Vlog: Vote for the Train Project
October 6, 2016 by warzan
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A Adeptus Mechanicus train from a titan forge world would be awesome i think!
Exactly what I was thinking before I read the comments. Some kind of forge transport train moving tanks or armaments from the forge to the big off-planet shipping yards.
Big flatbeds for tanks and an armoured caboose for holding a detachment of skitarii with a tank / anti-aircraft turret on the roof. Armament would be more to keep bandits away than actual armies.
For the dump trucks, there’s no better inspiration than the old Necron Excavation site from White Dwarf 220 (in old, old money).
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0xjQqvnnN6s/U5fJNoOebwI/AAAAAAAAFwo/Yzml_gQRbWM/s1600/IMG_5786.JPG
Sorry, can’t find any better pics at the moment.
I third that opinion. 😀
You could surround part of the track with construction machinery and cranes to create the tunnels Lloyd was talking about.
And because it’s an industrial track I think the limited curvature of the track is also less of a problem. This could just be a short span of track to get very heavy materials transported a fairly short distance.
You might even transport parts of a Titan, to be fully assembled at its destination point.
This ^
With an engineseer driver called Thomassium T’Tankium. 😀
I think you should go for the desert theme for the trains you can carry on your imperial guard colour scheme. The train could be either a supply train with ammo and tanks or a prison train carrying the deadliest criminals from the galaxy. You could have a train robbery game with orks trying to loot tanks and un-hitching the train or trying to free a captured warboss. You could also buy one more set as well as getting more track you then could have a smaller ork looted train that is chasing behind with rockets and big shooters. The… Read more »
I like the idea of an imperial armoured train.
removed the drive and made it go limp ?
You gone and neutered that poor train …
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Orkses is what I was thinking of first.
Konflikt 47 or Dust could be a good match too.
Maybe a Russian/Soviet armoured train ? The ‘standard’ look combined with the sci fi bits would make it relatively simple compared to going full 40k Imperial / Ork.
Armour it up a little and then use it for Wild West Exodus or Wolsung. Or save it for a 3D version of Rail Raider when it comes out.
i like the idea for the orcisch train 🙂
and if you want more trackpieces, you can easy replicate them with a lasercutter.
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IF it works at 15mm I think a modern day Ardennes style battle using Team Yankee would be really cool. You get to make your train tunnels, but also get planes and helos flying over. If not Ardennes could go for Munich-ish as there’s hills and mountains in SE Germany. The train becomes a Russian convoy with tanks and troops aboard and air support and the western troops have to get the main forces to back up a smaller border force at a station before the reds can demount the train or get reenforced through hill roads.
I think also like Blaeyn that Wild West Exodus will be the awesome setting for using this trainset
An imperial armoured train sounds good. Then you can attack the train with orks.
Armoured train with turrets!
With that intro, it should have been “For the love of bog!”
Warlord is making armoured trains for Bolt Action, right? So make your own armored train for Bolt Action! Slap some cladding and tank turrets on, and you’ve got a stew going. Since you have two engines, take off the current bodies (but keep the chassis) and make two versions, one for Bolt Action and one for 40K. For the 40K one, start by taking an old tank o two, hollow it out and remove the treads and attach it to the motorized chassis. There is nothing stopping you from having an engine with a turret, either.
http://www.warlordgames.com/new-bolt-action-armoured-trains/
For the 40K-ish engine…
http://www.warlordgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/armored-train-unit2.jpg
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So I was thinking that you could use the train as a logging train. There are a number of youtube videos’s of them. You could set it up as a logging camp and loading the logs for the trip to the sawmill (maybe on another board?). You could also get fancy and create a log boom in a “near by” lake (this could be for the fresh water terrain). The main thing you’d have to create for this is a lot of logs. This wouldn’t be a 40K idea but could be used for a lot of other games like… Read more »
@warzan talk nicely to @tonka73 and he might 3D print you some track! Ben has the same set so we can get dimensions 😉
why you not reverse polarity in second train to make it go backward? 😀
do it Imperial guard!
I once thought about getting an ‘N’ scale train and doing it up like it was in Mad Max. You don’t get post-apoc train sets in your local hobby store, and I think that’s wrong.
@warzan – I see what you did there with the second engine but I didn’t know reversing the polarity also made you lose drive and stiffness….
My vote is for desert Imperial train.
Couldn’t the diggers/ trucks be made into Genestealer Cult vehicles?
Definitely a Genestealer Cult train..style wise it fits perfectly in with the new Goliath vehicles 😉
Train! Terrain! TerTrain!
Make a tunnel in the FOAM hill in your conversion table, Keep the foam in 1 piece that forms the mouth of the tunnel and you can use it as a Plug to make the tunnel disappear!
I vote Konflict ’47 train. Get some blue glowy effects coming from the engines.
Imperial Guard armour train.
OK you need to weird world war 2 the heck out of that train that’s the only way to go.
I’m so mad at you guys for putting this idea in my head! Hahahah
why not use it for the walking dead? Zombie Murder Train scenario!!!
How about instead of a desert themed train, go with a winter themed armored train and board. Switch buildings for either 40k or Bolt Action.
Maybe build a tunnel on one side and hide a small Christmas tree stand inside for the holidays?
@warzan , With 2 engines, imperial train and an orkified engine. The flat beds could have holes cut in them or brackets glued on and make posted interchangable walls. A set of aegis type walls for the imperial, and coriggated glyphed walls for orks. Only the engines would be set in style and the rest could be changed out as needed, possibly do the same for the cabooses.
I like this idea. Do it as an Imperial train and have orky bits and panels that attach via magnet or clip or just slot over the cars. This way you can use it for either or both. You could even set up a table with two smaller trains, one Imperial and one ork, as if they collided and a battle breaks out between the two crashed trains.
full on Ork looted train!!!!!!!!