New historical model kits for possible use in 40K

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**Kid_Kyoto**

A couple more incoming from Rubicon. As mentioned their vehicles will look small next to 40k vehicles, esp the French Renalt tank, so you might want to seek out 1/35 scale ones for 40k. But with more WWI figures on the way these might be of interest.

And the bike in the stowage set really tempts me.

https://www.facebook.com/rubiconmodels/

**Kid_Kyoto**

From Oldmate's thread on making Imperial Jets, two Airfix early Cold War British jets. Great looking designs that can work for 40k.

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/780745.page

Not new kits per se, but new to me.

https://smile.amazon.com/Airfix-A09182-Gloster-Military-Plastic/dp/B018G91MSK/ref=sr_1_3

https://smile.amazon.com/Airfix-A06107-Havilland-Vampire-Aircraft/dp/B08W9MBBJ1/ref=sr_1_2

And to go with them, Hasegawa has a whole line of 1/48 aircraft weapons.

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0017TDD0W/?coliid=I1ILJM7SW0PLG1&colid=1AQNEF7RBO6IS&psc=1

**Wha-Mu-077**

I sense a Dakkajet conversion

**Kid_Kyoto**

Squadron (US model site) seems back up with good prices and selection. Haven't tried the new site but it's worth a look.

https://www.squadron.com/

**Kid_Kyoto**

Why is this not an IG vehicle?

https://www.balatonmodellshop.co.uk/BT-74-Trencher-machine-1/35?fbclid=IwAR32qsCcfOnB_yW0doivn8rhtuom2IjTHvUgvnp1Nxn2CVsDUbSOan2Xoks

**Easy E**

Didn't the Krieg have a siege drill at one point? Put them in a regiment together!

**Stormonu**

Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Why is this not an IG vehicle?

https://www.balatonmodellshop.co.uk/BT-74-Trencher-machine-1/35?fbclid=IwAR32qsCcfOnB_yW0doivn8rhtuom2IjTHvUgvnp1Nxn2CVsDUbSOan2Xoks

With that sort of logic, why haven't we seen Valkyries with buzzsaws hanging below them in a manner similar to those seen in The World is Not Enough?

**Theophony**

Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Why is this not an IG vehicle?

https://www.balatonmodellshop.co.uk/BT-74-Trencher-machine-1/35?fbclid=IwAR32qsCcfOnB_yW0doivn8rhtuom2IjTHvUgvnp1Nxn2CVsDUbSOan2Xoks

Needs a tank commander waiving around a mace or hammer so you can drive closer to bash them with it.

**Kid_Kyoto**

Theophony wrote:
Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Why is this not an IG vehicle?

https://www.balatonmodellshop.co.uk/BT-74-Trencher-machine-1/35?fbclid=IwAR32qsCcfOnB_yW0doivn8rhtuom2IjTHvUgvnp1Nxn2CVsDUbSOan2Xoks

Needs a tank commander waiving around a mace or hammer so you can drive closer to bash them with it.

Build for agriculture and excavation, the Cornu Unum engineering vehicle served honorably if anonymously in the rear echelons of the Imperial Guard digging trenches, clearing forests and breaking down wreckage. Until Waaagh Bashskullz broke the lines at the siege of Rylos when they were swiftly redeployed in a desperate counter assault against his 'Bashzerker' shock troops.

Their success in breaking the Green Skin onslaught led to a reclassification of the vehicle as the Cornu Unum Close Support Tank and use of it soon spread through the subsector.

Nonetheless some veteran tank commanders were slow to adapt to the new paradigm.

"Drive me farther" Tank Commander Enos Coussum is reported to have said "I want to shoot them with my gun!"

Hrm not saying I'm going to do this... but there are some nice Gundam chainsaws out there.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/393477555048?epid=2255451116&hash=item5b9d170368:g:q5cAAOSwU3dhBqeF

**Kid_Kyoto**

Incoming from Takom models, 2 Flak fortresses (1/350 scale) and a naval gun turret at 1/35. Plus a zeppelin at 1/350 for anyone looking to do AI or AT squats

Titanicus and Epic scale is around 1/285 so these should work.

https://www.facebook.com/TAKOM-354803674728188/

**Shadow Walker**

BT-74 basically screams 40k. The only thing I am not sure if it is more IG or more Orky creation.

**endlesswaltz123**

Not a historical model at all, but I picked up one of these recently from a Smyths Toy store with the idea of converting it into a floating water/sump barge/settlement - inspiration will be megaton on top of rivet city from fallout 3. Anyway, cheap as chips (£17.99) and a fair bit of space to work with - 75cm long.

https://www.smythstoys.com/uk/en-gb/toys/construction-and-cars/diecast-cars-and-playsets/aircraft-carrier/p/165379

**Kid_Kyoto**

Incoming from Miniart Models, a very cool 3 wheeler pick up.

https://www.facebook.com/miniart.models/

Just the thing for a grimdark farm or factory.

**Wha-Mu-077**

-wowie that photoshop on the box art is terrible.

But the thing itself looks quite interesting and unique.

**Joyboozer**

Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Incoming from Miniart Models, a very cool 3 wheeler pick up.

https://www.facebook.com/miniart.models/

Just the thing for a grimdark farm or factory.

