1:18 Items (real or not) ?

grunt1 · Post by **grunt1** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 11:14 pm

No idea if these are new finds. I'm sure some are older re-releases.

Main goal in posting this to find out if these are real or useful in anyway for conversions, kitbashes, etc..?

Tank appears to be useless, but the chopper looks like an underscale comanche?

The AAVP is way too small, might be a good hull for a Russian BMP-1/2 or a BMD-1?

The fuel truck looks interesting?

Land rover and possible custom fodder trailer?

No idea...

Forklift?

No idea...

Russian BTR or BRDM fodder?

VMF115 · Post by **VMF115** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 11:24 pm

looks like it would be to much work to get them to look like something real or close enough.... you could buy it for parts like wheels and tracks for something else

immeww2 · Post by **immeww2** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 11:55 pm

Id use them to replace the XD items that anyone may want to play with.

grunt1 · Post by **grunt1** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 12:30 am

The "fuel truck" above looks like an Mk-48.

normandy · Post by **normandy** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 6:16 am

The sentry outposts look good if you need oil drums or sandbags.
Grunt were these at TRU or Walmart and how much?

ostketten · Post by **ostketten** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 6:36 am

The "fuel truck" above looks like an Mk-48

Yeah, sorta kinda. The boat looks sorta kinda like a Zodiac too. A couple of those pieces had items in the box like fuel drums, barbed wire, sandbags, and other stuff that might be useful for XD dio's and such, provided that the vehicle or whatever that those accessories come with is not too expensive to begin with.

Post by **aferguson** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 6:40 am

they all kinda look like something real but for the most part are way underscale, more like 1/32 in most cases. The 4 wheeled armoured car looks to be about the most useful and to scale piece of the lot.

grunt1 · Post by **grunt1** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 7:26 am

normandy wrote:The sentry outposts look good if you need oil drums or sandbags.
Grunt were these at TRU or Walmart and how much?

The vast majority were at TRU. I think the armored cars in the blue box were at Target in the genero-toy section.

Prices were from $9.99 to $19.99 or so..

alf · Post by **alf** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 1:32 pm

> The fuel truck looks interesting?

Yeah it looks interesting but It is too short and it needs new tire and wheels + additionnal, glasses, paint, and works to look like this Mk-48:

I bought it 2 months ago at TrU, and done nothing on it yet.

normandy · Post by **normandy** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:37 am

I saw the two sentry outposts at TRU on Sat. and didn't pick them up. The sandbags and oil drums were all I wanted, but when I took a look

they were half cast... only one side is detailed and it's made out of some cheap thin plastic. The rest of the set didn't look bad.

grunt1 · Post by **grunt1** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:38 am

Alf, that's a big help. Almost looks like you could combine two and make an (almost) large enough one. Similar to the Chap Mei Chinook project.

jeffrowse · Post by **jeffrowse** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 5:01 am

The Land Rover is a little small even for the short wheelbase version, but it looks pretty cool and accurate (especially as it is a "toy" and not a model!) "in the flesh".

The two in the bottom pic (the "recoil weapons set") look like a Brazilian APC I cannot remember the name of (the 6-wheeler) and the Cadillac-Gage V150 Commando, although with a very oversized turret (the 4-wheeler).
The V150 lookalike is a little undersized but not too far off. I've got one stuck in a box somewhere, awaiting "surgery"...

A few years ago (3 or 4, I think) Chap Mei (the Chinese toy company) did a range of "Good Guys Vs Bad Guys" that had a 6-wheel APC with "electronic sounds" (I think it was a police siren) that looked a lot like the 6-wheel version of the Renault VAB.
I got as far as removing the wheels, stickers, "gun" and electronics box and then spraying it with white car undercoat before moving house and "misplacing" it somewhere in the boxes still packed in the garage - really must dig it out and do some proper work on this, too... (the two are probably together!)

Jeff.

Post by **aferguson** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 5:17 am

Lanard's Corps! line has a six wheeled armoured car in it that resembles a Chinese Army vehicle. It's also quite a bit bigger than the chap mei one, pictured above....very close to scale.