Hm. Does the new forum not show thumbnails anymore?

Bexley

Hm. Does the new forum not show thumbnails anymore?

It looks like your link goes to a formatted webpage. If you just want to show the picture, you need to link the image file.

Durrrrrp! Thanks! I should have caught that.

Max is from Andrea (they call him "Outback Avenger") and the boy is from Pegaso's Medieval Children Set #2, with some converting to make him look a bit more like the feral boy from Mad Max 2. The shovel is from the Italeri tool shop. The rest is all scratchbuilt.

Very cool, I like it!

also +10win for fallout reference in the poster

Cosmic J

Very cool. He's listed as 54mm - I had my fingers crossed that he would be in scale w/ the Aoshima Interceptor kit. It's an excellent sculpt and likeness so I'll probably get one anyway. ;D Impressive paint job and groundwork, especially for the scale.

You know, what's really frustrating, is that it's pretty close. The figure is actually ~64mm. If he were standing upright instead of walking he'd be 65-66mm. Which scales out to about 5 feet 1.5 inches. A little on the short side for Max. About another 5mm taller, and it would be doable. I considered converting him into a driver, though, so that his height wouldn't be as obvious.That might work.

smeagol the vile

also +10win for fallout reference in the poster

Heh. In a previous iteration of this contest, the theme was "The Patriot." I did a US soldier who survived the nuclear war, wandering the wastes with an American flag and a Fat Man/Mini-Nuke.

I wana see pics of that kit, if you havem.

As far as that scale issue, I wouldn't worry so much.  Atleast to me, since the face isnt made to look EXACTLY like Mel's, actually doent look at all, it just looks like someone's take on mad max, as opposed to mel's take, so it wouldn't necessarily have to be the same size.

I'm curious about the urban setting.  All the Mad Max stuff was set in the post apocalyptic waste land.

I thought so too ntill I watched the first again.  go watch the first movie again

Feral child is not in the first movie.

Quite true but this is scifi your allowed a bit of creative imput

It's not based on a particular scene or anything. I watched the movie recently, and there's not really any location that is easily identifiable in a small space. There's a quonset hut in the refinery, but I didn't really want to do an entire quonset hut just to support two figures, and just doing a small part of it might have not made it obvious what it was. I wanted a more interesting backdrop than simply  "the outback" that I could build in the short two-week time frame of the contest. I sort of pictured it as the remains of an old gas station/convenience store, like some of the "last gas" places we used to have in the western deserts here.

I think you did a great job capturing the mood of the films even if not any particular scene. The figures look terrific and the facade looks run down enough to be something left standing from the war.

And Smeagol has a sharper eye than me, I didn't notice the 'Fallout' poster until he pointed it out. Nice touch.