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Just bought a basilisk for 25$

It will become an Earthshaker carriage and the chimera part will be a hellhound.

 Skriker wrote:
I have found 28mm (1/48) scale armored vehicles to be too small comparatively to GW's 28mm heroic scale. I use 1/35 scale armor for my IG and chaos renegades tank needs. Just got rid of my IG army recently and more recently dumped all the 1/35 scale german armor I had for it. PZIIs and PZ38ts for chimeras. A StuG III converted as a hell hound. A brumbar converted as a griffon. A hornisse self propelled 88mm gun that filled in nicely for a basilisk. a PzIII and PZIV both with short barreled guns for Leman russ tanks and a late model PZIV with longer barreled 75mm gun for a leman russ vanquisher.

I can "only" get the PzIIs in my local hobby shop, no PzIVs, the IIs are only £10 though so not too much of an issue, might turn them into Hellohound series vehicles. Bit smaller than Chimeras though which is a bummer.
For the rest of my stuff I can get SdKfz 251 half tracks to run as Chimeras (£12 each!) and M8 MGCs that I might run as Artillery units like the Basilisk and Medusa (M5 Honey with a big cannon - £22 each) plus Churchill VIs, but the Churchill is nearly as much as a Russ so its almost not worth the cost. Almost...

 Skriker wrote:

The bonus is that tamiya, academy and dragon 1/35 scale armor kits are all exceptionally detailed, readily available in most any hobby shop and are enjoyable to build. Clutter them up with some extra bitz to tie them more tightly into the 40k universe and you are ready to go. **Edit**: And because of the detail involved in these kits I have less problems dropping $45 on one of these than $50+ on a GW kit with only the barest of details.
Skriker

The only issue I have found with the Tamiya PzIIs is that the ones I brought initially have got the awful "rubber band" type tracks that are a bugger to put together and even more of a bugger to put on the tank. As of yet I havent been patient enough to fit the tracks!