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i have this bad boy:


hes painted now and i kinda need a leamon russ so i probs got another convertion on the way

I've posted this elsewhere but here's mine. It's a fisher price toy with new wheels, a removable roof and a modified dump area so you can put models in there.



more about it here
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/369049.page

http://www.toysrus.com/search/index.jsp?kwCatId=&kw=1/32%20dub%20city&origkw=1%2F32+dub+city+&f=Taxonomy/TRUS/2254197&sr=1

dub city 1/32

there is a pick-up that is perfect scale (armored one as well), the rest are a bit large, and the diesel is smallish, but worth a look, at walmart as well...

I have the 1/32 Jada Battle Machines armored pickup from the line that rexscarlet mentions above. It's almost sci-fi enough to pass with minimal modification. With different wheels and a new grill, (get rid of the chevy logo) it might work.

I modified mine a bit for post-apoc, but it's still clearly an upgunned modern truck and not sci-fi

So, still very much WIP, but I thought I'd throw it up on here before it gets orkified.



Basically a series of small flat-beds, tacked and wheeled. The plan is to have removable cabs and coupling devices. Singly they count as buggies. Remove the cab from one and attach it to the back of another to form a trukk. Big line of them = orky land train

truks are good. id use a deffroller at the front though.

There's something very cute about the single wheel under the sentinel cockpit, I may steal the idea for one of my own conversions

If I ever get around to making a sweet ride for my orlocks I will post it here. In the mean time thanks for all the inspirational images

Here's an inspiring civilian looking vehicle from ironhands.com
More info on the conversion at the bottom of this page: http://www.ironhands.com/votomsminis.htm


The GW figure in the very back of the bed indicates that it's a nice match for 28mm.

It's kitbashed/converted from this matchbox "mega rig" series vehicle or one like it.


At 30 bucks at TRU ( http://www.toysrus.com/search/index.jsp?kwCatId=&kw=matchbox%20mega&origkw=matchbox+mega&f=Taxonomy/TRUS/2254197&sr=1) I'll be watching the clearance aisle, but it gives me one more line of vehicles to keep an eye out for. A google of matchbox mega rig brings alot of other vehicles with Sci-Fi potential.

I disagree, Throughout the Eisenhorn, Ravenor, Gaunts Ghosts, and Caiphas Cain novels, staff cars, private land cars (and hover models) are often described as sleek, with curved panel and fender lines. A Cargo Eight is also often referred to as a common munitorum vehicle. When I read these, I am often given images in my minds eye of a mix of sleek 1930's-esque and traditional 40k STC sharp lines. The statement that private cars give too much freedom is not true in my opinion. Having said that, everything I see here is commendable and looks absolutely perfect. thanks everyone. I am definately going to put civvy vehicles on my future project plans!

The genestealer cult transport limo was a curvaceous 30's-50's style large sedan. So there's really no need to grimdark its appearance with card or anything. Probably just make some believable 40k wheels and decide if it's in poor shape and rust and weather it, or if it's immaculate. I remember a convoy in a WD based on Armageddon where the vehicles were pretty much all sentinels with truck bodies. I don't really agree, I see the sort of pseudo 50's look from Gears of War as the civilian look of the IoM. Just look at the military equipment vs civilian from the 30-50's civvie stuff is smooth and sleek and the mil stuff is blocky and riveted. It fits perfectly into 40k

When considering civilan vehicles in 40k, what should strike someone is the multitude of options you have. Both because of their aparent scarcity in the fluff, and because when they are described, they are described in many different ways on many different planets.

IMHO, all that is necessary is to find someway to make it appear futurisic or at least different from modern vehicles, and someway to make it fit in with 40k. For me and my terrain which is all focused on my desert/outpost terrain, this takes the form of blocky vehicles with exagerated features, but the fluff provides more than enough room for designs incorporating vintage streamline moderne and raygun gothic stylings like those mentioned buy the two posts above.

Bit of threadcromancy here but I'm finally going ahead with the article version of this, check it out here:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Civilian_vehicles_in_40k

Nice little article

Little?

I've only ported over 11 pages of the 92 in my word doc.

When I'm done this will be the authoratiative work on transport in the 41st millennium!

