Osbad's got gas(lands)

Well, after scoring a couple of hits in Poundland, I decided to swing by the toys aisle in my local Asda while out grocery shopping.  Yes, hunting out minis while doing the shopping is now a thing in my life!  Suddenly chores seem less boring!

And I lucked out.  I found a Hotwheels Monster Truck and a couple of other vehicles with promise, as you can see in the photo above.

The first I decided to work on was the “SWAT Van” in the middle.

Getting it out of its packaging it had a strange big blue arm thing on it that seemed pretty silly (yeah, I know, but run with me!) so I took that off and was left with something pretty mean and aggressive to start with.

The interesting thing about this particular toy was that it was entirely made of plastic.  No die-cast metal body, as is usual with hotwheels.  This meant that there was no point stripping it as it was pre-coloured plastic, not painted metal.  Also the windows were already black, so there was no problem with painting them as no details would be lost.

So this would make for one easy paint job!

However first I added some gubbins – a missile system and also a hatch cover (to block the hole left from removing the blue arm) both from Team Yankee.  And a  “30 Cal”, a tank exhaust system, a kit box and a “Cullen Cutter” from Flames of War completed the “mean machine” look I was going for.

Once the bitz were glued on, then a simple spritz with matt black undercoat.

I added some random 40k transfers for interest and added meanness, dry brushed lightly with grey to pick out the highlights.  A spray of matt varnish and then brush on gloss varnish for the windows, and I called it done.