Zombie Truck

This is a toy Mitsubishi Truck that I picked up the other day to try and make into a counts as Attack Bike for my Ravenwing for the XIX Order(just finished reading The Primarchs, hence the change). I posted various photos onto the Adeptus Conversions page on Facebook asking what peopls thought and I got shot down, badly, but I carried on regardless as 1 person thought it was a good idea, and you should only listen to the positives. So I looked at teh truck when it had it's guns added and thought that that looks like one of the old Dark Future car, but bigger of course as Dark Future used the matchbox sized cars. So armed (ha) with these ideas I thought how can I still use this truck, I'm not throwing away £3! So I trwaled through my failed/unfinished project collection and found the old Thunderbird 2 I'd planned to use as a counts as Storm Raven and took the aluminium mesh out and cut it to fit the windows. I then used the last of the black spray paint to paint it black, I forgot to do the tail gate and the back of the inside.



When it was dry I wiped the wheels down as they where still tacky and painted the tail gate and tool chest black. I then dry brushed the wheel hubs, running boards and bull bars with Boltgun metal, before hunting down all the packs I've got in my bits box painting them up and gluing them to the back of the truck, I also added to jerry cans to the far side of this truck that you can't see from any of the photos. I've added a photo with all the Survivors as well as a photo with it gunned up as well, as I still like the look of that. I've gone as far as trying to get hold of a copy of Gorka Morka and run that with these cars and Zombies on the track, as the truck comes with a Mini on a trailer, I'm going to add mesh to the windows and let my youngest paint it up for her Character in the Zombie game.

Nightmare on Froth St.

So What Did I Learn From Saturdays Game of Nightmare on Froth St?

Apart from my daughter needing to be walked through how to play a role play game, well I'd most likely roll before the game starts to see how many Zombies are on the table at the start of the game. And then state where the zed's entry points are with a roll to see if i'm using a tank zed, fast zed, walker or zombie horde.

Looking at other things in the game it runs really very well, the turn system with the cards took a bit of getting used to, and in my case kind of back fired with my player wanting to learn how to play Black Jack, Pontoon, Rummy and Poker... But back on topic it is well thought out for something that took '20 minutes to think up'. The random nature of the drawn cards can turn a game.

What's next?

Well making some walls for one to give the impression of confined space, and also to help my player to see the game, for that I've been shown a site that sells modular section scenery so will be looking into that, after all the other pojects I've got on the drawing board. These are a still to be built Slannesh Daemon Princess, my idea for a Sentinal Squadron for my Skitarii out of some resin Land Rovers with Forge World Auto Cannons and a resin Jackle with a Forge World Las Cannon. And my living room. The way i keep giving myself projects to do you'd think i was avoiding doing it still.

Mid-Game Post

Playing Nightmare on Froth St with youngest daughter, who's going out shortly, so we're getting a game in quick before lunch. So far its going well. She's just got a bat and has now met the DPC's that are going to help her character out and show both of us how to play the game, like every time you fire check to see how many zombies alerted. Not sure if she'll want to have another game as she didn't understand much about the rules and what was going on, even with me explaneing every turn. It didn't help that you have to buy a deck of cards to play this game and we spent most of Saturday playing Pontoon, Rummy, Black Jack and Poker as she wanted to learn some card games.

We've talked about it and will be having another game next Sunday to advance her survivors story.