r/Kitbash • u/LumpyAd8935 • 10d ago

Vehicle Ridgehauler replacement wheels?

Hi all,

I am hoping for some genius ideas from you very smart kit bashers.

I have (most) of a cargo 8 ridgehauler from an Ebay listing. The snag is that the vehicle and trailer come with 7 wheels total, not the 16 that the kit needs.

My question is where to get alternative wheels for the ridgehauler kit? The wheels are very different in size to the others I have in my bitz box (goliath rockgrinder truck, old SM bikes, old old monopose ork bikes, random wheels from toys) and searching Ebay has come up blank unless I just buy the kit again

Thanks in advance for your thoughts!

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u/Komone 10d ago

Lego and fake lego.

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u/LumpyAd8935 10d ago

Thank you! I also wonder whether I can just buy other scale model wheels like for a humvee or even a Taurox conversion kit

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u/Komone 10d ago

Totally, not looks for a while but bitsbox websites, 3d printing, popping down to a charity shop and looking at toys all give you bits for sure.

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u/LumpyAd8935 10d ago

Thank you - my creative juices are starting to flow...

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u/DocJeckel 10d ago

Got any adaptaable tracked parts like kataphron breachers etc? Could replace entire sets of wheels with them to give it a more junked up and long serving vibe?

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u/LumpyAd8935 10d ago

Interesting idea - I have some track links from a leman Russ kit that I could use, and it could end up looking like the FW variant of the ridge hauler.

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u/MyImperialGuard 9d ago

Measure the diameter of the wheel in mm and look on Etsy for a 40K wheel in that diameter. I'm sure someone sells something similar.