Blockade Buster Conversion
1 Blockade Buster
1 piece heavy plasticard
1 stir stick
2 part putty
Small washers
Misc other bits
Super glue
1 X-acto knife
1 drill
Matchbox toys are quite often pretty close in scale to 15mm and they make some cool models at this size if you can find them. I am a fan of their Stryker model for instance, but can't find more than the one I bought originally. They do however have a very inexpensive and simple IFV/AA type vehicle. The Blockade Buster. It runs at about the $1 mark depending where you are. I get mine for $1.34 CAD from Walmart.
The parts of the blockade buster. |
This leaves us with the tanks components. You will notice that the upper metal body does not include the back. The metal body is open at the back. It will need to be sealed to make a new vehicle.
Back of the lower body has the entire back of the vehicle |
We can either take what we need from the plastic body or make something new. I opted to remove from the plastic body and glue into place.
Back panel cut free to close the back of the metal tank body |
And glued into the main tank body |
Here you can see the wood added to the back of the tank to even up the edges (and back) |
Bottom view with axle mounts, wooden body and rivets |
Once I had this completed I took a heavy piece of plasticard and drilled holes to make slots that I could pass the wheel mounts through. I then used a 2 part putty to add a grave plate mounting bracket. Basically a long rectangle with a 45 degree cut. along it's length.
Once at this stage I also used putty to try and seal the major gaps. Once it cured I went in with sand paper to try and smooth out and reshape some areas.
The grav rails are some more heavy plasticard glued to the underside mounting plates. Once they were glued in place I added some small washers for detail and gave everything a quick prime to see how it looked.
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