Build Part 1 | Truck for RPG Session

I like reading build threads and posts.  Youtube is great but I am older so reading and snapshots are just fine with me.  So I think I will do some build  posts here.

So, as stated in the previous post, my GM asked me for a truck hauling a flatbed for an upcoming session.  He asked me to do it cheap & fast "like those helicopters".  Different scale, different needs (has to hold up to stacking 28mm figs on top, etc.), but minimalist is fine.

I grabbed some stacks of cardboard thicknesses, some balsa strips, and some styrene sprues from a model kit I'd done recently, and set to thinkin'.

A ton of image searches later I had the drawing I wanted and scaled it to roughly fit 28mm.  (Remember, all this is by eye.)  Printed it out.

Grabbed my bag of balsa strips and some sharp things and prepped for a chassis.

All hail white glue!

 

Ten-Four, Good Buddy

The "Red Markets" RPG I'm playing in is set in a Zombie Apocalypse, so that's scifi enough for me.

A couple weeks ago the GM asked me if I could "whip up" a semi towing a flatbed for one of our upcoming "jobs", like I had thrown together the Russkie choppers for Night's Black Agents a couple years ago. I toyed with getting a toy or carboard model to use instead but the toys near 28mm scale (arguably 1:56 I think) aren't cheap and I couldn't find anything at Sarissa or the like.

So I limited myself to cardboard, paper, balsa, googly eyes, and sprue scraps, and got to scratching. I found a decent set of line drawings for a longnose semi and roughly scaled them appropriately. Then I went to work.

Everything's by eye - the only times I used a ruler were for a straight-edge fold or cut. Was super-fun. I was going to do another layer of detailing to sort of "Mad Max" it out, but then I remembered that this is a limited-session prop to put 28mm figs on and is going to be pawed by aging gaming gorillas for a couple of nights.

I'll hit it with a gray prime job and then maybe paint some other stuff. Maybe.

 Testing pics.

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