Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

Hey guys! I've seen a few conversions of this toy around the internet, and I couldn't help myself. This is a Droid AAT from Star Wars Episode 1 and The Clone Wars animated TV show. It's going to be a Super Heavy Tank for Apocalypse games, complete with a Destroyer gun and 3 Ion Cannons. I figure it will probably end up being worth 600-700 points by the end of construction, mostly likely 13/13/11 with 3 structure points and a BS of 3(4) with a Targeting Array.

See my Blog for more pictures and review of the toy.

awsome conversions i think i might hav to copy your idea where can i buy those star wars ships

Wal-Mart, but you'd better hurry because I think they're being phased out. Like I said on my blog I got the last one after going to two different stores. You can always find them online, however.

http://www.hasbro.com/starwars/default.cfm?page=Products/Detail&product_id=23152

Wouldn't the staff in your GW get pissed about you using other brands? My local almost had a fit when I suggested using LOTR parts on 40k models...

the assasin of night wrote:awsome conversions i think i might hav to copy your idea where can i buy those star wars ships

Might want to try Asda; I believe they are owned by Wal-Mart. Or Hobbycraft.

thatz great! i didn't realise what that was at first! another great place for toys like this is in bootsales(or yardsales if you live in america). you can find the cheapest sort of junk that would only be used by..well, someone like us.

Anti-Mag wrote:Wouldn't the staff in your GW get pissed about you using other brands? My local almost had a fit when I suggested using LOTR parts on 40k models...

not really, if you make it subtle, but i think just sticking some guns onto a big tank would be pushing your luck.

also, i think your local gw staff are just a little too harsh.

You're telling me. I think they're fitted with batteries and come with 25 pre-programmed phrases.

Anything else you need? Brushes? Glue? Have you seen the new White Dwarf?

Anti-Mag wrote:You're telling me. I think they're fitted with batteries and come with 25 pre-programmed phrases.

Anything else you need? Brushes? Glue? Have you seen the new White Dwarf?

This usually irritates me slightly but the other day I bought some scenery and did actually nearly walk off without glue.

That looks great. Is that the standard Railgun or what?

Maybe I'm just being naive but I can't imagine someone being irrate about using the wrong brand of plastic models when they aren't even playing, I guess if you came in with a big box full of models that are from a direct competitor of GW and started talking loudly about how great a quality they were you might have some problems but that LOTR/GW story just sounds sad.

Llamahead wrote:That looks great. Is that the standard Railgun or what?

Yea, I had an extra Hammerhead sprue to use as well as some Ion Cannons laying around. When I make the data sheet the railgun will count as a Destroyer gun, which means +1 to the superheavy damage table and auto penetrate when you hit against a vehicle. It will probably be a 600-700 point model when I'm done.

i would recommend converting it a lot heavier though, simply so it doesn't look like you slapped tau guns on a toy, y'know?

I like it so far, here are some of my suggestions:
1. Add something to make the attached ion cannons look like they belong
2. Maybe some drones on the front
3. If you have the tau apocolypse upgrade thing, like a sensor think, then add that to it
4. Maybe adding hatches of some kind, the devil fishes disembarking ones look good

But looks great so far

AAuugghh! Double post. sorry

@OP- for Drone Tanks those are absolutely sweet.

I was toying with a twin gunned turret on an Orca.

I was thinking of using a SkyRay Wing/turret to produce a twin Ion cannon turret thats still carrying markerlights and missile(Ultimate air defense when I set the ions to pivot with the wing on the vertical axis). The seekers would have improved warhead options that I might go into at another time. Then there would of course be the obligatory missile pods and finally burst cannons or sms systems mounted underneath.

The other Turret set up would mount twin heavy Railguns
on a modified hammerhed turret(Or one of the FW twin gun turrets). I want to figure out how to work in Airburst grenade launchers and plasma on this one.

What do you think? Think its worth attempting?

I'm stealing this, FYI

focusedfire wrote:@OP- for Drone Tanks those are absolutely sweet.

I was toying with a twin gunned turret on an Orca.

I was thinking of using a SkyRay Wing/turret to produce a twin Ion cannon turret thats still carrying markerlights and missile(Ultimate air defense when I set the ions to pivot with the wing on the vertical axis). The seekers would have improved warhead options that I might go into at another time. Then there would of course be the obligatory missile pods and finally burst cannons or sms systems mounted underneath.

The other Turret set up would mount twin heavy Railguns
on a modified hammerhed turret(Or one of the FW twin gun turrets). I want to figure out how to work in Airburst grenade launchers and plasma on this one.

What do you think? Think its worth attempting?

IsnT an orca a pure dropship?
Would it fit to mount heavy weapons and keep transport capacity?


@ OP:

the "droids" look interesting, maybe add some bitz to break up the star wars design?

@1hadhq-

Sorry, I forgot to state the most of the transport capacity would be lost. Maybe room for some drones but thats it.

I was thinking in Terms of converting to create a Tau like super-heavy tank.
When you look at one just imagine one of those turrets set on the circle on the top of the vehicle. To me, the Orca just screams load me up with big guns and make me a super-heavy tank.
Then write appropriate super-heavy rules and there you go.