That will be awesome!! If I were an imperial civilian, I would be riding in a tauros with some sweet stuff! And a flame paint job!

What I am looking to do is some retro-metabolising of the Ork Battlewagon.

Considering, from what I have been told, that Orks don't manufacture their vehicles, they just repair and re-purpose things others have discarded. This then, to me at least, begs the question "What was a Battlewagon" built from? What was it Before the Orks got their green little paws on it?"

So I bought one, removed the Ork-y gliphs and the teeth from the front, mentally left off the tracks on the rear and replaced them with wheels, and left off the Ork building on the rear and the turrets. What, in my minds eye at least, I was left with was the cab of a 16 wheeler. Probably an imperial vehicle, either for transport of civilian goods around imperial worlds, or the military equivalent.

This then sparked the idea of an imperial military transport of some sort, but I would have to scratch build the trailer for it. I didn't want fabris to be part of it, and I can't work thin GS or other filler well, so curtainsider was out. The I remembered that the British military don't use articulated trucks much, preferring the 7.5 tonne for the main transport of stuff, it would have to be something big to require a 16 wheeler.

OK, so what is the biggest thing in the imperium to require land transport? IG superheavy is the biggest thing that could be taken anywhere by road, so yes, a tank transporter it will be! That means either a delivery vehicle taking superheavies from the manufactorum to a lift facility to take them off-world and into the fight, or a multi-purpose transporter deisgned to take either a single SH, 2 LRs, or 3-4 Rhinos from a beachhead to near the front on a planet under attack.

Considering that the dedicated SH transport would be the easiest to make ............................... Yes, I decided to go for the multi-purpose transport.

Then the project ground to a halt. I don't like the wheels with the kit, and re-mastering and then moulding multiple sets just seemed like a lot of work. I will presumably have to do some moulding to produce enough suspension sets to do both the rear of the truck and the trailer, but the more of that I have to do, the less likely I am to pick up the project again, and the longer it will take me to gather materials and produce them. Also this would be my first 2 half mould, and that is also putting me off. I want to do doubles on both rear axles of the truck, and of course on the trailer, although the trailer wheels I envisioned as the size of bike wheels rather than battlewagon wheels.

I don't suppose anyone can help me out a bit? Anyone know a supplier of good quality Imperial design wheels that would be available in both Battlewagon and Bike sizes?

(Sorry if this is in the wrong area, or considered a thread hi-jack, but am suffering with back and a killer headache can't concentrate.)

http://members.multimania.nl/Pil3/Miniatures/Battlecars/battlecars-08.jpg

Something like this, without the gun? That could work well.

Unless you have finally defined how a 40k "Cargo Eight" looks, as referred to in the Gaunt's Ghost's novels, it isn't complete...yet

A potential idea could be converted military vehicles. After all, STC patterns such as the Rhino, Chimera and Salamander are so ubiquitous they could easily be modified for public transport. In the Planetstrike book there are some chimeras and a baneblade converted into construction vehicles. The board is in Warhammer World in Nottingham, for those who want to see it.

As you have detailed several yellow construction vehicles you might want to add the Forgeworld Sentinel Powerlifter as this is really a non-combative vehicle and the only they have officially produce, though they have given rules for it to use the claw offensively.

The Rhino was originally an STC vehicle for civilian use anyways.

Yes, the Sentinel Power Lifter as well. I do remember in Courage and Honour a crazy preacher went round in a big red Rhino.

Some of the Ramshackle vehicles are great for civilian/junker vehicles.

http://shop.ramshacklegames.co.uk/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=6

good stuff! looking forward to the next update.

I like the idea of a self-contained factory that you can just drop from orbit like a drop pod. Dump in any local metal, press the button and out pops a piping hot rhino!

i guess that image is straight of some strategy game ...

That is what I envision an STC being anyways.

i think that is why the rhino is so damn boxy looking anyway... simple and massproduced = simple forms...= rhino...^^

I forget which novel it was, but some SM chapter had an ancient Rhino in their hall of relics. The thing was thousands of years old, and once a year, they pressed the rune of activation and the thing fired up every time. I'd like to see a Chevy or Ford do that! lol