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Post by Real G on Mar 11, 2024 12:26:01 GMT -5
Useless Fact (probably known to a lot of you): Immortan Joe was played by the late Hugh Keays-Byrne, who also played the chief villain, "Toecutter", in the original "Mad Max"... Well, this could have been THE movie of 2015: youtu.be/Tj1P1eEZRtYCheers, M Wha~t?! Orangutan Joe was the Toecutter? Oh man. Remember the night rider… I will. Okay I have a (serious) question regarding the kit. The kit exhaust piping seems to represent a “fake” 8-pipe layout, with only one live exhaust pipe per side and dummy pipes the rest of the way. Was the real car this way? The scene where it gets destroyed clearly shows the underside of the car IIRC. |
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Post by tcoat on Mar 11, 2024 12:32:15 GMT -5
Useless Fact (probably known to a lot of you): Immortan Joe was played by the late Hugh Keays-Byrne, who also played the chief villain, "Toecutter", in the original "Mad Max"... Well, this could have been THE movie of 2015: youtu.be/Tj1P1eEZRtYCheers, M Wha~t?! Orangutan Joe was the Toecutter? Oh man. Remember the night rider… I will. Okay I have a (serious) question regarding the kit. The kit exhaust piping seems to represent a “fake” 8-pipe layout, with only one live exhaust pipe per side and dummy pipes the rest of the way. Was the real car this way? The scene where it gets destroyed clearly shows the underside of the car IIRC. In the first movie they were fake (same as the blower). They were cut off when the car was made street legal after the movie. When they found and restored the car for the second movie they installed real zoomie pipes and a functioning blower. Everything was fake on the car they blew up. |
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Post by Real G on Mar 11, 2024 13:41:26 GMT -5
Wha~t?! Orangutan Joe was the Toecutter? Oh man. Remember the night rider… I will. Okay I have a (serious) question regarding the kit. The kit exhaust piping seems to represent a “fake” 8-pipe layout, with only one live exhaust pipe per side and dummy pipes the rest of the way. Was the real car this way? The scene where it gets destroyed clearly shows the underside of the car IIRC. In the first movie they were fake (same as the blower). They were cut off when the car was made street legal after the movie. When they found and restored the car for the second movie they installed real zoomie pipes and a functioning blower. Everything was fake on the car they blew up. Okay, so I could technically leave the kit parts as-is for a "movie accurate" model.  I was mulling how to model an 8-pipe exhaust. So a quick question to the muscle car guys - in real life. how would one route the exhausts? In parallel under the car, or in groups of 4? Or just a pair of main pipes with some kind of manifold at the end? Just in case I decide to tamper with my kit. My mommy drove a V-8, but I only ever puttered around on inline 4s. |
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Post by tcoat on Mar 11, 2024 13:55:57 GMT -5
In the first movie they were fake (same as the blower). They were cut off when the car was made street legal after the movie. When they found and restored the car for the second movie they installed real zoomie pipes and a functioning blower. Everything was fake on the car they blew up. Okay, so I could technically leave the kit parts as-is for a "movie accurate" model. I was mulling how to model an 8-pipe exhaust. So a quick question to the muscle car guys - in real life. how would one route the exhausts? In parallel under the car, or in groups of 4? Or just a pair of main pipes with some kind of manifold at the end? Just in case I decide to tamper with my kit. My mommy drove a V-8, but I only ever puttered around on inline 4s. Zoomies (the real thing) on the front of the car are just separate pipes coming off like an unjoined header. At the rear of the car they are connected to a single pipe that leads to the header. They are not true "zoomie" since they are not sperate pipes.  The kit parts are accurate to the movie cars. |
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Post by Real G on Mar 11, 2024 14:00:04 GMT -5
Thank you Tcoat for the info and pic! My kit has only one continuous pipe, with a bar that holds three “fake” exhausts.
