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 Eilif wrote:
Not wild about the tractors, but those trailers look good. The load itself might be a good bit of terrain on it's own.

Cargo for terrain, splicing tractors and trailers together to make Orks trucks, and you got a recipe for me finally being able to do my speed freaks army. My only issue is that in America I don't know how easy it's going to be for me to get these toys, nor if it's any cheaper to do this over just buying ork trucks

 Tommygun1918 wrote:
OK, I need that Rebel Moon gunship.

I have been seeing these monster trucks around and I'm tempted to convert one into an ork truck.
They come in a lot of different styles too. They also come in two different sizes 1/64 and 1/24 scales.
Either size could be used depending on how much conversion work you want to do.
The 1/64 scale is more usable as a war buggy though.

1/24 scale truck:
https://a.co/d/3FrrtkI

1/64 scale truck:
https://a.co/d/5NX1BPC

Addendum to what I wrote earlier. Just saw these in WalMart. The 1/64 are way too small, but the 1/24 of some of the bulkier ones like Gravedigger could work for a War Rig or Ork Truck. It's pretty big.


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 Just Tony wrote:

 Eilif wrote:
Not wild about the tractors, but those trailers look good. The load itself might be a good bit of terrain on it's own.

Cargo for terrain, splicing tractors and trailers together to make Orks trucks, and you got a recipe for me finally being able to do my speed freaks army. My only issue is that in America I don't know how easy it's going to be for me to get these toys, nor if it's any cheaper to do this over just buying ork trucks

Almost anything is cheaper than Ork Trucks. If you want to base Ork Trucks on Tractors, check out farm toys in the USA. "New Ray" sells alot of that sort of thing in 1:48 and 1:43. There are also cheaper varieties at places like Menards, Farm and fleet, etc.

Not Orks specifically (would need more random armor plates...), but here's a few things that you might find interesting that I've done with toy vehicles for Post-Apoc settings.

https://www.chicagoskirmishwargames.com/blog/2012/01/28mm-on-cheap-post-apocalyptic-vehicles/

https://www.chicagoskirmishwargames.com/blog/2011/12/28mm-on-cheap-toy-cars-as-wargames/

https://www.chicagoskirmishwargames.com/blog/2014/10/post-apocalyptic-tuk-tuk-auto-rickshaw/

https://www.chicagoskirmishwargames.com/blog/2012/03/28mm-on-cheap-sci-fi-bikers-and-pos/

Anybody have any idea what this is? It was in with a lot of star trek, star wars, and Babylon 5 micro machines that I got. The Wheels on the undercarriage also look like a micro machine, but I have no idea where this would be from. Included is a picture with it next to the Micro Machines USS Reliant for scale.

Micromachines had a line of spaceships and space tanks of their own design. Some of them looked pretty good, but most were goofy. This one was repainted and possibly modified in some way.

Found it. The line was called Micromachines Galaxy Voyagers, and they had a few different three-packs. Most of them could probably work for X-Wing or Battletech scaled games.

That's the one, thank you Bob. I have no use for it, as I play none of the games it would fit in, but I may find a home for it yet.

 Just Tony wrote:
That's the one, thank you Bob. I have no use for it, as I play none of the games it would fit in, but I may find a home for it yet.

Sounds to me like you need a new game!

Anyway...







New very generic and flexible construction set. $16 on Amazon. No dimensions but it looks right for 28mm. It's the sort of thing you could easily scratch build from foamcore and plasticard but if you want an easy solution there it is.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CSFLW4R3/

Also there's this weird thing...







https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CVX8Z7HG/

A space station? That splits into 5 ships? Which also turn into dinosaur bots?

Yeah for $21 I can see some uses for this.

Also there's this weird thing...

Reminds me of this from back in the 70s

Some of the random things I have found at 100 yen shops.

A construction crane that stands about 5" tall.



A bridge section for a toy train set, but will work equally as well on a game board.



Some flame plastic flame effects. They come in different colors such as blue, yellow, red, and orange. I opted for the green.



Some plastic dungeon tiles. They are 6" by 4" and about 3/8" tall and quite sturdy. The squares are 1" so perfect for a lot of gaming systems.The molded ground textures are also pretty nice.

Great stuff! I had no idea there was such a wide variety of knock off PlaRail accessories.

Those dungeon tiles in particular look great.

Good stuff, I wonder if Mrs Kyoto can pick some up when she's home next.

 Peterhausenn wrote:
Some of the random things I have found at 100 yen shops.

A construction crane that stands about 5" tall.



A bridge section for a toy train set, but will work equally as well on a game board.



Some flame plastic flame effects. They come in different colors such as blue, yellow, red, and orange. I opted for the green.



Some plastic dungeon tiles. They are 6" by 4" and about 3/8" tall and quite sturdy. The squares are 1" so perfect for a lot of gaming systems.The molded ground textures are also pretty nice.

Why, oh, why can't we find some sort of shops somewhere in the US that sell these? I imagine the import fees would make these far too cost prohibitive.

I like those flame effects.

 aphyon wrote:

Reminds me of this from back in the 70s

Spoiler:

I love that the box art even includes the screws holding the tail pipes together.

Also the fact that it gets the design backwards. 70's box art was awesome.

it was even more cool because there were expansion sets that were modular. sadly i no longer have any of my old 70s/early 80s star wars or BSG toys...save my original B-wing

Now my G1/move transformers collection is another matter entirely.

Here is one of the Target store’s Driven brand of toy cars made into a wasteland scavenger’s ride.

So I've been on an old west binge lately and with STL offerings being pretty bad I turned to toy trains, there's a good selection of Xmas trains around.

Got this one locally, reduced to 15€, it's O scale, pretty decent for 28mm if a bit stylized. There's a bunch of similar stuff on amazon too.

https://www.babycenter.si/goldlok-vlak-set-europa-express-916146.html

The big hit are the tracks with absolutely wargamer grade wood relief, with each plank sculpted individually, no repeats. This is just one brown drybrush over the nice satin plastic.

That is a great find. The cars do appear to be o Gauge, but nicely compressed in size for the tabletop. As you say, the track is perfect!