From PeterB - Gaslands Vehicles - New Acquisitions - 165 points

Hello again from windy and rainy England.

In my rush to get my first post out I neglected to mention my enthusiastic support for Curt's choice of cost of entry this year. As a family we are avid readers here and love our local library. A few years back due to local government cutbacks a whole swathe of local libraries were marked for closure as the central government rules meant the only obligation was to keep open the main town library a bus ride away. Some of the sites marked for closure were then saved by local residents who now run them as volunteers and all stock is from generous donations.

Our local library therefore is now volunteer run and just before Christmas had a book sale to raise funds. I of course went down with a hefty bag full of book donations for selling or to go into stock (our bookshelves are creaking under the amount we have still, more than enough for to keep us out of mischief) and then promptly spent some money buying other titles when I got there! Just like my leadpile, the more I get rid of, the more seems to find its way back home! 

Anyway, on to the painting. This project is a mixture of recycling and new acquisitions. Just before Christmas I changed job roles at work and received a Bad Squiddo voucher as a leaving gift. So with some of the amount I purchased both versions of the Gaslands Implements of Carnage sprues. These combined with all the toy cars I could find in a trawl of the local charity shops resulted in the following fleet. Ready for a game when my local club starts up again next week.

The bikes and buggies are from the sprue and were a little fiddly, I had to paint some of the parts before gluing together.

The Formula One car I kept simple with just some guns added.

This VW is inspired by artwork in the book, although the artwork depicts an original Beetle.

These two trucks I am hoping will cause some carnage on the race track with a harpoon on one and a wrecking ball on the other.

These are RC bomb cars. They are deployed from one of the other cars and are remotely driven until they are near enough to an opponent before exploding. Hopefully they will cause some hilarity.

 

The Jaguar XJ is my favourite, with an air intake added to the hood, giant side exhausts and machine guns on the rear to discourage any tailgaters.

To the points:

7 x 20mm vehicles (15) = 105 points

4 x 20mm mounted (8) = 32 points

2 x 20mm remote control cars (2 for 6mm/8mm vehicle) = 4 points

New acquisitions = 20 points 

Additional points for customization = 4

Total = 165 points

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 Great looking vehicles! What I like about games in the vein of Gaslands is that each car and truck fits better if it is completely different from all the others and you did a superb job at customizing each of them.

I counted your small remote vehicles as 6mm/8mm vehicles, I threw in 4 points for all the customization bits and added the bonus for new acquisitions.

I'm sure these vehicles will be a hoot when you bring them to your club.

Sylvain