Gaslands: Highway Patrol Honda Civic

 

More clearing the decks for the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge. This Hot wheels Honda Civic has been pushed to the corner of the paint desk since I moved back to Madison in April and the build was done a few months prior to that.

It's a pretty simple build, the wheels from the basic model were replaced by ones from an Etsy seller, fat tyres on the back with spiked hubcaps. The lighting array was from the same seller. I'd also added a front ram, but that was lost in the move.

I've painted it to match the truck I did a couple of years ago so can now field a Highway Patrol team if the whim takes me.

Gaslands: Dodge Van

Just a solitary Gaslands update this week, Victoria bought me this pair of containers from Etsy, made of laser-cut MDF and grey board for the detailing. 

I've painted one in a rusty orange colour and one in a rusty red, but the difference between the two does not show up so well in these photos.

I've also added to the collection a Dodge van. All the windows were replaced with mesh and the roof is a sheet of corrugated iron.

A launcher was added from the Implements of Carnage One frame and secured, jury rigged fashion with a length of chain. 

The paint job is meant to give the feeling of, "was once yellow but now as rough as &@$!"

Gaslands: Bus based carnage at the Lenton Arena

Thursday evening saw another round of carnage at the Lenton Arena with five teams competing for the honours.

Newcomer Nick S took Idris with two performance cars. Fresh from last week's carnage Mike B this time took Idris with a trio of motor bikes. Nick E took Scarlett with a bus. James M took Maxxine with a performance car and a car and I took Inferno with a car and a truck 

Chaos ensued from the start with the Idris team roaring away while everyone else attempted to avoid the terrifying lunatic in the bus. 

My inferno performed a Highway to Hell that the bus traversed without effect while one of the bikes clipped it and took 7 points of damage!

Two of Nicks cars were already on fire when one was clipped and wrecked. My truck was all over the place and finally reduched to one hull box by a barrage of grenades and small arms from the bus.

Nicks second performance car succumbed to the flames while the Maxxine performance car crossed the finish line just ahead of one of the Idris bikes.

Three wrecks and loads of carnage with two vehicles still in play thathad not crossed gate by the end of the game.

Gaslands: The fast ones!

I've been  taking the power tools to some Hot Wheels again, this time with a quartet of fast looking cars that I can use.

Electric Silhouette 

This first one was in a bag of spare cars that Mike B donated to me and I think is also currently available in the Hot Wheels advent calendar for 2021, although this much predates that paint job.

The driver is from the Corporate Team pack from North Star. I added minigun and rockets from the  Implements of Carnage One set, yes, I know only two build slots, maybe one is decorative.

I went for a simple black paint job with some orange decoration, I think this chap could fill into both Maxxine and Miyazaki if not a few others.

Astana Hotto

This one was picked up from B&M on a recent trip there and it screams Performance Car. 

The only armament I added was a single machine-gun from IoC-1 that mounted under the lighting array, I did a simple Purple paint job allowing this to fit into any of the performance teams.

But, I'm thinking that if I combine this with Rigor Motor below and add some bikes it will make a very passable Beverly sponsored team.

Rigor Motor 

Another find on the racks at B&M was this dragster mounted coffin thingy!

It had some super detail work already on the coffin, so, after painting it black and highlighting I picked out the skull again in a very thinned white highlight. Also, in the highlighting of the cockpit hood I did a subtle demon face that really does not show up so well in these picks, but I know it's there. 

With the Astana Hotto above I think I've got he foundations of a Beverly sponsored team.

Gasser

Last but not least, probably my favourite build so far. The original Hot Wheels model is a perfect jump off point.

The two crew are from the Wasteland Warriors set from North Star, I quite like the guy hanging out of the window with his assault rifle.

I took the IoC-1 engine and chained a turbo charger onto the top of it then added a machine-gin from that set too. Additional armour was made from plasticard, but I think that maybe my rivets are much too large. A bumper and additional armour were made from I-beams to complete the build.

Gaslands: A trio of newcomers

While photographing the Routemaster for the earlier post I also took shots of the latest three vehicles that I added.

Honda Civic STI

Firstly a snot-green Civic for sentimental reasons.

This was armed with a single front firing machine-gun and the hood adorned with a supercharger intake, both from the Implements of Carnage set. 

