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Ok... so ive been reading a lot of Dan Abnet's books lately and a few other Guardsmen books and ive been aching to build a 36er, the rough description is that it is a support unit, kitted out with a powerful engine and large modular back end. Often carrying troops, Fuel, Basilisk munitions Ect. I'd like to make a few and use em as different variants of Tanks mounted on the Chimera modular chassis. My first issue is: i'm not comfortable with trying to scratch build them. And the second issue is that i have no clue if any company makes a Hero scale half-track.

What about modifying an Ork Trukk or Battlewagon? They have the appropriate track units and you can quite easily add plasticard rear ends to make them a bit less ramshackle.

Base toy minus the slapped on stuff, Hobby Lobby for 10-12 bucks.

 Flinty wrote:
What about modifying an Ork Trukk or Battlewagon? They have the appropriate track units and you can quite easily add plasticard rear ends to make them a bit less ramshackle.

An interesting idea that i Tried to do with a Junker truck before(freind left it in his car) Too much effort.

 Flinty wrote:
What about modifying an Ork Trukk or Battlewagon? They have the appropriate track units and you can quite easily add plasticard rear ends to make them a bit less ramshackle.

This. Perhaps surprisingly, both the trukk and battlewagon have quite sensible chassis (implying they were originally looted from some less silly race) under all the orky add-ons. Still quite a bit of plasticard work to make the new bodies though.

Could try to scratch build one. Using a 1/35 scale half track kit as a basis to work from.

take this

http://davetaylorminiatures.blogspot.com/2009_02_01_archive.html




subtract wheels on the back

add half track

profit

Here are the templates for modding an ork trukk

http://davetaylorminiatures.blogspot.com/2009_08_01_archive.html