Gaslands Fun

Having enjoyed a fun game of Gaslands the other day with the Wargames group, I felt inspired to create a few vehicles.

Having amassed a pile of textured plasticard for the Cybertronian project, I thought many of these could be used to armour up cars etc. I offered to create some for a friend and he kindly sent me spare Gasland sprues in the post. These are useful as they include drivers and engines etc for the build.

It's fun to just cut up tiny blocks of plasticard and stick it in the back of the vehicle. I imagine these to be tool boxes and the like. There are a few bits from GW in there too like the flamer.

A drill was used to create the bullet holes. They look good as dents as well, where the drill has not passed all the way through.

 This is my charity shop haul, 50p each, can't argue with that. Some are large and chunky, ex military looking.

UPDATE: All painted, It looks quite scrappy and could belong  a scavenger group.

Neo Nazis maybe.

The windscreen isn't armoured... however this did me the chance to do a nice dust effect on the window.

This build gave me the chance to try out loads of weathering effects. Sand dust wash and a good new red rust effect paint.

More vehicles appear on the horizon. One I've based on Mad Max's patrol car. The other is a very militaristic vehicle. I've given this one high grade armour to match its design.

Creating Shockwave

You can't plan a wargame around Cybertron with including its custodian...the mighty Shockwave!

I have struggled to find a scale figure of the Decepticon that matches my forces, so I decided to have a go at creating one. My version is a very old version of Shockwave, maybe he has altered himself since.

I started with finding a Battle mech resin figure that gave off Shockwave vibes. I had planned to extend the lower legs to make it taller. The idea came to me to just replace the whole leg section with another gun robot, Megatron. I had a 3.5" figure going spare.

In the cartoon, Shockwave is the same size as Soundwave, so I used this figure for scale. In the end I shortened him slightly as he was getting too tall.

I found Lego is a real boon when it comes to this sort of model making. 

The hose is from an old Playmobil set.

Blaster gets his speakers with the help of some Lego bits.

The new slightly shorter Shockwave looks a lot better and ranks up perfectly with the others. Megatron being just a tad taller.

The scenarios for battles on Cybertron will involve the Autobots carrying out raids for energon. Shockwave is a huge part of this as he is normally in charge of protecting said energon. I couldn't plan for such games and not have a Shockwave character.

Shockwave with his future minions. These smaller Soundwaves will be turned into camera and other generic bots of Cybertron.

This was a look of fun and I can't wait to paint him up.

 Proxy Shockwave, the custodian of Cybertron.

UPDATE; Grey undercoat from Halfords does the job, he looks better already.

UPDATE: well I couldn't resist in pushing on and finishing him. I also got to paint up Blaster, an Autobot boom box.

Tomorrow I will varnish him which will help with the metal look.

Shockwave in scale with the Seekers.

I had tried to paint this guy in my own colours, but I just couldn't get him looking good. So in the end I looked up a alternative colour scheme for Blaster and copied it. I believe this new version is called Twincast.

UPDATE: finished at last. Stickers added and varnished.

Autobot intruders! Prepare for annihilation!

I've added a chunk of wing to his base to give the illusion of a battle scene.

We've come a long way from the Highlander Battle Mech, but the results are good I think and it was a lot of fun. There's no question as to who he is, even though there are many differences. Shockwave is a very large, powerful bot, energon raids have now just become a lot more perilous!