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LemonJello:
This is the place to share photos/ideas to inspire and ignite our imaginations for the Swords to Plowshares Group Build.

Buzzbomb:
This very topic came up in the New Release Thread for Miniart

Stricklands Ag group Post WW2 Bren carrier to Agricultural Tractor
Armour off, move driver position, rolling hitch and you have a sort of tractor

My humble attempt

I have come across a number of Stuart and Grant conversions as well as these vehicles were a lot more common post war.

PFJN:
Hi,
I guess a couple other examples might be Aristotle Onassis' yacht "Christina O" which started life as a River class frigate, and Jacques Cousteau's ship "Calypso" which started out as a BYMS minesweeper.



Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_O



Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RV_Calypso

Kerick:
Just a random thought. How about a Stryker type vehicle converted to some rich guy’s off road land yacht? Then there are the MRAPs converted to police use. Some guy converted a surplus tank transporter into his personal off road mobile home.
I built a hospital ship model from a WW2 1/1200 scale aircraft carrier. Yorktown I think. Lots of helicopter flight deck space in front of the superstructure.

upnorth:
Here's some land vehicle inspiration in the form of the SPOT 50 firefighting tank. It'sa Czech creation based on the T-50 tank:

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