Sunday, February 11, 2018

Gaslands - Riding the Wastelands Part 3: Ready to paint and happy accidents (2 cars!)

So I've primed my first Gaslands car and dry-fitted it to make sure that everything is good prior to painting it.  I think that it looks pretty cool with a flamethrower on the hood and a giant turbo-bosted engine in the rear.  I think that it looks good, but it doesn't quite have the Mad max feel that I was hoping for.  Still, I'm looking forward to painting it. 


As for the more Mad Max feel, I got that on another car quite by mistake.  I had a plan for making a '69 Mustang into a car with giant speakers on it and a skull ram.  I was well on my way to realizing my vision of a death-metal racer when disaster struck (or so I thought).  I had stripped down the car and drilled out holes for all of the accessories.  Then I stepped on the car...  Quite by accident, but man was I bummed out.  The roof bent and one of the roof pillars snapped off.  I'd had this happen to my Hot Wheels cars a few times when I was a kid, and that was generally the end of them.  But this time I got to thinking.  Those dudes in the wastelands wouldn't just scrap their car when it got jacked up.  After the apocalypse, there aren't going to be factories building new cars, so they would have to fix what they had.  In that spirit, I started on a revised plan for the car, and this is what I ended up with.  First, I made new roof pillars.  Then I added patches over the big holes.  I added a few bullet holes in the passenger side door, and replaced all of the glass with wire mesh.  I even gave it the ram that I'd planned to use for the original design.  Strangely enough, I'm liking this car better than what I had originally planned!  I'm really looking forward to getting this one primed and painted, maybe even more than the first car.




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