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Cars… From bad to Worse

So this happened today…

Luckily my wife wasn’t hurt and it happened at relatively low speed. The car seemed to judder so she went to pull in – it kept going left and then hit a very big ditch. So that is us without any cars for the foreseeable future. This is what can best be described as a total bugger as the nearest bus stop is about 3 miles away and as it is wool week then all of the hire cars are out on hire too. Luckily one of my parents at the school has said he will come and get me tomorrow morning. What a total star that he is. He also does my cleaning and does the school transport so I am totally in his debt.

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Dark Future… the Final Countdown

Nearly there….

I have added various bits from a WW2 Char B to the renegade as well as a supercharger to the Interceptor (can’t remember what it was on the tank)…

I added some chain to the front of the Renegade as well as a hefty aerial, a rail and some metal gubbins on the roof.

The waterslide transfers gave me a nice vehicle number as well as a suitable name… how appropriate was the name considering I had painted the back yellow and black.

The boar came from some old Brettonian stuff I had or rather still have…11 sheets of various heraldic icons.

Tomorrow I will add some bags and Jerry cans to the Renegade.

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Dark Future… now with drivers

Hurrah my drivers arrived!

They fit perfectly in the cars.

The other bits and bobs are ideal too…

I painted a couple of drivers up and got them glued into the cars.

I glued the canopy into the interceptor, I really cannot remember it being a slight yellow colour, maybe it hasn’t aged that well.

The other good news is that I found a pile of 20mm tank spruces, with the odd bit of unused tank on them. Hopefully I will find something useful (There is already some nice chain and a radio aerial visible)…

I will get the guns onto the renegade tomorrow and any other bits and bobs from the metal equipment (a couple of Jerry cans are going on the side of the car at the very least).

The second Renegade is going to have mesh inserts to cover the cockpit… well it will when I can find it.

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Dark Future…Motorcycle’s Finished

Managed to get these finished today…

My little boy turns 8 tomorrow but as it is a school day we had presents and birthday meal today. I am surprised I managed to do anything. Full of food and been out in the fresh air… absolutely zonked out!

I also glued the rocket launchers onto the interceptor and gave them a quick coat of blue.

My eldest made a chocolate layer birthday cake, but actually used my rotating cake stand for an actual cake. That is a first, it is normally used for airbrushing stuff!

It was an extremely yummy cake, so I might just let her off (well she did ask to use it).

This afternoon’s shenanigans were once again in glorious weather.

The woods looked amazing with the late afternoon sun coming through the trees.

And then there was a great sunset as we were driving around killing time before going to Frankie’s Fish and Chip shop (one of the best, if not the best in Scotland – well they have won so many awards now I can’t remember where they stand).

Tomorrow I will have a think about what colour asphalt to do for the bikes.

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Dark Future… Motorcycles

I started on a couple of the bikes,

The one thing about the bikes is they aren’t really what you would expect for a Wasteland bike gang. These are a bit more Van Saar than Ratskin Renegades as a Necromunda analogy.

You can tell their age, if one compared the plastics now to these from then, there is absolutely no contest. You can’t really tell on the photos, but the gun butt goes right across the body of the rider. I will paint them all up on bright coloured bikes, but with the same dark coloured leathers.

My drivers have been dispatched, which means I can get the cars finished soon. The piping on the interceptor was glued down and given it a blue wash. I am considering adding the missile launchers on backwards to the side holes just visible above the green bike. These would become either boosters or smoke dispensers. As the end of the hose is directly above the hole it might work….🤔

What else have I been up to…

As I have recently got back into playing Fallout 4, I thought I would share one of my favourite songs on Diamond City Radio…

https://youtu.be/FNJ5EuU1hYU

I have a new idea for a new book…

Murder on the Tringaloongahulahumbele Express!

It was a rather nice evening yesterday…

Tonight wasn’t too bad either…

Sadly the tablet wasn’t able to cope with the differing light levels…the distant hills were a lot more visible to the naked eye.

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Dark Future…Interceptor Weapon System

Weapons glued in place

Pipe thingies part painted and shoved on to see what they look like.

Still a bit of work to go, but over the hump now. Hopefully the drivers will arrive next week and then I can get them in, the cockpit canopy on and everything glued together.

I am going to see if anyone has any water slide transfers so that I can put a number on the side.

I did consider some of these…

However they are all a bit too big ☹️! somewhere I have a one from a Cadian Walker it has a nice selection of numerals and skulls for that matter. But can I find it? Can I bugger!

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Dark Future

The Game of Highway Warriors

My little boy wanted to get my AvP figures out and go on a bug hunt, we have been sorting out lately and the figures were out in the shed. As it was raining, we thought we would try something different. He didn’t fancy x-wing so I dragged this out of the cupboard.

My two youngest and I had a bit of a race. Somehow I ended up with the Renegade with a light machine gun. Whilst they both had Interceptors with a heavy machine gun.

Sadly over time the boards must have been damp and have warped rather badly, but we still had fun.

I am trailing behind, letting rip with the machine gun. Sadly, for me anyway, I dropped too far behind and ended up out of the race, running over a mine probably didn’t help.

He dropped his last mine and his sister took a lot of damage, but not enough to stop her.

As he sped towards the finish line she let rip with her heavy weapon and, although technically he won, he crossed the finish line with his car, not to mention his body in tatters.

They have decided they want another bash tomorrow evening.

Drastic measures are being taken to flatten out the boards before tomorrow night.

I do have Gaslands, however I haven’t sorted out the dice or templates yet. We may progress onto it when I get them done.

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Road Wars

After watching Mad Max a few times I fancied some road wars kind of mayhem. I had already got the GW Dark Future road wars game, however my house doesn’t have room to run larger scaled games. I looked around for something smaller scale. It was then I came across Vanguard miniatures. 6mm road wars… Awesome!
I went for a selection of bikes, cars and mutant types. I still want to get a couple of light rigs as well as another set of hot rods to go with my buggies and chase cars.
I also purchased a militaristic group (the Sisterhood) to give someone for the mutants to fight.I could have gone for the ganger set, or a whole host of other antagonists. The one thing Vanguard doesn’t have much of is civilians. I got these elsewhere.
Bring on the chaos 🙂