'Toy Story' from Millsy - Gaslands - Pimp My Ride!

G'day All,

There are few things I spent more time playing with as a little tacker than Matchbox and Hotwheels cars. Endless hours were devoted to carving roads into the bush rocks around our house or constructing complex race tracks in the sandpit in the backyard.

When Gaslands made its debut I was hooked and have over time I've amassed over 50 cars, trucks and bike making 10 teams or so, plus a range of other vehicles. Quite a few have been painted in previous Challenges if you'd care to look. The opportunity to make another team was not to be sniffed at and so I present for your horror/fascination my latest editions...

High Roller

Riding high and covered in rolled gold, the High Roller will has fat wheels and an even fatter bank roll. 

The Purple Perpetrator

Fast. Hard. PURPLE. Get too close and this bad boy discharges right where you least want it (from its custom oil dropper). I KNOW what you were thinking...

Pussy Galore

Pretty in pink. She purrs like a cat and she'll eat you alive. If you're lucky.

The Mar-a-Lago-mobile

Most cars have blinkers. Not the Mar-a-Lago-mobile, it has BLINGERS. Hideous, tasteless, gold blingers on every available surface inside and out. Because enquiring minds want to know there are 173 nail art "gems" that took 90 minutes to glue to this... THING.

4 x 20mm/1:72 cars = 60 points + 50 bonus points = 110 points total.

Thanks for looking!

Cheers,
Millsy

'Toy Story' from PaulSS - From Hot Wheels Max Steel to Gaslands Fusty Rucker

 

I think I was always going to do a Hot Wheels for this round, but I was tootling away painting more stuff for the Barons' War when I got a reminder at 1630 on 6th Feb that submissions for the bonus round need to be in tomorrow. 

I've got a pile of Hot Wheels still in their blister packs - I'm constantly picking up something interesting when I see it - so I grabbed this Max Steel and my stash of bits and set to with the super glue and accelerator. 

The ram, scoop and wheel spikes are all 3D prints while the driver is a wasteland warrior from North Star in a groovy Soviet era style gas mask, he'll need it with no windshield!

The whole thing was given a blast of Khaki primer and after allowing a probably less than reasonable time to dry was base-coated in several rusty browns and then given a wash of Strong Tone. Once that was dry I built up the rust layers adding final blooms of orange and bare metal and painted the driver in a mix of military greens. The exhausts and fuel tank were given extra rust treatment with some Dirty Down and then set about with Tamiya Weathering Powders before a blast of Matt Varnish and photos.

 This rust bucket just made it over the line!

A 20mm vehicle and a 20mm driver plus the theme bonus points should add 69pts to my total.