Thursday, 28 May 2015

Mad Mini-Max

Ok, so the brain has been on overdrive thinking about Mad Max and gaming possibilities. Whilst I like the look of Devil's Run: Route 666 it is 20mm scale, so vehicles like tankers will be a tad big (also the game isn't due for delivery until February next year). The one thing that struck me about Mad Max Fury Road was the scale of evereything. The desert, the fleets of gang vehicles, these weren't battles with one or two vehicles, but potentially dozens a side.


I had a Eureka! moment on the train today when I recalled TimeCast sell sets of 1/300th plastic modern cars, twenty in a pack for just £2.50. This would mean they are easy to convert and you can have a lot of them. They would also be compatible with 1/300th WW2 and Modern vehicles form the likes of GHQ and Heroics & Ros, so lots opportunities for bits and spares.

The TimeCast models are (I guess) architects models for the lovely white building models you see of planned constructions, so I am hoping there might be more vehicles out "there" that I can hunt down. And of course, there are the Irregular 'Mad Ron' vehicles which can also join the fray...

Edit. Or you can buy 1/300th 100 cars for £3.61 with free postage from China on eBay!
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  1. Paul O'G28 May 2015 at 18:14

    If you aren't taking a hammer to hot wheels cars your mad Max modelling experience just isn't complete!

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  2. David Manley28 May 2015 at 21:14

    Indeed Paul, indeed :)

    http://dtbsam.blogspot.com.tr/search/label/road%20wars

    Hopefully working on a couple of new big rigs this weekend :)

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  3. Jim Jackaman28 May 2015 at 22:13

    I've always thought that micromachines would be perfect for this.

    I was thinking of using them for Battlecars to replace the card counters but there's no reason why they wouldn't work for Mad Max.

    Have a look on ebay, Poundland (for knock off ones) or in the local charity shops.

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  4. TamsinP29 May 2015 at 00:16

    It seems a lot of us are working on bits like this at the moment. I'm doing 1:200 and 1:64 scale for Car Wars, but might do some wasteland types as well.

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  5. Kaptain Kobold29 May 2015 at 05:13

    Irregular Miniatures do some 1/300th modern cars and, I think, some post-apocalypse ones as well.

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  6. David Drage29 May 2015 at 12:04

    Steve, Look on Ebay for the architectural modelling model cars, you will get bags of them (from China) for peanuts...

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