By Mark Burgess
From Beighton's Shipyard
Hi all,
While perusing the toy aisle of a well known supermarket, we
all need inspiration from somewhere, my eagle eyes spotted this interesting
little gem from Hot Wheels.
I thought this Max Steel Turbo Racer (pictured below) would
make a interesting Sci-fi vehicle. I had no idea who Max Steel was and had to
google him!
Once painted to go with my sci-fi army, it made quite a nice
buggy/recon vehicle. To give it some offensive capability I added a grenade
launcher to the roof.
I am please with how it turned out, I think i'll paint up a
couple more of these for some light vehicle support.
Editor's Note - Let me say thank you to Mark for allowing us to pick at his blog for interesting posts that we feel will demonstrate the joys of the 15mm sci-fi hobby. Mark is not the only one to offer up his blog feeds, so you should be seeing interesting material from around the blogaverse coming to roost here.
-Eli
Sweet conversion! I like this ride alot.
ReplyDeleteThat's sharp! I'll have to see if I can pick some of those HWs at work. Those would fit in nicely with the army I beginning to put together.
ReplyDeleteNice find!
ReplyDeleteMatchbox have an off road and snow rescue series that have some excellent vehicles.
ReplyDeleteI picked this up for my Kra'Vak. Great vehicle.
ReplyDeleteI've got quite a few Matchbox conversions (usually just a repaint!). This one is another great candidate...
ReplyDeleteI was just shopping for Hot Wheels the other day for Xmas, and thought they had a bunch of stuff that could be converted for 15mm use. The major obstacle is their robust metal construction, but a simple repaint and bitz addition like this works quite well.
ReplyDeleteVery cool.
ReplyDeleteHuzzah! Got one this evening. No idea who I'm using it for but I now have one!
ReplyDeleteGood on ya Eli!
ReplyDeleteIt is cool, but totally not mine.
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