Osbad's got gas(lands)

That initial spritz of matt varnish wasn’t really enough – the cars looked still rather glossy, but I didn’t really have time for a proper full on paint job (I only really had about 4 hours of working time available before the game) so I decided I did really need to run with the colours I had and just do the minimum of painting.

So I hit them again with the matt spray and then brush undercoated the bitz  My final touch was some basic weathering.  A careful wash with Nuln Oil – well in reality a better description would be a messy pinwash as I wasn’t really that careful – but just tried to focus in the panel lines and bare metal.  The rest of the “weathering” was pretty quick streaky paint just to make them look more interesting.  The guy in the turret on the pickup was basecoated and given a Nuln Oil wash too.  The last touch was to paint some white number panels and put identification numbers on them using some spare old transfers.
A final touch was to gloss varnish the “windows” which were an opaque black plastic.

I did end up base coating the buggy in black as I had to cover up the “Guardians of the Galaxy” transfers on it and this was the quickest way!

The bitz I used were:

Orange car:

1/100 scale “Ma Deuce” heavy machine gun from a Flames of War plastic tank kit.

The extra front bumper was a piece of random sprue.
The window armour was a piece of “plasticard”, well, really a piece of chopped up DVD case, but sheet plastic is sheet plastic at the end of the day!

Pickup:

1/100 scale Cullen Cutter from a Flames of War Sherman Tank kit.

Turret, machine gun and commander from a Team Yankee British kit, I think the FV432, but I am not sure now.

Random piece of plastic to break up the silhouette on the back of the cab.

Extra exhaust pipes on the cab door was a redundant Battlefront 1/100 WWII Panther exhaust.

Blue car:

Twin guns from Gates of Antares Concorde kit.  Not sure which – possibly jet bikes.

Purple car:

Machine gun from Gates of Antares Concorde kit.  Again possibly their jet bikes.

Rear oil dropper – I have no clue where that came from – possibly a WWII tank exhaust?

Buggy:

The gun is a minigun that I think came from a Eureka Miniatures kit from their Pax Limpopo range.  It has been in my bitz box a looooooooong time!

There is also a Tau arial on the rear of the cab, for interest.

The side window covers are the hatches from a Team Yankee FV432 I think, or maybe a Spartan.

Oh, yes, and the game.  It was huge fun.  Massively enjoyable, so much so that the next day I went down the street again at lunchtime and splurged on some more toys!

Total painting and prep time maybe 6 hours over 2 nights.