What to do with tons of 1/350 scale armor accessories? Ideas?

[seadude]

I've got tons of 1/350 scale US Marines Armor Accessories. And I'm not sure what to do with it all. I have no future plans to build any amphibious assault ships that might need tanks, trucks, aircraft, etc.
And I have no plans to build any sort of "battlefield diorama" either.
Anybody got any ideas on what I can do with all this 1/350 scale stuff?
I thought I was going to use it all long, long ago when I was building my USS Wasp amphibious assault ship. But when I converted that assault ship into a what if hospital ship instead, I didn't need all the aircraft, tanks, trucks, armored personnel carriers, and other Marine equipment.

[Rick Lowe]

Fleabay, or your local model club.
Might as well get some money/a trade, and someone will want them. 

[frank2056]

You could use some of the tracked vehicles to build something like a Landkreuzer P.1000 Ratte, or something like the NASA crawler. Or even a variation of this:

[Old Wombat]

Well, I'd be interested but I'm on the far side of the Pacific. 

[seadude]

Fleabay, or your local model club.
Might as well get some money/a trade, and someone will want them. 

Yeah, I'm going to take some to my local model club meeting in a week's time and see if anybody is interested. But I highly doubt it. Most of the club members build WWII aircraft and armor. Hardly nobody builds 1/350 scale stuff except me.

You could use some of the tracked vehicles to build something like a Landkreuzer P.1000 Ratte, or something like the NASA crawler. Or even a variation of this:

I don't think that's going to work. Do you even know how small 1/350 scale is? A M1 Abrams tank at 1/350 scale is approximately 1 to 1 1/4" inches long.

[kerick]

Tank turrets mounted on a small hull for a quick and dirty monitor. Kind of like the brown water navy in Vietnam.
Other than that I wish I could help ya.
As others have said, advertise on the 'net and see what happens.

[Steel Penguin]

they are a little small for most ultra modern wargames  they scale at 1:285 - 1:300  but youve the bases for a good MEF force for command decision,  or a low ish tec force for  Dirtside or  Striker .

0r a table full with a couple of 1 20th or 1 10th scale figures as a tongue in cheek diorama 

[Weaver]

Get a load of 1/35th figures and do a diorama of a model show. There's enough civilian figures on the market now to populate it with old men as the exhibitors and visitors, and as for the judges, well there's always WWII German Army officers...

[seadude]

Get a load of 1/35th figures and do a diorama of a model show. There's enough civilian figures on the market now to populate it with old men as the exhibitors and visitors, and as for the judges, well there's always WWII German Army officers...

You mean something like this?   

[Weaver]

Get a load of 1/35th figures and do a diorama of a model show. There's enough civilian figures on the market now to populate it with old men as the exhibitors and visitors, and as for the judges, well there's always WWII German Army officers...

You mean something like this?   

Exactly what I was thinking of.    

[seadude]

An idea may have come to me.   Though I'm not exactly keen on it.

I've got an old STAR WARS diorama scene model kit at home. Though the Rebel hangar base has extra parts included from a second salvaged kit. So in a way, I almost have "two" Rebal hangar base diorama kits.
My thought was maybe to turn the Rebel hangar base diorama into a what if underground U.S. military bunker storage complex housing vehicles, weapons, ammunition, aircraft, etc.
It's not that far fetched. Here's a sample video of one:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_hlqVGj2VU
If I wanted to make the base bigger, I actually have two of the vacuformed hangar bases. The downside of the bases is that the "ground" is not flat like a concrete floor.
Anyway, this is the only idea I could come up with for the large amounts of extra 1/350 scale vehicles and aircraft, etc. that I have.
Thoughts and opinions anyone?
 

[Rick Lowe]

Interesting idea.

Having had a few similar thoughts on using up stuff I'm not going to otherwise, or that I'm not particularly interested in, my thought is to be sure you want to expend that amount of time/effort/glue and paint on something that's just being done for the sake of otherwise unuseable parts.

Just my .02

[seadude]

Interesting idea.

..........my thought is to be sure you want to expend that amount of time/effort/glue and paint on something that's just being done for the sake of otherwise unuseable parts.

Just my .02

Exactly. It's an idea I had. But whether it actually becomes reality, I don't know.