Re: Roco minitanks

On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 15:30:30 -0700 (PDT), Johan "Böjeryd"
<mcboey@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>Have anyone tried using Roco Minitanks with Jon's
>25's? 

They are too small for his 25s. However, I have a whole bunch of them
that I'm
using with his 15mm figures!

>What I'm curious about is weather or not the tanks may
>be useful? I'm thinking something like light recce
>vehicles or so, they're way smaller then even the
>smallest GZG tank destroyer I have...

I have a bunch of modern Marders that I'm fixing up for use as APCs. One
side
of my 15mm forces will use them pretty much as is. The other side is
where the
"fixing" is taking place, as I'm going to convert them to GEV/anti-grav.

An easy, fast conversion was to take the turret of an American Sheridan
and
pop it onto the top of a Marder 1A3. You get yourself a small scout
tank, with
a snub nosed gun that could be anything from a GMS/H to a DFFG.

>If you've used them, what vehicles did you use? And
>any pictures? Please please please? :)

So far I've used Marder 1A2 driver variants for GEV/anti-grav command
APCs, a
Roland for a GEV/anti-grav missile vehicle, and Marder 1A3s for APCs. I
will
use Marder 1A3 driver variants for command APCs as well. I modified
Sheridans
as GEV/anti-grav tanks but didn't like the look, hence the conversion of
popping a turret on a Marder, which works well. I bought several of the
Leopard II variants (I forget the designation; the most recent with the
cool
turrets) to convert into GEV/anti-grav tanks, but this will take a back
seat
as I found my three old Traveller 15mm grav tanks, and I'll just repaint
those
first. The other Roco vehicles I bought were a German missile APC which
will
probably get converted into GEV/anti-grav, plus three of the small
weasels
(two gun, one TOW). These are tiny vehicles and can be converted into
drones,
or just left alone as small support vehicles.

I also have a number of Roco WW2 tanks which will eventually see service
with
my 15mm WW2 figures. Roco is somewhere between 15mm and 20mm in scale,
and the
15s look about the best with them. 

Allan Goodall		       agoodall@hyperbear.com
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