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No, not both, unless you have 16 large wheels you are planning on giving me.

Hmmmm let me see

dsteingass wrote:Cool, a cargo 6 could be a single chassis like that, but a cargo eight I think needs a separate trailer and tractor IMHO.


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I think this is the project to take me away from minecraft for a while.


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Interesting thread over at Warseer
www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=201701

Sketching some ideas here....

Single Chassis? Or a fifth wheel type trailer?

These are flatbeds, the cargo area can be whatever you want, canvas, armored, box, etc.

They look great, the cabs are a bit modern for my taste but mimic the shape of the Chimera so they fit in well.

One idea that got tossed around earlier was using the front of an Ork battlewagon as the front of a truck. Establishing the battlewagon as a looted Imperial truck.

A potential idea could be a modified, disarmed Adeptas Sororitas Rhino, with bigger ampifiers, a Sister with a microphone, and banners saying things aong the lines of "Join the Sisters of Battle!"

i was planning on doing 4 LCVP (landing craft vehicle and personnel) for an IG assault squadron.

the basic idea was to buy 4 civvy Royal Marines LCVP Mk5's and just customise them with leftover weapons, barrels, chains, aquilla's etc from left over IG kits.

The only problem i see with that is the scale may not be perfect, as most come in 1/72nd scale, but thats something to work out as i go along, as it will only really affect the coxswain of the LCVP's and not much else

Plenty of current military 8 wheel single chassis trucks out there:

https://www.google.com/search?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&channel=s&biw=1630&bih=850&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=HEMTT&btnG=Search&oq=HEMTT&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=35712l35712l0l38720l1l1l0l0l0l0l349l349l3-1l1l0


There are civilian 8 wheelers out there:

https://www.google.com/search?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&channel=s&biw=1630&bih=850&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=8+wheeler+truck&oq=8+wheeler&aq=1&aqi=g9g-m1&aql=&gs_sm=c&gs_upl=244640l246267l0l247857l9l7l0l2l2l1l410l1171l1.2.0.1.1l5l0

Kid_Kyoto wrote:

dsteingass wrote:Cool, a cargo 6 could be a single chassis like that, but a cargo eight I think needs a separate trailer and tractor IMHO.


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I think this is the project to take me away from minecraft for a while.


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Interesting thread over at Warseer
www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=201701

Sketching some ideas here....

Single Chassis? Or a fifth wheel type trailer?

These are flatbeds, the cargo area can be whatever you want, canvas, armored, box, etc.

They look great, the cabs are a bit modern for my taste but mimic the shape of the Chimera so they fit in well.

One idea that got tossed around earlier was using the front of an Ork battlewagon as the front of a truck. Establishing the battlewagon as a looted Imperial truck.

Looks like an army Hemtt - and I think there are a couple of models of it out there.

The "Dragon Wagon" over on page 1 reminds me of a model Kevan Downey entered into a Golden Demon one year.

See the attachment - of which I had to do some serious digging in old White Dwarfs to find!

Squigsquasher wrote:Maybe a CRASSUS ARMOURED ASSAULT TRANSPORT could be converted into a heavy-duty supply vehicle.

or one of these? [img]]

Where's that IG truck from? It's a bit toyish but a great Retro shape.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:Where's that IG truck from? It's a bit toyish but a great Retro shape.

It's an Airfix 1/32 Bedford RL, with a third axle added, and a scratchbuilt cab floor and seats for 2 guardsmen. The canopy comes off too, so you can put troops in the back. About 10 pounds on ebay.


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Wee_Tam wrote:i was planning on doing 4 LCVP (landing craft vehicle and personnel) for an IG assault squadron.

the basic idea was to buy 4 civvy Royal Marines LCVP Mk5's and just customise them with leftover weapons, barrels, chains, aquilla's etc from left over IG kits.

The only problem i see with that is the scale may not be perfect, as most come in 1/72nd scale, but thats something to work out as i go along, as it will only really affect the coxswain of the LCVP's and not much else

Have a look at Toy Soldiers Depot or Classic Toy Soldiers websites, they do 1/32 scale Buffalos. Like these:[img]

These old I-core void minis I picked up would make excellent futuristic sports bikes for noble brats:

Kroothawk wrote:IMHO a Volkswagen Beetle or Ford Pickup would destroy the illusion of a SciFi setting 40k years in the future on a distant planet. There are historical games where they fit, in 40k they look like misplaced proxies.

Agreed.

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Kroothawk wrote:IMHO a Volkswagen Beetle or Ford Pickup would destroy the illusion of a SciFi setting 40k years in the future on a distant planet. There are historical games where they fit, in 40k they look like misplaced proxies.

Agreed.

The 2000s Battlestar Galactica series had a great DVD commentary where the director explained that something about cars just shattered the illusion of a science fiction world. They could get away with using modern buildings, modern clothes but once you put down a a toyota or a ford it was all over.

So they were always trying to source these obscure european models they could pass off as future cars.

I think that's a good way to go for the Imperium. Obscure but real.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:

CT GAMER wrote:

Kroothawk wrote:IMHO a Volkswagen Beetle or Ford Pickup would destroy the illusion of a SciFi setting 40k years in the future on a distant planet. There are historical games where they fit, in 40k they look like misplaced proxies.

Agreed.

The 2000s Battlestar Galactica series had a great DVD commentary where the director explained that something about cars just shattered the illusion of a science fiction world. They could get away with using modern buildings, modern clothes but once you put down a a toyota or a ford it was all over.

So they were always trying to source these obscure european models they could pass off as future cars.

I think that's a good way to go for the Imperium. Obscure but real.

I totally agree.

But I will counter, the thought of a ford probe lodged in the treads of my land raider amuses me to some degree.

I really like the idea of ork vehicles de-ork'd for imperial civvie vehicles.

The ork truck seems like a semi-truck analog, sans trailer and given a supercharged engine The battlewagon would be a large land transport bigger than a semi to fit the larger demands of the imperials, and the ork buggy range would be the standard imperial ground car cut down. I dont think there is a new ork buggy around is there?

*necro'd, sorry.*

eh. as long as its back up.

Built a Tractor.
Farm equipment turned war machine. had the idea that the tractor would have a forward mounted cab and a small bed which any peice of farm equipment could be mounted to. Which now has a chemical sprayer and turret moutned to it.

Hes named the Toxin Tractor.


I know there is such a vehicale named the "Land Crawler" that works the same way as a utility vehicale but i've never seen a picture of it,

Quicky truck kitbash from a Manticore cab.

Briancj....I am loving that truck conversion. Well done!