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[has.been]

As I still have a flipping big abandoned roller-coaster hogging
far too much shelf space, this time I'm aiming to make something
smaller. Still 28mm, but it will be a Sci-Fi version of a NAFFI van.
No idea how I will make it...yet.

[Daeothar]

I had to look that one up...

A food distribution van then, right?

And a scifi version to boot? I'm already getting 5th Element vibes! 

[Vanvlak]

That is SO cool 

[flatpack]

Can I get a space burger here with fries ?

[tomrommel1]

cool idea

[dadlamassu]

When we went on exercise (no matter how secret) the Bratty Van (or "Blue Van") always appeared!
The tea van frequented the Soltau military training area in Germany. The owner, Wolfgang Maier was renowned for turning up in the wettest miserable places with hot food and drinks, and of course the yellow handbags (If you know…). He was seen as the life saver to many a wet cold and hungry soldier.

[has.been]

Thanks guys.

Can I get a space burger here with fries ?

Wot Bob? I wuz tinking of...Bacon or sausage butties & Hash Browns,
wiv lashings of tea.

A food distribution van then, right?

Yup.
It stands for Navy,_Army_and_Air_Force Institutes,
So I'll have to correct it from NAFFI to NAAFI.

When we went on exercise (no matter how secret) the Bratty Van (or "Blue Van") always appeared!
The tea van frequented the Soltau military training area in Germany. The owner, Wolfgang Maier was renowned for turning up in the wettest miserable places with hot food and drinks, and of course the yellow handbags (If you know…). He was seen as the life saver to many a wet cold and hungry soldier.

I didn't know about that, & you'll have to elucidate about 'Yellow
Handbags' as I don't know

[carlos marighela]

Six packs of Herforder Pilsen. Yellow was the colour of the packaging.

In Australia the working equivalent was usually the Sallyman, a Salvation Army Land Rover that dispensed tea, coffee and cold cordial, usually lime. I’ve witnessed a mock company attack on a hot February day completely brought to a halt by the Sallyman driving up and dispensing cold drinks at the line of departure. No beer though. 

[Plynkes]

In 1977, when I was six, I was involved in a somewhat belated attempt to relieve the paratroopers at Arnhem. Driving up Hell's Highway in a Standard Tilly, cosplaying as XXX Corps with a bunch of vehicle enthusiasts (and being as received warmly by the locals as if we were actually liberating the places we visited).


Anyway, some guy had an Austin K2 NAAFI wagon on that trip, and he actually sold tea and coffee out of it, which I found pretty cool. Gotta love a Katy, though not as iconic as the ambulance version, I guess. So looking forward to seeing a Space NAAFI wagon. Will bring back happy memories of my childhood. 

[dadlamassu]

Six packs of Herforder Pilsen. Yellow was the colour of the packaging.

In my time it was a 10 pack later reduced to an 8  pack of Herforder Pilsener beer. https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=2018-04-3-1

[AKULA]

Brilliant idea, and the sci-fi angle is an interesting one...doesn’t have to be human afterall

 

[has.been]

Thanks for the comments & (historic?) research guys.

[has.been]

I'm thinking of things like the floating skiff
from 5th Element (Chinese food outlet?)
as well as a lot of anti-grav (background)
vehicles in the Star Wars universe.

My wonderful wife doesn't throw things straight
into the bins. She runs items past me first.
Hence the basis of my hull...a broken,
'Air Wick Fresh Matic' room perfumer.

[Vanvlak]

Good start - I love anything based on junk 

[Blackwolf]

That’s a great shape