I finally made some progress on the third of my “Pixar to Post-Apocalyptic” terrain conversions. This one was originally a “Flo’s V8 Cafe” set, but most of the elements of the signage were missing, so I decided to “re-brand” it. I used the plastic “globe” topper from an old Safari Ltd “Toob” toy set, some Reaper 45mm round plastic bases, some wooden chopsticks, and some leftover plastic “raft,” along with some “pink stuff” foam board and several printed elements (arranged in Photoshop) to transform this into a Poseidon Energy “Power Center,” serving cars powered by gasoline, fusion, electric, or hydrogen. (Pricing on the sign is based on canon pricing for gasoline and fusion coolant in the Fallout games. I had to make up pricing for electric and hydrogen. Hydrogen-powered cars aren’t even canon … but I “needed” something to put in that sixth spot, to maintain some semblance of symmetry.)
In the Cars universe, Flo’s V8 Cafe was a gas station … because cars use gas as fuel, hence food. Visually, I thought it was a brilliant merger of not only the idea of a drive-in restaurant (a la A&W and Sonic drive-ins) but also a conventional gas station, but then ON TOP OF THAT, working in the V8 engine imagery. I’ve got to hand it to Pixar. 
But for Fallout purposes, I just imagined that it’s a fuel-up center that has “engine” imagery for purely aesthetic reasons, and that the central area would be the “cafe” – or, in this case, I re-branded it as the “Vend-O-Mart” – or just a spot for vending machines, so this place could be fully self-service.
Originally, the toy had a top portion that popped open clamshell-style on an obnoxiously-large hinge. I decided to remove the hinge, replace it with an “AC unit,” remove any “furniture” elements bolted down in the top area, glue the roof on, then move those “furnishings” to the otherwise empty main floor area (which for whatever reason is made with a gear and turntable arrangement). I left the screws out to affix the main building shell in place so I could remove it for easier access to the room interior. What was once an ice box for cans of OIL (chilled oil is tasty for anthropomorphized cars?) became an ice cream serving unit (how exactly you pay for and get your ice cream treat, I’m not sure, but it’s THE FUTURE, so I’m sure there’s some overly-complex mechanism that you could wrestle with to get your 210±year-old frozen-and-probably-irradiated treat). Some strange dispenser with three clear bubble tops and three handles … I have NO IDEA what that’s supposed to be, but it looks retro-futuristic, so in it goes!
And then there’s some space for some standing vending machines, so I put those in there, and a trash can in the middle.
Now, one thing that occurred to me is that this station was sorely lacking “facilities.” I have the same problem with my Plasticville O-scale gas station (which I turned into another Poseidon-Energy-branded station). I happened to have a box of mis-prints from a friend, and that included a couple of incomplete cockpit frame sections that I put together to make a little chamber, with a piece of PLA raft on top for a roof.
But what to do with such a tiny structure? Aha! Public “Gotta-Go” (brand) pay-lavatory! I made a sign out of another section of wooden chopstick, two more 45mm round Reaper Miniatures bases (I got several of them by accident – wrong diameter!), and I did some more photoshoppery to come up with a sign. Motto: “When you gotta go, you Gotta-Go!”
I think I’m going to go back and make a price display for my older Poseidon “Fuel & Fusion” station. (Well, I suppose I could just use the same sign out front. It’s removable for transport/storage, and I don’t imagine that I would need BOTH stations on the board at the same time.)
So … that leaves the Casa Del Tires for next time. The more I look at it, the more I think I may just leave it “Casa Del Tires” rather than trying to turn it into a doughnut shop. (For one thing, it has a nice light-up “Casa Del Tires” sign, and I’d hate to needlessly destroy that for a conversion.)