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I've got some of those Concord figures floating around- even one of their heavy howitzers (had some idea of converting them into counts-as Elysians); really like what you've started with these! Nice, clean, simple scheme, but with great shading and really, quite realistic (at least, to me). I'm going to try something like that when I get started on mine.

Hey, no fair-- you're supposed to be working on samurai! After all, you got me on a samurai kick.

Lovely colours, like reimagined roger-roger prequel droids (in a good way)

I know I know I know , stop getting your head turned by every pretty little thing that struts by .

Well it gets worse....I saw a review of a cheap little game and fell in love off the bat. So I give you my new soon to be set aside passion.....

GASLANDS

rulebook from Osprey Games $19.00. 64 pages covers everything and has templates inside of it. Or download it from their site for around $15. Their site also has all the templates, dice stickers, tokens, and car sheets online for free.

What else do you need?

Assorted Hot Wheels or Matchbox cars, dice (I used my MODCubes and Star Wars X-Wing inserts, but you can use D6s and just learn what the numbers would represent), some D6 for your gear and shooting/evading and a 3x3’ table and junk to be obstacles.

I played a simple game with all 3 of my kids and we all enjoyed it. Basic set up just to learn the turns, shooting, hazards and stuff. Everyone drove a middleweight car with forward mounted machine guns.

Cars above will get the chop shop treatment and hopefully be in action soon.

Peace out .

that has cult potential...

Gaslands is a lot of fun. My 8-year old enjoyed the game immensely the one time we played-- the Rule of Carnage in particular.

Viktor von Domm wrote:that has cult potential...

It’s a great little game, you and the boys should try it out. Small table, terrain, cheap models, customizing

JoshInJapan wrote:Gaslands is a lot of fun. My 8-year old enjoyed the game immensely the one time we played-- the Rule of Carnage in particular.

Yes, for those not in the know, the rule of Carnage is basically: if there is any disagreement on how a rule should be played out, or if two rules seem to contradict each other, then go with whichever rule would cause the most Carnage . Yes they want it to be Cinematic with lots of explosions and death.

Well I stopped by Walmart on my way home for milk and coffee creamer for the wife. Also grabbed some more hot wheels cars. This 50th anniversary series has some great older (1970s cars, same vintage as me ) which I think will be great to make a Warden Cadelia team.

Warden Cadelia is the Warden of the São Paulo People’s Penitentiary. They seriously take inmates, strap them into cars (rolling coffins) weld them in and tell them to win the race if they want to live. If they live then they get time served taken off their sentence. If they die, get the squeegee out and strap in a new team member. The team gets cheaper cars (but at a reduced hull point level as they are buying junkers) and the team gains audience votes when their cars explode good for the team, but bad for the drivers. So cheap cars and lots of them. I’m thinking fewer guns, but lots of rams and stuff as they can take skills which give them bonuses with rammingand smash attacks.

The two cars I took apart yesterday will be part of a Mishkin team. Mishkin is a crazy Russian scientist who uses electrical weapons and other crazy gear. I’m really wanting to turn the police pursuit car into a newer version of Outlaw from Twisted Metal.

Well on to trying to pop the rivets out of the prison cars and get them primed today. Thinking rusty car primer as a base coat, or painting them all jumpsuit orange .

Edit before I leave for work.

Primed all of the Warden cars

Removed all the plastic windows on them and chose the first rig to set up. I had been considering weapons the other night and I’ve seen GW weapons on cars and they look ridiculous due to their oversized nature in 28mm, and would look worse here in my humble opinion. Then I remembered all the Dreamforce Eisenkern troopers and weapon sprues I had. Some of the items just look perfect for the size, so I’ll use those. The first car I chose had no engine cover and a large exhaust head on the front. Since Wardens like to ram I figure I’d build a ram on this one, add the obligatory cage around the compartment so the driver can not escape, and then add some weapons. Well I really wanted the first to make an impact so he was getting an explosive ram , two panzerfausts provide that effect on the front ensuring the first meeting this guy has with an opponent goes off with a bang . I also decided he needed some rear protection so I gave him a smoke dispenser from bits from the Eisenkern mule sprue and then added an Eisenkern rifle on the top center to be a forward facing machine gun. A little plasticard to channel the smoke from the engine to the smoke dispenser and voila.

car/cell 1 is constructed. He has gotten some paint since this pic, but we will see how it looks......later.

Edit 2: okay its later.....sort of

Still just basecoated.

Ooh...lots of fun to be had chopping up hot-wheels. Takes me back to converting matchbox cars for Dark Future.

gaslands looks awesome kinda like a cross between twisted metal, madmax and deathrace (the old 70s one and the first remake with Jason statham not those silly other ones) this is awesome I really dig it...I need batreps in my life theo lol. cant wait to see more of this awesomeness.

That looks like a fun game.

How many wonders can be found when not looked for. Thank You, good sir, I am interested! :^)

Gaslands has definitely piqued my interest.

Nice work on the car. Look forward to more.

That looks like a blast!

awesome upsycling theo!

monkeytroll wrote:Ooh...lots of fun to be had chopping up hot-wheels. Takes me back to converting matchbox cars for Dark Future.

Oh and this is a spiritual successor to that game with a much smoother mechanic. Lots of old Dark Future players jumping in on this.

alabamaheretic wrote:gaslands looks awesome kinda like a cross between twisted metal, madmax and deathrace (the old 70s one and the first remake with Jason statham not those silly other ones) this is awesome I really dig it...I need batreps in my life theo lol. cant wait to see more of this awesomeness.

