A few weeks ago Tremors came up in a thread and I mentioned that I built Val and Earl's Jeep Gladiator after seeing the movie in 1990. That means I was 14 when I built the model. The Jeep in the movie had a more narrow bed but my model wasn't really screen-accurate anyway because I was more into the general idea mixed with some of my own ideas. I had a friend who was a Star Trek nerd and he drove me nuts with the minutia of screen-accurate and screen inaccurate details on his Klingon warbirds and whatnot. I found my old model and here it is. I am tempted to find a graboid sculpture so that I can build a proper Tremor's diorama.
This is the same kind of Matchbox model I used fo the build. The model is ca 1/72 scale.

I made the truck look a lot more dilapidated looking than the one in the movie. I even m, muddied up the windshield and I added wiper marks. The tailgate on the movie prop had a wooden tailgate and no chain but I liked the chain.
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This is the same kind of Matchbox model I used fo the build. The model is ca 1/72 scale.

I made the truck look a lot more dilapidated looking than the one in the movie. I even m, muddied up the windshield and I added wiper marks. The tailgate on the movie prop had a wooden tailgate and no chain but I liked the chain.


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