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Some thoughts on diecast scale

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 And how this affects building miniatures for Gaslands. 1/64. That's a scale most people out there who like toy cars are familiar with. The most common brands for relatively cheap and nice to play with diecast toy cars may be Mattel's Hot Wheels and Matchbox. Recently Majorette and Maisto have joined the game. Majorette slightly upmarket, Maisto depending on product line. They have some super cheap cars in 1/64 and some more like Hot Wheels premium range. And they normaly are considered as 1/64 scale. 1/64ish probably, more or less... At least when growing up Hot Wheels and Matchbox for us were synonyms for 1/64. So what is a scale, what does 1/64 mean anyways? Scale ratio is a tool, which helps to make models or maps or projection of real things in a different size. It states how the size of the model is relative to size of the original. 1/64 simply means: 1 cm in my model represents 64 cm in my original. That means if a Hot Wheels model of a car is about 7 cm long, the origin...

Food Truck - Hot Sauce

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 Another Gaslands car. Ice cream truck is a legit vehicle in the rules of Gaslands: Refuelled. It's basically a budget version of a car. Cheaper, but with a special weakness. There are hundrets of variations to be found online, all of the same theme, the creators probably had in mind, when they introduced ice cream trucks. It's almost always a version of Sweet Tooth known from the game Twisted Metal. I did one of those, too. Not very good. When I started to build a team for the Cult of The Inferno sponsor, I needed a cheap car for some remaining cans. This is when I started thinking about an ice cream truck. But Inferno and ice cream doesn't really fit now, does it. This is, when  the idea of building a food truck instead came to my mind. Basically the same concept only selling hot food instead of ice cream. So riulewise it is running as ice cream truck. So, yes, it is a bit stereotyping. Hot food, tacos, sombrero. But really, what about gaslands ins't? I present you:  ...