Space Pirates

[puddingwrestler]

I'm starting to build up a Space Pirate attack force in 15mm for use with GruntZ. I've found some nice alien pirates for troops, but there are no vehicles I feel match them.
Therefore, I have taken the logical step of kitbashing my vehicles from Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars. This is the prototype. A mighty force of minis and cars are as we speak in the mail.

[Glenn]

Great improvement on a Citroen DS 21. Glad you didn't 'butcher' a 2CV.....my favourite Citroen!
Glenn

[puddingwrestler]

Now you've got me thinking you fool!
Flying upside-down and backwards, a 2CV would look pretty alien.

[Weaver]

Hmm... got me thinking too (it's contagious!  )

A DS-19, or quite a few other "fastback" style cars would look good going back-to-front as hovercraft:

[arkon]

to peek into your brain would make us mortals go insane! brilliant

[puddingwrestler]

Hmm... got me thinking too (it's contagious!  )

A DS-19, or quite a few other "fastback" style cars would look good going back-to-front as hovercraft:

A few similar things have been done - the main thing to watch for is the backlight of the car (that's the technical word for the rear window) being too small to see out of. In your example, visibility would be pretty poor since the DS backlight is fairly low. Needs to be opened up to avoid the dreaded 'mail box window' look seen on some poorly thought out and almost undrivable custom cars.

As to the ship; I have added landing gear, but I have not gotten that much further. It will become more asymetrical once I have added the sensor/missile pod thing I have in mind... not sure if it's sensors or missiles yet. The weapons fit I designed for the thing has a missile pod, I'm just not sure if this bit will be it or not.

[puddingwrestler]

I can now report the existance of two other vehicles to go with this one (there are three squads, one VTOL each).
And the figures have FINALLY arrived. It took a month for them to get here - i suspect Auspost lost them at some point...