Matchbox Vehicles Find!

Okay getting settled in a little more after the BIG MOVE.

So every time I go to the store I always checkout the Matchbox Cars in the toy section. The cars themselves may be out of scale for 15mm, the large trucks can be rather close, like Fire Trucks, Dump Trucks and alike and some are just way too cool to pass up.

Well this posting is about a few that I found and knew I had to get them at the price of a dollar!

One I know would be great for any land base Star Port and the other for a Mining company on some out world planet.

Okay first up the port vehicle



Next up the futuristic dump truck

Then there are a couple of farming vehicles a Tracked Farm Tractor and a Sprayer Truck. Which would be great for the Mega Farms for your space colonies.

Tracked Tractor

Sprayer Truck

I hope these help you with your projects and your gaming boards to add to your terrain and each of these were just a dollar I grabbed a few of each at that price.

More Cars Blocking the Way

Toob Toys makes a selection of kids toy sets of all kinds. The vehicles set I have seen in other poeples' games and blogs, so figured I must give them a try for my games as well. I have seen that some of the vehicles do not work at all with 15mm but a few do, so here is my findings.

You can get sets of these from Amazon or Ebay between 10 to 12 Dollars or pick them up at Micheals craft store for about the same.

I'm only going to talk about those in the set that will work for 15mm gaming.

Okay so the Police Car, Pickup Truck, Mustang and Delivery Van are just the right size.

I really like the looks of these, the bodies seems to be of a rigid rubbery material, and the chassis as well. A good repaint would make them look better.

Here are some repainted from Welcome to Lazarus blog http://welcometolazarus.blogspot.com/

Photos are from Welcome to Lazarus

After seeing those I knew I had to have some myself, I compaired them to the 1/100 scale cars that I have and they will look good on the table.

I want to have more of the Police Car, Pickup Truck, and Delivery Truck. not sure if I would buy more of these sets just to have three vehicles out ot the set I'm leaning to just make molds of them and cast them. I want to have a few more Police cars and use the Delivery van and Pickup as support vehicles for the Police cars. I want a couple more Delivery vans for other uses UPS truck, Mail truck and other delivery trucks and what's wrong with having a handfull of pickup trucks.

But that all will have to wait for another day, will be moving the first of the month with any luck.

The Road is Blocked!

The Road is blocked by dozens of cars!

HO or 1/100 scale cars work well in 15mm range, and if you need a few cars for your game then this is the route one needs to go, You can get a very large number of HO Scale cars on Ebay, from 50 to 100 cars and vans from $15.00 to $20.00 more then enough to block your roads with traffic jams.

I found that Match Box Cars and Hot Wheels Cars were just to big, the Trucks seem okay and work well.

Plus at that cost you can simulate that some are damaged, in one form or another being plastic with some heat you can create the damage.


I bought a group of 50 for just under $15, and plan to buy more. You can see comparison pictures below with figures.

I have seen lots of Zombie games, Post Apocalyptic games and Modern games pictures posted here and there and only a very few seemed to have a lot of vehicles in them, in our day and age it's seems very hard to walk down a city street with coming across dozens of cars and I just what to replicate that look and feel.

Shown with Rebel Minis Civilian Figures

Plus nothing gets your pulse going like seeing your "Heroes" trying to get down a street crowded with cars slowing down their escape! That's right "Surviving the Concrete and Steel Jungle!"

Flash might a little bright OOPS!

City Traffic.

Traffic Jam.

Hard to get across the street during regular traffic problems now add zombies!

Easy to break down to three sections.

Body.

Glass

Chassis

You can see from the break down of the vehicle that one can make wrecks fairly easy. remove the glass and file down the tires and some paint you can have burned out vehicle

I hope this helps those still wondering if they should or not get a set or more, and help set the idea for some interesting tables as well, I would highly suggest getting some. I looking at getting more, Mini Vans and some other Vehicles.