armoured stage coach

[argsilverson]

Hi folks!

Have you seen this?

http://oldglory25s.com/index.php?cat_id=810&catname='25mm%20Western%20Wagons'

[Gluteus Maximus]

Hi folks!

Have you seen this?

http://oldglory25s.com/index.php?cat_id=810&catname='25mm%20Western%20Wagons'

Wow!  I like that 

I'm thinking, lose the horses and add some steam gubbins to make it into a VSF conveyance 

The horses will always be useful for other carts, wagons etc.

[Vanvlak]

Oh wow!
But it didn't really exist, did it? 

[Westfalia Chris]

"Look at those horses! What are they draggin'?
Look at those horses! What are they draggin'
Heavily guarded, what is that wagon?"

Niiiice! I´ve always wanted to own a wagon like that one!

[Tom Reed]

I've been trying to scratchbuild a War Wagon for over a year. I even took measurements off of photos of the wagon box, sitting on the movie studios back lot. I made several attempts but was not happy with the results. I ordered one when I first saw them on the Old Glory site.

It is a really nice wagon. The only thing I changed was that I didn't like the look of the gatling gun that came with the wagon, so I swapped it out with one from a civil war gatling gun.

[axabrax]

Does it come with any "crew?"  Might just be time to do that 3:10 to Yuma stage robbery scenario...

[Gallowglass]

I've been trying to scratchbuild a War Wagon for over a year. I even took measurements off of photos of the wagon box, sitting on the movie studios back lot. I made several attempts but was not happy with the results. I ordered one when I first saw them on the Old Glory site.

It is a really nice wagon. The only thing I changed was that I didn't like the look of the gatling gun that came with the wagon, so I swapped it out with one from a civil war gatling gun.

sounds very cool. Any pics for us??

[Dewbakuk]

But it didn't really exist, did it?

The armoured stagecoach certainly existed. Someone else is going to have to tell you whether they did any with gatlings though. The one I've seen photographed certainly didn't have one.

[The_Wisecrack]

if anyone else has played red dead revolver on xbox or ps2 then there thinking the same thing as me right now, WOW what a miniature that is suitable for the death canyon armored stage level.

[Cory]

Oh wow!
But it didn't really exist, did it? 

The model is inspired by a John Wayne movie. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062472/

Historically many mining companies used armored wagons but none I've ever seen, which is only three, went with much beyond some light bits of steel around the driver. I have serious doubts as to turrets and gatlings as speed was the more important issue. The horses are just too vulnerable for a shootout.

[Poliorketes]

Yes, the War Wagon (Die gewaltigen ind erman). A nice movie, but you can't watch it in german as Kirk Douglas has the german voice of the duke in most of waynes movies, and the voice used for him is best described as Mickey Mouse.

[Tom Reed]

The Old Glory War Wagon dies not have any crew. The drivers box is one solid piece. It would be possible to build a new drivers box if you wanted to add a driver.

[Gallowglass]

Yes, the War Wagon (Die gewaltigen ind erman). A nice movie, but you can't watch it in german as Kirk Douglas has the german voice of the duke in most of waynes movies, and the voice used for him is best described as Mickey Mouse.

I'm confused. 

Do you mean Kirk Douglas speaks German in the (dubbed?) versions of John Wayne movies?

And that they then got somebody else to do Kirk Douglas' voice in German in "The Warwagon"?

[Poliorketes]

No, but the german voice of most John Wayne Movies was used for Kirk Douglas in the german version of The War Wagon. It's been a deep, sonoric voice, and the speaker made synchronisation for Wayne and on occasion Douglas and AFAIK even Bob Mitchum. There are only 3 Movies starring wayne & Douglas together, two of them not very well known in germany. So every german hearing that voice takes it for the duke.

For the crew: The war wagon driver is inside, so you can't see them.

[Vanvlak]

Thanks for the info guys.