Coop's Dark Future Paintlog

[Coopdevil]

Coronation Street actor John Savident attempts to escape being stabbed in the neck again.

Since Mr Da Satanic fired up a FaceBook group for Oldhammer Dark Future I've caught the Matchbox converting bug all over again. I have been posting to the FB group but hey, that's FB and by nature ephemeral, whereas the forum is more permanent. I previously did loads of stuff for my Axles and Alloys game but all the stuff in this paintlog will be DF in style - that is Sanctioned Operatives driving Interceptors and Interceptor-a-likes, and gangcult Renegades.

But I have no Interceptors! Fortunately as the original was heavily based upon Group C racing cars of the 1980s, and predominantly the Group C Porsche 956/962 it's just a question of searching eBay for 1:64 diecast of those cars right? Amazingly I did find a 956 from Maisto, and a proper £1 toy car job as well not some expensive collectors super-detailed diecast. So I BIN'd one from eBay.

These even more amazingly Ian Doody on the FB group discovered that this ancient 1980s diecast is currently on sale in Sainsburys! In 2015 and everything! This is because Maisto produce a line of toy diecast for Sainsburys under the latter's "own brand" Motor Mania packaging.

This is one alongside an original DF Chainsaw Warrior. Wheels are a bit crappy and the axles are a bit narrow but it's only 90p and the body shape is pretty close the original GW Interceptor.

Current state of the Interceptor WIP workshop...

Stretching the definition of Interceptor out to "prototype style racing/supercar" I picked up a few suitable candidates for Interceptorisation over the weekend.

Corgi things from Poundland. A bit weedy truth be told.

Changed my mind about this one. Probably won't do anything with it. Then again those outlets could be drilled out and take some brass tubing for guns. One for the bottom of the pile.

Experimental jet engined Interceptor And a Batmobile

 

[Coopdevil]

I built this back in 2000 from two HW Ford Mustangs, the lower one a convertible with the screen removed, the upper a fastback with the wheels snipped off. Did a very quick and dirty paint job with spray cans. And it looked shit.

After Chico started up the group i dragged her out, painted over the scratches caused by living in a carrier bag with other cars at the bottom of the games closet for years, Devlan'd her up and weathered. So...

Now "Twin Mustang", the personal steed of Radu Cull leader of the Roumanian-American gang "The Impalers". Wanted for crimes as diverse as using gloss varnish on Rogue Trader figures, and asking GW employees if they still sell Runequest.

 

[Coopdevil]

The cut-down and chopped '71 Peacemaker of Alicia Shrapnelteeth, Maniax gang member of the feared New Tipton NoGo chapter. Toting a hood mounted 20mm GL. Current US$ bounty - over 9000.

(Hot Wheels Project Speedster)

 

[Coopdevil]

Potatophone pic but this is my complete collection of DF figures - all four of them...

Will be painted at some point. Honestly.

Finally, started this as my bedtime reading.

Coop

 

[steders]

Nice stuff, I'm toying with picking up my DF stuff again (I watched the new Mad Max trailer the other day)
I painted these a couple of years ago

 

[Coopdevil]

Great stuff Steders! I'd often thought about MFP colours but yellow intimidates me.

Coop

 

[dieselmonkey]

Yup, I totally want an MFP fleet when I make a start. I'll need to dig the airbrush out to get the yellow to work, though. much like Coop, I struggle with it.

 

[Chico]

First of all thankies for the name drops, second wonderful stuff but I think I've said that on FB already . Yellow is a pain but I'm starting to quite like painting now, doubt I'll try on very large flat panals though.

 

[Harry]

Wow! I can't get over how much that looks like an Interceptor.
That is in Sainsburys NOW?

Love the Mustang.

Must get back to mine. All excited again.

... and, Steders, that fleet or pursuit cars is brilliant.

 

[Mr Papafakis]

DF was one of those big box games GW produced that I missed out on. Always thought it looked pretty cool, but in all the time I've been to conventions or gamed with other people I never came across it.

What's it like to play? What can you compare it too? Are the rules pretty clunky? RT vehicle rules weren't the best so I kinda assume their not that great either.

 

[symphonicpoet]

Is DF related to Thunder Road? We had a copy of that. (With luck maybe my mother still has it in her basement.) It looks cosmetically quite similar and I seem to recall that was from the Milton-Bradley/GW co-op period. Was a great, if quite beer and pretzels game. (I still have the "road advantage die" in my bag of tri . . . er no I don't, what am I saying. That die that almost always rolls a one or two? Just luck.)

 

[symphonicpoet]

Incidentally, I LOVE the twin mustang. That's a brilliant reference to a damn odd beast.

 

[Coopdevil]

Thunder Road predates DF by a couple of years. On the face of it it seems a bit strange to have two mass market boardgames that follow Car Wars to market but I guess the whole Mad Max thing must have had a bit of influence on pop culture back then. Even Matchbox appear to have bought out a line of armed and armoured cars.

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/804/thunder-road

I've kitbased this up this evening while listening to the footy on the radio - going to be a buggy for the Maniax gangcult once the paint goes on.

Also for a future project, I've bought this C2 Corvette

To do this...

(well the car at least...)

