Hope to rejoin this year. One of my first games and I have missed its campy humor ever since.

The hippie van above is 1:25 scale. I had the old friends installed in my jy and the size was perfect.

Laseriffic has an awesome topper

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Working on a maisto samba bus. It was one of the orange ones, first I removed the windows. I used carburetor cleaner to remove the orange paint and soften the white powder coated paint. I then used a Sheetrock sponge to sand it and create rusted areas. I used some testers model paint mixed with a little paint thinner to paint the bottom section blue. Once it dried I used the sponge/sandpaper to crest some lighter sections again. I then used some flat rust color model paint again mixed with paint thinner to lightly wash and create a rusted look. Wiping some of the excess around to "dirty" up the white. I also used some matte clear coat paint to fog up the glass and then used some double sided tape to put it back in place. I plan to use some LEDs from Mezel mods to create make the bus glow when the flasher goes off. I am also going to try to do some headlights and a break light. I will post pictures once it's in the game.

(I also removed the seats and glued the front wheels down)

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Here is the bus installed. The headlights and interior go off with the gi lights. The interior is a slow color changer, and head lights are ones I found on eBay. I also wired a red led on the back of the bus so when the lock on the bus ramp goes on the brake lights turn on while the go goes out.

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Painted up a new van for my junk yard. It was really fun painting the rust effect, I also lit the headlights and color changer inside mounted to the rag top, similar to the one in my last junk yard.

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