Gaslands - The next to the last of the V8 Interceptors

A piece of history.

 I know that it's not the most interesting looking car for Gaslands, but I really wanted  a Ford Falcon XB in my stable of cars in honor of Mad Max, so I built this one.  Of course, it doesn't have a blower or extra fuel tanks, but maybe the next one will.  I lifted the wheels a bit as they seemed too low for what I was going for, and I'm pretty pleased with how the dust effect turned out.

The wastelands are a dusty place.

Glass in the rear window is for chumps.

Gaslands - Riding the Wastelands part 5: My first completed car

As often seems to be the case with me, the thing that I started last is the first to be completed.  The car that I accidentally stepped on and had to repair  is now painted and ready to roll.  I give you 5 views of my first Gaslands car, The Skull Crusher (not a very original name, I know).  It's got that Mad Max feel that I was going for.  Overall, I'm pretty happy with how the car turned out, and I think that it ended up even better than my pre-stepping on it concept.

There were a lot of holes to patch...

The Skull Ram!

Hand made large caliber bullet holes

Everyone needs a skull on their boot

Not bad for my first try

Gaslands - Riding the Wastelands part 4: Ready to paint

Well, I now have 3 cars primed and ready for painting, although I'll admit that the middle one feels like a bit of a cheat, even though I added the mini-gun and hood skull. :-)

Gaslands - Riding the Wastelands Part 3: Ready to paint and happy accidents (2 cars!)

So I've primed my first Gaslands car and dry-fitted it to make sure that everything is good prior to painting it.  I think that it looks pretty cool with a flamethrower on the hood and a giant turbo-bosted engine in the rear.  I think that it looks good, but it doesn't quite have the Mad max feel that I was hoping for.  Still, I'm looking forward to painting it. 

As for the more Mad Max feel, I got that on another car quite by mistake.  I had a plan for making a '69 Mustang into a car with giant speakers on it and a skull ram.  I was well on my way to realizing my vision of a death-metal racer when disaster struck (or so I thought).  I had stripped down the car and drilled out holes for all of the accessories.  Then I stepped on the car...  Quite by accident, but man was I bummed out.  The roof bent and one of the roof pillars snapped off.  I'd had this happen to my Hot Wheels cars a few times when I was a kid, and that was generally the end of them.  But this time I got to thinking.  Those dudes in the wastelands wouldn't just scrap their car when it got jacked up.  After the apocalypse, there aren't going to be factories building new cars, so they would have to fix what they had.  In that spirit, I started on a revised plan for the car, and this is what I ended up with.  First, I made new roof pillars.  Then I added patches over the big holes.  I added a few bullet holes in the passenger side door, and replaced all of the glass with wire mesh.  I even gave it the ram that I'd planned to use for the original design.  Strangely enough, I'm liking this car better than what I had originally planned!  I'm really looking forward to getting this one primed and painted, maybe even more than the first car.

Gaslands - Riding the Wastelands: Part 2

Well, progress has been made.  I've stripped the paint from the car, and primed the interior black.  Now comes the hard part, actually deciding how to build the car back up for my first Gaslands car.  Fuel tanks?  Guns?  Spikes?  All of the above?  So many choices...

Miniatures Monday (Riding the Wastelands)

I've begun work on my cars for Gaslands.  Several years ago, I picked up a few Hot Wheels cars intending to muse them in a larger scale game of Car Wars.  Sadly, that never happened, but with the release of Mike Hutchinson's Gaslands from Osprey Wargames, those cars have been given new life!  When I was a young boy, I'd have gotten into a lot of trouble for doing this to my Hot Wheels cars.  Being an adult does have some advantages. ;-)

Right now, the metal car bodies are soaking in paint remover.  I'll post more photos as they progress.