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Post by tcoat on Mar 11, 2024 14:09:29 GMT -5
Thank you Tcoat for the info and pic! My kit has only one continuous pipe, with a bar that hold three “fake” exhausts. I will recheck mine but I am pretty sure sure it is accurate. |
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Post by Real G on Mar 11, 2024 15:22:54 GMT -5
Thank you Tcoat for the info and pic! My kit has only one continuous pipe, with a bar that hold three “fake” exhausts. I will recheck mine but I am pretty sure sure it is accurate. Of course, as someone wiser than myself once told me "When you finish the model, nobody really picks up your kit to look underneath." Some inspiration, from the 2018 IPMS Nats in Phoenix, Az:  This guy nailed the dusty weathering to a tee! |
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Post by tcoat on Mar 11, 2024 17:16:26 GMT -5
I will recheck mine but I am pretty sure sure it is accurate. Of course, as someone wiser than myself once told me "When you finish the model, nobody really picks up your kit to look underneath." Some inspiration, from the 2018 IPMS Nats in Phoenix, Az: This guy nailed the dusty weathering to a tee! Welll... I disagree. That looks like Max took time out of his busy day to run it through a car wash. It needs to be much MUCH dirtier and beat on. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq3dWizigooMy exhaust is the same as yours which means it is modeled either before or after Road Warrior. After the first movie was done they couldn't pay their bills so they gave the car to the mechanic. He cut the pipes off and removed the fake blower, drove it around a while and then just parked it. When they bough it back for the second movie they had more money so went all out and made everything real and working. It is said they took it to almost 800 HP and in the opening scene when he accelerates he really is going that fast. after that movie it was sent to an auto wrecker where it was supposed to be crushed and the working parts were stripped and it sat and rotted. Then it was bought by some dude and it was again rebuilt. Then it kept changing hands for a while. I found the answer to my mystery on why the kit was a combo of the first and second version. It is that rebuild that way! "In terms of the Mad Max films' canon, Fursenko’s changes made the car a combination of styling traits it wore in the films but never at the same time." All they didn't use on the kit was the redone front end. Once it ended up in the US it was changed a bit again including adding the stowage and cargo net rack so they are not really "accurate" to the movie. Even the stowage provided with both versions of the kit are more the museum version than the movie one!  www.drive.com.au/news/the-original-interceptor-from-mad-max-is-up-for-sale-again/Ultimately, what it boils down to is, you can do fairly accurate Road Warrior version of the outside but underneath and inside are free game. You could also do about 6 different versions as the real car went through it's ups and downs. |
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Post by moramartht on Mar 11, 2024 23:30:17 GMT -5
Interesting article. I always meant to go and see it when it was at the "Cars of the Stars" in Keswick (only about an hours' drive away) but kept putting it off and didn't learn of the sale until about a week later. The whole collection disappeared overnight - well, two nights, maybe. A wargaming acquaintance' family was connected with the sellers and he got to go down when the exhibits were being moved out of the display area. It would have been an ideal opportunity for photography but I haven't seen any; my wargamer pal was more interested in getting up close and personal with some items, he got to sit in several including K.I.T.T.! "Cars of the Stars" liked to keep some vehicles street legal and the service/M.O.T/whatever was done somewhere like Cockermouth (I really don't think it was M-Sport UK at Papcastle  ) and the A66 between the two locations is laid along the course of the railway axed by Beeching which made it pretty much the longest flat straight road in Cumbria west of the M6. Which is how the "Black Rats" (Cumbria Roads Policing Unit) got to pull over a genuine Batmobile... Cheers, M |
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Post by tcoat on Mar 12, 2024 10:15:26 GMT -5
Interesting article. I always meant to go and see it when it was at the "Cars of the Stars" in Keswick (only about an hours' drive away) but kept putting it off and didn't learn of the sale until about a week later. The whole collection disappeared overnight - well, two nights, maybe. A wargaming acquaintance' family was connected with the sellers and he got to go down when the exhibits were being moved out of the display area. It would have been an ideal opportunity for photography but I haven't seen any; my wargamer pal was more interested in getting up close and personal with some items, he got to sit in several including K.I.T.T.! "Cars of the Stars" liked to keep some vehicles street legal and the service/M.O.T/whatever was done somewhere like Cockermouth (I really don't think it was M-Sport UK at Papcastle ) and the A66 between the two locations is laid along the course of the railway axed by Beeching which made it pretty much the longest flat straight road in Cumbria west of the M6. Which is how the "Black Rats" (Cumbria Roads Policing Unit) got to pull over a genuine Batmobile... Cheers, M About 10 years ago I was driving down the road with my wife, looked in the rear view mirror and yelled "GET YOUR PHONE OUT QUICK".  |
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Post by tcoat on Mar 16, 2024 22:07:01 GMT -5
Couple of rolled up "blankets" and Calling this busy enough based on the few pics of the interior out there and the upgraded kit instructions.   |
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Post by handiabled on Mar 17, 2024 3:13:05 GMT -5
The additions really make the interior look so much better. From the picture with the body in the background it looked like you got the a-pillar and door opening sorted out.
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Post by deafpanzer on Mar 17, 2024 7:41:49 GMT -5
I really like it now! I totally forgot that it only had one seat. I really need to watch the movie again!
