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how wide are the tracks?

as something like this might fit and would be a good alternative to the vinyl
https://www.amazon.de/Hobby-Boss-Modellbausatz-Pz-Sfl-V-Sturer/dp/B000W0782G/

That might work, if you're willing to put in the work. The Char tracks are about 1,2 cm wide. Also, that set of tracks is as expensive as the tank itself, but that's going to be the issue with pretty much all aftermarket bitz.

I think the easier conversion is to plasticard up the track areas, and then mount the tracks further out from the body, to widen it to Chimera/Hellhound size. In fact, I think I might give this a go myself... Might be easier to just cut the track sections off altogether and just widen the hull using whatever method, then putting the wheels and tracks on to that part.

Edit: Bought one for $22 AUD. That's 1/3rd the retail price of the Chimera here in Australia, and who knows what fraction of the $83 price for a Hellhound. Absolute bargain, and I no longer have to think about how to widen 1/48 Sherman's or M10's to make them into Chimera's/Hellhounds.

Here's a Meng Toon M5 Stuart, converted into a Grot Tank:



It's a little big for a Grot Tank, admittedly - if you want to emulate the FW models, you'd better stick to Meng's Shermans.

Not quite sure what to make of these...

https://www.themodellingnews.com/2020/07/more-from-suyata-with-four-innovative.html







Action figure-like posing, but abstract and stylized.

Nice to see something different, even if they are more Nazis.

Those are, uh, something.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Those are, uh, something.

The whole package is definitely inspired by something. I can't quite put my finger on it but it'll come to me....

A piece of terrain I've always wanted to do is a gun range or rifle training range with "human" shaped dummy targets. Too bad those guys are a little too large. They'd have made great targets.

Yeah that logo made me wonder if it was a parody but its real. It May still be a parody but its a real company and product.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Yeah that logo made me wonder if it was a parody but its real. It May still be a parody but its a real company and product.

If you're going to homage, homage the best.

Tamiya managed to avoid the spelling mistakes on their boxes though.

'PANINT" and "IN CLUDED" indeed.

Makes me think of this combined with this. I'm scratching my head over the point of them, though. Maybe it's a cultural thing? At any rate, I can see one or two being used as sculpting dollies for some hobbyist's diorama.

 AceXT wrote:
Here's a Meng Toon M5 Stuart, converted into a Grot Tank:



It's a little big for a Grot Tank, admittedly - if you want to emulate the FW models, you'd better stick to Meng's Shermans.

Fantastic job! You've done the impossible and made it look like a coherent, bespoke 40k piece and not a historical kit with GW bitz glued on.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

'Superhot' was the first thing I thought of - I kinda wanna get some and paint the dudes red, and all the weapons black tbh!

alphaecho wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Those are, uh, something.

The whole package is definitely inspired by something. I can't quite put my finger on it but it'll come to me....

Giacometti.

And why i know that?, because it's the same type of thin miniature showing a surrealistic human.

Not Online!!! wrote:

alphaecho wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Those are, uh, something.

The whole package is definitely inspired by something. I can't quite put my finger on it but it'll come to me....

Giacometti.

And why i know that?, because it's the same type of thin miniature showing a surrealistic human.

I was riffing more on the 'not Tamiya' vibe in packaging than the classical art inspiration but, then, I always have been a philistine.

it's tamaya meets giacometti,
Tbf though , i see these walkers alot considering 100 CHF bills had them on them.

so yeah the tamaya loan on the pack design is clear, but so is inmo the surrealistic men in it

Reminds me of the Steam game I just bought - Total Tank Simulator.

Would be interesting to use them as a "men of iron" army, possibly using Necron rules.

New Polygon army, timing is good with new Necron release

For $35 this is tempting me.

Doak VZ-4DA Model 16

https://www.anigrand.com/AA2008_VZ-4.htm





A tilt rotor (OK tilt duct) plan from 1956 (!!)

It's 1/72 though but should be about 6" by my rough math.

The site has some other interesting kits too.

They've made a Churchill in Toon form, looks like it has already been released.



I wonder how they'll scale next to the Char B1, and more importantly, a Chimera. I hope they stay the same length, but gain a bit of extra width.

Also, a guy made a Centaur out of a World War Toons Mathilda, which really looks the part. I think I might need to copy this.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
For $35 this is tempting me.

Doak VZ-4DA Model 16

https://www.anigrand.com/AA2008_VZ-4.htm





A tilt rotor (OK tilt duct) plan from 1956 (!!)

It's 1/72 though but should be about 6" by my rough math.

The site has some other interesting kits too.

That think looks like what I want for a less-silly admech flier.

They have some other proto Ospreys as well

https://www.anigrand.com/AA2002_X-22.htm



https://www.anigrand.com/AA2005_X-19.htm



They're going to be small though.

But the X-22 looks simple enough that you could use the wings and engines (or build them yourself) with a plasticard or kitbashed frame.

Not new, heck my kit has followed me around for over 10 years till I finally built it but Tamiya's Citroen Staff Car kit is just about perfect for a 40k small car.

https://smile.amazon.com/Tamiya-Models-Citroen-11Cv-Staff/dp/B000AJ147O/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=tamiya+citroen+staff+car&qid=1595189873&sr=8-1



Keep in mind the riders would both have their arms tucked in and would only have the usual 2 arms each.



This one will suffer the indignity of becoming basing material but I may get one or two more for terrain.

I have not ordered from them but Wespe models has some 1/48 and 1/35 armored cars that might be interesting
https://www.wespemodels.com/military_models/military_models_scale_1_48

 Pyroalchi wrote:
I have not ordered from them but Wespe models has some 1/48 and 1/35 armored cars that might be interesting
https://www.wespemodels.com/military_models/military_models_scale_1_48

Again not new, but I did some 1/35 Russian interwar armored cars a while ago as some sort of wasteland caravan.

(Excuse my slop and go painting...)



https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-518-403_Armored%20cars%20and%20Civilians.html

Oh man, those polygon soldiers are very cool. They'd make for a very cool take on Men of Iron, or some kind of massive statue built on an industrialized world.

 Agamemnon2 wrote:
Oh man, those polygon soldiers are very cool. They'd make for a very cool take on Men of Iron, or some kind of massive statue built on an industrialized world.

That statue thingy really has peaked my interest, in a way, probably going to sketch something abismal but maybee, get another centerpiece for my own table.

I could definitely see using them as a statue in a Soviet-style brutalist piece. Maybe two of them rolling a giant gear or raising a flag or something.

Could get a little fancy and cover the "statue" with some green stuff for more imperialist statuary.

Pretty sure abstract art is heresy in the Imperium