More on Modeling Cars from the Wasteland

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It’s no secret to anyone who knows me that I’m currently obsessed with the tabletop “vehicular combat” game, Gaslands. Besides it being a really well-designed and fun game (think: Car Wars for the early 21st century), the real addictive draw for me is the car conversions.

Gaslands is played using converted Hot Wheels, Matchbox, and other 1:64-scale toy cars. You use parts from other cars and model kits, bits of paper, plastic, wire, and kitchen trash to suitably Mad Max-ify your combat cars. This turns out to be a ridiculous amount of fun. Because it’s all about looking trashy and broken and post-apocalyptic, you can get very satisfying results even if you’re not an experienced modeler or a great miniature painter.

As you might imagine, the Gaslands phenom has led to a bunch of Gaslands-related YouTube…

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