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Post by tcoat on Mar 17, 2024 9:44:04 GMT -5
The additions really make the interior look so much better. From the picture with the body in the background it looked like you got the a-pillar and door opening sorted out. Almost gave up on the door a few ties and I amend my original statement of thinking they used a hack saw to open it to they had to have used a Skill saw! Still working on the greeblies for "detail" but I do have a decent fitting and functioning door. It would not pass muster on a shiny show car but will do just fine on this beat up old girl.  Used some hinges off a junked kit and a piece of tube. Just tacked on here and gaps will get filled once details done.  Base for inner door pan. Will add some stuff for interest but most will be hidden by pouches and manchette anyway.  I really like it now! I totally forgot that it only had one seat. I really need to watch the movie again! There is the jump seat for Dog but you only see it for about 3 seconds in the movie. |
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Post by kyledehart5 on Mar 17, 2024 11:37:36 GMT -5
Fantastic progress!! The interior looks the part. And the door is excellent. Great work.
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Post by tcoat on Mar 17, 2024 11:54:45 GMT -5
Fantastic progress!! The interior looks the part. And the door is excellent. Great work. Thanks. Door is done and whole works is ready for primer.  |
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Post by kyledehart5 on Mar 17, 2024 12:03:38 GMT -5
Sweet. Love the pouches and whatnot.
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Post by tcoat on Mar 17, 2024 13:13:52 GMT -5
Sweet. Love the pouches and whatnot. Not sure how movie accurate they are but they are in the museum car.  |
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Post by tcoat on Mar 17, 2024 15:28:52 GMT -5
Everything primed with black rattle can automotive primer. This will also be the main body colour. Gonna' be plenty sick of black even if I will be using 5 "different" shades/sheens of it. Door fit now that I can actually see it is pretty good. Not perfect but fine for this purpose.  |
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Post by atomicholiday on Mar 17, 2024 15:39:27 GMT -5
Looking good my friend. Looking good! You’re making good progress. 👍
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Post by kyledehart5 on Mar 17, 2024 16:43:21 GMT -5
Well the black primer is already the perfect color. Looking better and better.
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Post by tcoat on Mar 18, 2024 9:41:57 GMT -5
Looking good my friend. Looking good! You’re making good progress. 👍 LOL Would have been done long ago if I hadn't had to spend several hours fixing up the previous owner's work. It is sort of cool to have the opening door though since you can see a bit more inside of what will be the almost completely black abyss of the interior. |
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Post by deafpanzer on Mar 18, 2024 11:56:24 GMT -5
Black is so sexy!
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Post by tcoat on Mar 18, 2024 12:26:56 GMT -5
And look better in the shade. |
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Post by handiabled on Mar 20, 2024 2:11:38 GMT -5
Great looking scratch work on the interior of the door! For what you started with the a-pillar and door this looks fantastic
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Post by 406 Silverado on Mar 20, 2024 5:07:07 GMT -5
FINALLY.......I get the chance to get in here and have a good look at the progress that's going on. This car has always been one of my favorites since the first movie was released. You're doing a great job of replicating the details in that interior Tony!!
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Post by tcoat on Mar 20, 2024 6:01:39 GMT -5
FINALLY.......I get the chance to get in here and have a good look at the progress that's going on. This car has always been one of my favorites since the first movie was released. You're doing a great job of replicating the details in that interior Tony!! Well it is more of a hint of the interior details than a replication but as I have learned throughout this exercise there really isn't any truly accurate overall interior shots of the movie car anyway. As long as there is a bunch of random stuff in there it is close. I love doing random stuff so that fits right in with my abilities. |
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Post by Leon on Mar 20, 2024 6:32:17 GMT -5
This is looking really good Tony!
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Post by tcoat on Mar 20, 2024 9:42:22 GMT -5
This is looking really good Tony! Thanks. The next challenge will be cutting the side windows off the one piece glass insert without destroying the windshield. |
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Post by tcoat on Mar 22, 2024 9:59:11 GMT -5
Chassis detail painting done. Most is all molded solid but at least the paint gives some definition. Factory fresh at this point but won't be for long. I have a question dodgy or any of our down under folks. Just how much underbody/suspension rust could you expect for a roughly 5 year old, desert driven but poorly maintained car? There would be no floor left at all if it was here but I can't find any good references for there.  |
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I was mulling how to model an 8-pipe exhaust. So a quick question to the muscle car guys - in real life. how would one route the exhausts? In parallel under the car, or in groups of 4? Or just a pair of main pipes with some kind of manifold at the end? Just in case I decide to tamper with my kit. My mommy drove a V-8, but I only ever puttered around on inline 4s.
) and the A66 between the two locations is laid along the course of the railway axed by Beeching which made it pretty much the longest flat straight road in Cumbria west of the M6. Which is how the "Black Rats" (Cumbria Roads Policing Unit) got to pull over a genuine Batmobile...
