Achilles as Taurox Prime

[Commander_Moustache]

So I've been thinking, a lot. With the new Scion rules on the horizon I have been thinking of adding to my force, focused around airborne troops and vehicles. Now thing is the only ground vehicle available to scions is the Taurox prime and to me, its a little big to be air transportable.

 

But I also love the Achillies Ridgerunner vehicle, and its compact to boot. So I have been looking over the model and umm-ing and ahh-ing and thought, why not you guys help me.

 

The base of the Achillies and a Taurox are about the same size, so no issues there. I would start by removing the rear gun and cover the deck with some plastic to cover the hole. Then move the roll bars up a little, perhaps use some wire to make a full roll cage. Then its just a case of using some sprue to make some bench seats and boom. Cramped, but enough space for a small squad, with a little room in the main cab and one more guy out the hatch (put in the gun as a pintle mount).

 

Also this is helped by the scale of vehicles being out of scale in 40k. I mean look at the inside of a rhino, you saying you can get 10 marines in there? You would be lucky to get maybe 6.

[duz_]

Sounds like a great conversion! Can't wait to see some pics :tu:

[RandyB]

Excellent idea. Proceed with vigor!

[Master Antaeus]

I have both. The Achilles is much smaller than the Taurox prime.

[Commander_Moustache]

Base is more or less the same though (little bit shorter, a lot wider)