Crooked Dice Cold War Jeep - UAZ-469

Back in November 2021 I assembled and painted the Crooked Dice "Alien Jeep".

Comparison with other 1/50 scale vehicles showed that it was a bit large to be a proper UAZ-469 (even ignoring the two door design).

At Warfare this year I picked up one of Crooked Dice's new Cold War Jeep.

The kit comes in six pieces: A one piece body, four road wheels and a spare wheel.

The model has a fixed canvas roof.

Basic paint job:

Citadel Chaos Black spray undercoat.

Citadel Snot Womble Green base colour.

Windows are Army Painter Royal Blue.

Canvas is Citadel Death World Forest.

Tyres and windscreen wiper blades are MIG Rubber and Tyres.

As you can see, the Cold War Jeep is smaller than the Alien Jeep.

But scales a lot better with the Crooked Dice Land Rover.

Empress SWB Land Rover

 This is a test dry run for an Empress Short Wheel Base Land Rover with a pintle mounted mounted GPMG for use in Twilight 2000.

There are some moulding defects on the front grill. I will cover this with some camouflage netting and possibly some jerry cans.

That is not a wheel clamp, I just have not removed the tag from the wheel.

The gunner is from the BAOR32 Anti Aircraft Unit.

The base of the gunner will be trimmed and a plastic card insert created with the pintle mount attached.

This is going to be loaded up as a recce or security vehicle to provide protection for an anti-tank LWB Land Rover with the BAT recoilless Rifle.

Crooked Dice UAZ-486 - AKA The Alien Jeep.

 Crooked Dice have just released an "Alien Invader Jeep", which bears an uncanny resemblance to the Soviet UAZ-469 (though in the form of a two door variant).

Two Zone explorers check out the surroundings. Empress modern Russian and Universal Soldier.

UAZ-469 and Mighty Mite.

UAZ-469 and unfinished  M151.

HMMWV (Empress) and UAZ-469.

Tigr and UAZ-469.

Crooked Dice Land Rover and UAZ-469.

Spectre SUV and UAZ-469.

UAZ-469 and William Killian

Empress Land Rover (WOMBAT carrier)

 As part of my Not-Colours order from Empress, I got a BAOR Land Rover carrying a WOMBAT Recoilless Rifle.

Here are the components of the Land Rover (there is a pack with the crew and the WOMBAT still to photograph).

The doors are optional and it comes with a set of stowage and opened WOBAT ammunition boxes.

Size comparison between the Crooked Dice (SWB) Land Rover and the longer Empress one.

Crooked Dice Land Rover - Twilight 2000 style

Crooked Dice have just completed a Kickstarter campaign for a Post Apocalypse game using the 7TV rules. They have brought out a number of vehicles and add-ons before the contents of the Kickstarter are released. This includes a number of stowage sets. Their Medium Stowage set includes one piece that fits neatly on to the front of their Land Rover, and another that makes a great roof rack load.

I am building this as a Truck Utility Medium, Fitted For Radio, so added an aerial mount using a piece of 4mm square section tube (with 4mm strip ends) and an aerial base made from brass rod to the front right side of the bonnet.

There is a small gap between the front of the roof stowage and the roof, that was hidden by adding a tarpaulin made from Greenstuff. Though the stowage rack fitted in front of the grill, it did not balance nicely on the front bumper, so a piece of square section plastic rod was added.

I wish Crooked Dice had left the spare wheel separate, most examples of Landrovers in British service have the spare wheel on the bonnet. It would have been nice to be able to add some Jerry cans to the back.

This is the vehicle painted, but without decals (not sure how to source the number plates, but I do have some Union flags).

Converted Crooked Dice X-Commando  for scale.

Land Rover

So, the Land Rover is now painted, it now needs weathering.

 William Killan for scale.

 Comparison shot with the Crooked Dice Transit Van.

 Comparison shot with the Empress Toyota technical.

 Comparison shot with the Evil Bear Panther.

Comparison shot with the Mantic Walking Dead Pickup.

Land Rover

Crooked Dice have recently released a Land Rover to provide mobility to the Army.

The kit comprises five resin pieces, a one piece body and four wheels.

The wheels are currently held in place by blue tack, hence their "jaunty" angle.

The plan is to spray the wheels and body separately, the body getting a coat of PSC British Tank spray paint.

William Killan for scale.