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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: AKULA on September 27, 2008, 03:53:17 PM

Title: Stryker
Post by: AKULA on September 27, 2008, 03:53:17 PM

1/56th from Company B in the US ($55), and available via Special order in the UK via Wargames Command Post (c£30)
(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh72/AKULADEEP/P1020881-1.jpg)(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh72/AKULADEEP/P1020883-1.jpg)

The mini is a Eureka Bundeswehr, which i'm using as part of my US anti-zombie squads.

Title: Re: Stryker
Post by: Bako on September 27, 2008, 06:54:34 PM

Excellent! I'll have to add this to my list :P

Title: Re: Stryker
Post by: Overlord on September 27, 2008, 11:53:51 PM

I've been eyeing this up for a while, to go with my Copplestone Troopers.

Is it a multipart kit? If so, how easily does it go together?

Yours looks great btw.  8)

Title: Re: Stryker
Post by: AKULA on September 28, 2008, 07:24:17 AM

Cheers  :)

Its a big chunk of highly detailed resin, with a few metal add-ons - the guns, stowage, wheels and axle assembly.  IMHO the axle assembly is overly complicated - accurate yes, but overkill for wargaming....then again, i'm a kit-phobe and as a kid used to finish making an airfix spitfire, to find it was covered in glue and finger prints  ;)

Having said that, its definitely worth getting (and one is never enough), and is a joy to paint, with all that surface detail.
 :)

Title: Re: Stryker
Post by: Overlord on September 28, 2008, 09:29:36 AM

Thanks for the info.  :)

Quote from: AKULA on September 28, 2008, 07:24:17 AM

Having said that, its definitely worth getting (and one is never enough), and is a joy to paint, with all that surface detail.
 :)

I was coming to the same conclusion.  ::)

Title: Re: Stryker
Post by: rjandron on October 04, 2008, 04:39:20 PM

Wow! That looks like a great kit -- and a great paint job as well. I'm surprised that I hadn't heard about it until now. I was planning on using 1/72 scale vehicles to go with the 28mm figures--it's nice to know that this gives me another option.

Title: Re: Stryker
Post by: AKULA on October 04, 2008, 06:42:02 PM

Quote from: rjandron on October 04, 2008, 04:39:20 PM

Wow! That looks like a great kit -- and a great paint job as well. I'm surprised that I hadn't heard about it until now. I was planning on using 1/72 scale vehicles to go with the 28mm figures--it's nice to know that this gives me another option.

1/72nd are WAY TOO SMALL for 28mm.

1/56th looks the right scale.

for moderns, you've got Chieftain Models, Sloppy Jaloppy, TAG, Company B, Force of Arms, Hobby Master, all in 1/56th (HM might be 1/50th?).  S&S Models are 1/60th which is pretty damn close.

 ;)

Title: Re: Stryker
Post by: rjandron on October 04, 2008, 10:13:57 PM

Yeah, I would agree that 1/72 is way too small normally. However, the 1/72 prepaints that are out there are typically cheap and overscale anyhow. They don't look too bad on the table.

Also, I have a rule that is strictly enforced around the gaming table--the first person to comment that the figures are not in scale with the vehicles ends up buying beer for everyone else around the table for the rest of the night. Makes for a much more entertaining gaming session.  :D

Title: Re: Stryker
Post by: winterborn on October 05, 2008, 02:51:04 AM

Imprint Miniatures do some good looking 1/50 modern vehicles.

http://www.imprintmodels.co.uk/About.aspx

{Col. Stone corrected me, I must have been thinking Co. B - my bad =)}

Title: Re: Stryker
Post by: Col.Stone on October 05, 2008, 04:08:24 AM

Akula, some of the hobbymaster abrams (and tigers) are 1/56
Winterborn, the imprint stuff is 1/50.