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 second team: The Killing Joke Some time ago I had made this buggy . So I decided to give it a wing man. Unfortunately next to every possible other car the buggy looked huge in scale. So I decided to remake it in a smaller version. Had to slaughter a premium for that. The Buggy I used a 2024 Hot Wheels Meyers Manx. It's hard to turn such a jolly hippie car into a mean looking wasteland racer. Some chopping was done in the rear to make room for a gunner. I liked the wheels, so I kept them. The gun is from Implements of Carnage II, the other parts came from my bits boxes. The Car Hot Wheels '57 Plymouth Fury  I love the rust effects on this. Used Citadel Typhus Corrosion Technical paint The Wheels are salvaged from another Hot Wheels car. I lowere...

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:

 A while ago I got a batch of nice fotos of some of my Gaslands cars as a birthday present. A lot of them are already pubkished on this blog. Here is some more Hot Wheels Custom Datsun 240z Hot Wheels '67 Oldsmobile 442 The second car I ever made for Gaslands. It's funny to look at my very first batch of models. I would do a lot of things differently now. The (Rigor Motor) engine that is just glued on top of the hood looks so weird, but I didn't have the time to cut a hole in the hood. Nor the patience. The rear tires are just wrong. The gun I kitbashed from so many tiny bits, for I didn't have any gun parts. But Iove how confident and efficient I was back then. Today I overthing everything. This i s why so m any projects are frozen in WIP status. I have some concept in mind and the get lost in the details. Scale, Color scheme, purpose, somehow realistic details like exhaust pipes and such. I can get lost for weeks deciding on wheels. I have so many now. Back then it wa...

  The grille is taken from a '32 Ford I think The gatling seen in this picture broke of in the process of making these shoots.

 Here's some variants I made From l to r: Slime buggy, made from a Matchbox Beach Buggy Survivor Car, made from a Matchbox Malibu Marauder Locust Buggy, Made from a Hot Wheels Corkscrew Buggy Orange Crate, made from a Hot Wheels Enforcer The Slime Buggy The Survivor Car 90%finished The Locust 85% finished. Needs a weapon and more detailed painting on suspension and engine The Orange Crate Like the overall paint scheme, but needs more details and a bit of work. More dust, more grime. Also the original guns are not very detailed.

 I've been playing around with Bing's AI image generator...