From PaulSS: Gaslands "La Troca" and a load of tires -- 25pts

 

More Gaslands madness this week with more additins to the Gaslands collection, you probably only need at most four or five vehicles to play thsigame, but sourcing Hot Wheels cars and then kitting them out for combat is great fun.

Victoria bought me this Hot Wheels 1950 Chevrolet 3100 lowrider "La Troca" and I wanted to do a rather simple build on this. It was kitted out with exhaust, hub spinners and hood exhaust pipes and then a massive secondary exhaust all sourced from Etsy 3D prints. I wanted it dirty off-white, so the main colour is Contrast Skeleton Horde.

Another Etsy buy was a set of ten sections of 3D printed tires/tyres, three in the form of piles, six as tire walls and the last a flaming tire fire.

One 20mm vehicle and I think 1pt each is good for the tire sections will add another 25 pts to the ongoing total.

Squirrel Duel Tally: 4 (40K Kroot, Gaslands, 12mm WW2 US, 12mm WW2 German)

Another fine looking jalopy to park in your Gaslands garage Paul.  La Took looks every bit the part.  Also really liking the tire scenic bits.

From PaulSS: A trio of Gaslands Carnage -- 50pts

 

The mojo was low this week, with todays deadline looming all I had added was a shipping container and made a start on the base-coat of a '32 Ford for the Gaslands collection.

Waking up yesterday morning with a head cold did little to boost my enthusiasm, but powered by hot lemon drinks I finished the Ford and then painted a Volkswagen, before, in true Gaslands style "Pushing It" and getting the Bel-Air finished before bedtime.

'32 Ford

A few weeks ago I had been visiting my daughter and her boyfriend who is also into Gaslands and he showed me some 3D prints he had picked up from Etsy. After an order of my own I was soon sticking bits on of my own.

The '32 Ford, has new wheels and hubcap spikes added as well as a door mounted machine-gun, rooftop lighting array and exhaust baffles added, the windscreen cover is made from car body repair mesh.

I painted this in mainly army surplus, US Dark Green, but with a door panels and trunk in white, what does "15137" mean? Who knows!

Baja Bug

The Hot Wheels VW "Baja Bug" really comes out of the packaging ready to play, but I still added new wheels, extended exhaust with spiked baffles and some bolt-on armour to the front.

In this instance the colour is Clear Orange, but with many panels scraped back to rusty steel.

I left the glass in the windows of the Bug, so after finishing the paintwork did those, and the headlamps and roof mounted lighting array in a non-glassy glass technique.

Bel-Air

The final car is a Bel-Air, this one was quite the build, I cut the roof off with my Dremmel and added armoured plates from Wills corrugated iron sheeting, strapped in place with some jewellery chain. The 3D printed parts added a ram at the front, new wheels, air intake, machine-gun and rack of supplies on the back. The windscreen was replaced with car body repair mesh.

I had a go at painting this one with contrast paints and the main colour of the car is Leviadon Blue, although by the time I had done dirtying it up you would hardly tell. 

As I made this a cabriolet, I will need to add a driver at some future point.

The last item is a rusty shipping container I made a start on a few weeks ago when I had over-done it with the US Dark Green when painting the US armour.

We have a 60-can game on Thursday so will use these three to make up my team for the evening.

Three 20mm vehicles and a 5 point claim for the container will add 50 points to my total.

Squirrel Duel Tally: 3 (40K Kroot, Gaslands, WW2 US, WW2 German)

A fine trio of Gaslands wrecks Paul.  I love all the extra details that you put on these vehicles and the battered and chipped paintwork.  The conversion work on the Bel Air is particularly fine.  Good luck dealing with the head cold and hopefully you are fully back up to speed next week.  Oh and give 'em hell on the track this week.

(From BruceR) Nappys - Western Studio - Boats (80 pts)

Next up I grabbed some French Lights and I wanted Colpacks. Why you say, because the rule of cool is important. I was able to find some Front Rank French at Noble Knight games saving some on shipping. Last year I cranked out a few FIW Front Ranks and I really enjoy the slightly bulky figures.  I’m not a rivet counter and of course when you start researching Napoleonic uniforms you tend to find a number of differing renditions of uniforms.  I freely admit I paint faster and better with a guide, so I went to Painting War as my base.  

When researching you can read where the shako replaced the Colpack and yet elan driven units kept them.  My little elite group of French for my go to game of Sharp Practice have a mix of shako and Colpack.   Maybe some Bearskins later.

Gotta love a fur hat with a big snaky plum.  

These 9 fire and load lights will give my grasshoppers some challenges.  (9x5 = 45)

On to the next studio.  Up the road is the Westerns Studio and, who better than Marshal Grin Duster.  This is another great Pulp Miniatures figure put out for Movember.  I painted a few last year and saw this bloke sitting on my shelf and said why not.  

Gotta love the Stache and take care of your health with a miniature reminder.  

Marshal Grin Duster:  (5 pt figure + 20 pts studio = 25)

To round out the week some wooden assault boats.  Well, they are resin/wooden, and will be used to move troops to shore.   Etsy purchased.   Used the airbrush with wood effects again and added some dry brush.  

The boast are great as they can hold sufficient troops, to at a minimum, portray the unit they are carrying.  

For points I tried the 6" terrain block.  5 pts per boat is my calculation and as always, the Minion Miles can giveth or taketh away as he sees fit.

Points Total:

10 28mm x 5             = 50

Western Studio          = 20

Boats                          = 10

Total                            = 80 pts

Thanks for looking and have a great rest of the week.  Just to share CSM Loki and are scooting out of work  early tomorrow and heading to my sons ranch (my zen place) for the rest of the week.  Not much painting will get accomplished.  Just feeding 350+ head and with 4 dogs and no people.  Heaven!

Minion Miles: I have the same book on painting Naps but mine never come out nearly as nice as yours - perhaps my book is defective?  The Marshall is superb and we can all use more boats on our table top - a very nice and varied submission.