paints two Adder Combat Cars as support vehicles for his Magrav force in Age of Madness.
I'm slowly puttering along with filling out my Dirtside units. Both forces are mercenaries. The "good guys" are the Wildcats; their frequent opponent is the Kriegsmir Kollectiv, known as the "Rust Devils" for their use of secondhand and outdated equipment.
I wanted a command vehicle for the Rust Devils and didn't have anything on hand, so I went exploring in my bits bin.
I have a little cabinet filled with "lost" bits of 6mm vehicles (mostly historicals). My friends donate orphaned hulls and turrets, and I throw in any spares I have. Sometimes, I'll find a "match" and save a model. More often, I'll use the bits for scratch sci-fi projects...
This time, I started with an orphaned hull (a BMP?) and tried matching various turrets. Then, with a turret from an armored car (?), I thought "what if I do this?"...
Well, it definitely looks unique. Yes, I flipped the turret around, putting the original gun into the hull, making the turret's pin into the gun!
The vehicle was painted in the usual Rust Devils colors - primer brown, drybrushed tan, washed with brown ink, then a red ID stripe added. The "sensor dome" - the Rust Devils are big on sensors - is painted gold.
The base is a 3mm-thick wooden base from Litko, with flexsteel on the bottom.
I haven't done stats for the vehicle yet, so I haven't had to decide what its odd gun actually is. A big shotgun? A demotion gun? Missile launcher?
The only problem is that I'll never be able to build another command vehicle the same way. Fortunately, the Rust Devils have lots of 'one-of's in their depots!