Gaslands: The Pain Train

Yes, I'm back on the Gaslands bullshit again. However briefly.

Okay, the story here goes a bit like this. It was towards the end of Project Draftdodger, and things had gotten stalled as I awaited a parts delivery, and felt a bit annoyed at life in general. So I decided to do a Gaslands car again, if only so I had something to write about. Well, I say car, its more a train. Its a Hotwheels West Coast Flyer, which looks like an out of scale diesel train.

I made this mainly as a technical exercise, to see if my techniques hold up, and how easily I could sculpt scale appropriate details. I'd previously tried to do something similar last year, to limited success, and thus never posted about it here. That did however teach me the importance of using small and thin applications of putty. I carefully and slowly built up new panels and an orky face because old habits die hard, and added two big shootas from the Gorkanaut kit. Once the putty cured overnight, I trimmed it and filed it to give it a less blobby texture. It was then painted with assorted drybrush, stippling and weathering techniques, the short if thing I did a lot before discovering armymen. I went for an olive green, due to vague recollections of Ivor the Engine. Overall, about an afternoon's work, plus drying time. Then I noticed one gun barrel was askew, and I spent a bit of time fixing it.

I don't know if I'm gonna be playing Gaslands much in the near future, but this came out OK. People seem to like it. Call it a heavy truck with heavy machine guns and a ram. Call it The Pain Train.