Captain MAGpie's Conversion Corner: RhinoLorean

Captain MAGpie's 80's 40K!
RhinoLorean "OUTATIME"
A Delorean Conversion... into a Games Workshop Rhino.

Marching forward with the Throwback Rhino's, Back to the Future was a natural, and almost inevitable next. Apart from being one of the greatest trilogies ever filmed, this timeless (yes, I said that) masterpiece is one suitable for even millennials... ok, maybe not all of them. However, point still stands that these films were epic, and my personal homage to them may be small, but it's with all the love and fondness I have for the films.

"Wait a minute, Doc, you want to tell me you build a Rhino out of a DeLorean?"
"The way I see it, if you are going to build a Rhino, why not do it with some style?"

So again, not technically a tutorial. I will show how I got where we are, but this was just a project for the fun of it.

The basic idea for this conversion, and the future ones I have planned, was to convert the humble Rhino into something that would be instantly recognised for a representation of an 80's movie vehicle, and apart from a police call box, which other time machine is more recognisable than the Back to the Future DeLorean? Really, there just isn't one.

The build

This was a very simple "basic structure" build. It really was just basic shapes glued together and scrubbed. The hardest part was the cables and all the weird goodies that are stuck all over the thing. Even the Mr. Fusion was simple compared to that.

So in 3 easy steps:

Step 1 - Get Rhino

Step 2 - Build box into roof

Step 3 - assemble it and build a nose onto it

Ok, it wasn't "THAT" simple, but it was not hard either. It literally was just basic shapes. Squares pretty much all around and then just skribed.

The headlights was just thin strips, and the bumper 3mm strip glued around and then filed round. The grip again a 3mm strip, cut at an angle, then scribed to look like a grill.

The final touches

The vents on the back was again, just basic shapes.

6 of these. 3 for each vent.
And strips of appropriate length.

And of course, wipers...

The wiring

The wiring comprised of various diameter styrene rods, rolled together, then glued, then just bent over heat. This was time consuming, but not difficult.

Mr. Fusion was a Styrene tube that had a hole horizontally filed into it from one side, then a rod glued into the tube to fill it. Lines scribed and supports cut from small pieces of styrene strips.