Cars

Painting the 3d printed cars like a mad thing this week as I'd offered to run an 8 sided game of The Chicago Way at a friend's retirement party. 

I tried various techniques to get some variations in colour. These were red air brush paint as a glaze over a red base and blue air brush paint over a light grey.

The green and the dark blue (2nd from left so dark it's almost black) cars are my first uses of contrast paints.

I'm becoming a fan of the 2 tone paint schemes. 

The new cars really helped Pottersville look the part. Although no one tried to drive one in game.

There was lots of carnage as they all tried to get The Golden Teapot of Petra.

The until now unplayed Foreign Gentlemen gang all got gunned down in the street trying to escape with their ancient relic. 

One player got distracted by fighting with my roving trio of nuns and even took a couple of hits from rulers before driving them away with Tommy Gun fire.

We also played a zombie game. Our host has a big zombie city layout. Everyone had to get down the board to the helicopter to escape. 

There are some cute details. 

Nice use of the old Fisher Price garage.

It was good to roll some dice and have a good chin wag and feed with a bunch of my best mates. It was also good to be drawn out of the hermit crab shell that I've noticed growing over me these last few months. 

While I was painting this week I was listening to some New Wave. I'll leave you with this:

Gary Numan Cars 1979