Post Apocalyptic Water Merchants [PICS]

[Pil]

I painted up a small caravan of post apocalyptic water merchants, here they come:



They line up their vehicles neatly. On the left is an alcohol truck (ok, so they sell more than water). In the middle a warter truck and on the right a support vehicle.


The alcohol truck is a 1:50(?) fire engine (Cararama) with the back replaced with a farm toy. The water truck is a 1:43 Unimog-ish street sweeper (Cararama) converter to a water truck (plastic rod for the taps on either side, extra armour from MagicSculp. The support vehicle is a converted 1:43 BMW X5 (Cararama).


All vehicles were painted in different shades of blue. The merchants wanted their vehicles to be blue to make them recognisable as water merchants, and used whatever blue paint they could still find. One tin often wasn't enough for a whole vehicle.


Flint takes care of the alcohol sales, one of the greatest money-makers.


Delilah gets the men thirsty for the cleanest water in the desert.


Dick makes sure no-one touches the money (or the vehicles).


Bill has the same job as Dick...


...and has a bit of an attention issue.


Cor sells the water, and makes sure everyone pays.

I added lots of gold because I figured merchants would like to show off their wealth. All the models are Kallistra and the only conversion I have done is cut off Cors mohawk. They are a bit shiny because I messed up with the varnish, and the varnish is now so thick I don't dare varnisgh them again.

Enjoy!

[General Roos]

Awesome vehicles and awesome idea! 

[TheMightyFlip]

Nice to see close ups of those kalistra mini's thanks.

Great ideas on the vechiles i may steal, keep it up.

[SamuraiSeapig]

Nice work. Just wondering what rules you intend to use?

[postal]

very nice work great detail

[Pil]

Nice work. Just wondering what rules you intend to use?

For now I just made them for the heck of it (starting with the vehicles, then the merchants themselves). I think I might use them for some special scenarios of High Octane games. The vehicles have already made an appearance in a recent zombie game (not posted). Otherwise such vehicles and models always find their way to the tabletop one way or another

Thanks all

[DAWGIE]

 

PIL, this is great stuff! makes me want to do one of my own asap!


can i pick your mighty brain for some water/booze convoy thoughts?


did y'all consider a small gas/petrol hauler, or tank trailer pulled by another smaller vehicle, to go with the other vehicles?


and what about a gun truck for some BFG support/protection for the valuable booze/water tankers and all of that  wealth the crew is wearing and carrying with them?


again this is excellent stuff that y'all are turning out!


DAWGIE

[Pil]

did y'all consider a small gas/petrol hauler, or tank trailer pulled by another smaller vehicle, to go with the other vehicles?


and what about a gun truck for some BFG support/protection for the valuable booze/water tankers and all of that  wealth the crew is wearing and carrying with them?

I did consider a small truck, but I don't really have one. I only have a large fuel truck which I may eventually paint up as a water carrier.

I also considered some extra defense vehicles but I have not figured out how to do it best. For our High Octane games cars with platforms that models can stand on are best, but that style doesn't really fit with the rest of the vehicles, as I don't think merchants are likely to drive around in empty vehicles when they could just as well stuff them with goods.

Anyway, I have some ideas on expanding, including building the distillery itself when I get my hands on the Urban War BioToxin plant. I was also planning on adding to the merchants with EM4 biker models.

But all those are just ideas at the moment, this was supposed to be a small detachment as you would find in a market with a few men. On the road they may pay some road gangs or mercenaries to protect them.

[Deathwing]

That is frakking awesome!!! 

Joey

[majorsmith]

awesome stuff!

[The Rock]

Nice work. I wait a battle report 

[Oliver]

  Wonderful Pil!

I was going to say now that you have them you have to build the distillery as well but looks like you beat me to it!

[TheMightyFlip]

I'd suggest a humvee or a range rover with a machine gun mounted on top, or some form of beat up old APC.

[Pil]

Well, I haven't built it yet

I'd suggest a humvee or a range rover with a machine gun mounted on top, or some form of beat up old APC.

I'll let this idea simmer a bit

[Admiral Benbow]

Great idea and nice modelling, love it!