I’ve never been good at Batreps as I get stuck into the game and forget to take notes . Also Twisted Metal cars and trucks will make their appearance in my gangs. Especially Outlaw.

Maniac_nmt wrote:That looks like a fun game.

Really fun game with lots of possibilities.

Wirecat wrote:How many wonders can be found when not looked for. Thank You, good sir, I am interested! :^)

Exactly how I stumbled across it. I was reading other threads, caught a glimpse and now hooked.

Llamahead wrote:Gaslands has definitely piqued my interest.

It is a good beer and pretzel game to fill in time between other events or fill out a Saturday night if no one wants to run a game or lug around the library and armies required for a 40K game.

Dr H wrote:Nice work on the car. Look forward to more.

More to come definitely. See Below.

dsteingass wrote:That looks like a blast!

It’s a lot of blasts, some not so small .

Viktor von Domm wrote:awesome upsycling theo!

Not only upsycling, but full out repurposing too.

So more work on the Wardens (prisoners in cars)

Also found some Jurassic Park cars that just oozed Rutherford military guys, so painted them black.

Also possible new recruits for Rutherford.


Also stopped by the model train shop near me since hot wheels are close enough to HO scale and grabbed a box of busted derelicts to use as terrain. I’m thinking of a train wreck table or an old switching station sort of set up that’s been long abandoned. The cars and engines are all just the plastic frames with no guts. $10 for a box full.

That truck looks like it has potential

Wardens coming on nicely, and nice idea for the terrain.

the wardens kinda remind me of dukes of hazards at the moment theo lol

Love seeing post-apoc car fight stuff. These look awesome.

Lots of possibilities

Well crap Theo, you drug me into a new game after all! I was just in Target and saw the hot wheels toys and before I knew it I'd grabbed 10 cars suitable for crazy post apocalyptic warfare!

So...where do I get the rules again? Lol

 SlaveToDorkness wrote:
Well crap Theo, you drug me into a new game after all! I was just in Target and saw the hot wheels toys and before I knew it I'd grabbed 10 cars suitable for crazy post apocalyptic warfare!

So...where do I get the rules again? Lol

Sorry I’ll respond to everyone with an update tomorrow, but I have to land this fish while it’s on the hook
gaslands.com go to their download section I’m planning on hitting up some thrift shops tomorrow


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monkeytroll wrote:That truck looks like it has potential

Wardens coming on nicely, and nice idea for the terrain.

It hit me while I was at the train shop and asking for busted up tressels.

alabamaheretic wrote:the wardens kinda remind me of dukes of hazards at the moment theo lol

I was actually thinking of doing the confederate flag on the roof of one, but my freehand isn’t the best, maybe on the next one.

youwashock wrote:Love seeing post-apoc car fight stuff. These look awesome.

Doesn’t everyone , thanks

dsteingass wrote:Lots of possibilities

Yep, lots of great options and pics to steal ideas from.

Photo drop

Cut the shell of the engine at an angle and glued it to some VCT as a base. Train went off track and half buried itself. I’ll get some filler around it in the future.

Two similar caboose aith missing top part. Each will get turrets mounted on that spot which will be removable so I can use them in a deathrCe or regular terrain.

Got to get back to work now.

What a trainwreck this thread turned out to be

Hard to keep track of it all.


Like the idea of removable turrets

Hopefully Theo doesn't get sidetracked or fully derailed by another project...

Geez guys, all these puns are taking away from Theo's Platform here.

i guess that so much display of trains and train wrecks draw a lot of hobbos out from their dark hideouts...

Ssssh! Theo's trying to tie one on!

dsteingass wrote:What a trainwreck this thread turned out to be

Humor like that and I’d tell you NOT to quit your day job....too late I guess from what you said n your thread though.

monkeytroll wrote:Hard to keep track of it all.


Like the idea of removable turrets

Multipurpose terrain pieces are a necessity...and help out in the end.

SlaveToDorkness wrote:Hopefully Theo doesn't get sidetracked or fully derailed by another project...

Oh I’m sure something else will switch me onto a new path.

dsteingass wrote:Geez guys, all these puns are taking away from Theo's Platform here.

What would a Dakka Thread be without all the glorious puns......BOLS thats what.

Viktor von Domm wrote:i guess that so much display of trains and train wrecks draw a lot of hobbos out from their dark hideouts...

You had to bring up hobos didn’t you . Our last house had train tracks directly across the street from our front door. Our real estate person tried to get us to buyANY other house because of the tracks specifically because she’s afraid of Hobbos . Never saw any in the 7 years we lived there.

Meer_Cat wrote:Ssssh! Theo's trying to tie one on!

Plenty of opportunity to do that even while keeping an eye peeled for hobbos or men with one arm.

Thanks guys, laughs are always needed and it’s good to see some of the old rail gang showing their heads again. Busy weekend here but I will endeavor to keep chugging along with my work as time permits. Got to keep on schedule or the conductor’s libel to toss me off before the next stop.

 Theophony wrote:

Viktor von Domm wrote:i guess that so much display of trains and train wrecks draw a lot of hobbos out from their dark hideouts...

You had to bring up hobos didn’t you . Our last house had train tracks directly across the street from our front door. Our real estate person tried to get us to buyANY other house because of the tracks specifically because she’s afraid of Hobbos . Never saw any in the 7 years we lived there.

Would you say that estate agent was "Hobophobic"?

I'll see myself out...