Gaslands: More Metal for the Carnage

 

Following on from the last Gaslands post way back in '23! We've had a go at some Buzzards, added to the Warboys, and finally got some snaps of cars we finished shortly after the last post.

Suffice to say that we had some excellent fun running quite a few games at home and its high time we ran some more.

Buzzards

We grabbed a couple V-Dubs, the closest thing we could find to the film, and spent painstaking hours cutting and gluing individual spikes on the cars using metal paper binders. Pain because they were sharp and by the time the gluing was finished, you couldn't pick the thing up without stabbing yourself!

Then it was a rifle through Northstar's Punks for drivers and passengers. There's a heap of detail on these guys including skull masks!

Warboys

Added a harpoon platform on a pickup to add to the general mayhem, including a spare passenger to fight in all directions from Northstar's Wasteland Warriors Drivers and Passengers.

They look the part against the buzzards and both driver and passenger sets really get that 'witness me' type of feeling happening. We also made up a War rig from a slightly oversize random die cast truck and trailer set.

Looks pretty good against the Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars we've used.

Misc. Teams

Finally, here's some of the cars we've converted over the last few years.

Some generic modifications from my stepson's and wife's collections.

And a shot of his stuff and a jumping Buzzard.

Did a heavy technical team with lasers and super fast engines.

And even finished up a campervan after the errata was released with rules for it, although we haven't used it yet.

We've also been finishing off some scale-agnostic sci-fi/post apocalyptic scenery which we realised could be used for Gaslands. They're nearly finished so we might have a game using all of this soon - and will snap some shots.

Gaslands: Track and Fury Road

Finally got the Gaslands stuff out of the storage boxes and realise its been over a year since I started some cars and got the rules. Determined to actually have a game I decided to finish off the track I'd bought and get some more cars sorted.

The track is from BattleKiwi and although is under their 28mm - 32mm Alpha City line, is the perfect size for the HotWheels cars. I bought the Road Runner bundle set and some extras, and had a bit of a panic half way through finishing it as it looked terrible. Have tried rescuing it with dry-brushing and shading.

Happy with the 'dirty' look for Gaslands but you can see how pristine a finish can be done with it following the link above. The individual plates lock in to each other and allow the track to be configured for all sorts of requirements, from race track to urban/road setting.

More Cars for the Carnage

Also bit of a sucker for stereotypes and decided to go for some Fury Road style cars.

These two were a couple bucks each and are both HotWheels, '69 Copo Camaro (left) and Mod Rod (right).

The Mod Rod came up well with the addition of North Star's Implements of Carnage and figures, and nothing really needed to be done but to disassemble, carve out room for the figures, reassemble and paint.

Has a good stance on the board and looks suitably aggressive with twin machine guns, fixed forward.

The Camaro was also an easy build with the addition of a massive supercharge intake and also twin machine guns, fixed forward. Although I filed the roof away at the back to allow the guns to seem like they'd been properly fixed.

Also a big 'thumbs up' to North Star with their NSPIoC09 - Wasteland Warriors (Drivers and Passengers) and NSPIoC10 - Wasteland Warriors, I was really able to make them look like the Warboys from Fury Road.

They've got amazing detail - which my photos don't really do justice.

Now to have a game and let the carnage commence!

Gaslands! Got the Bug!

 

Haven't played a game of Gaslands yet but after reading the rules, reviews and watching a few demos on YouTube, it was I game I decided I couldn't live without - coz Its like Car Wars but without the grid! 😁

I just gotta say it was oddly satisfying and addictive wrecking some Hot Wheels cars and making models from them.

It started slow with The Great Die Cast Shortage of '21 but my wonderful little buddy of a step son sorted through what was left at our local Warehouse (think KMart for US friends and 'big shop with heaps of stuff you didn't know you didn't need' for UK friends) and found the Kia (on right). Then lo and behold, 10 weeks out from Xmas, a shipment must have arrived in NZ from the states and the Jag came next.

Then, after going to down to buy a hose fitting or something as equally mundane, we came home with another 9 cars!

Killer Kia: Grenades and minigun

I got some templates and roads from a local firm Battle Kiwi and might do a sperate post for them coz their stuff is excellent. And then got the Implements of Carnage sprew 1, some dice and Warboys from Northstar.

Jaguar XJYes!: Also grenades and minigun

Just couldn't resist putting miniguns on these first two and in the spirit of the game, the team name for these guys is Black Knights of the Red Dragon.

And I can't describe the almost insane feeling you get when you drill out the cars.

And just how awesomely replete it is when you stick a Northstar figure in a Hot Wheels car.

Think I ended up drilling out everything we bought and then stuck most of the metal chassis in 1:1 solution of Dettol and water - hey presto, overnight, no more paint.

Drilled out Camaro and some of the awesome bits from the Northstar Implements of Carnage 1 sprew

Looking forward to getting some Mad Max type vehicles together using the Northstar figures and actually getting a game in!