Highway to Hell...

So with a new Mad Max movie coming out in May you think someone would be clever enough to release a similarly themed miniatures game around the same time. What's that Word Forge Games? You're launching a Kickstarter in May for Devil's Run: Route 666, a 20mm game of post-apocalyptic road rage?

I've been following the build up to this game on the Facebook page and the 3D renders certainly look interesting and should be pretty awesome painted up. If you are Salute next week there should be some models on the Prodos stand to have a look at.

This isn't the only piece of Mad Max inspired goodness around. Ramshackle Games having released a lovely looking 20mm Biker Gang set, eleven resin models for £20. These do look very, very nice...

Mad Max - A Mini Adventure!

Boggler's post a couple of days back on Dark Future reminded me of one of my numerous flights of fancy from a few years back - to play some post-holocaust road wars games.

Dark Future is 20mm scale, a logic dictated by the wide availability of toy cars in this scale (the ideal conversion material), however this does take up a lot of space and this was one of the reasons I didn't pursue the game as a project.

However the idea is too good to completely ignore and I remember picking up a set of 6mm scale post-holocaust vehicles from Irregular Miniatures which I painted up and have only just resurfaced (in a box of 6mm SF tanks - more on them soon).

Whilst not the greatest models in the world, they are reasonable enough and at £6 for a mixed pack of ten cars, trucks, bikes and lorries, great value. That said, bear in mind that the car models photographed here are only about one inch long so I don't think they are too shabby...

I'm not sure whether I will embark on a Road Warrior project, however as I will need to make some new roads for Iron Cow games I could kill two birds with one stone...