Callum, Aiden and Grandad's Zombie Apocalypse - cars from poundland

[dadlamassu]

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:


Tractor:


Original car and modified version


End results








Not brilliant but poundland (or similar) is worth a look.

[Sbloom141]

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?

[dadlamassu]

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?

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. 

[nedius]

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!

[Jimmyg]

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.

[CarlLeyland]

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

[horridperson]

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.

[Jimmyg]

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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[dadlamassu]

Thanks - need to look for those helicopters.