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I visited a hobby / model shop and saw MANY MANY excellent military kits that would look so good as
either IG artillery / hydra platform / ork tanks.

But which scale exactly is good? 1/42 and 1/35?

I know many kits are very detailed with interior mechanics etc etc, but im very bad at assembling things ><
is there a company that produces low pieces easy to assemble kits similar to warhammer kits? I dont need fancy open up interior etc etc

Check out your local toystore. I've had the same problem with a lot of models and everything was just too complex. Toy soldier tanks and the like are your best bet.

25m = 1 inch so 28mm figures are roughly 1/72 scale
however 1/72 tanks and planes will seem way too small

a 6' soldier will be about 1 1/2" or 37.5 mm at 1/48 scale
or approx 50mm at 1/35 (54mm?)

best thing is to check on the side of the box to see the kits dimensions.

The kits will not really be suitable for gameplay, and can be expensive anyway.
Armour fast do a 2 kit boxing of WW2 tanks but being 1/72 are not really suitable. Not sure that larger scales will be used for gaming.
Airfix used to do a Polythene MA113 iirc in 1/35 that would make a decent Rhino
That sort of kit would be ideal, but not sure if anyone makes them anymore


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hey Luna
this may help

Woo , that link has good size comparison too bad no warhammer model in it :'/

Airfix i saw them in the shop , really cheap too.
Only thing stopping me from trying a box is not sure about the size and how hard it is to assemble ( my IG converted chimera was a nightmare for me to assemble )

Here ya go Luna http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scale_model_sizes

a wikipedia scale size chart I believe it lists warhammer.

It does. Its 1:73.152

wow big list :'D

Yeah :/ hope it helps you though.

1/72 tanks will be far too small Luna
to give you some idea a WW2 German Panther tank crew of 5 iirc is probably half to a third the size of a Rhino!

you will need 1/48 at least, and the Airfix poly tanks came without needing to be assembled.

Not sure if anyone does a similar product.
what about Pegasus?

I've used 1/35 scale tanks for IG and they work great, scalewise.
As said earlier, try the toy stores. There are a lot of good military and sci fi type vehicles that work wellin 40k and they won't cost a lot.
A friend of mine placed 6th with Orks in 'Ard boyz and some of his trucks were toy store finds that cost him about $10 each and only needed some minor kit bashing.

CrazyThang wrote:Yeah :/ hope it helps you though.

Yes it does , thank you ^^v

Relapse wrote:I've used 1/35 scale tanks for IG and they work great, scalewise.
As said earlier, try the toy stores. There are a lot of good military and sci fi type vehicles that work wellin 40k and they won't cost a lot.
A friend of mine placed 6th with Orks in 'Ard boyz and some of his trucks were toy store finds that cost him about $10 each and only needed some minor kit bashing.

I tried the toy store route , http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/283517.page
Its hard ><

Pegasus only do 1/72 AFV snap kits
Relapse has a good point about the toystore

Revell do some snap fit Star Wars kits of which some may be adapted? not that familiar with Star Wars prequels 1 2 or 3 or whatever they were called
(Send in the Clones?)

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Pegasus only do 1/72 AFV snap kits
Relapse has a good point about the toystore

Revell do some snap fit Star Wars kits of which some may be adapted? not that familiar with Star Wars prequels 1 2 or 3 or whatever they were called
(Send in the Clones?)

I bought this

And realized the only warhammer thing it can work for is Tau...
then i remember the only Tau i have are Kroots.

Its the funneh!

Ork looted Tau scout scooters?

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Ork looted Tau scout scooters?

