Judean People's Front Gun Car. Finished pics pg4.

[NARSES2]

*Which also featured Johnny Red, about a British pilot flying a Hurricane with the Soviets inn WW2.  I remember one strip which featured character being tortured by placing a cage of starving rats on his stomach...

That was quite a popular system of torture around that time. Saw it in numerous cartoon strips and even a couple of films set in medieval England and Louis XIV era France for some reason ?

[Nick]

In the comic strip that inspired this (which I have still not been able to identify - it may have been in Battle Action comic in the late seventies*) the cars had similar protection along the sides with bars or grilles fixed across the windows.

There was a short lived strip in Eagle in the late 80s featuring Matchbox RoadBlasters. The idea was that you read the comic and then bought the cars and bases.
https://comicvine.gamespot.com/roadblasters/4060-58807/

Very much a grasp at straws for a struggling Matchbox, it was the standard range of cars with the plastic parts changed to fit big guns on top.
http://www.madmaxmodels.com/roadblasters.html

[scooter]

getting more and more  Car Wars
What a blast back the 80's this is becoming

Wonder what scale map you'd need to use this as a mini

[zenrat]

With a build like this knowing when to stop adding stuff can be an issue.
I could easilly keep adding reinforcing tubes and plates, spikes, sawtooth rams, tyre slashers, cable cutters, gouging bars and so on and so forth but I think i'll keep this one fairly minimal and stop here.

66 Hino Contessa WIP 12-12-2021 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

[Dizzyfugu]

The "Bumper Car From Hell"! 

[Old Wombat]

The "Bumper Car From Hell"! 

[buzzbomb]

That's minimal 

[zenrat]

It will get wheels, an armour plate to protect the rear cooling grille, and flaps with slots in over the view holes.

[NARSES2]

Oh that really is now looking the part 

Used to love the Bumper Cars as a kid 

[Old Wombat]

That's minimal 

Well, "minimal" is a relative term, BT. Just imagine where he could have taken this!

[scooter]

That's minimal 

Well, "minimal" is a relative term, BT. Just imagine where he could have taken this!

Still needs a bronze statue head on the hood

[tigercat]

Don't want to overload the base chassis

If he went Maximum Overdrive the poor thing would handle like a shopping cart crossed with a snail .

[zenrat]

Painted.  I'm calling this Urban Choc Chip with Caramel Sauce.
Hino Contessa WIP 28-12-2021 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

[NARSES2]

Looking good mate

[Dizzyfugu]

Nice, almost elegant.