PW's Gaslands Lunacy

[puddingwrestler]

Gaslands - the game of post-apocaloyptic (actually sort of during-apocalyptic) hot wheels car on car destruction! Obviously the sort of thing I'd be interested in.
Therefore, I tender this - a link to a tutorial on how to make Mishkin weapons. Mishkin are the high-tech team who get access to all sorts of exciting electrical weapons.


I'll be posting more in future, hopefully including some pretty pictures of my completed teams and other projects. Also some terrain.

[puddingwrestler]

The Mishkin team are now painted!


I will try to post some pics of other lunatic projects I have completed (mostly as gifts for friends) soon.

[NARSES2]

 

[puddingwrestler]

Okay, I'm going to try out something new here. Since I take my photos on an android phone, they all automatically upload to Google Photos. So I'm going to experiment with embedding google photos into the forum and see how I go.
Let me know if you can see the images - I know I can, but then I have permission to see them, maybe I need to set them to public or something. We shall see.

Anyway, I though I should post some pics here of other Gaslands stuff. So here goes.


This is my first completed Gaslands team from 2018 - Team Bad Lollipop, an anime inspired Miyazaki team. Miyazaki are the handling and precise driving experts, and I thought it would be amusing to make a team of hot hatches only. The Golf and Honda City are both performance cars. Acid and Drop the Fiat 500s are normal cars.

This is Def Hed, my second completed team. They are usually sponsored by Slime. Def Hed is a heavy metal band who roam the wastelands loudly playing heavy metal. They do this in a collection of hotrods.

Team Toteswagen is my 100% Volkswagen, 0% Car team. They are now partially painted, and have been for about a year... The team consists of a monster truck and two gyrocopters. I have also got the parts to make some dragsters from Beetles, along with a couple of Kombis, a Type 2 Caterpiller like my Nan drove, and a Type 180whatever it is which in Australia was called 'The Thing' and originally planned to be amphibious (it wasn't when it entered production, VW forgot to tell the motoring press which resulted in several being driven into rivers and lakes...)

Here's the VW monster truck. The body is from Majorette, the chassis Hot Wheels. HW, Matchbox and Majorette all make beetles and all are slightly different sizes...

This is the first Gyrocopter, which uses ducted fans and a HW Baja Beetle off-roader body.

And this is the second gyrocopter, which uses a VW beetle pickup conversion body and Italeri R.IV Richenbaker engine and wings (the wings are not yet on in this pic). As part of their ghoulish image, all Toteswagen cars have a skull sculpted onto the bonnet with greenstuff. They also make use of the simple plastic rod weapons which I was using before North Star Minis released it's nifty plastic weapon and accessory sprues.

This is the tractor unit for my war rig. I have a trailer for it which I was not happy with (it was made from various pickup trucks, vans etc.) and a newer trailer made from a Majorette petrol tanker which is far from complete. The tractor unit has a few things which need to be finished, but has been sitting around for about a year doing nothing much but look cool. It's going to be part of Def Hed and act as a mobile concert stage with the Wall Of Amps upgrade. Most of it is a Ford F-1 pickup with the body of a 32 Ford hotrod on top along with the souped-up engine from the hotrod. There's also a lot of raw plastic and fine mesh.

These are some Mishkin cars I made for Son Of Hoodling - he's almost ten and has reached the point where he's interested in games. These are all cars he has had since he was younger. I got bored during the Descent of the Hobbyists on the Hoodling's Hole one week and decided to add some weapons. These formed the prototypes for the Mishkin team I later made myself and posted to the blog.

This is the Duck Tank. I made it for the Hoodling for chirstmas and forgot to take pictures after painting it. I was in a toy shop and found that Hot Wheels did a range of Batman cars. All bat mobiles... plus the Penguin's rubber duck from Batman Returns! As soon as I saw it I knew it was going to be a tank. And that The Hoodling was the only person I knew crazy enough to find the idea as appealing as I did. So this happened. The tank part is an Airfix Matilda (actually a Hedgehog, but Ill fit those tasty missile racks to something else...). The driver is a Northstar figure.

This is an A-Team van. Because of course it is.

Turns out Matchbox makes a good tracked chassis for some sort of rescue tank thing. I bought two along with this Chevy body. Why two you ask?

BOOM! Mini tank!

This is a heavy truck I am working on for a pirate team. I've decided they'll use all double-decker vehicles. I even have a london bus on standby. It's hard to find a toy which fits the heavy truck designation - toy cars tend to be variable in scale since they are made to fit a standard package and chassis length, so the trucks tend to just be the same size as the cars. I figured I'd just make my own. This model will be the subject of a blog post when completed.

Of course, making the heavy truck did leave me with a spare Ford F-100 cab... and the mini doesn't need a chassis anymore... So here's the 1956 Mighty Boy! What, you ask, is a Mighty Boy? Well... it's a 1980s Suzuki Swift Ute. Because of course it is.

See? Adorably stumpy and short. Just like my new F-100-on-mini-chassis. And yes, I am aware that this would never work due to size differences. See what I mean about scale?

Anyway, that's it for now. I'll be posting the full build of the heavy truck to the blog when it's done - maybe tonight, but probably tomorrow.
And then there's a whole stack of other cars waiting in the wings, including an outback outlaw ute gang, and an art-deco performance drifting team.
Oh, and a double-decker '58 ford wagon.

[NARSES2]

Okay, I'm going to try out something new here. Since I take my photos on an android phone, they all automatically upload to Google Photos.

Do they ? Never knew that.

Anyway I'm afraid that I can't see the photos EXCEPT the last one of the green mini ute

[zenrat]

I too can only see the Mighty Boy.

[Dizzyfugu]

Me too. Seems as if the pics were automatically blocked, probably due to their hosting site/source?

[PR19_Kit]

Y'day I could see the other pics, but now, like the others, I can only see the green ute. 

[Captain Canada]

Interesting stuff. Always liked messing with toy cars.

[puddingwrestler]

Hmm...
There is a way of generating an embed code for google photos which I tried out yesterday, but it ended up putting them in at the original size. Which is huge. I may need to do further experiments and possibly minor level swearing.

[puddingwrestler]

Well, the embed code thing isn't working either now. Guess I'll just have to go back to posting to the blog. Interestingly, the blog also uses Google Photos to store its images, but in some subtly different way which makes it much easier to share them...
The internet really is a bit strange at times.

[puddingwrestler]

In the absence of the ability to convince Google Photos to come to the party, here's a TFH Update. Or an MFH Update really.

[NARSES2]

Hmm...
There is a way of generating an embed code for google photos which I tried out yesterday, but it ended up putting them in at the original size. Which is huge. I may need to do further experiments and possibly minor level swearing.

I used to find threatening to throw technology out of my office window (I was on the 20th floor) when I was working used to get it working again. However since retiring Google etc seem to have trained their tech to resist those types of threat 

[puddingwrestler]

More gaslands pics are up! Full details and more pics on the blog, but here's a taste.


Here are the most recently completed ones, including the heavy truck that was the subject of MFH 28.


Here's a good look at the Midnight Roger.


The Mightiest of Bois.


And the unstopable armoured might of Smol Panzer.

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