Good find, or far too big?

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**winnertakesall**

I found this old toy truck in my garage today, and my immediate thought was to buy the battlewagon upgrade frame battlewagon-ify it, but then I thought that maybe I could use as a vehicle for my chaos mlita army, which is devoid of any armour. But I then I realised just how big it was when I went to see how many troops I could fit in the back. The sides fold down, so I may just remove them, but is it too big? And what could I use it as for my chaos milita army?
Sorry for poor quality pictures, if there is interest i will post better ones tommorrow, its getting dark here

**Frazzled**

Yep you could tweek that.

**Tazz Azrael**

Id say that that would be a pretty cool transport to go up against

**Orinoco**

That's awesome. I have some wooden rocket kit from michaels and that ladder would be the perfect launch ramp for a super grot bomb!

**origarmi chicken**

I think it would look awesome!!!

**Ailaros**

far too big.

This would be best turned into some sort of triple-decker battle bus for an apocalypse game.

**winnertakesall**

Orinoco wrote:That's awesome. I have some wooden rocket kit from michaels and that ladder would be the perfect launch ramp for a super grot bomb!

Grot bomb! Its perfect for that, battle wagon it is!

**JunkyOrk**

They actually made toys for that movie!?! I think it would make an great troop transport. You could always count it as that one forgeworld troop mover that carries a ton of people.

**4M2A**

far too big.

This would be best turned into some sort of triple-decker battle bus for an apocalypse game.

I have to agree. Not that it's a bad thing, you could make it into a nasty troop carrier for apocalypse (30 orks assaulting out will give people nighmtmares) or mount a very big rocket on top and make it into a great anti tank superheavy.

**winnertakesall**

JunkyOrk wrote:They actually made toys for that movie!?! I think it would make an great troop transport. You could always count it as that one forgeworld troop mover that carries a ton of people.

It would appear so, it was a great film! I dont know where it came from though, we have lived int his house for 10 years, before the film, and I am the youngest of three and I never had it.

**Kilkrazy**

It would be fine as a superheavy vehicle of some kind.

If you want to use it in regular 40K I think you should make it into a "counts as 2 of" kind of vehicle.

**Mr Nobody**

Ork battlewagons, fluff wise, do come in a variety of shapes and sizes. You could just say it's a particularly large battlewagon.

**kamikazeguy**

Or a skullhamma. Needs loads o' guns and a REALLY big cannon. That would be awesome

**The Night Stalker**

Its sweet, battlewagon it!

**Stokleplinger**

That looks about right....

**winnertakesall**

So now the hard question, that stupidly big FW transport, a battlewagon, or a skullhamma. I just dont know where to find the gubbins and gun to make a skullhamma...

**whitedragon**

If you make the windows "smaller" or turn them into just "vision slits", you will fix the scale problem as well.

**SagesStone**

First thing I thought when I saw the picture of it opened up was "Cannon".

**FacelessMage**

It just looks too big for normal play. So i guess pretty much what they said.

**winnertakesall**

I am thinking of a skullhamma or something like that tbh, I have already thought of a name! Da Tou Smasha
2 of my friends I play against have tau armies as their main, more of an insult than for gaming though XD

**lostlegionminiatures**

I agree with whitedragon, armour plating and slits will reduce that scale ratio impression. As for the back end i can automatically see two options.
1: Lose the sides and scratchbuild a platform around that ladder and turn it into some kind of long range howitzer, or scud type launcher. The oversize cab is room for enough crew.
2: keep the sides up extra armour and a turret on top, rear doorway will show two layers, a bottom crew compartment and a top weapons mechanics. That way the initial over size scale will be easily represented. Either way the engine needed to pull something like that in reality would need a bonnet that big for it to go under.

A film i remember watching as a kid comes to mind Damnation Alley, had a similar sort of heavy transport. http://img.moonbuggy.org/damnation-alley-vehicle/

Not to mention todays heavy protection vehicles like the buffalo http://www.armyrecognition.com/images/stories/north_america/united_states/wheeled_armoured/buffalo_mrap/pictures/buffalo_Mine_protected_clearance_armoured_vehicle_united_states_army_002.jpg

Get it cleaned up and primed and let your imagination do the rest. Can't wait to see it finished.

**Ma55ter_fett**

I would agree that is is best retrofitted to be an apoc center piece.

maybe have the sides fold out to reveal a missile battery