advice sought for FJ

[former user]

never thought I might open a topic here
so
anyone any advice on miniatures ranges that connect german paras and WWWII
APART from Artizan Nachjaeger and Pulp Figures Zeppelin troopers???
I do not mean historical paras

Thanks in advance

[commissarmoody]

If any one makes FJ heads, you could pick up some of the westwend SOTR and pop the heads on them.

[former user]

thx

conversions are of course always an option, but I was looking for something different

[Westfalia Chris]

West Wind do "Power-Armoured Paratroopers". Rather nice and big figures, I've got two five-strong squads of them and a Jet Mecha. I've also combined the West Wind Separate Head System Fallschirmjäger Heads with a command set of their Mech Grenadiers. Does work, but more specifically "Fallschirmjäger" clothing would be better.

[former user]

thx
Your figures look very good

power armoured paras - well, that is consequent
they certainly have the retro look

will have to think about it

[white knight]

Actually, to get back to the earlier suggestion about swapping heads on SOTR figures... The SOTR range already comes with separate heads, and they sell packs of separate FJ heads, so it's not a conversion that requires cutting off heads. What's more, the SOTR mechgrenadier uniform looks a lot like a WWW2 version of the Luftwaffe Field division (it's the smocks), so it would work well.

[Agis]

What about this one?

AT-43 UNA Wing Trooper with West Wind Para head!

The look of the UNA troops has IMO a heavy similarity to the German WW II troops of Paolo Parente's DUST game. Not a real surprise, since Paolo was involved in AT-43!
Since the helmet and smock design of the Steel Trooper is nearly identical to German Fallschirmspringer units (Paras) I decided to paint them in historic German colours: German Field Grey and Luftwaffe blue.

The Wing Trooper is even more WW II “enhanced”. I used a West Wind Fallschirmjäger helmet and painted the smock in Splintercamo, works for me...

[former user]

What about this one?
AT-43 UNA Wing Trooper with West Wind Para head!

The look of the UNA troops has IMO a heavy similarity to the German WW II troops of Paolo Parente's DUST game. Not a real surprise, since Paolo was involved in AT-43!
Since the helmet and smock design of the Steel Trooper is nearly identical to German Fallschirmspringer units (Paras) I decided to paint them in historic German colours: German Field Grey and Luftwaffe blue.
The Wing Trooper is even more WW II “enhanced”. I used a West Wind Fallschirmjäger helmet and painted the smock in Splintercamo, works for me...

these look definitely interesting, THX
the miniatures are more on the largish side, right?

[Backyardpatrol]

These are a stretch:
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat1150120&prodId=prod1140104

[former user]

well.....
I obviously forgot to write - no GW
although they are nice, but my good pal already has an army of 200+ of these, so no need for me to have any as well

[Agis]

these look definitely interesting, THX
the miniatures are more on the largish side, right?

Absolutely! An UNA trooper is bigger than a GW SM!
See my website for a scale comparison shot:
http://www.adpublishing.de/html/at-43.html

or

[former user]

thx

dammit - I#ll have to compare with the others first

or they'll be clonetroopers 

[Tas]

Agis -what are the German armoured suits (which look great BTW) you have here?
http://www.adpublishing.de/html/ww2.html

I think they make fantastic drop troopers!

[Agis]

Agis -what are the German armoured suits (which look great BTW) you have here?
http://www.adpublishing.de/html/ww2.html

I think they make fantastic drop troopers!

Project X Powersoldats...

[pixelgeek]

Project X Powersoldats...

Excellent minis and a dream to paint. They also have US and British Powered Armoured as well.