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Fantastic Maus! I love the posters especially!

Figured you would Dave, them being fallout posters and all

 cormadepanda wrote:
FIrst Place!
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MauS wrote:She's done! My entry, my preciousss... More pictures in my gallery, feel free to vote guys an galls...
And if i say so myself, she's pretty bad-ass...

I WON! I ACTUALLY WON!! WOOOHOOOOO!!!!!

well deserved mate... I would have been truly surprised if you model wouldn´t have reached the winning spot....

Congrats on the win Mausoleum, well deserved I won't be able to come to your thread without screaming "Akira"

Gratz Maus! Well deserved there! All the little details were really worth it dude!

Thanx guys, now stop making me blush... I myself was pretty sure Ashotninja's EDF command squad would steal first place for sure. I just love his work, its so clean and detailed.

Got myself a construction crane today at a shop called Action. It was just two bucks, standing at nearly 60 cm in height. I have still to unpack it, but i'm sure i can make something of it... More on that later, for now i'm building myself more garbage

ooh show me the set! I saw something similar at S-mart for $10

Shop smart, shop S-mart.

Its a pretty simplistic thing, but after working some magic i just think it might work, and seriously, for that cheap a price, even in pieces it would be usefull:

That looks about like what I saw too! The girders themselves are amazing bitz to play with!

Its a bit too big in scale, looks about 1/35 or maybe even 1/28... the cockpit itself coould hold a model fully standing, but is supposed to be a seat. It can easily be reworked, its just two screws to open. Built a new cockpit, adjust some details and you have a huge crane.

Looks like a good deal for just two bucks...

40k vehicles are closer to 1/35 scale really. You can't buy plastruct girders for $2.

Exactly... I think its a good deal, so if its the same thing over there (cant find a brand name on it anywhere) go buy it! twice, or more! Work some steingass magic on it!

That's an awesome find for $2! I had two of them that I had found at a thrift store and my wife and mother in law decided to clean out my hobby area for me when I was in the Marines.... They obviously weren't in their right minds... anyway, there is a construction playset at Toys R Us for around $40 with one but I'm not diggin' the price.

Thats way too pricy indeed Rustbucket... Thrift shops, dollar stores, or in my case euro-shops or Action usually have interesting stuff, especially with the economy in ruins and the holidays coming up. So if, like me, you have a steady income, its nice to be able to profit from a ruined economy. Then again, the economy everywhere is picking up except in holland i believe... We have the wrong government for growth, the guys here still think we need to cut down on everything. But in this cxase, today, it helps lol...

Fortunately for me, I do have a pretty good job working for John Deere. The downside is that I'm a contract engineer so no feelings of job security! But the money is good. Not having to stretch the dollars like we used to have to do in our family for a while is a great thing! Also, I don't have to hide my hobby purchases anymore which is nice What blew me out of the water the other day was with our govt's hell care system (Obama Care) - my wife looked up what our monthly premium would be for 4 out of 5 of us and and the cost was 3x the amount I used to pay! Around $550/ mo. And that was with the govt assistance!!! Crazy.

we have a playmobil crane at home...we´ll probably sell it on ebay... its even motorised...my kids never would allow me to use it...but i often had thought about such a project...

for 2€ maus this is a steal...really...the amount of plastic even is exceeding that price by far...wow...

Tell the kids that it's going towards the Viktorian War Effort... they'll understand

i doubt it dave... usually they are very helpful and providing... but as they currently use this crane as a sort of makeshift elevator.... no chance^^... beside i would have serious pangs of guilt hacking up playmobil...
cheap ones like maus has...that would be no problem at all tho

Agreed... the crane is a beast compared to models and even my three story buildings... I might just get a few more just to hack up. This one i'll try to build into a decent crane. I measured the cabin a bit, and a gi-joe action figure would be about the right size for the seat. A bit big, so i'll certainly have to either close it all up, or rebuild the cockpit.
Unfortunately when i tried to separate the pieces i discover these (probably chinese or taiwanese) screws immediately get all screwed up. I'll have to break her open...

Yeah Playmo is more 3 3/4" GI Joe scale. A lot of guys use Playmo stuff for that scale conversions.

i used to do the same with my playmobil camper. It soon became an armoured car. never thought of using my train though... nice one Vik.

That was a strange out of scale licensed HO train set produced in the early 80s, this guy used the Playmo trains to build one to scale

And there I thought playmobil was smaller in scale than gi Joe... Looks really neat...I used to have a playmo trainset in my childhood...

Well, they are a bit smaller, but the vehicles and playsets are designed for little hands to easily fit figures inside, leaving plenty of room for GI Joe helmets and gear and what-not.

I just happened to have my Code Name: Bazooka figure and a Playmobil musket here handy...

oh.... the only GI Joe stuff i ever had in my hands ...well in my memeory...foggy as it is ... i recall them to be bigger... but with that pic... no point in argueing over facts proven by pic

and...ach... i loved those guns...i had them all for my pirates vs redcoats battles

I think you mean the action man sized gi joes Vik... They are indeed very different, but also called GI Joe...

Action Man/Action Force was the UK license. 12" came first 1960s-1970s, then there was a brief failure of 8" figures during the oil crisis in the late 70s, until the 3 3/4" line came out in the early 80s to compete with Kenner's T-crotch Star Wars line.

well... not much action figures in my yuth i came across... of course i had the odd kenner star wars mini... but my mum was dead against all that so called nonsense...argh...

p.s....(whispers) my kids get the two lego jabbas palace kits for christmas...don´t tell them^^

That's a great (2) kits! Although Max Rebo (the piano player) is only in Jabba's Barge set (I'm hoping for that one for Christmas myself )