Vroom! Vroom! - finally, more cars are rolling!

After my last post (HERE), I was pretty excited about building and painting little cars again. Here's the painted version of my modern day ride, the Flammencruizer!

I painted the whole car in the polished silver first, and then added the rusty patches and rusty flames.

And at the same time I painted up the silver Interceptor, known to the Fury Road production crew as Razor Cola. I think it turned out pretty nicely. Once I've decided how I want to do the spike droppers I'll add those to the rear.

Having a handful of the parts I sculpted for Brigade Games on hand, all I had to do was trawl through my box of loose cars and pick out a few to glue stuff on. As I wanted some quick progress, I chose these two "Jurassic World" vehicles to get the minimal activity treatment. No cutting, drilling, or grinding, just gluing. The one on the left already has a very interesting profile; lots of lumps, bumps, and random stowage. The one on the right felt like a really solid beast, so it got the heavy ramplate, and armor plates all round. Both received machine guns, the one on the left a .50-cal style, the right a mini-gun style.

And I glued a harpoon launcher and a flamer onto my monster truck, my take on Bigfoot.

Until next time!

Cheers
Dave

Vroom! Vroom! - Vehicle Conversion Parts are now available!!!

Shortly after we started messing around with Car Wars (and I went off on my Fury Road tangent), I was contacted by Lon Weiss from Brigade Games. He asked me to sculpt up a bunch of weapon and armor options for folks to add to their Hot Wheels/Matchbox cars. I was quite excited about it all, as you can imagine : )

Well, the first shots of the sprue arrived on my doorstep the other day. I was quite excited to get them out and onto the workbench. Above you can see the weapons (and weapons-related) sprues. I tried to go for a nice mix of weapons based on both the Car Wars options and a few that would allow/encourage an homage to the Mad Max films. I didn't want to go exclusively "Mad Max" in the look of the weapons, but wanted a heavy "Deathrace" vibe too.

From left to right, top to bottom, we have:

• 3 mini-gun style weapons with drum magazines.
• 3 .50 cal style machine guns with belt-feed ammo boxes.
• 4 rockets and 1 paint/oil sprayer.
• 2 flamethrowers and 1 arrow-launcher (based on Mad Max 2/Road Warrior).
• 7 yokes - these can be attached to any part of a car/truck and accept any of the weapons.
• 1 harpoon launcher, 1 laser gun, 1 sonic gun, and 1 mine dropper.
• 1 two-weapon turret and 2 one-weapon turrets - these accept any of the weapons.

And here are the armor and accessory sprues. Again, there's not a complete "Mad Max" feel, but a blend with "Deathrace" and other movies of the genre.

From left to right, top to bottom, we have:

• 4 wheel armor plates and 1 hood/roof plate.
• 6 armor plates plates - 4 designed for the sides and side windows, 2 designed for the windscreen.
• 4 larger armor plates - for where ever you'd like.
• 2 pairs of exhausts and 1 supercharger.
• 2 heavy ramplates.
• 2 light ramplates and 2 pieces of heavy rear armor plating.
• The Interceptor kit: stowage, exhausts, nose cone, supercharger - these can be used to make your very own "last of the V8 Interceptors" (as seen at the start of MM:FR).

You can pick and choose the sprues you want direct from the Brigade Games webstore.

Here are a couple of pursuit cars I made up yesterday from the parts. The first is my conversion of the PT Cruiser sent to me by my friend Nathan. Yes, it used to look just like my real-life car.

Parts used: flamethrower, twin-pipe exhausts, side armor plates, light ramplate, and stowage.

The second car I HAD to make was the re-fitted version of Max's Interceptor ridden by War Boys from MM:FR.

I used the parts from the Interceptor kit (except the stowage), added a second supercharger on top of the first, glued the mine dropper under the rear and puttied it in as a fuel tank, and then added the arrow launcher to the rear. The launcher doesn't look exactly like the one used in Fury Road, but I like the look and the nostalgic connection to MM2. I added a strip of plasticard to the underside of the nose cone, and sculpted a tiny skull atop the superchargers : )

And finally a look back at the MM:FR Interceptor you can make from the Brigade Games kit (plus a Ford XB Falcon from Hot Wheels).

Cheers
Dave

Do you remember when...

...I was working on my Imperial Knights?

I worked on some "custom decals" for my 30K version of the House Taranis iconography. These were pretty darn cool. A huge thank you to my friend Chris for tackling the printing of these for me.

There was only one real let down with the decals I had made. They didn't have white areas on them. Basically, if I wanted white, I'd have to paint over the decals once they were applied (or very carefully paint the white on the surface and apply the decals over it).

Well, those days are no more, because a long-time friend of the blog - Ron Gamble/Eye of Error - has launched a Kickstarter to create a business that can provide YOU (and me) with custom decals that INCLUDE WHITE!!!

I invite you all to head on over to his Kickstarter (HERE) that is almost funded, and get in early on the action!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1388656630/fallout-hobbies-custom-decal-shop?ref=nav_search

Cheers

Dave

Well, I'm back...

Back from my trip to Europe to celebrate my 10-year wedding anniversary. I have loads of cool photos to share for various reasons, and will do so in the coming weeks.

Today, however, I wanted to highlight the first two armies completed for NOVA Open Charitable Foundation's 2015 Charity Army Raffles! These two armies are being collectively referred to as The Battle for the Craftworld - the Sons Of Orar Space Marines and the Alaitoc Eldar.

TICKETS GO ON SALE THIS WEDNESDAY, JULY 1! PLEASE HEAD TO THIS LINK ON WEDNESDAY TO BUY YOUR TICKETS:

Small, composite photos are shown here:

And we've been showing off more detailed photos of the various elements of the armies over on the NOCF blog. You can check out all of our posts on them via these links:

Introductory post - HERE

First look at the Sons Of Orar - HERE

First look at the Alaitoc Eldar - HERE

Feature: Sons Of Orar Heavy Support One - HERE

Feature: Alaitoc Eldar Heavy Support One - HERE

Feature: Reminder about raffle tickets and Sons Of Orar Troops One - HERE

Last year we raised in the vicinity of $10,000 for various charities including: Doctors Without Borders, The Wounded Warrior Project, and Fischer House. This year we'd like to raise even more for these great charities, so please get behind us by:

• Buying tickets in the various raffles.

• Telling ALL of your wargaming friends to buy tickets.

• Spreading the word about what we are trying to achieve. 

Thank you all for your time : )

And our thanks to our sponsors who contributed to this project. 
Please support them, so that they can continue to support us!

• Atlantis Games & Comics • Element Games • Secret Weapon Miniatures • KR Multicase

Cheers

Dave

Geek Nation Tours - Battlefields of Waterloo 2015 tour!

Well, if I haven't told you about it before, I can tell you about it now....

I'm currently enjoying the awesomeness that is the Geek Nation Tours - Battlefields of Waterloo tour (celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the battle today, actually). We've done soooooo much in the last three days that I'm struggling to keep up. We've visited many important campaign sites, including Ligny, Quatre Bras, Genappe, Le Caillou, La Haye Sainte, the Allied line, Papelotte, and Plancenoit. We've also visited a few other sites not connected directly to the campaign, such as the Cantillon Brewery, the Lion's Mound, the Panorama, and the brand new Waterloo 2015 museum.

Additionally, I presented two painting classes on Tuesday, thanks to support from Warlord Games and The Army Painter!

So, it has been a lot of fun, with a few more days to go. I just hope I can keep up with it all!

Cheers
Dave

PS. I'll be putting together a full report on the tour for Wargames Illustrated once I return stateside : )