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Author Topic: AKULA's Game of Rednecks - West Eros Trailer Park - Pg5 Ned's B@stard  (Read 5873 times)

Offline carlos marighela

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Nicely painted mate!

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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Great start. Really big fan of that trailer.

Offline Ultravanillasmurf

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Nice work on both of them.

Where did you get the six pack?

Offline Rick

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You could do with some different locations as well as the trailers, I think - something else to fight over. Presumably there's a lake or river that seperates the West Eros trailer park from the East Eros trailer park, so "Kong's Landing Baitshop and boat hire", further along you might find "Dorn's Junkyard", whilst in the middle of the trailer park you might find the "Twins Games Arcade and Krazy Golf". Not forgetting, of course, that idle rednecks might be sent off to repair the "Wall" that they built a few years ago to stop the degenerates from the hippy commune down the road from 'stealin' their stuff.'
There's a lot you could put in there.  :)

Offline FifteensAway

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That trailer, or 'caravan' as you're calling it, is in far too good repair!   :D

But a really nice job on it. 

Typical 'redneck' musical lyrics: I was lying in bed smokin' a cigarette while staring at the ceiling dreaming about my beat up old pickup truck and my bitch and her snatch but I prefer the truck and its roar over her snore. And that's about as much sense as those songs make to me.  :o
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Offline carlos marighela

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Yes but as an American you must know that it's in popular music that you most commonly see the rare intentional use of irony in US culture. Take for example Jay-Z. In light of recent events, his most well known song, '99 Problems and a Bitch Ain't One', certainly drips with irony. A future foretold, it verges on self-parody, another rare comedic form in the American canon.  :)

@ AKULA: Have you had a look at the 1/64 diecast market for mobile homes/caravans? There's quite a few out there. A little small for 28mm but certainly good enough for set dressing. Siku do some useful stuff in 1/55 and 1/50 including some fairly upscale RVs, just in case you fancy having a low-rent Supreme Court Justice drop in.

Sarissa of course offer the more substantial permanent/semi permanent trailer homes in MDF.

I love the vintage Airstream. I've just been watching a rather downbeat Swiss crime series (Wilder) and one of the main characters lives a peripatetic life style in an Airstream caravan. They are very much in vogue these days. Hipsters installed a couple as part of a rooftop bar in the city a couple of years ago.
« Last Edit: December 15, 2024, 07:54:07 PM by carlos marighela »

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Where did you get the six pack?

TTCombat City Streets range ... check out the camping packs  :)


@ AKULA: Have you had a look at the 1/64 diecast market for mobile homes/caravans? There's quite a few out there. A little small for 28mm but certainly good enough for set dressing. Siku do some useful stuff in 1/55 and 1/50 including some fairly upscale RVs, just in case you fancy having a low-rent Supreme Court Justice drop in.

Sarissa of course offer the more substantial permanent/semi permanent trailer homes in MDF.

Some diecasts already in the queue, plus Sarissa & 4Ground  ;)

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Re: AKULA's Game of Rednecks - West Eros Trailer Park - Pg3 Airboat
« Reply #37 on: December 15, 2024, 07:58:59 PM »
You could do with some different locations as well as the trailers, I think - something else to fight over. Presumably there's a lake or river that seperates the West Eros trailer park from the East Eros trailer park, so "Kong's Landing Baitshop and boat hire", further along you might find "Dorn's Junkyard", whilst in the middle of the trailer park you might find the "Twins Games Arcade and Krazy Golf". Not forgetting, of course, that idle rednecks might be sent off to repair the "Wall" that they built a few years ago to stop the degenerates from the hippy commune down the road from 'stealin' their stuff.'
There's a lot you could put in there.  :)

Hey, have you been reading my notes?   lol


There will indeed be multiple locations...and the way of getting between them.... AIRBOATS



Like the caravan, this is a resin print from TwistedPinnacle3D...more inbound

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Offline carlos marighela

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Re: AKULA's Game of Rednecks - West Eros Trailer Park - Pg3 Airboat
« Reply #38 on: December 15, 2024, 08:06:17 PM »
Sorry, airboats require the presence of a bear, Dennis Weaver and a child with a severe cognitive disability.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixp1JQ1VTA4

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Re: AKULA's Game of Rednecks - West Eros Trailer Park - Pg3 Airboat
« Reply #39 on: December 15, 2024, 09:23:36 PM »
Nice trailer, "chain-saw bubba", and airboat. 

But once again, I have to call out carlos.    8)  I've taken a few airboat rides in Florida, and I've never seen a bear.  gators yes.  But no bears...

And, FifteensAway's lyrics are not quite 100% accurate.  He left out any mention of prison/jail...  :o
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Offline carlos marighela

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Re: AKULA's Game of Rednecks - West Eros Trailer Park - Pg3 Airboat
« Reply #40 on: December 15, 2024, 11:08:01 PM »
Damn Jim, you are tearing down a generations' childhood impression of the US! For folk of my age every American boy had a bear/dolphin/ super intelligent collie as his bestest bud. Their fathers were always clean cut, lantern jawed and straight limbed park rangers.

These documentaries were repeated ad infinitum on commercial television and, unlike your genie owning astronauts and Madison Avenue types married to witches, we knew them to be a true representation of the US. After all, they had their exact counterpart in Australia. Slightly cretinous child, lantern jawed park ranger father and for local flavour, a super intelligent and higly dexterous kangaroo as their best pal.  :D

Now if this is getting set in Florida, you gonna want more than alligators. You'll need frozen iguanas falling from trees as an additional risk to the cast. That and semi naked men doing something positively Darwinian in every game.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240123-iguanas-are-falling-from-trees-due-to-cold-florida-temperatures-experts-say-its-not-due-to-climate-change

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Man

https://www.boredpanda.com/hilarious-florida-man-headings/

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Re: AKULA's Game of Rednecks - West Eros Trailer Park - Pg3 Airboat
« Reply #41 on: December 15, 2024, 11:46:28 PM »
You forgot mansion-ownin' country folk...

And I'm just tryin' to keep it real.  Which, now that I think about it, may be counter-productive to what AKULA has in mind...I'll stand down... :)

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Re: AKULA's Game of Rednecks - West Eros Trailer Park - Pg3 Airboat
« Reply #42 on: December 16, 2024, 05:53:36 AM »
I believe plasticvil used to make a decent sized and cheap trailer if you want to track those down.
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Re: AKULA's Game of Rednecks - West Eros Trailer Park - Pg3 Airboat
« Reply #43 on: December 16, 2024, 12:04:39 PM »
The Plasticville trailers are pretty darn good but harder to find these days - I managed to find 4 from a US seller but the postage was horrendous. If the mdf ones had been available when I was looking for them, I'd have bought those instead.

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Re: AKULA's Game of Rednecks - West Eros Trailer Park - Pg3 Airboat
« Reply #44 on: December 16, 2024, 12:58:17 PM »
Postage from the US is always horrendous. My enthusiasm wanes when the postage cost is a multiple of the item's cost.

That said, if you want Plasticville you are best buying through Amazon. Most of the O scale stuff is still in production, including the trailer park. In fact amazon.au has the three trailer set for $75 and just three bucks postage.

 

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