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Miniatures Adventure => Weird Wars => Topic started by: Thunderchicken on September 23, 2010, 08:25:24 AM
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I recently purchased some British Special Units from Scarab's Project X range for a Quatermass project I'm cooking up. I want to use them alongside other Brits in berets (I'm thinking WWII airbourne) to create something like a 1950's UNIT.
Anyway, can anyone suggest a compatible manufacturer? Renegade maybe? I've already got some Foundry paras and there's no way they will work together.
Ta.
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Aren't Scarab 1/48? If so what about some Tamiya 1/48s?
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Aren't Scarab 1/48?
Yep, read that bit after I ordered them ::).
All of the other figures in my project are 28mm so I'm trying to figure out a way of blending in the Scarab figures I purchased. I've specifiaclly bought two Magnetron Gunners and I was thinking that if I could find some heroic scale 28mm Brit WWII airborne types I might just pull it off! If they were in a unit on their own I wouldn't have a problem but I want to mix them in with support troops.
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I think North Star have 1:48 WW2 too.
**No they don't any more.
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The Scarab ones are the North Star ones, Pentaro. They have acquired the ranges, both the vanilla WW2 and the Projekt X range.
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I was going to suggest Victory Force, as I think they are 1/48, but they don't seem to do any Brits in their WW2 range (just US, Russian, German and a handful of Resistance types).
Edit: My mistake, they do:
http://www.victoryforce.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=VFM&Category_Code=Britshinfantrypacks
Just no paras...
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There's also Darkson Designs, but as they haven't made any Brits yet then it's a bit of a moot point.
Duncan
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The Scarab ones are the North Star ones
Yeah, I should have checked first :D Monolith has commandos in berets advertised as "1:48 36mm-40mm", but I have never seen them in the flesh so I don't know it they're 1:48, 36 or 40mm :)
http://www.monolithdesigns.co.uk/gotter.htm
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Scarab's PX and WWII figs are 1:48 scale, approx 35-36mm. Monolith's figs are 40mm and extremely bulky. Tamiya's 1:48 are smaller and very thin, almost more compatible with 28mm than 1:48.
Here's a photo comparison of 1:48 figures from Scarab (was North Star),left two; Tumbling Dice, middle two; and Tamiya, right:
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2303/2006753605_487ce93985.jpg)
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It's like playing with AirFix H-O figs again! I thought the companies dedicated to proper scales actually used those scales nowadays, not like everyone who use xxmm...
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Neil, have you looked at Chiltern Miniatures brits done by Jim Bowen I think, they always look big figures when I've seen them at shows, so they might work ok.
http://www.chilternminiatures.co.uk/online_shop/index.php?cPath=183_185&osCsid=d65f55567b82201e74e7d65f52bd65de
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Thanks for your help chaps.
Aircav, I've seen the Chiltern Miniatures range in flesh and you're right they are on the heroic size. Methinks a sample pack will be ordered.
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There's also Darkson Designs, but as they haven't made any Brits yet then it's a bit of a moot point.
Technically, they have the Druid out.
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We have 160 miniatures in the WW2 range, plus the Allies have recieved some reinforcements within the Projekt X range as well. Theres a new para in a beret with silenced sten.
http://scarabminiatures.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=34_46&sort=20a&page=2
We have a commando pack in berets http://scarabminiatures.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=34_59&products_id=173 and by coincidence a 1/48th scale modeller has requested we do the heads separately so he can convert more of the range so we may well get round to that eventually/sooner time permitting.
And trundling along in the background is the Projekt X book itself, which no doubt would work nicely with Quartermass.
You can have a bit of fun with 1/48th gaming, it makes a good game on a small table and you can see some pics of mine here http://scarabminiatures.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=27
I fully accept I have a bias though :D as I enjoy painting the models! I have just finished painting the first 8 SS in Autumn camo for the next outing of the game at SELWG on the 17th, hopefully I can get another 12 done in time.
Returning to topic Aircavs suggestion of Chiltern is not a bad alternative and the Renegade fellows are certainly big as well as I recall but I don't have any to compare.
Hope some of that helps
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Verlinden Productions do some 1/48 WW2 figures in resin.
http://www.verlindenonline.com/store/1-48-kits-dio-bases-acc_1-48-figures-crews.html (http://www.verlindenonline.com/store/1-48-kits-dio-bases-acc_1-48-figures-crews.html)
http://www.verlindenonline.com/store/index.php?cPath=70_165&&page=3 (http://www.verlindenonline.com/store/index.php?cPath=70_165&&page=3)
Corgi has some prepainted metal ones to go with thier 1/50 scale WWII diecast vehicles.
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...and the Renegade fellows are certainly big as well as I recall but I don't have any to compare.
Renegade figures are bulky, but not noticeably taller than other 28s. So I'm not sure how well they would stack up against 1/48th scale figures.
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Just as a postscript to this, the Chiltern figures arrived today and they are very compatible with the Scarab miniatures.