Temu Warhammer 40K Similar Tank & Conversion to 1/32 Tankette

 I have a liking for Warhammer 40K tanks. The mix of WW1 and WW2 styles is interesting.

The tank I bought from Temu is very similar to a 40K tank but a lot cheaper; this one was around $20 Australian.

  However, I haven't played a lot of 40K for a decade or so. I do play fantasy and SF games of my own devising and with 54mm humanoids rather than 28mm or 30mm.

  This tank has one side spontoon, a cannon and a smaller firearm at the front hull. The whole thing clipped together without glue but with insertable claw joiners. I had a number left over so I could use them as claws for robots or armored suits.

  As the parts did not require gluing and as the turret pops right off I decided to make an alternative turret. I used a cut down paint brush package tube and some metal buttons. Two of the buttons have lions embossed and the other had an abstract design. The tube itself has some interesting, embossed shapes similar to lettering. I'll add some kind of handle to the button hatch.

  Yes, the turret is oversized, but I wanted to be convinced it could serve for a larger scale. The overall tank size then becomes much smaller, making this a tankette. The cannon was made from a card tube and a cut down piece of marker pen.

                                                 I like the church window-style ventilators.

    The lions give this a kind of Warhammer steampunk fantasy look, although this is not a steam tank. I have a number of these lion buttons and will also use them on my steam tanks.

For paint style, I'll probably go with a garish camouflage style, like some of the WW1 use of bright colors. I might add rivets to the spare turret.

 My intention is to have the tank available for my smaller scale orks or for my larger scale imagi-nations. 

  I actually like fictitious tanks more than historical ones.

NEXT POSTS

  I'll be making a post, in the near future with the painted tank. The other post, coming up, will show my progress on my Napoleon of Nottinghill figure conversions and paintjobs.