ArtBoy54
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fantastic!!Someone gave me another of those artist's mannequins, so I decided to make another Trumpton Mayor, this time in scale with my other figures, as opposed to the small one I made years ago.
fantastic!!Someone gave me another of those artist's mannequins, so I decided to make another Trumpton Mayor, this time in scale with my other figures, as opposed to the small one I made years ago.
Absolutely phenomenal what do these figures actually look like before you alter them ?Someone gave me another of those artist's mannequins, so I decided to make another Trumpton Mayor, this time in scale with my other figures, as opposed to the small one I made years ago.
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glad you've been enjoying the thread!!I wanted to say I've really enjoyed reading this thread. A few months back I thought, I fancy re-creating a screen accurate recreation of the opening and closing scene of the Camberwick Green music box, light, magnifying glass books etc... well as screen accurate as I could get it. Work still in progress. After reading about KevinD's excellent re-creations of the characters and vehicles, I've got somewhat side tracked in obtaining some of the Marx, Tri-ang, Sindy etc. toys with a view to mod them as required to be 'reasonably' screen accurate too.
Most of the metal trucks seem to be pretty rusty these days so stripping off the old paint will be my first job while I ponder how best to extend the roof of the original Marx tow truck to transform it into Crockett's tow truck. I think they must have built two Crockett's trucks, as the version shown Chigley has the original brown trim round the headlight and stuck on brown cardboard hubcaps unlike the gleaming chrome on the Camberwick Green and Trumpton truck.
I also started looking at the opening and closing 'clown' credit scrolling machine. If you piece together all the credits they would have needed a credit scrolling contraption that was around 50cm high! So much for the Harrop clown musical box being anywhere near accurate.
I think that's a very good theory for the book! only problem is that because it's a public domain story, you'd have to sift through hundreds of different versions to find the right one. I've looked through a few and I've seen some that are very close, but not exact.
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I'll find the prop list for you shortly
Thank you so much for the vehicle list a few there I wasn't aware of.and here’s the big prop listView attachment 1818209
each has a picture of the base vehicle, the vehicle as it appeared in the series, and a list of modifications made to it for its on-screen appearance
I think the two Sindy cars are the same prop, they probably just modified it between episodes (I don’t think it ever appears in Mr Crockett’s possession again. The black roof also disappears by Chigley for whatever reason, as well as the windshield as it started to droop inward after some time).Thank you so much for the vehicle list a few there I wasn't aware of.
Regarding the Sindy car, there seems to be two vehicles used. One with a black folding roof which was modified to have an opening drivers door which you only ever see from the front or the passenger side. The other which has the original red roof and non-opening doors that is first seen in episode 3 of Camberwick Green. Dr Mopp must have done well for himself, he's changed the '1901 number plate to 'MOP1'. Also in Chigley, it appears that chippy Minton must have sold his van to Mr Caraway for the Broken Bridge episode. Is the jury still out on this one. To me it has more than a look of a Bedford CA van about it or maybe a Ford Transit MK1.