After a longer break it's time for a new thread showing my undertakings for a Mad Max inspired game and my interpretations of the involved vehicles. Main inspirations came of course from the "Mad Max: Fury Road" film, although I had been a fan of the original films from their first appearances many years ago. Some of you might remember that I already had a small car done in 2006 for a kind of postapoc racing fun game which will now build the foundation of many more to come; the older thread can be found here:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=5573.0
But the main impact to start at least came from that wonderful article in Wargames Illustrated 332 "Stop the truck"! A group of gamers in the UK had developed a kind of Mad Max game many years ago and the magazine featured all of their magnificent vehicle models in 1/24 scale. I was in love!
For further reference and inspiration I sincerely recommend two fantastic books:
The second picture is a sample from "Mad Max: Fury Road inspired artists" and has wonderful pictures from various graphic artists showing their visions of the world of Fury Road.
Now, first decision, what scale to work in? Of course 28 mil "scale" as that's the one offering most figure variety and possibilities for conversions. On the other hand, not many 1/56 scale cars and trucks available. I started browsing ... and found a nice truck model in this scale on Hood:
It's a toy truck from Macau and it's in 1/56 scale! And there would be more to come when searching Ebay, even some with different trailers.
First I took the model apart and checked all components for replacements and alternatives and then gave the hull a heavy treatment with coarse sandpaper to take away the shine and add some heavy scratch damage.
Next the cabin was cut open with a hacksaw to get a kind of fighting compartment and put some figures into later. Working with this kind of cast metal requires heavy tools, I learned the hard way trying a jewellers coping saw first ...
I also replaced the shiny chrome tanks with some large barrels from the spares box and fixed them with glue and brass wire.
From the start I wanted to change the double back axles with something heavier, added armour plates from my spare parts, reworked the exhaust pipes and looked seriously for a kind of cargo to give the truck some believable purpose. In the end I remembered my son's old water pump gun in the garage and took it apart for a lucky bag of useful parts ...
The water truck was born:
Last pic shows a scale reference with one of my postapoc warriors. I think it fits nicely. It's a conversions from Wargames Factory's Woodland indians and Apocalypse Survivors Men. Very nice and useful kits.
That's it for a start, let's see where this leads to ...
31 July 2015, 07:26:29 PM