 

[dieselmonkey]

Is DF related to Thunder Road? We had a copy of that. (With luck maybe my mother still has it in her basement.) It looks cosmetically quite similar and I seem to recall that was from the Milton-Bradley/GW co-op period. Was a great, if quite beer and pretzels game. (I still have the "road advantage die" in my bag of tri . . . er no I don't, what am I saying. That die that almost always rolls a one or two? Just luck.)

I think Thunder Road was just an MB game brought out on the popularity of Mad Max, rather than Car Wars, and it had nothing to do with DF, though it predated it.

I've got a couple of copies knocking around somewhere.

 

[Coopdevil]

Back from holidaying in an ex-pirate stronghold in Araby (straight up) and the Maniax buggy has been painted. I actually did this while sitting up overnight due to having to leave at silly o'clock to get to the airport but didn't get chance to photograph it until this evening. Note smiley face spotlight cover which is a deliberate homage to the Tamiya RC buggies of the 1980s.

In the interests of getting some interestingly grungy texture on the model I put some patches of superglue on and sprinkled sand over them. This worked quite well on my big Gorkamorka vehicles but in retrospect I'm not so sure it really works at this smaller scale. You live and learn.

 

[Coopdevil]

When I got home from Turkey there was a jiffybag on the doormat with a Hot Wheels Sol-Aire CX4 in it - a nice Interceptor proxy and being a 1980s diecast it's somewhat period to the game itself. (You can tell it's 80s and 90s from the way the name is meaningless word salad). The rear deck hinges up to reveal the engine (V12) so that can be painted first and then have the deck glued down once done. Here she is alongside the current Oldhammer Dark Future Interceptor of choice the Maisto/Motor Mania/Sainsburys Porsche 956.

http://hotwheels.wikia.com/wiki/Sol-Aire_CX-4

Also on the doormat was a slip from the post office asking me to go and collect a large parcel that wouldn't fit through the letterbox. This was good news because...

 

[Coopdevil]

...this had arrived from the bay of E.

£34 and complete. Immaculate condition with all the stuff in little ziploc bags, the rulebook has been dissected for a ring binder with all the WD articles neatly filed away in the same bubble wrap envelope. My only criticism is that one of the little d6 appears to be a replacement...

The cars and bikes have sort of been painted, there is a wonderful period feel to them all...

I'll probably strip the bikes but I'm tempted to leave the Interceptors and Renegades as is. I particularly admire the ambition of somebody who decided to do a black and white chequerboard pattern on a Renegade without apparent access to a Rotring pen!

I managed to find the time on Thursday night to solo play out the first two Renegade on Renegade scenarios. Got the rules hideously wrong in both playthroughs. At heart DF is quite simple but suffers from Battletech Syndrome in that there are not many rules needed for 95% of games but those rules are swamped by five times as many rules that might come into play 5% of the time. Anyway, took a couple of cameraphone shots of the first game with my Manianx cars. Game One (a straight line race between two feuding members of the same gangcult) wasn't very interesting but Game Two where a gangcult member chases off a member of a rival gang through one of six randomly generated twisty bits was much better. I used the '71 Peacemaker chased by Twin Mustang of The Impalers for that one.

Coop

 

[Coopdevil]

Access to some plastic DF vehicles at last means I can do a quick comparison snap of Interceptors.

Left-to-Right

Hot Wheels Sol-Aire CX4 (OOP)
Corgi Racers Endurance (available at Poundland)
Games Workshop plastic Interceptor
Maisto/Motor Mania Porsche 956 (available at Sainsburys)

Coop

 

[Coopdevil]

Back circa 2000 when I did the Twin Mustang I did two other cars at the same time with the same spraycan fade PJs. Both were looking very ratty and had broken bits so I dragged out one of them (based on a Hot Wheels Holden Commodore - which dates it as this was clearly back when Australia actually made it's own cars) and did the same detailing and weathering job to bring them up to a standard I'd be happy with putting on the table in 2015.

So - Gangcult Vehicle 2112 (New Tipton PD internal designation), a four-door sedan spotted operating with the Impalers gangcult by US Road Cavalry intelligence agents. Believed to be implicated with the mass impalement of the residents of New Anatolia in 1998, and therefore if the driver can be positively identified by the New Tipton PD he will face charges of 28 cases of first-degree homocide. Vehicle 2112 was also filmed by a vulture crew in the act of running over and killing the seriously wounded Turner, Harvest, & Ramirez sanctioned operative Burak "Johnny Turk" Baştürk following a skirmish on Route 449.

Obviously there are a lot of things I'd do different if kit-bashing this car in this day and age but it's pleasing to get an old friend into a state where she can have a new lease of life.

Coop

 

[Coopdevil]

And this is the third of the circa 2000 kitbashes brought up to scratch. I actually repainted this in it's entirety as I felt it was similar to the Impaler gang cars so should have the same gang colours. Done with card, mesh, cocktail sticks and some bitz off GW sprues. After the usual Devlan wash I washed it again in places with some Typhus Corrosion which worked quite well - it has some gritty bits floating in solution in it and they have dried a bit like rust spots, most notable on the yellow front of the car.

I have no memory of the original diecast, but the baseplate reads "CORVETTE INDY" which Google Images tells me is 1986 styling exercise from GM and looks like this.