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Miniatures Adventure => Post-Apocalyptic Tales => Topic started by: dadlamassu on 17 February 2017, 01:21:07 PM
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We needed some terrain pieces and started out with some cars. A look in Poundland cost Grandad £4 for a police car, a tractor and 2 sets of 3 police cars (8 vehicles). The police car and tractor needed practically no work and a few hours work was needed on the triple packs taking them apart, "damaging" them, painting and building them back up.
Police car:
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e1/dadlamassu/Zombies/DSCF8630.jpg) (http://s36.photobucket.com/user/dadlamassu/media/Zombies/DSCF8630.jpg.html)
Tractor:
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e1/dadlamassu/Zombies/DSCF8629.jpg) (http://s36.photobucket.com/user/dadlamassu/media/Zombies/DSCF8629.jpg.html)
Original car and modified version
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e1/dadlamassu/Zombies/DSCF8622.jpg) (http://s36.photobucket.com/user/dadlamassu/media/Zombies/DSCF8622.jpg.html)
End results
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e1/dadlamassu/Zombies/DSCF8624.jpg) (http://s36.photobucket.com/user/dadlamassu/media/Zombies/DSCF8624.jpg.html)
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e1/dadlamassu/Zombies/DSCF8623.jpg) (http://s36.photobucket.com/user/dadlamassu/media/Zombies/DSCF8623.jpg.html)
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e1/dadlamassu/Zombies/DSCF8626.jpg) (http://s36.photobucket.com/user/dadlamassu/media/Zombies/DSCF8626.jpg.html)
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e1/dadlamassu/Zombies/DSCF8628.jpg) (http://s36.photobucket.com/user/dadlamassu/media/Zombies/DSCF8628.jpg.html)
Not brilliant but poundland (or similar) is worth a look.
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I need to find a Poundland that sells that tractor!
I love the Poundland car packs. I've converted mine into burnt out shells, but yours look really nice in colour.
Also is that female survivor carrying Project Z rules? lol
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I need to find a Poundland that sells that tractor!
I love the Poundland car packs. I've converted mine into burnt out shells, but yours look really nice in colour.
Also is that female survivor carrying Project Z rules? lol
That was the original idea but I could not duplicate the cover at that size. We use her as a High Value Victory Point for some Rescue Scenarios as she is carrying vital information.
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I have them too - just not done anything with them yet!
I have always fancied something like the Poundland £10 challenge... how much scenery could you build with a budget of £10 and a trip to a pound store?
Rules would need to be agreed - glues and tools not in budget, but what about bases or small decorativr bits, but that sort of thing. Never quite got round to feeling inspired enough to organise anything!
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Excellent stuff, as a fellow pound raider I can appreciate the thought that goes into these builds. I too have the tractor and same as you just muddied it up.
Like the £10 challenge idea, get it set up.
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Good work on those poundland trucks! I have some of these waiting to be started and you have given me the inspiration I needed thank you
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Those wrecks look excellent and a bargain to boot! I would have paid $8cdn just to get a tractor like that.
I've always been skeptical about budget terrain competitions. I'm always looking for a bargain but not to a point where the quality of the resulting project suffers for anything but my own failings as a maker. Cheap is good but good is better. A while back there was a, "terrain on a budget" thread on the Frostgrave Tales thread. I forget the budget but the pieces the author made turned out very well.
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Sorry I know this is your thread but just thought I'd let you know pound shops have some helicopters in that are a good scale.
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Thanks - need to look for those helicopters.