[grizzerr]

LG....I found it funny........

 

[USMCWayne]

What was the question? :erm

Out here, in America's outback/bush/wilderness, there's a lot of little museums, craft, and western stores.

I always do a double take, whenever I pass by some stores display window, and see a covered wagon or other western display.

So far, I haven't seen anything that would pass as 1/6th, but there sure have been items than gave me pause.

For example, there's currently a large wooden wagon sitting in a window downtown.

It seems to be a bit too large to be considered 1/6th, but I'm tempted to take a horse and/or figure down there to see just how close the scale is to 1/6th.

...and, even if it isn't, maybe I can find out who built the thing and have them build me a 1/6th wagon.

 

[laughinggravy2]

laughinggravy2

-yawn-

Might want to get that checked. Folks may think you're starting another crystal-clear thread.

 

[laughinggravy2]

Wayne,

What kind of wagon are we talking here? Like a buckboard?

 

[USMCWayne]

Much, much bigger than the Marx-type buckboard.

More like a wagon as seen at the beginning of Dances With Wolves, driven by the buckskinner that helped Costner transport supplies to "his post".

 

[laughinggravy2]

Ah, ok, it's starting to flesh out. The Marx wagon is undersized, anyway, so what you're looking at is probably actually a true scaled freight wagon or close to it. I'll have to find a copy of DWW to refresh my rememorizer on what Timmons had. Maybe a Charles Ingall's type wagon like from Little House on the Prairie?

Anything Conestoga sized would be obnoxiously large...but probably a ton-o-fun.

 

[USMCWayne]

Maybe a bit undersized, but still a pretty decent starting point.

http://www.onesixthwarriors.com/forum/showthread.php?t=38924&highlight=beauchemin

I think I'll go take a picture of that wagon in the window.

 

[laughinggravy2]

Maybe a bit undersized, but still a pretty decent starting point.

Oh, absolutely and without a doubt. As a matter of fact, Plasticpanzers used a Marx wagon to make a german field wagon and it came out great. Sorry if I came across as poo-pooing the Marx wagon. I think the Marx wagon is perfect for a light wagon or even a buggy type affair.

But, if it's a more realistic work or freight type wagon you want, it'd be almost twice as big. Which is a bit sobering when you think that what we've known and thought was good enough as the hobby standard is actually so underscaled.

How much is that waaa-gon in the wiiin-dow....

 

[Steve O.]

While TDY to Bolivia in '99 my Buddy and I were taken to a carnival that, among other things, featured miniature furniture, utensils, and the like. As PD noted earlier: "now that I know what they'd work with..."

Diesaturbn I agree with your comment on Hasbro accessories ;-).

 

[Tweezers]

There's an electronic, articulating velociraptor in the 'JP: The Lost World' line by Kenner, code name "Snap Jaw" (# 71118; from 1996) that provides a nice accurate (about 6-scale-feet, nose-to-tall) scale counterpart to a 1/6 dino hunter bash ('Turok' anybody?). Stands about 'german shepherd' size next to a 12" AF. Tends to be a little HTF, and pricey in the box, but I've landed a few cheap in loose JP figure lots.

Here's a pic of one on eBay (not my listing....)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6065168661

GR
Pittsburgh

 

[Steve O.]

There's an electronic, articulating velociraptor in the 'JP: The Lost World' line by Kenner, code name "Snap Jaw" (# 71118; from 1996) that provides a nice accurate (about 6-scale-feet, nose-to-tall) scale counterpart to a 1/6 dino hunter bash ('Turok' anybody?). Stands about 'german shepherd' size next to a 12" AF. Tends to be a little HTF, and pricey in the box, but I've landed a few cheap in loose JP figure lots.

Here's a pic of one on eBay (not my listing....)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6065168661

GR
Pittsburgh

I'm picturing Adventure Team in all of their fuzzy-headed, khaki-garbed glory in a "Hunt for the Lost World" boxed set. There's no way he would escape their Kung Fu Grips! :thumb