Gaslands (1)

 And now for something completely different..."Gaslands Refuelled" is an Osprey game that I've been playing with the boys.  "The game of vehicular mayhem" is, I think, how it's marketed, and it's a sort of Mad Max meets Car Wars (or Battlecars - does anyone else remember that GW effort?) game.  It's mainly about building tooled-up cars and racing them; but here are some terrain items and 20mm "punk infantry" that I bought off ebay.  I haven't quite worked out how "infantry" feature in the game, but these were fun to paint.  Next on the list will be some punk figures that hang out of / stand on the cars themselves. I also bought a similar set of, er, armed nuns... which I haven't painted yet.  I have a lot of cars that I've picked up here and there (usually while the boys are looking at the latest PS5 games or whatever - if they leave a toy shop with something then I'll usually have at least one Hot Wheels or Matchbox car I think will be good for Gaslands).  Hugo (who turns 15 in 4 weeks - crikes) is very into DC comics at the moment, and has decided that his new Gaslands "fleet" will be various Batmobiles. 

The 20mm figures and bikers come from The Summoning Circle, and the terrain items are from The Artificer's Forge.  All these items were 3D-printed and easy to paint.  The punks reminded me of the adversaries in "Mad Max 2" and I deliberately painted these figures in a kind of uniform.  The black body armour is highlighted with GW Dark Reaper and Thunderhawk. I also used GW flesh paints rather than my usual Foundry ones - just a base of Bugman's Glow followed by highlights of Cadian Fleshtone and Kislev Flesh.  I tried to give each figure a different colour mohawk to ease identification.  This isn't the end of the punks.  I also have to do a couple of motorcyle/sidecar combos and the figures which go in the cars themselves. I really enjoyed painting the terrain, which I think is well-sculpted and quite clever in terms of the stuff they've put together to make the ramparts.  In fact, part of the fun is working out what it is you have to paint - whether a fridge, a toilet, a traffic cone, a sofa etc.  I used GW technical paints to show rust, dirt, water damage etc.  I believe these items come in both 20mm (as here) and 25mm/28mm.  So the larger size would be suitable for games like 7TV Apocalypse.  I recently bought some more terrain items; so when I've painted those I'll set up a Gaslands game and take some photos of the whole collection in action.

My next posts will be a run of 7TV miniatures (including "Dad's Army") with some Maori and Napoleonic French and Ottomans.  I'm then thinking of spending December back on the AWI, with two versions of De Lancey's Brigade.

5 motorcycles, 5 infantry and various terrain items. Painted August 2024.