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The miniature gaming police did not knock down my door and drag me away for committing heresy..... yet. These were super fun to re-paint and I all ready have two more figs on the painting desk.
Next up, maybe some Skylanders! in battle.
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I have a sector imperialis board at home and while it is vary nice, the roads are completely clear firing lanes. I’ve been checking the toy aisles for some chunky vehicles to break up the shooting gallery. So far I've found this thing that looks like it will work as some kind of ad-mech garbage truck.
@Destroyer_742: That's a very cool conversion! Awesome to see, how some subtle alterations (painting and adding some small iconography) can change the whole appearance of an item.
I already love this thread and hope to see many more conversions of toys into wargaming pieces!
That Paw Patrol vehicle is pretty good. I just checked Amazon and there are a lot of them with different loadouts. Tug boat, different trucks, etc.
Can we see a scale shot with some minis?
I've got a bunch of Paw Patrol rings with the shield shape I was planning to use (with some plastic wings) on some Arbites-inspired terrain. Do you want some of them?
Ratius wrote: How did you paint it up? Was the plastic difficult to get the paint to adhere to?
Really really lazily. I just sprayed them with silver spray paint, then applied one coat of khorne red for the red, one coat of Retributor Armour for the gold and a heavy wash of apple barrel black paint thinned down with water and a bit of flow aid. No issues with paint adhesion so far.
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No pics as on my phone but Playmobile have stared to sell there gladiator arena again.
These were going for daft money on eBay so they have released them as a direct only order on there webstore. They are perfect for arena rex or anything that need a a roughly 2ftx2ft arena.
The official Arena Red convention display is a converted one of these and looks great.
They don't come with any of the figures or other stuff anymore and are just bagged rather than boxed almost like somebody at the company plays Arena Rex and knows what they were being bought for.
Your last point is especially laughable and comical, because not only the 7th ed Valkyrie shown dumber things (like being able to throw the troopers without parachutes out of its hatches, no harm done) - Irbis
I still have a lot of the large airplanes and bits so I may try making them into ork cruisers.
The Ork Hulk is more like a ship, it actually has some control over movement etc, I had a lot of fun so maybe I'll do one as 'terrain' next which doesn't need to be as linear.
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I just picked up some super cheap toy vehicles for their payloads to be used in my Necromunda scenery. A couple of pounds each from Amazon. I might be able to reuse the wheels as well, but it's the tanks and movable platforms I'm.interested in.
Please excuse any spelling errors. I use a tablet frequently and software keyboards are a pain!