"Cheap 15mm SCi-Fi Vehicles?" Topic

I am looking for cheap 15mm Sci-Fi tanks, APC's Etc. Basically quantity over quality. Suggestions..?

Thanks

Shawn

tracked? hover? Grav?

Take a look at Micropanzer and Combat Wombat, they are pretty inexpensive.

Tracked I think. I had forgotten about MP. CW is a great suggestion, he is always helpful and coming up with fun things..

Other suggestions?

Matchbox cars and the occasional Hot Wheels.

Proxie Models makes a sci-fi plastic tank in 15mm.

Rebel Minis also has some inexpensive vehicles.

Matchbox has several pieces out now as mentioned. Even air support in the Skybusters line.

Proxie Models and Combat Wombat are probably your best bets. There are also some Robogear vehicles on eBay that are roughly 15mm-ish.

For a near-future feel, check out Irish Serb's Panhard VBLs:

link

A bunch of scrap Styrene and some glue?

Or at least that is my source of cheep vehicles, alongside cheep plastic models.

Have you looked at paper models?

Ed, who makes paper scifi?

Here are some nice ones for a start:

modelpaperworld.com/en

Genet have some:
link
Only the trucks in a later archive actually came in a 15mm version, but the 28mm vehicles can be shrunk. Granted, this will of course make them more infuriating to build…
Germy:
germy.co.uk/paper15mm.html

Thanks all for the great links.
Lets face it due to limitation of funds most can't buy all the models they wish they could.
But you can make them yourself,it will be fun, perhaps not easy but you will have unique vehicles.

See my posts here
castrarunis.blogspot.com/2014/02/trackstracks-more-tracks-need-tracks.html
castrarunis.blogspot.com/2014/04/scratchbuilt-vtols.html
castrarunis.blogspot.com/2014/02/nsl-mammut-goliath.html
castrarunis.blogspot.com/2014/04/scratchbuilt-hover-vehicles.html
castrarunis.blogspot.com/2014/03/a-tale-of-1000-rivets-scifi-ork.html
castrarunis.blogspot.com/2014/03/a-tale-of-1000-rivets-scifi-ork.html

Enjoy & may you be inspired
Z

Nice work, zrunelord!

How cheap is cheap? I got 6x 1/100 Gundam Hover Trucks for $40 USD from a guy from this same board. Great quality, great looking models.

You just might want to walk into your local toy stores, dolar stores, and discount stores with a 15mm model and start browsing the cheap toys section…

I got some Plastic Soldier WW2 tanks and converted them into hovertanks, they are about 1/2 the cost of most Sci Fi stuff. I bought turrets from the Sci Fi manufacturers though, upped them to c 2/3 the cost. does take more time modelling though.

Another option is to cast your own from resin.

Moe,

there's the sold school solution to sci fi vehicles, you make your own from whatever plastic containers, bits, etc. you can get your hands on:

link

And again:

link

And yet again:

link

No school like the Old School…

Hope this helps!

Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
metal-express.net

I love it all, Leland, but the technicals for Slammers the most (what a suprise!)

My matchbox vehicles from the pound shop usually get used only as civilians vehicles link

Oh, and they're a pound!

John T

John,

glad you like 'em, and next time you're here, we'll have to load you down with a thorough supply…

Further, I am going to send those pix we talked about a bit later after She Who Must Be Obeyed gets off my freakin' computer after their weekly Skype chat…

Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
metal-express.net

Leland, zrunelord,

You have both sparked my fire for some good old kit bashing. I have a box of hotwheels and matchbox that I never use in most of my modern 15mm games. I know i have plenty of card, tubes and other bits.

I have also tried some card vehicles over the weekend, and I am impressed by the quality.

I think with all the info everyone has provided I will be able to find what I need.

Thanks all!!

Moe

Thanks Javelin 98 glad you like them and you're more than welcome Moe , looks like you been inspired then got the bug :):):)

Do post pics when you've got some.

Enjoy
Z

I sure will..

You'd better! Sharin' is carin'!

Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
metal-express.net

LOL… You betcha!!! Because I care..

Indeed it is Black Widow , I guess we all do Moe ….
that's what I love about this 15mm horde / gang / family / tribe …. hmmmm… what would be the best description ?

I prefer Tribe myself.:):):)

And as always,may you be inspired …

Z

BlackWidowPilot (aka "junk meister") I admire your inventiveness and resourcefulness.

what would be the best description ?

Lunatic asylum?*evl grin*

Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
metal-express.net

TK 421,

thank you, kind cloned sir! I *am* incorrigible….

Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
metal-express.net

For scifi, never underestimate things in different scales either. 10mm tanks could be remote controlled robot units. If you are up to some conversion and paint work, the Old Glory 15mm modern vehicles are cheap and could be kitbashed nicely too.

"Matchbox cars and the occasional Hot Wheels."

Great for filling the streets with cover that isn't a building, and for a number of Near Future forces (My MIBs use the Matchbox "Desert Thunder V16", for example), but much thinner on the ground for serious business.

So many cheap vehicles out there, I have found some Russian ZOD(?) tanks that I have had hidden away (read Lost in a box).

The extra weapons are great for some conversions.

I have been really excited about working on some vehicles, hopefully by Sunday I will have some WIP pictures.

I would like to see other peoples conversions/creations.

Moe.

Y'all know any solutions to get some tracked futuristic mbt's? I know this is an older page, but maybe someone is still checking it? I'm thinking of 15mm scale mbt's that are perhaps near future, maybe a bit boxy/blocky/slab-like, like maybe something that looks sort of like a futuristic version of a cross between a leopard 2a4 and a type 90? I know khurasan made one in 28mm scale and previewed one in 15mm, but they never seemed to have actually made it in 15mm. The other style I'd like to find is hopefully a semi futuristic version of an Abrams that I'd like to find, like if they made an M1A5 Abrams or something like that!

Brigade have this, not exactly super cheap, but fits the brief.
link

There are various M1 Abrams-type and indeed similar more modern slab sided-type tank toys out there but tend towards 1:72 or even larger. Quality can also be very sketchy. I've seen some people do some interesting things with Flames of War modern kits. The Team Yankee starter isn't badly priced and even if you couldn't use the other sprues you can probably sell on eBay and recoup a fair percentage of the starter's price.