Sci-fi All Terrain Vehicle?

By Mark Burgess 

From Beighton's Shipyard

Hi all,

While perusing the toy aisle of a well known supermarket, we all need inspiration from somewhere, my eagle eyes spotted this interesting little gem from Hot Wheels. 

 

I thought this Max Steel Turbo Racer (pictured below) would make a interesting Sci-fi vehicle. I had no idea who Max Steel was and had to google him!

Once painted to go with my sci-fi army, it made quite a nice buggy/recon vehicle. To give it some offensive capability I added a grenade launcher to the roof.

I am please with how it turned out, I think i'll paint up a couple more of these for some light vehicle support.

Editor's Note - Let me say thank you to Mark for allowing us to pick at his blog for interesting posts that we feel will demonstrate the joys of the 15mm sci-fi hobby. Mark is not the only one to offer up his blog feeds, so you should be seeing interesting material from around the blogaverse coming to roost here.

-Eli

AOL Grrr!!!!!!

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 I'm phoned at home by AOL. After 12 years as a "faithful" customer they offer me a single month free, if, yes, if I sign up to a no get out contract for the next 18 months. I ask you. I politely refuse and point out that if I move to Plusnet I would save £180 over the same period.

Immediately after this little chat my AOL connection begins struggling to load pages with a speed averaging 230-350kb. I can't load photos, can't use Ebay, Paypal etc etc - Spite? Coincidence? Whatever, NOT a great incentive to sign up for another 18 months, is it fellas?

On a positive note - I dropped into Model Zone in Aberdeen and found OO scale cars from a James Bond diecast car collection that were on sale for £1 each.

So I picked up two of the Lotus Esprit 'submarine' models. You know, the sports car that turned into a submarine in The Spy Who Loved Me. Not because I'm a trousers made out of jam Bond fan, but because they make pretty decent 15mm Sci Fi civilian grav cars.

And on that bombshell....... 

Cheers

Mark

Jungle Patrol for £4!

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Dropped into a toyshop on way to the station this evening
and picked up these diecast hovercraft for just £1 each!

I a bought a patrol, ready to roll on the table for £4.00!

Wouldn't be too hard to give the windows armour protection and repaint them as required for different theatres/planets, perhaps with a grey-black-white scheme for artic/ice planet operations. Or blue-black-grey for a waterworld.

Cheers
Mark
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