Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Vroom! Vroom! - More pursuit vehicles complete : )


Before I headed off to GenCon, I managed to get these four vehicles to a pretty decent place. After returning from the show (and a week's family vacation at the beach), I was all revved up to get some paint on them!


Here's the first one, tentatively called Flaming Arrow. This is a '32 Ford Vicky. Originally I was going to use is as the basis for the Elvis car, but once I found a much better Elvis (see below) this one was relegated to a simple pursuit vehicle. Of course, should anyone have a better name for it, please feel free to suggest it below : )


I liked the rusty flames motif from my Flammencruizer, so I figured I'd follow it through on this one. The bright, rusty orange pops nicely against the flat black.


Currently I'm waiting this up with the Flammencruizer, so she has become a pursuit vehicle from Gas Town. Next up for the Gas Town fleet will be the VW Beetle, plus a couple of polecats.



I bought this car (a '32 Ford coupe) to donate the front fenders to my Nux car, but after I'd done that I realized it looked quite a bit like the Elvis car that is an outrider for the War Rig (the one that never gets to fire a shot as it flips into a pit trap set by the Buzzards in the film).


I had to extend the chassis a bit to accommodate the second engine, donated from a second '32 Ford to will now join the pile of potential War Rig add-ons.


The thundersticks are simply straightened paper clips topped with plastic rod and trimmed with some old string/


Next up will be the first of my plough cars (the ones with harpoons and ploughs) and the next "character" car I have finished - Bigfoot!

Cheers
Dave

11 comments:

  1. Inspirational stuff as per usual!

    Elvis looks spot - on!

    Thanks for sharing the paperclip tip... Love using household junk for modelling.

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  2. Good stuff. I'm going to have to do some more of that. Definitely looks fun. Like the mid engine cab over truck, that has a cool look to it.

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    1. Thanks, mate. Check it out in tomorrow's post : )

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  3. I am looking forward to you brining these to our game club down here in DC for a game. :)

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    1. Later this year, once I have some of the big trucks, then we can playtest my AdeptiCon game : )

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  4. I believe the orang one is Hot Wheels 'Race Team Series III' 3 Window Coupe

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