More car mayhem

The local 2nd hand/recycling store is always a good source for cheap toys for new wargaming projects.

Two-and-half euro for a bunch of 9 cars is not too bad for my upcoming car wars games ...

More Car Madness

 I finished 4 cars ... the big truck is just present as a scenery element.

First car finished

The car I started earlier is finished. Added some matt varnish, glued the thing back together, and done.

In the mean time, another one is already on the painting desk.

First car for a car combat game

Following up on 2 earlier posts (here and here), I started some painting work on an old toy car.

First thing I did was to take the car apart. Then I gave it a new paint coat. Then I rummaged in the bits box, and added some weapons and additional padding on the doors. The driver model is an old Dark Future miniature.

Still some work to do (driver, details, washing and some drybrushing, perhaps a deal or two, ...)

Once it's finished it will be the first in my new army of combat cars ...

Dark Future Miniatures

Last year I acquired some old Dark Future miniatures. Since I got interested in Car combat games (again), it was time to sort them out.

For identifying old Citadel Miniatures, there a couple of good sites, but for Dark Future, the Collecting Citadel Miniatures wiki provided good answers on their Dark Future page.

And now for something different ...

Recently, I participated in the Car Wars kickstarter. I remember playing old versions of Car Wars back in the 80s and 90s, so this is an old favourite. I also got interested in Machinas, and bought a pdf copy as this game as well. This is topped by my acquisition of an old Dark Future set, which I bought at Crisis last year.

So, I need some cars!

Luckily, I still have a box of my old Matchbox cars from my toddler days (yes, that is almost 50 years ago). These cars date back to the late 60s, early 70s, but I never really did much with them for wargaming purposes. Perhaps now is the time!

A small selection of cars (various brands) going back to the early 70s

First thing to do is to disassemble the cars. It turns out there are a lot of youtube videos on how to do that exactly. So I took out my Dremel and started drilling ...

Some cars disassembled

This leaves the metal bodywork for a nice repaint job, and the inner parts for some cleaning. Then I'll have to add guns, rockets, and all the paraphenelia required for some heavy car combat ...

To be continued ...