Reaper Marines and toy-bashed transport

[James Holloway]

Hi guys,

For this week's painting challenge on Oldhammer, I speed-painted the Reaper Bones IMEF Marines and turned a toy armoured car into their transport. You can see more images and an explanation over on my blog, but here are the highlight photos.















The figures are speed-painted, and the AFV is speed-painted and speed-bashed, so they're a bit rough and ready, but I'm not unhappy with them!

[Red Orc]

I really like the armoured car!I can never find toys like that to kitbash, I'm very envious.

[Dr Mathias]

I like what you've done 

[Dr. Zombie]

Very nice.

[former user]

this is great!!

[James Holloway]

I really like the armoured car!I can never find toys like that to kitbash, I'm very envious.

I got it here (I got 3 of 'em!). They cost me £2.25 each, but I was able to get them shipped to me when I was in the US. Elsewhere I imagine the shipping would be a hassle.

[Dentatus]

Nice job and certainly good enuf to fight.

[nic-e]

that car reminds me of the truck from space hunter adventures in the forbidden zone ! 

Lovely work, i was always tempted by these marines but the images on the reaper site just don't sell them.

[Doomsdave]

Great work.  Some of the most enjoyable projects are the quick ones.  I have some of those plastic armored cars.  Will have to dig them out.  How did you cover the hollow undercarriage?

[Elbows]

I had the same little car about 15 years ago.  What makes this even more impressive is that it's a single piece of plastic (completely hollow).  Just a simple stamped mold of plastic with four wheels and a clip-on turret.  You've really made that into something nice.



Well done!

[James Holloway]

How did you cover the hollow undercarriage?

I ... didn't. 

But in the past when I've had to work with hollow plastic toys, I've attached something to the inside of the hull to create a nice broad surface to bond to and then just cut an appropriately-shaped card template and glued it on. Yeah, it doesn't look very realistic, but then ideally no one's going to see the underside of the thing in the first place. It wouldn't take much to make a suitable card undercarriage in several pieces (because the lines of the thing aren't exactly straight) and then greeble it until it looked nice; I just couldn't be bothered. The only place it was really visible was at the front, so I just chucked that dozer blade on there to lower the front enough so that it couldn't be seen.

It's either cheap and cheerful or cheap and nasty, but it's definitely cheap.

[Doomsdave]

Nice.  Now I won't feel bad about leaving mine hollow.

[DoctorPete]

Cheap and well done!  Always a good combination.   

[Golgotha]

Do love the vehicle - toys can certainly be an ideal source for ones scifi armour.

[area23]

Brilliant! I remember that toy from a few years back. I even had the link to some webstore in the US that sold them.