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Miniatures Adventure => Age of the Big Battalions => Topic started by: FinnN on November 05, 2019, 10:22:23 PM
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I clearly don’t have enough unfinished projects so I’ve branched out into 1/700 Napoleonic age of sail courtesy of Black Seas.
Inspired by someone else’s use of Eduard 1/700 figures I’ve also decided to avoid that Marie Celeste look by adding a crew. Unfortunately the Eduard figures are a bit too slight, so I’m looking for other options. Immediately to mind came the 3mm figures from Osmy Oddzial (Magister Militum) - so I bought a couple of packs. Now these are almost perfect- but are slightly too big (they’re quoted as 1/600 and are about 4.5mm tall).
Any ideas for alternatives? Any period is probably OK, although figures with Bicorns and/or shakos would certainly help!
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Not sure if they will fit your needs, but take a look at Irregular Miniatures 2mm range.
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www.forwardmarchstudios.com (http://www.forwardmarchstudios.com)
I’m partial to these, but I may be biased!
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Great suggestions! But unfortunately I’m ahead of you on those. I have some pike and shot era irregular figures and they’re either in blocks or too blobby (e.g. the artillery). Some of the cavalry are a bit more sculpted but that not useful for this. I think they’re also a bit too small.
I’ve also got some forward March stl files - and very nice they are too, but for the ships I think they’re a bit too peg like (although I may experiment to see if that’s right in practice).
I may try to shave a bit more off and lose part of the feet, but the small size and rock hard metal makes this very difficult.
Cheers
Finn
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I see - sorry, I didn't read your post as closely as I should have. 1/700 is slightly too large for my stuff. 1/700 is right in between 3mm and 2mm! That is really inconvenient. I hope you can find something!
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Not all irregular 2 mm are those annoying blocks - I believe there are some that are skirmishers that might be adaptable. Also, I don't think Irregular's metal is that hard - that is Odzial Ozmy. Can't think of any other possible options. Maybe Peter Pigs 4 mm figures? If none of those, I think you are out of options.
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Peter Pig makes 3mm ACW troops to support their Hammerin' Iron rules (scroll down):
https://www.peterpig.co.uk/acwnaval.html
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I was thinking more in terms of the Peter Pig deck crews for the Peter Pig pirate ships range - but maybe the ACW crews might work.
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Ah cool, I wasn't aware of those Peter Pig crew and skirmisher figures - I'll try a few and see how they scale up.
Cheers!
Finn
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In case this is useful for someone looking at this thread, I came across these (a few different sets available, these are the heavy gunners):
(https://cdn2.bigcommerce.com/n-nr1m3w/hw3k1/products/174/images/629/G712_Med_Hvy_Weapons_Crews_B__82869.1472869225.1280.1280.jpg?c=2)
http://www.3dmodelparts.com/1-700-naval-figures/ (http://www.3dmodelparts.com/1-700-naval-figures/)
It had already occurred to me to either do some 3d models for printing, so maybe if these work out I’ll have a go.
Have fun
Finn