Gaslands - Gigahorse?

I've been working for the past few weeks on my version of a Gigahorse style vehicle from Mad Max Fury Road. This is intended for use with Gaslands and I think due to the size will have to be used as a Monster Truck.

I've not gone for a straight copy of the original design and instead just used the basic concept of two car bodies on top of each other, the bottom one widened.

Well I think I've finally finished the actual build and it's on to painting next.

I have to get this one ready for next weekend's Other Partizan Show at Newark Showground. We're running another Gaslands participation game

Man O'War Orcs

My 4th Man O'War fleet has started... This time Orcs.

From what I understand they're not the best of fleets, almost as likely to destroy themselves as the enemy. But that's the fun part!

I've started off with a squadron Drillakillas and a squadron of Bigchukkas. These can be used as allies to my Chaos fleet to start with.

What I really need now is a load of Hulks. These are the best ships in the Orc fleet and with the composition rules I can have 3 of them with these. That's exactly what I intend to get... Then add another Bigchukka squadron and a 4th Hulk and some Wyverns.

Man O'War "Monsters of the Sea" and "Beasts of the Deep"

For Man O'War GW produced two boxes of sea creatures to be used in all fleets in the game. These two boxes together gave 9 models.

Like all of the Man O'War models they are lovely clean sculpts that are a joy to paint. I've now got both sets painted up and ready for use in my games.

Naval Fortifications

I spotted these 1/1000 Naval Forts on the Brigade Models stand at Robin earlier in the year.  I bought them with the intention of using them as "Shoreforts" for use with Man O'War. A bit nicer than the cardboard templates in the game.

When it came to painting them up I did my usual Google search and found that someone had managed to put cannons on them. These are not usually supplied, but I eventually found them in the "ACW Coastal Forts" section of the Brigade Models shop, here. They're lovely little cannon and despite being obviously too late a design for the fortresses certainly add something.

On painting the forts I could see striations in the surface texture which indicated that these are originally 3d models, despite being cast in resin.

Anyway they painted up lovely and fit in great in our Man O' War games (and also in Napoleonic Naval). I just wish I had reason to buy more of this little scenery. Brigade have such a wonderful range!

After Gaslands at Barrage Wargames Show

Ok... so it's been a couple of weeks... I will attempt to catch up with what has been going on in a few posts...

First up is the Barrage Wargames Show Gaslands Game. This went brilliantly. Very popular indeed on a ludicrously hot day. The game is perfectly suited to a participation game and the rolling deathmatch style worked excellently.

We added a rule that you could come onto the board in any legal Gear rather than being limited to 1st Gear only, but would start with a Hazard for each Gear above Gear 1. So you could join in straight away with the action in Gear Phase 3 by accepting 2 Hazards.

We had a chap videoing his experience playing the game. It's on Youtube here: "Barrage Wargames Show 2018 Stafford"

Gaslands Participation Game - Barrage Wargames Show - Stafford - 8th July

Today I've been getting the car cards ready for our participation game at the Barrage Wargames Show (Stafford UK) next Sunday (8th July).

The game will be a drop-in-and-play Deathmatch. Select a random vehicle and join in the mayhem until you crash and burn...

The idea is to keep the same game running all day, with a quick turn-around of turns and cars. But to do that we need players! So please pop in and play!

http://staffordwargames.wixsite.com/barrage

I've also finished off some new cars...

Higher Education

007

Ripsaw

Elvis

Gaslands - Monster Truck and Road

I've just finished working on my first Monster Truck. I've stripped this right down and added ram, crew, spikes and some ridiculous exhausts. Then finished it off with rusty flaky paint done using the PVA method and added rust and mud using pigments. My first attempt at using pigments and not my last. I love how it's come out.

I couldn't find any pigments for sale in Sheffield, we're lacking a really good model shop in the town centre these days, so I had to order online. Whilst waiting for those to arrive I got on with making some roads for my board.

I tinkered around with making roads out of cork, either modular or integrated into the board, but in the end went for some carved out of lino self-adhesive floor tiles. I'd found the method on this blog.

This has left me with several 1 foot sections, 6 inch sections, end pieces to allow diagonal placement and a t-junction. I have a couple more pieces that I've not shown in the photos. They're nicely weathered and sort-of post-apocalyptic. I think I need to make a curve or two to finish them off, but getting the lines right is going to be a challenge.

Someone helpfully put a guide to the sizes of US roads in 1/64th scale on the Gaslands Facebook Group, which by-the-way has to be one of the most active wargaming groups on Facebook. I also did some of my own research using the official US government guidelines, available online. The sizes I came up with are for a 2 lane highway: 6" wide total; each lane 2 1/4"; each shoulder 3/4"; lines 2mm wide, white on edge, yellow dashed line in middle: dash length: 1 1/2", gap 4 1/2". The dashed lines adjusted to make them fit on the 1 foot sections.