"15mm Land Raiders?" Topic

I've been buying 15mm sci-fi stuff (obviously lots of options). Will likely be playing 40k with them----since that's the default rule set at the LGS.

Any suggestions on a 15mm Land Raider type tank? I don't care what period as long as it generally looks like a WWI tank and is appropriately sized.

Thanks for your input

Try doing a conversion with a M113. Add lots of skulls.

If you can find them, the Epic Land Raiders in Plastic might be big enough, even though they are nominally 10mm.

and try in in 1/72 or 20mm you''ll make it bigger that way.

Why not start with what a land raider is based on?

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Jake

Jake has it right. QRF needs to be careful though. GW might send them a letter to stop making that model because it infringes on their IP rights.

Wonder which is the older IP, GW landraider or British Mk V from 1919. :-)

QRF needs to be careful though. GW might send them a letter to stop making that model because it infringes on their IP rights.

Now you know I'd just love to answer that letter :-)

I would second the British Mark series tanks. Emhar (Spelling?) makes a kit (either 1/87, IIRC) that should fit the bill. I had a couple as a kid.

They may look too modern for you, but Old Crow do a range of SF vehicles in 15mm. They're lovely models, and the quality of the resin casting is superb.

The Lancer APC could pass muster as a Land Raider (that's what the 25mm version does in my Space Marine army), though it doesn't have any sponsons:

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And anyways, the M-113 is more appropriate as a Rhino…

Looks like I was wrong, the Emhar Mark IV kit is 1/72. However, that should be even better for scale! Here's the link to the kit
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I've never quite managed to notice what makes one version 'female' and the other 'male'… maybe I've never seen a good shot of their backsides.

If you aren't joking, the "males" have cannons in the sponsons, the "females" only have machineguns. There were also a few "hermaphrodites" with a cannon in one sponson only. (No joke.)

The problem with using Mk IVs as land raiders is that the proportionas area actually alot different. Land Raiders are shorter and wider, MkIVs are longer and thinner. Also, the rhomboid shape is reversed: the high corner is at the front fo the MkIV, and at the rear of the Land Raider. To do it really effectively, I'd get a 1/72 scale Mk IV, and covert it by cutting out part of the middle to make it shorter (and in length, not heighth) and possibly use plasticar to make it wider too.

Males have big guns, pillbox, artillery & machine gun killers.

Females are all anti-infantry & cavalry, being machine gun armed.

Geoff,

Careful with the Indiana Jones, Last Crusade people too!!!

Dan

Now Dan, you just know I'd turn that round into asking them for a licensing deal ;-)

Well, if anyone does write a letter to Geoff (legal or otherwise), he'll be stumped!

Everyone knows Geoff can only write on message boards! And then only to do a blatent advert for his products!

Take a dumpster; add tracks and guns.

An illusion I'm more than happy to retain, my LLM is just for show. ;-)

Geoff
Www.quickreactionforce.co.uk

"Take a dumpster; add tracks and guns."

He's after a Landraider – not an M2/3 IFV!

Didn't MJ's original problem stem from the fact that his 15mm Land Raider looked just too much like the 40k version?

Ooops my confusion, I was thinking Rhino. Land Raider is a WWI tank. Add skulls