Beefing up the Golden Compass Magisterium Carriage

[gloriousbattle]

http://cn1.kaboodle.com/hi/img/c/0/0/8a/9/...v=1259008018000

I bought several of these cheap at a dollar store here, locally.  I already have Lee Scoresby's balloon and the Magisterium air ship, but this I'd like to use as a lightly armored vehicle, maybe a troop transport for a 15mm squad or two.

I could certainly paint some national flags on it, or stick one on a flag pole, but how would you arm it?

Also, any suggestions for a figure to use as a 15mm pilot?  It looks crazy-big for 15mm, but the seat is about the right size, and certainly too small for 25mm.

Thanks

[Mason]

I have just bought one of these and would like to see what others have done.
I have a few ideas but am not moving on to the VSF stuff just yet.
I have dozens of ideas, and a considerable pile of stuff to crack on with when I am ready.

What have you all done with yours, then?
 

[gloriousbattle]

What have you all done with yours, then?
 

So far, nothing.  I got them REALLY cheap, so I bought half a dozen.  I was thinking of trying to keep the thing generic, and making some decals with various nation's flags that I could stick to the top and sides with sticky tack.  Other than that, I have some homemade electro-guns done up with plastic picture hangers and some plastic tubing that I was thinking of repainting in red and gold, and attaching to the chassis as twin guns.

[chantyam]

I too have a number just lying around bought quite a few (but not as meny as the smal Airship diecast models as with those I could see how I could use them for 28mm). I wonder if I could break one up to perhaps see what the parts intail perhaps to increase the size of the Carriage.

[Malamute]

Scroll down the link below and you will see some photos of a paint job Bullshott has done on one, adapting it for his Prussian force:

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=3572.30

[Mason]

Scroll down the link below and you will see some photos of a paint job Bullshott has done on one, adapting it for his Prussian force:

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=3572.30

Thanks, Malamute!

If you scroll down a few posts, Bullshott gives a few more useful tips on painting the contraption.

[gloriousbattle]

Scroll down the link below and you will see some photos of a paint job Bullshott has done on one, adapting it for his Prussian force:

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=3572.30

Yeah, 28mm does seem a better fit.  I was hoping I could kinda scale it (up?  down?) to look like a larger, lightly armed troop transport.

[The_Beast]

Did these just resurface? I'd bought a few, but as I'm feeling the 1/1200 Aeronef craze rising again, I wouldn't mind a few more monster digs, and I never DID get one of the larger Scorseby ships.

Doug

[gloriousbattle]

Did these just resurface? I'd bought a few, but as I'm feeling the 1/1200 Aeronef craze rising again, I wouldn't mind a few more monster digs, and I never DID get one of the larger Scorseby ships.

Doug

I don't think so.  They've kinda hung around here in the Big Lots chain.  I don't think I've seen them elsewhere.

[The_Beast]

I don't think so.  They've kinda hung around here in the Big Lots chain.  I don't think I've seen them elsewhere.

Thanks, GB. That would explain it; my friends and moi kind of cleared out the local Big Lots. 

Doug