Popular Post Jordan Peacock Posted April 1, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted April 1, 2021 In Fallout: Wasteland Warfare's RPG expansion (basically some sparse "roleplay" rules shoehorned into a tabletop miniatures skirmish game, but keeping the underlying mechanics), there's a sample adventure that has, as a very minor "encounter," a robot ice cream vendor/truck that pops up. I can hardly call it an encounter, as it's basically just a blurb of narrative fluff the Overseer (GM) is supposed to read to the players, describing this lonely robot trundling across the wastes, playing an off-kilter jingle, and then ... roll dice to evade, because it BLOWS UP! No stats, no combat, not even a chance to say, "Uh, GM, I'm not just going to stand here and watch as it trundles across the wastes to come to me -- I'm running away, or shooting or something, thankyouverymuch." I don't exactly care for how the "adventure" is presented as a whole. But that doesn't mean I think it's beyond salvage. And, besides, I just liked the idea of a robot ice cream truck. So, here's the truck! It's built on the body of a Happy Meal toy "Paw Patrol" fire engine I picked up at the thrift store, with the body built up via the better part of an empty pill bottle. I used half of a 30mm slotted round-lip Reaper base to cover up the bottle neck hole, and to make a frame for the robot's windshield/face/sensory array (represented via a random 40K vehicle bit I had on hand). On the roof is a Shopkins "ice cream cone" figure that I repainted, plus a mis-cast sci-fi crate lid from Hirst Arts Castlemolds (to serve as a bank of "flashing lights," or so I imagine). The "extending robot arm" is a piece of safety wire, with a thinner-gauge wire wrapped around it, and then some plastic sprue bits on the end to make a "claw-hand," with some epoxy putty to make the "soft-serve swirl cone" it holds. I used some more putty to give the thing round, retro-style headlights, vs. the squarish ones on the toy, and to cover up the "Paw Patrol" logo. For the rear, to cover up the recycling info, etc., on the bottom of the bottle, I used a brittle plastic hatch from Robogear/Tehnolog/Platformer, with the corners trimmed off, and some more putty as gap-filler. For the menu, I found a photo of an old "Dairy Clipper" ice cream truck menu, and did some Photoshoppery to change all the "cents" into "dollars" for some quick Fallout-style inflation. (And, of course, I replaced the "Diary Clipper" logo with the "Happy Freeze" one.) The typeface used for the logo is "Jazz Dark" from FontDiner.com. 24 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KruleBear Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 Now that is scary! Nice mod and cool menu addition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Palmer Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 Wow! This site needs a "Love" reaction icon, not just the "Like"! That is some high quality creativity there; wonderfully executed! Do you happen to have a shot of the base Paw Patrol vehicle, before you started work on it? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great Khan Artist Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 Wait... you guys have Paw Patrol? I thought that was a Canadian exclusive. The truck is amazing, BTW. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aku-chan Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 Fantastic bit of converting, but man that is some expensive ice cream! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan Peacock Posted April 2, 2021 Author Share Posted April 2, 2021 (edited) 4 hours ago, aku-chan said: Fantastic bit of converting, but man that is some expensive ice cream! Fallout prices are like that. $35 for a magazine, $10 for a Nuka-Cola bottle, a Chryslus Corvega (car) costs "only" $199,999.99. @Chris Palmer: Here's an image of the toy--or at least something *extremely* similar. The wheel hubs in this photo don't look quite right, there's more paint detail on the dog's face than was on the actual toy, and something about the side front of the body doesn't seem to line up quite right. The pup driver is a piece that pops out pretty easily. I've got a couple of other vehicles I got in the same "grab bag" at the thrift store (one looks like a tiny garbage truck, another like some sort of "safari" jeep) that I'm probably going to try to convert in similar fashion. (I guess I'll try to turn the mini-garbage truck into some sort of street-cleaning robot. The jeep-like vehicle is similar in build to the "fire truck," and I might turn it into another "vendor-bot.") Edited April 2, 2021 by Jordan Peacock 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Chaoswolf Posted April 2, 2021 Moderator Share Posted April 2, 2021 Very cool conversion! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snitchythedog Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 The robot snake serving cones is wrong on so many levels. I absolutely love it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrift Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 That is so great!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rigel Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 Genius! Love the signage and the rust! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haberfront Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 You did a very well job on that one, and you say you used a paw patrol toy as it's body model? Wow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeepnewbie Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 Very nice conversion. Love stuff like this, that gives new life to old toys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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