Yes orkifying it would be the best option
but with that many rounded surface i have trouble gluing plasticard armor pannels

Wouldn't look too hard

use a fairly thin card
cement at one end of the card- say at the rearward end
let it cure
cement front end and let cure
being orkish needn't worry too much about skinning the complex curves- it would be a good project to practice on as if it goes wrong then stck another metal panel on- it's ork tech after all

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Wouldn't look too hard

use a fairly thin card
cement at one end of the card- say at the rearward end
let it cure
cement front end and let cure
being orkish needn't worry too much about skinning the complex curves- it would be a good project to practice on as if it goes wrong then stck another metal panel on- it's ork tech after all

How long is the cure process?
because during the capillary action when i glue the other side , it seems to detach the previous glued area :<

Luna, two 1/35 Tamiya kits that I´m using as alternatives for my IG



As you can guess the size of the tank will influence the size of the kit, so tanks from the beginning of WWII will be close in size to the GW than later war tanks.

M.

Are those some musha marines o_o

*grr is it me or does plastic cement makes my lung mucus lining feel weird

Warzone Mishima troops.

M.

Hi Luna

The curves and orkish tec means it would be better to not use one long piece of card. Cut into a few smaller sections. Think of panels being attached rather than a long smooth skin of metal

Press the card carefully but firmly into place and hold for about ten seconds.

then leave it - usually the thinner cements will have held sufficiently after about twenty mins, but will not be fully cured so be careful.
is a good idea to leave longer if poss and clamp somehow.
take your time and do it in stages

if you get glue on the other parts leave it to cure, it can be easily sanded off when it has dried with no effort.
If you try to wipe it off then there is a danger of moving softened plastic and making it worse.

1:35 scale seems to be the favourite for most military vehicles...

Take a look at this excellent tractor conversion from Scarpia (before he sadly stopped his excellent works )

http://www.garbo.org/40k/Konviktz/wreaka.htm

nice linky MGS

I love Scarpia's ork works, he's up there with Kr00za, Jamsessionein, Lemmingspawn, GrimTeef, teek and a good many of the other real jaw-droppers.

He made some excellent looted wagons (his eldar falcon with the deffrolla between the two forward wings is a little gem). Unfortunately, he despised the last ork codex so much that he stopped his works.

He is selling off many of his lovely tanks here:
http://www.garbo.org/40k/bottom-conversions.htm

I wish he'd come back to us...

28mm is 1/56 scale.

1/48 is too small for vehicles but just right for aircraft.

1/35 is a good scale for vehicles for 40K. They are larger than the GW vehicles but the GW vehicles are too small for the figures.

That said, if you wanted to do a whole army with 1/48 scale vehicles they would be consistent with each other.

The choice of kits is much better in 1/35 for vehicles and in 1/48 for aircraft.

Check my article here...

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Scale_Model_Kits_for_40K

It lists the model sizes of a number of popular vehicles in GW scale, 1/48 scale and 1/35 scale.

Most vehicle model kits are a 3 on the Hobby Link Japan scale of ease of assembly (1 to 5.)

Compared to GW vehicles they are more complicated (more parts) but they fit together well and have good instructions.

Tamiya, Hobby Boss and AFV Club are all good makes.

Try Toy Soldiers Depot, or Michigan Army Men. Both sell similar lines of tanks/jeeps/trucks etc that are 1/32 cheap plastic toy tanks. Although 1/32 sounds big for 40k figures, the Amtracs, for example, will definitely hold 10 guardsmen (on bases) at a cost of about $8.

I have some Airfix 1/32 ready-built halftracks from the 1970's, bought on e-bay for a few £. They fit right in with the 40k "look" and aren't much bigger than a Chimera. The advantage of using "toys" over "kits" is they're generally cheap, so you can field a 10 tank Company for around £50, something impossible with GW models.

One note of caution: I looked at some Japanese stuff recently, by Bandai, I think. One advert said it was 1/35, the next said 1/144. It wasn't till I saw a photo that included the builder's hands ( giving a sense of size)
that I noted it's the same kit. The first reviewer had compared the size to other models, and said 1/35. The manufacturer had built a model of a humongous sci-fi tank and scaled the kit at 1/144 "actual" size.