"Mc D's happy meal toys..." Topic
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| AVAMANGO | 05 Jan 2014 7:43 a.m. PST |
Ok I have been working on these McDonald's happy meal AT-TE's that I got off E-Bay for £1.00 GBP the pair just before Christmas, I borrowed the idea after seeing the same toys also getting a revamp on Paul's Mini Metal Mayhem blog. link The first thing I had to do was to strip the old paint off by leaving them in a jar of Detol over night and scrubbing them with a old tooth brush and soapy warm water the following day, I then dried them off thoroughly and started to fill in any screw holes and seams with modelling putty, as the wind up keys had been crudely hacked off I had to think of a cover for that area I finally decided to used a drawing pin head and simply pinned it in were the key had originally been. Next I cut and added the brass tubing for the ball mounted defence weapons exactly the same way as Paul mentions in his blog and finally I added the extra long aluminium gun barrels which were purchased from my local model shop. Below is the Auction photo followed by the work I have done to both AT-TE's which still need a lick of paint, I plan on using them for my Ion age space opera Retained knights army I hope you approve, thanks Zac I borrowed these pic's from the Mini Metal Mayhem blog to show the AT-TE's next to some 15mm figures and to show you what Paul has done with one of his AT-TE's.
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Frederick  | 05 Jan 2014 8:24 a.m. PST |
Great use of a toy often consigned to the dustbin! |
 Legion 4 | 05 Jan 2014 9:24 a.m. PST |
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| darthfozzywig | 05 Jan 2014 9:50 a.m. PST |
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Dropzonetoe  | 05 Jan 2014 10:05 a.m. PST |
Very nice work there! The gun replacements really look the part. |
| David Manley | 05 Jan 2014 12:23 p.m. PST |
I have a few of these ferreted away somewhere.I upgraded one with the long gun and the smaller weapons, haven't had time to do the others yet. |
| Chatticus Finch | 05 Jan 2014 5:49 p.m. PST |
Nice find, are any still around at all? |
| AVAMANGO | 05 Jan 2014 7:24 p.m. PST |
@ Chatticus Finch
The original McDonald's promotion finished long go but i went and looked on E-Bay and found these three auctions the last link has a couple of the McDonald's happy meal toys but they are all from the USA and the international shipping kind of kills the cheap appeal of them.
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| No Such Agency | 06 Jan 2014 8:05 a.m. PST |
Nice. I would have probably scavenged the legs for some never-to-be-completed mech projects, myself. These give me painful memories of "new Star Wars"… |
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