"need help w "Rollerball" (real one), Punkinhead Figures" Topic

I'm trying to find colorful "Zombies and humans" for my Zombie table that have a little history in NW Arkansas. I allready found a Sonny Liston, and Cane fans will rejoice that Larry Coker is now a zombie and back home. I really really want to find Jonathon E.(James Caan-Rollerball) (the man that wrote story and screenplay is a professor at Uof A also wrote "Mountains of the Moon"). I scratchbuilt him once for an IPMS contest in 1/12, but have found nothing close in small scale (Tried some Prieser skaters, botched it). I can't believe I've never seen anything for this subject! Also "Punkinhead", and "Tuco" from GB and the Ugly. Thanks, guys. Oh, and the Soylent Green type people dump truck (has Arkansas roots).

There are several Tucos out there: Artizan AWW001; Foundry OW4/2 and VOW232; and HLBSCo SW5.

Not familiar with anyone named "Punkinhead" in GBU. Or do you mean the monster "Pumpkinhead" from that series of B-movies?

A few of us would like to see a mini of Jonathan E, if the following TMP threads are anything to go by:

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Some suggestions for minis to modify in those threads.

As for the Soylent Green Riot COntrol truck, you'll need to find a White 1500 garbage or dump truck in the right scale and make some modifications:
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I don't think anyone makes a White 1500 truck of the right model; you might have to find a similar flat-faced truck and make something that "looks right" using sheet styrene.

Cool, the Internet Movie Car Database shows that the White 1500 garbage truck, without mods, was also used in many other movies, including Peckinpah's The Getaway and Schwarzenegger's Commando. Neat!

So many great movie cars are near impossible to obtain. I had to scratch/convert build three 1952 F-1s (The Sanford "Junk Truck", and even to get photos of the actual truck required personal photos from William Mayo and the Rev. Demond Wilson!!!). The damn producers and directors of S and Son didn't even know the right model (they claimed 1948 Mercury!!!!). That model won every contest it was in :). My Al Bundy "Dodge" (actually a Duster)was as accurate as possible, and the Mopar and Chrysler sponsered contests were OFFENDED!!) The hardest ever is the Rockford Firebird "Espirit", no model even close enough to convert. One cool one from my youth was the Malachi Brothers Demolition Edsel. They sent me an autograghed pic with the car. I need to go back to the "Craft House" Hobbies in WPB to get pics, all my movie cars are in their display cases. . Ahhh, long timew since I talked movie cars :(, but I have a 1/48 scale Winnebago, and if I find the figs, "The Good 'ole Boys" may be Zombie hunters. Anyway, Rollerball is my favorite movie, every few Halloweens I don one of the original prop costumes and do Guava Ween. God, how I wish that was a real sport!! The old "Houston Fist to the Face" got me some steep fines from the NCAA back in the college tennis days (I think I still owe the fines for the U of Akron "tragedy" :)

Heh! Well, if you ever do get pics, definitely post them somewhere. I love seeing modelers' interpretations of movie and TV cars. Probably stems from the 3 or 4 Batmobiles and Monkeemobiles that I built and blew up back in the '60s.

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And, yeah, Rollerball (the original, of course) is one of my top 10 sci-fi movies of all time, too.