Osbad's got gas(lands)

Well, suitably impressed with the game I decided it was worth investing the time and effort into some more vehicles.  Of course, one would have thought that maybe moving onto a more elaborate paint job or something would be logical, but this is GASLANDS baby!  I was struck by inspiration while perusing my local Wilko’s for toy cars and bought this bad boy!

Yes, a Routemaster bus.  I didn’t know what I wanted to do with it, but I knew that I wanted it in my life!

So, I drilled out the rivets holding it together, took out the glass and dismantled the whole thing.  The seats got sprayed black, the shell got sprayed Army Painter Chaos Red, as did the chassis.
Before re-assembly I inserted a driver using a spare Team Yankee tank commander and then glued it back together.

I created some “metal sheet” for some of the windows out of plastic sheet (I used an old “DVD case” figures box from Mantic), stuck an extra exhaust from a 15mm WWII Panther, inserted a spare 15mm main gun from a Stug in the front window beside the driver.

I then created a ram from plastic card and stuck it on the front.  Because plough-bus!  Subsequently, I reread the rules and found you can’t have a ram AND a cannon on the same bus because there aren’t enough build points, so the ram came back off again after the photos were taken.

I painted up the “bits” with a terracotta.

The whole thing was then washed with Nuln Oil and then the red was wetbrushed with a dark red.  The applique bitz were drybrushed them lightly with dark silver and stippled some orange.

Warbus baby!