The crewmembers are from the Corporate Team set. I've been using the machine pistol as a Magnum in my recent game.

 

Why a snot-green Civic Coupe? Well this was the car I owned when we were in the US:

Impreza SI

I picked this up from B&M when I got the Civic, it's pretty much untouched apart from the machine gun barrel pushed out front.

I don't think the light blue-grey paint job came out that well. Of all the vehicles done so far I reckon this is my least favourite.

Unleashed

Final one of the trio is a large buggy-truck thing that Roger gave me. I think it's from the Xbox Unleashed set that is available.

I cropped off the existing machine gun that Neil reused in his build here, replacing it with a pintle mounted one from Implements of Carnage. 

A huge IoC exhaust was also added to the build. The crew are from the Wasteland Warriors set also from North Star.

It's very big to use as a buggy so I think likely better suited as a truck than a car in the game so the three crew round it out nicely.

We are playing again on Thursday, I hope to get some use from these. 

Gaslands: Carnage at the Lenton Arena

 

Thursday evening Nick, Mike W, Mike B and myself met up at the Lenton Arena for a four player Gaslands Death Race

I took a Maxxine team with two cars and a bike, Nick took Idris with a performance car and a buggy, Mike W took Miyazaki also with a performance car and a buggy while Mike B took Warden with two cars.

It was Carnage from the off Nicks Idris and Miyazaki performance cars powered over the line while the rest of the pack rushed to catch up. Except one of Mike B's Prison Cars that hair pinned into Nicks buggy, the head on smash with exploding ram doing 20 attack dice! Both vehicles were wrecked outright and Mike W's buggy was destroyed in the resulting explosion - Wowzers race fans!!!!!

The remaining cars soon passed gate one and were weapons active more mayhem ensued! Powering into the first bend my Civic side swiped the Miyazaki performance car that slipped away dropping a canister of glue, Mikes prison car caught up unleashing the flame thrower on both the remaining Idris and Miyazaki performance cars, at this stage of the race, only just around the first corn all that remained in play was one of Mike B's prison cars and all three of my vehicles!

My GTO and bike went wide round the glue, but the Civic was stuck with that line and ended up dropping back a little. My bike got no further than this, the Idris performance car re-spawned at the first gate and a deadly accurate close range shotgun blast did for it.

I'd pretty much stopped taking pictures at this point. Mikes prison car was out in front, but my two cars caught up with him and destroyed him, the badly damaged respawned performance cars of Mike and Nick caught up with the pack and nobody made it through the second gate with their original car.

Absolute bloody carnage, every car that had started the race had been wrecked before they got to the second gate.

More of this madness is arranged for next week, we are going to need a shorter track.

Gaslands: Rednecks on a Routemaster

A couple of weeks ago I was visiting Chester and picked up in the model shop there a second hand open-topped Routemaster bus from their display cabinets.

I think these things usually are lovingly displayed in pristine condition, not this baby!

The top and bottom halves were separated and the windows removed. I then added some applique armour made from Wills corrugated iron sheets along the bottom windows and rear wheels. 

Using the same corrugated iron sheets I built up a platform for the harpoon at the front of the bus.

I added a pair of I-section girders for front and rear bumpers, then added some steel mesh to the drivers cab and rear lower deck.

I then started adding some armament, a tripod for the harpoon was built from more I-section, twin machineguns were mounted next to the driver and a single machine-gun each side.

All the weapons are from the North Star Implements of Carnage frames.

The whole thing was then primed in a light beige colour. The bus exterior was then done in VMC Black Red while the majority of the interior was done in VMC Chocolate Brown, the rusty bits painted in a 50:50 mix of VMC Gunmetal Grey and VMC Saddle Brown, the remainder was done in black.

Once dried it got a coat of AP Strong tone and was set aside to dry.

I then went back over the base-coats and added some highlights, for the red I added progressively more VMC Dark Red and for the rust added VMC Clear Orange for the highlights.

I then painted up the crew from a pack of Bootleggers from North Star. Just a basic paint job with a wash of AP Strong Tone.

The decals are from a Debris of War set that I picked up a few months ago, they have some great ones for Gaslands.

The whole thing was then weathered using a Tamiya Weathering Master kit.

We are playing Gaslands at the club this evening, I'm quite tempted to give this a go!