![]() You can even use the plastic and cardboard that your toy car comes in to create armor plates and other car conversion parts. Plasticard – Any plastic stock will do, from commercial plastic from suppliers like Evergreen and Plastruct to plastic packaging and kitchen trash. Here are the components I keep in my materials drawer.Ī styrene grab bag assortment is a great way to start your collection of plastic stock. I have seen very lovely conversions that were done with little more than paper, thin card, and toothpicks. One of the other attractive things about converting Gaslands cars is that you can use almost any material to create armor, weapons, dozer blades, pungi spikes, and other embellishments. Toothpicks, rubber bands, Q-tips, paper towels, bottle and jug caps, wine corks - You also want to have a supply these on-hand, for stirring, clamping, whipping, blending, holding liquids and parts to be painting, all sorts of uses. Many weaker rotary tools may not be up to the task of “de-posting” (see below), so you might want to use a regular electric drill for that. You will use this for drilling out the posts that hold the cars together, for cutting parts, for sanding, etc. Rotary Tool – The most “exotic” tool you might want to have is a Dremel or other rotary tool. Even cheap craft store brushes and paints work fine. Because of this, painting Gaslands cars is far more forgiving than other forms of miniature painting. ![]() One attractive aspect of Gaslands is that, because it’s post-apocalyptic, most everything is dirty, rusted, broken, and decayed. Paint brushes – You need at least several paint brushes, a sturdy, bigger brush for base coating, one sturdy brush for dry brushing, and a few smaller detail and highlighting brushes. Tweezers – These allow you to pick and place tiny parts and to position slide-transfer decals. If anyone has any further detail on this (or in particular, photos of them in storage), please do get in touch.Jeweler’s Saw – Not a required tool, but a Jeweler’s saw (or hobby saw) can be very useful in cutting off parts of you car you don’t want. Rumour has it that when they were subsequently re-discovered, and at that point they were in fact unfortunately then dismantled / destroyed, there being no likely future use for them at that time. (Page seems to no longer be online, I will archive here in the future.)Īs a final note on these vehicles, it appears that after the promotion work for the film, they were not originally destroyed, but were in fact all put into storage - and apparently remained in storage untouched for many years, forgotten about. Vehicles on the transport train on their way to the set of Thunderdome, you Pictures which you'd like to add, please just contact There must be HEAPS of pictures of these aroundįrom these shows, so if anyone out there has any further information or additional Show in Sydney that year, and were probably also put on display at other I remember this as being odd atĪll of the non film pictures which I have onlineĬurrently are from the 1985 Melbourne Motor Show, where the vehicles were displayed. They were RWD, rather than FWD as in a Swift. The motors were definitely longitudinally mounted, so I guess Look at two of them, and they were powered by Suzuki 3 cylinder motors, ieįrom a Swift GA. Kevin, who saw the vehicles first hand at the Sydney Easter Show, offered the Landcruiser based vehicle I haven't had much more info on this, although someoneĮlse believed that some of the smaller buggies were apparently volkswagon based. Only the basic shells of the original vehicles. Many of the custom vehicles were scratch built, using The car towards the end of the movie where all the lost kids and max climb in the boot is a 1959 Chrysler Royal. Was specially modified (axle base width) to ride the rails, as well asĪll over customisation to give it that "aged and weathered" The plane used by Jebediah (Bruce Spence) is a TransaviaĪgricultural/survey craft, which is unique to Australia. Max's vehicle - probably an F150 based truck. There is a sub-page for that specific vehicle). Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome Vehicles Vehicle listing:
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