Osbad's got gas(lands)

Now, this was a quandry.  I had always fancied a Monster Truck for Gaslands as the rules are awesome (You get to drive over stuff!! What’s not to like?!), so when I found one in my local branch of Asda I snapped it up, notwithstanding its price of a whole £7!  (Imagine that? £7 for a single model!  I ask you!)

I may be being slightly sarcastic in that last comment, but really the price of Hotwheels at around £1 a time is spoiling me, and doing havoc with my sense of perspective.  I had started thinking £20 for a single model wasn’t too bad, but I am cured of that, at least for now!

Anyhow, the quandry came from the fact that the model was pretty much ready to use straight out of the packet.  I wasn’t planning on adding much in the way of weaponry, and it came with an ace paint job on the body.  And I didn’t want to feth up the model by damaging it.

Well, I eventually plucked up the courage.  Afterall, this is post-apocalypse gaming, so if I damaged the bodywork, who’s to say it wasn’t deliberate?

Which was when my first problem arose.  Unlike normal hotwheels cars, the body shell was attached with a screw not a rivet.  So far so good.  However the screw had a triangular slot, not a philips head.  Boo!  So I ordered a triangular screwdriver off ebay for £1.  Hooray!   But it had to come from China and took a fortnight! Boo!  And when it arrived it was too large for the screw!

£$*&!!#!

So out came the drill, and normal service was eventually resumed.

So it broke down into three parts.  The body shell, the frame and the wheels and chassis.  The body was left untouched – it had a nice matt finish and a great decal, so I didn’t want to do anything but a bit of weathering and pick out some details, so that could wait until reassembly.

Next was the framework.  This looked really cool but came in a shiny black plastic.  So I sprayed it with Army Painter Chaos Red, which is a default I have for oxidised steel.

I then picked out some of the detail.

Next, the chassis and wheel hubs were sprayed with Chaos Red to hide the chrome.  I did try using bleach to remove the chrome effect, but it only partially worked, and the plastic was still very shiny, so out came the spray.

I repainted the tyres black then reattached the frame.  I also added a driver, but you really can’t see him unless you peer hard!

I then stuck the body back in place.

The final stage was some subtle weathering and highlighting (the obligatory wash of dilute Nuln Oil, and also picking out the radiator and some body damage.  Then adding a pair of machine guns to the front of the chassis and a canister to represent an oil/caltrop/glue dropper at the back.