"Do You Use GW BITS For 15mm Gaming???" Topic

As you know, I am still relatively new to 15mm and, obviously, I have yet to learn a lot of your "secrets".

From replies to my thread on Tau Drones and Tyranid Rippers, I get the impression that a lot of you 15mm gamers have already been using GW bits (40K and other GW bits) for 15mm on a regular basis.

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And many, many others.

QUESTIONS:

1) So, honestly, what other GW bits have you bought for, and used with, your 15mm armies??? Please be specific.

2) And, what are you using them for?

3) Also, are you using them "as is", or are you cutting and modifying them in any way, to adapt them to your 15mm scale needs?

4) Do you have any photos of your bits side by side with your 15mm figures?

Thanks.

CC
Previous thread on the Tau Drones:
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Previous thread on the Tyranid Rippers:
TMP link

As an old time 40k player I have a ton of bitz. I have used some bitz from time to time. I use allot of pistols for heavy weapons in 15mm. Yes they have to be chopped up a bit but that easy to do. I have also used stuff from epic too.

Noel

I use gw 'bits' for all sorts of things…along with 'clixie' bits too…but not as much…

In fact…when I get a chance to pick up 'bits' or a box of 'bits'…odds and ends via auctions or friends…I start sorting them out into one of those 'parts bins'…for the little nuts and bolts and stuff? (like you'd find on most 'fix-it guy/gal' electronic workbenches…and I lable them as to GENERIC 'types'…heads, torsos, accessories, weapons….etc…

Always been VERY useful and I've seen SO many cool things others have made with gw bits and a few other generic odds and ends…that I like to try to duplicat or improve on them if I can. That's one of the reasons I LOVE to see what others have done via TMP!!!

Slishfully,
Sgt DWW-btod

DWW,

Are you doing 15mm gaming now? Have you been converted too?

CC

My generic 15mm GW bits has gone as far as using whole vehicles. A simple example is the Tau devilfish APC. Which becomes a great 15mm drop ship (though I have lowered the undercarriage a bit, put a GZG gun in place of the HUGE gattling in the kit and added an upside down drone in place of the upper access hatch. Of course it has the benefit that its big enough to carry an APC!

Now for something really off the wall, this makes a great `larger' drop ship for 15mm gaming. Just remove the props, ruders etc, and you are away. (I have 2). auction

I am still relatively new to 15mm and, obviously, I have yet to learn a lot of your "secrets".

Use smaller figures. Works for me.

Hi!

Ive rummage out a couple of old epic scale dreadnaughts to use as robots in 15mm scale as theyre about the same size as a human.

No.

The Eldar WraithGuard are just about large enough to hide a pilot under the head/canopy, and the jetbike fairing and undercarriage is also quite handy for scratch work if you can hide or remove the seat and handlebars (which are what set scale for the model).

Tyranid Gaunts become Warrior-sized bugs in 15mm, and Spore Mines are already scale-blind.

As already mentioned, the Tau hardware works quite well, with only the Pirahna needing extensive work (since it has visible seats and controls).

The various Human forces are the hardest to make work, as most have too many scale cues.

Way back when spore mines were spore ships for BFG I bought some to use as 25mm creatures. In 15mm, they'd be bigger creatures.

Spore mines! I haven't seen the plastic ones anywhere among the bits distributors.

QUESTION:

What do you guys think of this conversion idea for use with 15mm figures?

What if I get these plastic Tyranid Gaunt bodies (just the bodies, with the 2 moulded-on pairs of legs) . . .

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. . . I could then leave out the front pair of arms, add eyes to the first arm sockets, and make the chest into a mouth like this one?

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Thanks.

CC
PS. If you guys think it would work, I guess I could call them land piranhas.

That would look cool. You can almost see it in the auction picture -- the sockets look like big round eyes.

Hey, you could even add small googly eyes to the sockets. Yeah, that's the ticket.

