First game of Gaslands

You can start your journey into the Gaslands by digging up old boxes of toys from attic/basement or looting your children’s ones. I looked in my sons and mine collection, but it had too much of a sentimental value for me, so I opted for purchase of new. Even with a new purchase, this project will not set you back to much (you will probably find some cars in 1$/pound/euro bin in the local mega market). For some reason, locally, hotwheels disappeared from mega markets, as well as most  other leading manufacturers (you can find proof of economic wealth of the country in strange places), so I had to go to toy stores to find me some “miniatures”for this game.

With new cars firmly secured, it was time to bring them to Gaslands universe. Bits box was raided and stuff still missing was printed on the 3D printer. With a few bits of plasticard and mosquito net later, the cars were ready for painting.

For Bulldog I designed a prowl in a CAD and the printed it. Turtle and V8 also received printed details (turret and calitrop dispenser), which were downloaded from Thingiverse.

My son heavily modified his cars. Most upgrades he designed in CAD and then printed in 3D (I’m a proud dad 🙂 ). Then he used some plasticard and other bits to make them even more awesome.

Only Turtle was fully painted. Bulldog and V8 received a few layers of paint by airbrush to even the colors and make them look dirty. Then I added a few more color details by brush (mostly rust).

Here they are all “shine and chrome”:

For this race I opted for desert scenery. The base was game mat by Gamemat.eu. I had few 10-15mm desert buildings and oases, but most scenery was 3D printed for this occasion. All models are from Thingiverse, most are 1:72 models scaled up a little bit.

With little time to spare before race, scenery elements received quick and dirty painting treatment (literally dirty – I used dirt from dirt road near my parents holiday house).