![]() ![]() Jewelry Chain – Old bits of jewelry chain (also found cheap at any craft store) make very convincing steel cable and chain after being painted and weathered. The assortments you get commercially usually include plastic tubing. Again, you can scavenge this or buy commercially. Tubing – Along with the plastic sheet material, you’ll want to have some plastic tubing on hand for making weapons, car frame parts, suspension, exhaust pipes, and other situations where metal rod would be used on the car. Paper is great for creating tie-down straps, banding around rods, and thin armor plating or other raised body details. Paper and Card Stock – I keep some bond paper and card stock (from packaging) of different weights handy. You want smooth and textured sheet plastic in the.10.20.40, and.80 ranges. One way to get a nice supply of various types and thicknesses of plastic stock is to buy an assortment from Evergreen or Plastruct. You can even use the plastic and cardboard that your toy car comes in to create armor plates and other car conversion parts. Plasticard – Any plastic stock will do, from commercial plastic from suppliers like Evergreen and Plastruct to plastic packaging and kitchen trash. Here are the components I keep in my materials drawer.Ī styrene grab bag assortment is a great way to start your collection of plastic stock. ![]() I have seen very lovely conversions that were done with little more than paper, thin card, and toothpicks. One of the other attractive things about converting Gaslands cars is that you can use almost any material to create armor, weapons, dozer blades, pungi spikes, and other embellishments. Toothpicks, rubber bands, Q-tips, paper towels, bottle and jug caps, wine corks - You also want to have a supply these on-hand, for stirring, clamping, whipping, blending, holding liquids and parts to be painting, all sorts of uses. Many weaker rotary tools may not be up to the task of “de-posting” (see below), so you might want to use a regular electric drill for that. You will use this for drilling out the posts that hold the cars together, for cutting parts, for sanding, etc. Rotary Tool – The most “exotic” tool you might want to have is a Dremel or other rotary tool. Even cheap craft store brushes and paints work fine. Because of this, painting Gaslands cars is far more forgiving than other forms of miniature painting. One attractive aspect of Gaslands is that, because it’s post-apocalyptic, most everything is dirty, rusted, broken, and decayed. Paint brushes – You need at least several paint brushes, a sturdy, bigger brush for base coating, one sturdy brush for dry brushing, and a few smaller detail and highlighting brushes. Tweezers – These allow you to pick and place tiny parts and to position slide-transfer decals. Plus, they’ve also listed the Convoy Cars Elvis and Flamer as well as one titled Buick: Heavy Artillery with Hummer Weapon Mount.Jeweler’s Saw – Not a required tool, but a Jeweler’s saw (or hobby saw) can be very useful in cutting off parts of you car you don’t want. In addition to those iconic two named above, there’s also the Gigahorse, Nux Car, Razor Cola, Pole Car, Sabre Tooth, Fire Car, Caltrop: El Dorado, and Buggy: Ratrod Chev. ![]() There are 13 cars in total from the 2015 Mad Max movie listed on the auction house’s website. The starting bids for each one are listed at $1 each, but it will obviously end up going for thousands, if not millions, more - especially when compared to other high-selling cars that aren’t totally unique. Imagine going for a joy ride in one of those ridiculous vehicles through your neighborhood. Grab some extra canisters of chrome and start your engines: Over a dozen cars from Mad Max: Fury Road are being auctioned off this month through Lloyds Auctioneers, and chances are everyone will be racing to come out on top with a prized vehicle of their choosing.įilm buffs with deep pockets can purchase the iconic War Rig, as driven by Charlize Theron‘s character Imperator Furiosa, or the fan-favorite Doof Wagon, which strapped the flaming guitar-rocking Doof Warrior to its hood made out of speakers. ![]()
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