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Ooh, looks like North Star will be releasing their own plastic sprue of conversion bits as an official Gaslands tie-in:
Apparently the rules are getting a new edition, too.
Hey, thanks for joining and posting Nick, I am a fan of Copplestone Castings myself, good to see you here!
Two things throw me: one is the dithering between what scale to do it in, 20mm or 28mm – on the one hand the ease and availability of the smaller scale are most attractive – Matchbox cars are really cheap, and the table size could be smaller but still accommodate fun games – then there are the very nice offerings from Ramshackle and Stan Johaneson to drool over; on the other hand, 28’s are more appealing visually and there are some nice figures out there, though the cars themselves are a bit of a problem. It’s a head-scratcher for me.
I’m going with 20mm (though I’m becoming increasingly aware that it’s very much a case of “large 20mm” or even “heroic 20mm” – people tend to just call it 20mm and consequently I had the impression that the standard die-cast cars scale was around 1/72, but it’s really more like 1/64). However, I have managed to find some spiffing cars that, to me, are just right for 28mm. The best I’ve found are part of a line of toys for the Fast & Furious franchise. In my local toy stores they’re less than twice as expensive as Hot Wheels and similar lines, which means they’re still eminently affordable by the standards of our hobby, where a single 28mm metal figure often costs more than a Hot Wheels car.
The black-and-green car in these photos is 1/64(ish) Hot Wheels. The other two are Fast & Furious and I’d put them at around 1/56. The figure is from Foundry and in the scale I like to call “sensible 28mm” (certainly bigger than “true 25mm” but not “heroic 28mm” either, i.e. the gold standard of 28mm sensibility that I’ve come to expect from companies like Foundry and North Star).
I’m going to use the 1/56 cars for a different post-apoc / dark future project that will be less single-mindedly focused on automotive combat, but may still have the occasional car on-table, for scenery if nothing else.
All that being said, I’m not sure how extensive the Fast & Furious range is (the packaging seems to suggest there are 32 different cars, though I’ve only found about half of them in toy stores), nor how many cars are needed in a game like Gaslands. Also, sourcing vehicles like lorries, buses and pick-up trucks for 28mm would probably still be tricky.
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