The Pig And The Villain

I completed two more vehicles for Machinas last week, but today was the first chance I've had to take pictures of them.

First War Pig, a large buggy armed with a gatling.

I didn't do too much to this vehicle; mesh on the windows and a piece of sprue on the bonnet to create some kind of engine gubbins and to break up the lines a little. The vehicle came with the gun. Actually it came with a gun on both sides, but I removed one and added it to another vehicle.

The other new vehicle is a little siller, although I have modified the concept to fit in with the world of Machinas.

The original vehicle is, of course, the Batmobile from the 1989 movie.

For the look and colours, though, I was inspired by a vehicle from a certain race-related cartoon series from the 1960s

The driver may look familiar, and I'm sure his green (mutant) dog will ...

Both of the cars made their debut in a game I played this afternoon. War Pig is fairly conventional. but for Dick and his doggy chum I tried out a couple of new traits. The first was Nitro, which allows a car to gain a hefty bonus in auto-successes when passing on a straight, but only once per game. The second is a new driver signature, Saboteur. This is linked to the random events table; if you have Saboteur and you roll a '5' on the table, then you can pick another car in the race and immediately have it make an Out of Control check. However you can only do this to a given car once per game. It got used once. Dick was in second place and got the roll of '5', choosing the lead car to make the roll. This had a low Tech and no bonus dice, so, inevitably, failed it, becoming a wreck. In Machinas, cars that wreck flip back one space - in this case right on top of Dick's lovely purple car wrecking him as well*.

As the smoking wrecks were towed from the track, you caould hear a snivelling voice say "Drat. And double-drat!"

*They both almost took out the car I was driving as well, but I survived, and it gave me the lead. I still didn't win the race.