Gaslands Project Done... Moving On to Cruel Seas...

 In the past fortnight I have 'finalised' a few projects:

French Indian Wars (~50 minis painted) Carnevale (15), Pirates for Legends of the High Seas (~20), Blood Red Skies (6); remaining Warmachine & Empire of the Dead (~15) and Weird West (~10) - a decent chunk of models, but more importantly, finalizing half a dozen projects so they go into the 'outbox.'

Add to the done pile: Gaslands. I had a pile of ~20 Hot Wheels drilled apart for a year (you drill out the rivet so you can lift the roof off). They are now neatly completed and boxed up, along with templates and some very dodgy home made dice, ready for a game...

 My wee lad is sad to see this phase end - he loved debating weapon loadouts and industriously supervised the 3D printer which ran continuously for a few days, providing dozens of weapons and attachments (he insists on blood spattered rams...  ...8 year olds are vicious). He collected the leftover weapon spares and has outfitted another bunch of cars himself...

We will probably do terrain (12x12 squares with tracks that connect and can be rearranged) but that's an outside thing. And at 36d and 90% humidity it ain't happening...

We've 'driven' the cars around a bit using the Gaslands rules and templates and it was cinematic and fun (slides, skids, and flips) but kinda slow (even with one car each). There are 'kids rules' downloads which we may try but it seems a bit too stripped back and random.

I finished my final weird west minis - arcanists/aka EotD gentleman, as well as some random minis which lay loose in a box... That's 177 in the 'tableready' pile in a week...

Next up is probably Cruel Seas. My printed ships are pretty meh but I'll take free vs $58 any day of the week. I'm trying merchants first as they are relatively low detail, but may try some Siebel ferries, F-lighters, etc. I am dubious the detailed weapon mounts will work well on more complex models like minesweepers and corvettes.... I bought some 1:300 model railway men as I doubt the ability of the printer to do anything close to that size.

The Cruel Seas rules themselves are pretty dodgy and have a real 'untested beta' feel to them. I'll probably use my old Schnell Rules for Schnelleboot as I'm not paying $18+ for a pdf for newer coastal forces rules.  I just resent paying the same for a digital file as I would for a proper book. I've got a few rules from back in the day.

However I doubt I'll be able to resist adding my own twist to vanilla WW2 coastal forces... Perhaps it is dark, demon-haunted seas, patrolled by megaladons, kraken and vicious pteradons. And definitely pirates.

Also sitting on my table is the vikings vs zombies ice world project I am starting...  ..when you have minis leftover from an aborted project - what do you do? Create a new project!