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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: telemachus on April 25, 2020, 12:19:02 PM
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I've had an idea for a campaign set in a 40k-lite universe for a while and have been collecting elements on and off. One of these elements is ships (I like ships), shuttles, dropships, scifi Hind type carriers and the like and I have been pleasantly surprised at how many different pieces from various toy lines I have been able to pick up to convert.
Still, I was a little surprised to realize when I went to view what I had to find out quite how many I had bought....
A lot of the inspiration was viewing other peoples work on here and other fora so I thought I would repay the favour and put pics up of them here with some figures for scale. I think most will be okay with minimal conversion and a repaint.
First up, a drop ship, an old GI Joe toy.
(https://i.imgur.com/UBBwnDR.jpg)
Another dropship, this is an Avengers Quinjet - this one is subtitled 'Cycle Blast'
(https://i.imgur.com/f37iRsL.jpg)
A shuttle, this is a 3.75" Starwars T16 Hopper but I think it is a great scale as system shuttle.
(https://i.imgur.com/beSuQ1t.jpg)
Last for now, and my favourite so far, a Paws Patrol 'Jet Command Centre' that will be a heavy drop ship
(https://i.imgur.com/E3vvhkc.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/rc44XIn.jpg)
Lots more to come, including a huge Eisenhorn (40K inquisitor) gun cutter type.
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I love re-purposing old toys - especially ones I pick up in charity shops or on FB Marketplace.
That Paw Patrol one is kind of underwhelming given that the PP range, generally, is rich fodder for re-purposed toys.
R.
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Like where you are going with this. Please keep posting your progress.
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Great bases for conversions. The last one absolutely has potential!
And I actually have that very Quinjet on my workbench right now :D
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The Paws Patrol has the perfect shape for a drop ship and is big enough to get vehicles in, I need to do something to the cockpit to bring it into scale but thats about it. Will be interested in what you do to your Quinjet, its a bit of a minefield getting the correct one as there are so many types.
Speaking of which, this is another kind of Quinjet, bit more of an Mv22 type.
(https://i.imgur.com/lPfvEas.jpg)
Playmobil is, as always, a great source and I have a number of ships and vehicles. This is more like a civilian survey type but love the Starwarsesque glazing.
(https://i.imgur.com/s0QvtMR.jpg)
Finally, this bad boy. Its from the Batman universe, not sure what it was called and is massive. I bought 2 to use as Marine landing craft but they are a little big :D. I am going to remove the 'wings', maybe keep the deployable guns and use it as a gun cutter for an Inquisitor.
(https://i.imgur.com/si0C7QP.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/SvR3m4y.jpg)
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I did this with a Quinjet for my Grymn army.
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/22/1352_09_09_15_5_54_06_0.JPG)
Originally picked it up at a Goodwill to use as a dropship for X-Com.
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Nice looking ships. Will be interested to see where you will go with them. I really need to start to scour the charity shops for toys so I can do stuff like this.
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The "Cycle blast" quinjet was the Winter Soldier release version (there were some design changes from the original yellow canopied one (from "Avengers assemble").
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What a great inspirational thread. I'm moved to post some pics of my own conversions if that's okay :)
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The "Cycle blast" quinjet was the Winter Soldier release version (there were some design changes from the original yellow canopied one (from "Avengers assemble").
Thats right, I also have a couple of smaller ones I will post at some point. Too small for shuttles/dropships but good as 1 man fighters.
What a great inspirational thread. I'm moved to post some pics of my own conversions if that's okay :)
Of course the more the merrier!
Really like what Sinewgrab did to that Quinjet, I need to perfect a canopy painting technique, I started by thinking I was going to model the cockpit interiors but its really hard to find enough seat parts and crew figures.
A few more, starting with a very cheap, nasty plastic, minimal detail shuttle, a DC Justice League toy from Mattel.
(https://i.imgur.com/ybHDDlc.jpg)
Moving on to finer things, this was a Mutant Ninja Turtle toy. I saw this on a great blog years ago and bought it cheap on eBay a while back.
(https://i.imgur.com/egca0Ok.jpg)
This is a fabulous thing I bought to use as a ship but it is such a great oversize vehicle I am using it as a road vehicle for Dredd. Its a GI Joe BUGG vehicle and is unfortunately quite hard to get hold of.
(https://i.imgur.com/xs9IN9K.jpg)
Sticking with Dredd, I looked around for a suitable H-wagon for years and found this, its a Lost in Space toy (be careful as there are 2 very similar and you want this the larger one) which fits the asethetic really well. This is my second, I started converting one, built the cockpit interior with a great clear plastic canopy I spent literally 6 months searching for and then lost it in a house move.
(https://i.imgur.com/OcQpx84.jpg)
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Thanks for the inspiration on this thread. Over the last week since reading it I've bagged myself both types of Quinjet on eBay. It appears that the older yellow-canopied one is a bit rarer and can be quite pricey (even used), but I managed to find one that was misnamed, with no other bidders, that I just won at a very good price.
Sinewgrab, that's a cracking paintjob on your Quinjet.
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Sinewgrab, that's a cracking paintjob on your Quinjet.
Really like what Sinewgrab did to that Quinjet, I need to perfect a canopy painting technique, I started by thinking I was going to model the cockpit interiors but its really hard to find enough seat parts and crew figures.
Why, thank you. I was pretty happy with it, and it sizes well for 28mm. I almost left the canopy yellow, but decided I didn't want to build an interior.
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Aye up
Not toys but all conversions for consideration
Tau marine and 1/35 apc
Cheers all
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Those are great, love the elongated landspeeder. I have a few toys to convert to civilian landspeeders, all are Starwars toys and although the scale is off, adding 28mm seating, cupolas and hatches will cover that up. Having said that I am going to take apart the iconic 'Luke's landspeeder' to change its appearance totally.
(https://i.imgur.com/cEVAdSB.jpg)
Sticking with Starwars, this was a toy I never had as a kid :'( but my friend had two! Its such a great shape for a transport and I was lucky to buy 2 of them on eBay. Not sure what I am going to do in adding a crew compartment, I've put the Tie fighter cockpit up top as inspiration but am undecided.
(https://i.imgur.com/bDt4tRp.jpg)
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Inspiring thread, keep us informed on your progress - I recently made a start on the old Kenner Dash Rendar ship. It's big but there's lots of game potential for set-pieces at space ports, shady meetings in various deserts, escapes from moon shaped super weapons, and so on.
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I managed to pick up the 2001 Moon Bus model kit cheaply off ebay last year.
Painted it up so it wouldn't look out of place for Star Wars etc.
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JbwQYR1wT_E/Xe-CbWsokGI/AAAAAAAABUE/o9xTt7IA8X0xwSWmgMazVog8SZQKCuV8QCPcBGAYYCw/s400/P1030467.JPG)
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_j6Gx0WcV4U/Xe-CZsaNMxI/AAAAAAAABUA/LcXwu8SNK1sqJED1Z3brZDxqJAENl60twCPcBGAYYCw/s400/P1030464.JPG)
More photos here - https://nozzawargaming.blogspot.com/2019/12/various-28mm-spacecraft.html (https://nozzawargaming.blogspot.com/2019/12/various-28mm-spacecraft.html)
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Nice. If we keep this up we'll have our ow little space port in no time! :)