He brings death to the worthless with his terrible cigarette of doom. “Look into my fag-end,” he says, and the weak and feeble die of second-hand paranoia within minutes, their lungs turned to charcoal and their brains… well, it makes no difference to the deep-fried Mars bars they were replaced with when ASH took their lives over.
Anyway. A couple of years ago I bought some stuff on eBay just after Halloween because I wanted it to make book covers and other things of nastiness and depravity. One of those things was a bag of beads shaped like skulls that were near-enough 1/24th scale. They were intended as beads for Goth decorations so they had holes drilled right through them.
So I rammed a red LED up the lower hole of one of them (fnarr) and drilled through his teeth like a more-demented-than-usual dentist and rotated the LED until I got the best light and then mixed up the Araldite and…
Ghost Rider had a fairly muscular body but a skull for a head. Since I have not found a decent 1/24th skeleton I might just go with that. The main point is that with the LED in his head, the wires can come out anywhere. Even his feet. I can now have a 1/24th scale smoker standing alone with no sign of the source of his cigarette’s light. Unlike the political bollocks of ‘lessons will be learned’ I can now state ‘lessons have been learned and acted upon’. Funny, we never seem to hear that on the news.
Now the LED is in the model head. In this case the head is pre-holed so my choice was to take ages filling and filing the top or stick a hat on it. I have hats. For other, solid, heads, drilling for the LED would be a better choice but it won’t work for lasers. LEDS have to rotated to get the best light before fixing because you’re taking light from the side. Lasers have to be straight-on.
There is a body but I might change it.
This one has bare arms but there is another with a Freddie Kruger shirt that might work better.
If I can’t get a bike then it has to be a truck. Or a Mk 1 Fiesta painted with Hammerite.
Shared on farcebook, old man. Brilliantly droll, I take off my hat to you…(and there’s no aradlited hole in my head, too.)
It came out nice. With Christmas just around the bend a lifesize display for the front yard having all of Rudolph, Santa, the Elves and the entire Baby Jesus Manger set up – and ALL (even Baby Jesus) with holes drilled in their teeth and lighted life-size cigs hanging out their mouths would be another great way to scare everyone on the block. Adding one of those stage-fog machines that bellows huge clouds of PG vapor would only add to the amusement of watching the faces of the passers-by. Smoking man’s car came out looking nice too.
I recall that AMT had a couple of 1/24 skeletons as part of their L’il Coffin and Boot Hill Express custom car kits back in the day; you may still be able to get them on line.
I’ve just won ‘Billys Bike’ from Easyrider in 1/24which looks quite cool, but if you will need space for wires, you may need to try a full dress FLH with the saddlebags and all.
I can get some really, really thin wires (thin enough to get down an N gauge lamp post). LEDs use so little power that thin wire is fine, I could even run it down a 1/24th scale spinal column. Alternatively, replace some handrails or similar with brass and run the power through those. At 3 volts, there’s no danger.
Leggy, I drink rum, you drink whiskey, but other than that, are you SURE we are not related?
My family is from all over the place, I’m probably even related to someone in those Amazonian tribes who haven’t made contact with the outside world.