Things to Waste my Time on

Recently I started doing some basic beginners' teams again, consisting of a buggy and a car, each armed with a machine gun. The idea was to try out a few different looking designs, but keep the effort on a moderate level. Here is the third team: Bangers & Mesh Had the Morris for some time. Looked for a partner. I wanted to use a British car. But not a Land Rover. And all the Jags and cabs I had were weirdly off scale. So I found this really vintage Ford Zodiak. The buggy Matchbox Morris Minor Saloon. I had so much fun to hot rod this incredibly tame car. The Wheels are salvaged from other Hot Wheels. So is the engine and the roll cage. The car This is a wild one. The Ford Zodiak MK IV was the upmarket brother of the Ford Zephyr. This started as a Matchbox model from 1968. I got it badly beaten, hood and engine missing. I gave it new wheels (from a Hot Wheels car) and a new engine. Made the little Lewis machine gun as an afterthought. When I found the wing in my bits box, I just...

Recently I started doing some basic beginners' teams again, consisting of a buggy and a car, each armed with a machine gun. The idea was to try out a few different looking designs, but keep the effort on a moderate level. Here is the first team: Mediocre I think it's pretty obvious where the inspiration for those came from. The Buggy  I used a Matchbox Ford Model B Coupe as base. The car looks pretty neat as it is. Maybe one day I will try to do a more detailled Cranky Black.  Front Wheels: Hot Wheels, Rear Wheels: 3rd-party, Gun: cheap Chinese 1/72 Tank model The Car A Hot Wheels '59 Chevy Impala gave its life for this Sawed off the trunk cover, widened the wheel arches with a tremel Gun and oil barrel are from Implements of Carnage. Wheels are 3rd party More views of the whole bunch:

 There are numerous beginners' tutorials in English language, but few in German, so this is one: Gaslands? Was ist das? O.k., Du bist auf dieser Seite, also gehen wir mal davon aus, Du hast schon mal von Gaslands gehört, oder zumindest im Netz Bilder von Gaslands-Fahrzeugen gesehen? Wie dem auch sei... Gaslands ist ein Spiel. Genauer gesagt ein Table-Top-Spiel, in dem Modellautos (u.a.) als Miniaturen verwendet werden. Es wurde 2017 von Osprey Publishing veröffentlicht.  --> Website Es geht um Rennen bzw. Kämpfe mit Fahrzeugen in einem postapokalyptischen Setting. Die Idee dabei war folgende: Tabletop-Games neigen dazu, sehr schnell sehr teure Hobbies zu werden. Miniatur-Armeen kosten Geld. Matchbox bzw. Hot Wheels Autos gibt es dagegen schon für um die ein bis zwei Euro neu. Das Konzept, ein billiges Table Top zu entwickeln geht allerdings nur so halb auf. Dazu mehr später. Das Spiel findet rundenbasiert statt. Fahrzeuge werden mit Templates (Schablonen) bewegt. Sie verfüg...