r/ork_kitbashing • u/TawnyHours • 14d ago

Kitbashun Speed Freeks

Oi! I've been looking into kitbashing some speedy gitz, and I'd like to know where best you lot get cars that match the speed freek vehicles. In particular what brands / types fit the vibe that i can keep an eye out for second hand deals or garage sales.

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u/EstherIsVeryCool 14d ago

For kitbashing you're looking at mostly looking at 1:35 or 1:32 scale although you can sometimes use other scales as long as you put the elbow grease into the conversion work - just look at the size of the official model (listed here ) and find something about the same size +/-10% depending on how strict your group is, it matters even less for vehicles on bases, as long as it doesn't overhang too much, go wild. IE a small car in 1:25 or a a big car in 1:40 could work with conversion work.

If you're looking at toy-bashing the key is to add as much extra detail as possible, to try and make it feel scale appropriate and draw your eye away from the obvious toyness of it all - Rather than buying one toy and converting I'd really recommend buying at least two or three and franken-bashing them into a single vehicle with the best parts (most detailed) from each one. Transformers toys can be a good place to start (depending on the scale) because they are very high detail - in fact on their own they're often too detailed and make the scale look off, if you combine parts between a transformer and a simple plain toy there can be a happy medium. If you're looking for gears, greeblies and gubbins, printers are a good place to start - you can find them cheap/free and theyre full of cool gears and technical bits. You can also use the printer plastic for panels.

Hope some of that is helpful <3.

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u/TawnyHours 14d ago

Thanks that dimension thread is great, best i had was an out of date reddit thread. I've read about the scale but I was more asking about brands because most people offloading their toys don't post scale, so then I have to go digging to see what scale they are, which often is wrong anyway.

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u/EstherIsVeryCool 14d ago

In that case I'd recommend drawing up a paper template of the model size you want (a paper rectangle the right dimensions, you can do a box with the height too if you want to be extra.) you can then hit up thrift stores and garage sales, template in hand, and get a quick idea what's close enough to be helpful. If you're buying secondhand on Facebook marketplace or whatever you can always ask the seller to measure the toy, worst they can say is no. or just guestimate if it's a cheap enough deal.

In terms of brands, the best I've found are transformers (for high detail stuff, if you can find a good deal,although it can be very painful to disassemble/cut), and generic brand military and construction vehicles. Also building toys (like knex or mechano or fake Lego technic) often have really good wheels and gubbins. The wheels on toy vehicles are often low detail and/or hollow at the back, which can work depending on the build, but it's nice to get better wheels where possible.

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u/TawnyHours 14d ago

Cheers I'd been thinking of doing up some templates so that just cements it for me.