I never realised how much I wanted to be able to drive a wheel barrow until just now, this vehicle is a work of genius!

**Kid_Kyoto**

1/48 scale SR-71 Blackbird

That is all.

https://www.scalemates.com/kits/revell-04967-sr-71-blackbird--1265498

**Not Online!!!**

Question, i am scouring the Internet once again for model kits, does anyone have a good sized helicopter kit to convert into a Chinork?

**Vulcan**

That might be tricky.

The obvious candidate, a 1/48 scale Chinook, is currently only being produced by one manufacturer, and they're charging $70 bucks for it. You might luck out and find an older kit in a hobby store, though.

**Kid_Kyoto**

Not Online!!! wrote:
Question, i am scouring the Internet once again for model kits, does anyone have a good sized helicopter kit to convert into a Chinork?

There are some fat and chunky Chinook style helicopters out there from the various GI Joe-like toys.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=toy+army+helicopter&crid=AREP89TYVQ45&sprefix=toy+army+helicopte%2Caps%2C237&ref=nb_sb_noss_2

https://www.amazon.com/JOYIN-Transport-Helicopter-Motorcycle-Accessories/dp/B08BL79FCN/ref=sr_1_3?crid=AREP89TYVQ45&keywords=toy+army+helicopter&qid=1643870975&sprefix=toy+army+helicopte%2Caps%2C237&sr=8-3

**Pacific**

What about a 1/48 Osprey Kit? Think if you covered up the windows or did something with the cabin and orkified it that might look good. The kit is very reasonably priced too.

https://www.emodels.co.uk/italeri-1-48-bell-boeing-v-22-osprey-2622-plastic-model-kit.html

**Not Online!!!**

Bit large , Scale converter dass 35,4 cm long.

But it would certainly work.

**Kid_Kyoto**

Once again Takom is making all our dreams come true.

https://www.facebook.com/TAKOM-354803674728188

The 1/35 Typhoon K looks perfect for the Ash Wastes, the 1/35 siege gun just needs a winged skull to fit into the 40k universe. And that 1/16 scale tank... superheavy?

**Miguelsan**

I've seen that Howitzer around before. I have to restrain myself everytime it shows up.

M.

**Pyroalchi**

It was likely already mentioned, but something I would love to see from some crazy hobbyist:
https://www.glow2b.de/view.php?sku=1539999

... it's 1/35... 160 cm long... That would be a cool terrain piece. Imagine a battle of two infantry armies literally ON an imperial siege gun

**Alpharius**

I...might have that model...

Not sure how well it scales with GW 30K/40K, past, present and future though.

**Kid_Kyoto**

Oi! Oi! Oi!

Ever wonder what would have happened if, instead of turning south towards the Philippines and Indonesia (necessitating the attack on Pearl Harbor), Imperial Japan instead turned North towards Mongolia and Siberia?

Takom is making all your dreams come true!

https://www.facebook.com/TAKOM-354803674728188/

The O I superheavy tank was a proposed Japanese superheavy to counter Soviet tanks in the East after Japan lost a border war between Mongolia and Manchuria in 1939.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-I_super-heavy_tank

(O for Ooki of course! And I for one)

It was scrapped however when the government signed a non-aggression pact with the Soviets (which amazing held until late 1945) and decided to go with a southern strategy instead of a northern one.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Khalkhin_Gol

Now there were reasons to go south instead of north besides Japan losing the border war (Indonesian oil fields, the need to secure the islands around Japan to prevent allied bombing, rivalry between the navy and army, anti colonial sentiment) but it is an interesting what if.

What if Japan had invaded the Soviet Union after Germany did and postponed the war with America, Britain, France and the Netherlands for another day? Siberia is HUGE of course, but the Soviets were in no position to fight a two front war and it would have kept an isolationist America out of the war at least a bit longer. The European allies would have also drained more strength from their Asian colonies (including India) to fight Germany and maybe left them more vulnerable to independence movements and/or Japanese invasion.

Ah hindsight.

Anyway, new 1/35 never-build superheavy incoming.

**Kid_Kyoto**

A new contender enters the arena!

https://www.bordermodel.com/en

https://www.facebook.com/Border-Model-339312286698433/

A brand new series from Border Model! Elegy of the Red Empire! A product from games and reverie, a combination of reality and sci-fi! We designed a brand new look! Paint Free & Cement Free adopted! And the red light group with touch switch!
BC001 Soviet Apocalypse Tank!

1/35 snap tight, no paint, diesel punk Soviet tank!

With the promise of more to come!

**godswildcard**

I...I need that monstrosity in my life...

Krieg super-heavy line breaker incoming...

Although that sweet, SWEET O-I looks awesome, too....

**kodos**

Marauder Battle Tank for Firefight

that model can be used for so many things

**ProfSrlojohn**

Kid_Kyoto wrote:
A new contender enters the arena!

https://www.bordermodel.com/en

https://www.facebook.com/Border-Model-339312286698433/

A brand new series from Border Model! Elegy of the Red Empire! A product from games and reverie, a combination of reality and sci-fi! We designed a brand new look! Paint Free & Cement Free adopted! And the red light group with touch switch!
BC001 Soviet Apocalypse Tank!

1/35 snap tight, no paint, diesel punk Soviet tank!

With the promise of more to come!

Soviet Power Supreme