022, 11:48:23 AM »
So cool, and that's not just the ice cream. Over here we had the Popeye the sailor man theme, and that's what came to mind when I saw the pic  :D
This thread a spectacle, but the ice cream truck takes the cake.
Did your dad tell you that 'Popeye the Sailor-Man' meant they'd run out of ice-cream...?

Our ice-cream vans always had 'Watch For Children' written in large letters across the back.  Another crushing childhood disappointment, as no matter how many lollies I bought, they never gave me a watch!  :-[
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Re: AKULA’s After the Bomb project 1980s imagination - pg25 - Ice cream?
« Reply #379 on: 18 October 2022, 07:54:32 PM »
Lovely little ice cream truck there. 

Mind you, it could be used as a mobile covert source of black market stuff after the balloon goes up (and comes down).  "Yes, I'll have an AK and 100 rounds of ammo to go, please!"  :D
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Re: AKULA’s After the Bomb project 1980s imagination - pg25 - Ice cream?
« Reply #380 on: 18 October 2022, 07:57:33 PM »
Lovely little ice cream truck there. 

Mind you, it could be used as a mobile covert source of black market stuff after the balloon goes up (and comes down).  "Yes, I'll have an AK and 100 rounds of ammo to go, please!"  :D
oh and some tooty fruity if you have any left.
« Last Edit: 18 October 2022, 08:40:40 PM by commissarmoody »
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Re: AKULA’s After the Bomb project 1980s imagination - pg25 - Ice cream?
« Reply #381 on: 18 October 2022, 08:32:43 PM »
Lovely little ice cream truck there. 

Mind you, it could be used as a mobile covert source of black market stuff after the balloon goes up (and comes down).  "Yes, I'll have an AK and 100 rounds of ammo to go, please!"  :D
Would you like a flake with that?

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Re: AKULA’s After the Bomb project 1980s imagination - pg25 - Ice cream?
« Reply #382 on: 19 October 2022, 06:32:50 AM »
Quite possibly. It being the 1980s you get that weird, soft porn, ad with the girl and the gypsy wagon as a er….. ‘bonus’.



Spose it could be worse, there’s that one with the bint doing the watercolours. Ah 1980s advertising, where the leit motif was often oral sex. ::)

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Re: AKULA’s After the Bomb project 1980s imagination - pg25 - Ice cream?
« Reply #383 on: 19 October 2022, 09:09:27 PM »
Quite possibly. It being the 1980s you get that weird, soft porn, ad with the girl and the gypsy wagon as a er….. ‘bonus’.



Spose it could be worse, there’s that one with the bint doing the watercolours. Ah 1980s advertising, where the leit motif was often oral sex. ::)
So thats why I dig permed hair, and sundresses.   ::)

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Re: AKULA’s After the Bomb project 1980s imagination - pg26 - Iron Lady
« Reply #384 on: 21 October 2022, 08:29:24 AM »
As my thread is in danger of disappearing down another entertaining rabbit hole, time for another miniature  lol

Toying with an “Eagle has Landed” type scenario, and the following conversion seems to fit the bill.

The torso is from a Space Vixens From Mars mini, with a green stuffed handbag, and the head is borrowed from a Brigade Games Apoc mini (I have another to paint toting a Bren gun).

« Last Edit: 21 October 2022, 09:19:12 AM by AKULA »

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Re: AKULA’s After the Bomb project 1980s imagination - pg26 - Iron Lady
« Reply #385 on: 21 October 2022, 10:36:38 AM »
Great conversion, that! 8)

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Re: AKULA’s After the Bomb project 1980s imagination - pg26 - Iron Lady
« Reply #386 on: 21 October 2022, 11:18:08 AM »
Nice conversion but I would have preferred the figure sans head.  ;)

Still, hats off, she lasted longer than a lettuce.

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Re: AKULA’s After the Bomb project 1980s imagination - pg26 - Iron Lady
« Reply #387 on: 21 October 2022, 01:24:48 PM »
Great bashed together figure.

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Re: AKULA’s After the Bomb project 1980s imagination - pg26 - Iron Lady
« Reply #388 on: 21 October 2022, 02:30:19 PM »
Still, hats off, she lasted longer than a lettuce.

 lol  lol  lol  lol  lol

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Re: AKULA’s After the Bomb project 1980s imagination - pg26 - Iron Lady
« Reply #389 on: 21 October 2022, 08:40:46 PM »
That’s great  8) 8)

 

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