1st Grav Bike Race

 This is my first trial race of the Grav Bike Rules. It features Vrkta'klak Kravnkvy on the black and grey bike, Garry Gleam on the white bike, and Shy Martin on the purple bike. It would be a 10 track section race.

The lights turn green and they are off. Vrkta'klak and Garry make the early pace as Shy moves to a higher level.

Vrkta'klak moves into the lead as Garry has to avoid a column blocking his path, allowing Shy to move past him on the outside.

Garry declares that he is going to shoot this turn, this will make any manoeuvres he makes much more difficult as he tries to line up a shot. Once he is in the same lane and height as Vrkta'klak he fires and automatically damages his bike.

The advantage of being at the back is you get to place the obstacles on the new section of track. Shy fails a drivers skill test while changing height, but fortunately not by enough to hit the roof. Garry and Vrkta'klak also both fail drivers skill tests and slam into the side walls, causing damage to their bikes.

Garry again fails a driver test, when trying to gain height to get over a low wall. He's not so lucky and slams into the ceiling and with no armour on top he's out of the race.

Vrkta'klak has had the luck with him and flies with the throttle wide open can anything stop him.

In a last ditch effort, Shy slows down, announces he will be shooting this turn and gets the shot which is enough to end Vrkta'klak's race.

For a first run through of the first set of rules I've tried writing, I think they went well with no big errors in them so far. A bit of tweaking need to reduce the number of clear track sections, in fact I'll probably get rid of them altogether other than the first section.

What's been on the painting table 2021 Part 2

Here's the the latest lot of painting/modelling I've been up to. I decided to get some more terrain built for future sci-fi/cyberpunk games.

These are two fast food outlets for Albion City. On the left is the homecooked style of the Albion Liberty Kitchen and on the right, for the more adventurous, the flavours of Multicultural Albion. Each has there own followers, the Alkies and Ma's boys.

A lot of the power within the city is provided by hydrogen produced with solar power. Very clean and efficient, but does tend to go with a big bang when shot at.

Finally some more storage tanks, but with a more industrial feel.

It's surprising what you can do with some coffee cartridges, large screw on lids, cotton reels and a bit of paint.

 

What's been on the painting table 2021 Part 1

Well I still haven't got the first Rangers of Shadow Deep scenario posted. My camera decided it didn't want to focus, either that ot my eyesight makes everything look blurry anyway. It is coming.

In the mean time I thought I'd post a few of the things I'd been painting recently. This is a batch of sci-fi figures I have had for quite a while, so I've put some paint on them with no particular game in mind yet, though I am looking at trying out Hardwired soon, as well as the anticipated Stargrave. After reading Red Player 1's blog I may have to dig out Laserburn again.

These are a mix of Critical Mass figures, now through Ral ParthaUK, and Laserburn figures from Alternative Armies.

The building was quickly scratch built from a coffee jar lid and some packers, as well as a hatch and fans I have bought in the past.

Again these are a mix of, I think, all Alternative Armies figures.

These are all the EM4 Mechas, with a 15mm figure shown for scale. I'll maybe have to read Osprey's Gamma Wolves now, or use them as small mecha/robots in 15mm scale