Sunday, December 2, 2018

Crooked Dice Land Rover - Twilight 2000 style

Crooked Dice have just completed a Kickstarter campaign for a Post Apocalypse game using the 7TV rules. They have brought out a number of vehicles and add-ons before the contents of the Kickstarter are released. This includes a number of stowage sets. Their Medium Stowage set includes one piece that fits neatly on to the front of their Land Rover, and another that makes a great roof rack load.
I am building this as a Truck Utility Medium, Fitted For Radio, so added an aerial mount using a piece of 4mm square section tube (with 4mm strip ends) and an aerial base made from brass rod to the front right side of the bonnet.
There is a small gap between the front of the roof stowage and the roof, that was hidden by adding a tarpaulin made from Greenstuff. Though the stowage rack fitted in front of the grill, it did not balance nicely on the front bumper, so a piece of square section plastic rod was added.
I wish Crooked Dice had left the spare wheel separate, most examples of Landrovers in British service have the spare wheel on the bonnet. It would have been nice to be able to add some Jerry cans to the back.
This is the vehicle painted, but without decals (not sure how to source the number plates, but I do have some Union flags).

Converted Crooked Dice X-Commando  for scale.