28mm - Resin APC Identified as 'A.T.A.C.' or 'Scarab' by Grenadier/Grendel

Starting with the info I received from Cyborg Trucker (comments on the previous post) the APC has been identified as a model originally made by Grenadier/Fantasy Forge, and re-released by Grendel.

It was originally part of the Grenadier range of science fiction wargame miniatures and vehicles made in white metal and resin. I believe it was part of the Kryomek game. The fantasy side of Grenadier was Fantasy Forge.

It was re-released by Grendel as the "A.T.A.C. APC", with the model/product number F0007. A few modelling and gaming forums have the number as F007, and some call it the Scarab APC, which is a good name for it.


^ F007 Scarab APC - according to Chronofus. Note that the hull is in more pieces than the model I own. It looks like this one has an upper and lower hull, plus a separate 'front bumper'. Possibly the model in this picture was 'reverse engineered' from an older version. This photo also shows the moulded tow rope that I clipped off my model.


^ F0007 ATAC APC according to the Miniatures Atlas. Note the one-piece hull.

28mm - Can anyone identify this Resin APC in 25mm or 28mm Scale?

Rummaging through the bits box, I found this old vehicle. I had to search for a while to locate all the wheels. I bought it some time in the early 1990s as a Cyberpunk or Science Fiction APC for Aliens style troops. (I have a lot of 28mm scale modern era and Cyberpunk miniatures for when I played Cyberpunk and other roleplaying games.)

Does anyone remember the game this comes from? The company made resin scenery and vehicles, as well as white metal figures. The theme was an Aliens type universe with a range of Space Marine style figures (armed with guns and flame throwers, and wearing everything from cotton tshirts to full armour suits). These were pitted against a spiky alien species, a bit like the Aliens from the movies, or the Games Workshop Tyranids, except with a tendency to serpentine tails rather than hind limbs.

The vehicle came as a main hull with seven separate wheels (including the spare) and a turret armed with a minigun. It also had some sort of hull weapon, which I vaguely remember clipping out and replacing with some plastic Games Workshop pieces. I also removed a tow cable that was moulded as part of the hull, probably intending to replace it with another spare part. I had spray painted the pieces and painted some of the details dark blue for some reason. Perhaps it was a colour scheme I was using at the time - blue for parade vehicles, desert cam for operational ones.

I gave it a few quick blasts of Tamiya Desert Tan spray - a bit heavy handed as it turns out, but it could easily be sanded down and another coat sprayed on top. The lines are simple but crisp and there is some nice detailing around the vehicle, including suspension and stowage.

WH40K - Ork Kannon from the Bits Box

Building the Battlewagons and Trukks has left me with some interesting 'bits' to put in the bits box. I put a gun from the Battlewagon on a boarding plank from the Trukk, added some old plastic wheels, and a few 'gubbins to make it go boom'. If I can find enough wheels I will build two more and make another unit of Big Gunz for my Ork Army List (WAAAGH Grabba!)

WH40K - Ork Deff Dread with four CCW

I bought an Ork Dreadnought (or Deff Dread as they are now called) a long time ago - I think when they were about 60 AUD, rather than the current price of 95 AUD! I never built it, and eventually used some of the bits - the buzz saw blade went to one of my Cyborks, the Burna to an ork boy in the Burna Mob, and the top hatch on the side of my Looted Wagon with Boomgun (originally an old Predator Destructor).

I finally built the Deff Dread with four Close Combat Weapons, because if I left the guns on, it could either shoot or fight, but not both. I would rather that the Deff Dread ran up to the enemy and got stuck in!

The plastic arms are from the Battlewagon kits. The big choppa is from an ancient (1990?) Ork walker thing, made by an Australian company called Inquisition, which I don't think exist any more (No relation to the GW game Inquisitor, or the Inquisition in WH40K). They were crude but imaginative models. The black weapon is the chain axe choppa from a Warboss, and the Grot and hatch are from the Trukk and Battlewagon kits. I think the Grot's head is from the plastic Gretchin box.

WH40K - Ork Flakka Trakk - Some paint and some Krew

I undercoated the Flakka Trakk with Citadel Black spray paint, and then went over it in Tamiya FS-33 Dull Red spray paint.


I made the driver pretty much standard, with a Burna Boy head (I like the goggles) and a gunner from the Trukk box. The Grot riggers are made from the Ork Grot Mob plastic set, with bits added to the weapons to make them look like tools. The cables are twist ties from the backs of toys - the sort that keep the toy attached to the cardboard packaging.




I will make a Mekboss for the top turret - probably holding binoculars or pointing and shouting at incoming aircraft. I also have to do a lot of weathering, dirt and stowage (ammo and jerry cans, mostly).