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:

 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...

 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.

Monster Truck Frankenstein  Monster Truck with War Rig Cab Monster Truck with War Rig Cab The War Rig Cab Gun Truck Matchbox DAF truck as base Maybe we need a bigger gun on this? Found some cheap Skylander pieces Another try at a war rig. Very WIP due scale issues. Cab is more like 1:55 Working on a trailer Liked the idea of another truck front as armoured platform Some scrapeed car bodies for scale comparison The trailer is from an old king size Matchbox truck  

 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...