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10-11-2014, 11:47 AM
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Thanks, guys.
I collect paper-modells since years and have a pretty vast collection by now. If you look for a special model, just ask me. When I was young, I build nearly everything, what the German printers Wilhelmshavener and Schreiber had to offer. Ships, planes and others. Now I collect TAXIs in every material and scale! Building some themself is quite a challenge. I build a couple of models for friends of mine, like the Mercedes C-Class (1990th), the Mercedes E-Typ or the Ford Transit Connect. At the moment I'm finishing a FIAT Siena as Rio-de-Janeiro-Taxi after fotos of a friend of mine over there. And I'm working on an OPEL Omega 2.0i Caravan, which was MY OWN TAXI around 1995! I would love to exchange and share models with all of you. 
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10-11-2014, 04:14 PM
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A coincidence, as the 1949 movie "On the Town" was on TV recently. The taxi in that film seemed like it would be a very nice model. It's an American sedan of that era, dark red with black/yellow checkered trim.
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10-11-2014, 05:24 PM
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to VegaTaxi! you have a very nice collection in you taxi paper models cars are you planning to make a concept version of a taxi? or a futuristic one of your own creation! skills?
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#16
10-12-2014, 04:50 AM
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By now, I did only models for some of my friends.
And some others I painted new as Taxis. And recontructed them with extraparts. But I allways wanted to build a model from an US-Taxi-prototype 'Troy' witch is - for me - the ideal taxi right now! Looks oldfashioned but practical. A workplace! A Taxi has to be realiable, cheap in repare and consumption, and comfortable for the customers as for the driver. For example: The famous London-Cab ist terrible for the driver to spend 12 hours a day behind the wheel! Or a German E-Class is uncomfortable for the elderly customers. //img.welt.de/img/motor/crop100532549/3180714356-ci3x2l-w580-aoriginal-h386-l0/ny-taxi-DW-Sonstiges-New-York.jpg
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10-12-2014, 10:13 AM
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In the movie 'On the Town' it is a Chrysler Windsor of 1947!
I do have that car as die-cast-model in a scale 1:43! Together with the movie screenshots it should be possible to construct a papermodel! If I finished my FIAT Siena Rio-de-Janeiro-Taxi I start working on that cab. If I can share pictures, I'll let you be part of that construction. And later I'll share it with you! Actually I started to produce a Site with 'Taxis in the movies'! There are great ones with taxis in the mainrole (like 'Collateral' or '28 Days Later') but many movies with just a siderole, but beautiful cars. Let's see.
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10-12-2014, 01:12 PM
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I think it is at ten posts that you can 'post photos', but if you use 'Post Reply' instead of 'Quick Reply', you can post photos as attachments.
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10-13-2014, 02:00 AM
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It should make int a beautiful model.
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