Hmmm… sounds like that might be pretty cool.

I personally see all sorts of potential for GW bits in 15mm gaming. I had a few Rippers that I eventually sold off because I couldn't find more (in the days before BWB and Bitkingdom), and I've been eying Tau drones for use as grav attack platforms. IG weapons, especially, can make for good 15mm kitbashing fodder. The heavy stubber and lascannon both make good autocannons, for starters.

1) So, honestly, what other GW bits have you bought for, and used with, your 15mm armies??? Please be specific.

NO GW bits for 15mm currently.

I use several other 25mm/28mm items though. WEG zero-G troopers with some Battletech arms become 15mm dreadnoughts, A Dreamblade monster becomes a 15mm Ambull like creature, 25mm Kryomek domes see new life as 15mm structures, a Kryomek mini-walker and arachnowarrior see reuse as 15mm human and alien support platforms.

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If I were digging into my GW bits, first thing would be the small genestealer familiar and some of the other Chaos familiars. Next would be the Tau drones already mentioned. I also have Heresy Hellmites, Mongoose cliff mites, and Mongoose control bugs that will serve double duty in a 15mm alien role.

Hey Goldwyrm,
Nice pictures. How heavily did you modify the Shockforce rules for your 15mm Skirmish game?

Goldwyrm,

The spires on the lower left side of the first picture, did you make that or was it a purchase?

Thanks.

CC

@RR- off the top of my head:
Units moved by moving a leader and placing all the other figures within x distance. They could move or fire in any order like normal SF, but the movement was always off the leader's position. Firing would be together as a unit, or weapons with extra shots could fire together at a second point in the unit's activation. Entering melee is done as a move and attack as in SF, except as above the move is around the unit leader. Fire and melee results worked out as normal SF rules. Mass attacks were just worked out during the shooting, not by reserving fire with some modelsand coming off reserve together with an active model. Models not firing at the end of the unit activation go on reserve fire. Reserve fire is used after a discrete enemy move, i.e.- after each hop of a unit placed around a leader, after each enemy ranged attack. I would have allowed fire at units in movement between cover positions if LoS could be drawn to the open area, but we didn't run into that situation.

I also had an optional rout rule instead of a unit getting entirely removed with a failed roll. Instead the unit loses d6 models and flees a full move. Repeat each turn until it passes morale. We didn't get to try that either.

Spires and the terrain mat are both Zuzzy products. They came unpainted. The only other terrain were the 25mm Kryomek resin domes.

Thanks Goldwyrm! Those Zuzzy mats are nice looking. I've been hesitant to get one, since I've already got a load of pending painting products. : )
Thanks again.

Not Sci fi,but Fantasy,I had some of the goblin mushrooms that I used in scenery..Just as a side note,in the Warmaster Ancients rulebook,they used the upper parts of the 40K jungle trees to make palm trees for 6-10mm scale,and they work quite well. I of course,copied that,as I had some sitting around.

I use some of the old genestealer familiars as, well 15mm genestealers.
Also lots of Epic knights, titans etc-especially the smaller Imperial Guard ones.
Spore mines are good and Necron scarabs.
Oh and I use a couple of big Necron spidery things as very frightening vehicles indeed!

No, I do not buy or stock GW products.

The only time I get any GW is when a store is going out of business and I get the stuff on closeout. This is why my ebay actually has some GW on it this week.

Blurry pics, but you can see what I did with leftover Tyranid arms and weapons and a little bit of wire.

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Oh..and you can see my cutey of a daughter too. She's the one without the carapace.

-Eli

these are some good ideas. i dont have any but i'm going to hit up some of the old gw players and see if they have any of these old models.

I've used their Scarabs for battledress for an insectoid race I created for my Traveller campaign. I used bits from some of the EPIC lines. I used their plastic weapons trees to build 15mm artillery. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find anymore of the weapon tree sets-I've been told by my local gamestore they are no longer made.