| PIPES
(DIE-CAST)
PROJECT #273
CLASSIFICATION: KITBASH
BASE VEHICLE: MATCHBOX TRACTOR TRAILER CAB, TONKA CEMENT MIXER
MEDIA APPEARANCE: "FIVE FACES OF DARKNESS" PART 5, ET AL.
"As Optimus Prime used to say...transform and
roll out!"
Comments: The base vehicle I'd bought
for Pipes had an extra and therefore problematic pair of wheels, but it wasn't
until I started working on Quickmix that
it occured to me I could improve both projects by sawing the trucks in half
and swapping parts. The original smoke stacks were also far too puny,
so I chopped them off and replaced them with parts I carved out of a model
kit parts tree. (In a moment of whimsy, I also drew the Microman logo
on the sides of the cab. Hey, that's how they draw him in the
cartoon.) |
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