Separate weapons in 28mm

[Steve F]

I was looking for some separately-available weapons for some Cold War era 28mm conversions that I am vaguely planning to undertake on the mythical day I get back to modelling and painting, and I ended up cataloguing what I found.  I thought it might be useful to others, too.  I have only included improvised weapons (hockey sticks etc) when they are sold as part of the same sprue or pack as more formal weapons.  I have included WW2 as well as post-War weapons because so many of them were (and sometimes still are, outside of the armed forces) in use well after the War.

I should add that I am not very knowledgeable about guns, and so have not always been able to identify what is on offer when the manufacturer has not done so.  I would welcome corrections, additional identifications, and information about any additional sources I have missed.  Thanks in advance.

The list:

The Assault Group
Weapons & Equipment
British WWII
Mk 3 rifle bayonet
Mk 1 rifle bayonet
Bren Gun
No 1 Mk 3 rifle
No 4 Mk 1 rifle
Sten gun
Vickers HMG
British Modern
SA80 with L85 Grenade Launcher
L96A1
Knee mortar
81mm Mortar
GPMG
LAW80
SA80a
LSW
Commonwealth Vietnam
Owen machine carbine
SLR
Sterling SMG
German WWII
MG34 machine gun
Walther P38
Stick-bomb
Panzershrek
Panzerfaust
Panzerknackers
MG42
Kar 98
MP 40
MP 44
Japanese WWII
M99 LMG
Grenade
Lunge mine
50mm knee mortar
81mm mortar
Flamethrower
“Pistol”
Type 92 MG
Type 100 SMG
“Sniper rifle 1”
“Sniper rifle 2”
Arisaka rifle
Russian modern
AK74SU
AK74
Dragunov
RPK SAW
RPK MG
Dragunov sniper rifle
AK74S
AK 47 or 74S with 2 mags
AK 47 or 74s
AK 47 solid stock
RPG7
RPG 7 with OP7
Soviet WWII
Maxim M1910 HMG
PTRD anti-tank rifle
PTRS-41 anti-tank rifle
Pps 43
DP LMG
Mosin-Nagant rifle
Svt-40
US modern
Smoke grenade
Grenade
M60E3
HK MP5
HP MP5K
M16 + M20
SIG Sauer
SOCOM
M4 + M20
M4
FN MAG
Minimax
M4 carbine
Dragon
AT4
Remington 870 pump action shotgun
M82A1A Barrett .50cal
M249 Squad Assault Weapon
M60E1 machine gun
M31 sniper rifle
M16A1
M16A2 with underslung pump action shotgun
M16A2 with M20
M16A2 with Scope
M16A2
M9 or M1991 pistol
US Vietnam
.50cal with bipod mount
M60A1
.50cal
Shotgun
Dagger
LAW
M14 rifle
M79
US WWII
M1 carbine
M1903 Springfield rifle
Machete
Combat knife
M9 Bazooka and shell
81mm mortar
M1 flamethrower
M1 bayonet
Browning shotgun
MkII grenade
M1919A4 .30cal machine gun
Browning Automatic Rifle
M1 Thompson SMG
M1 Garand rifle
Colt M1911A1 pistol
Vietnamese
RPK
Mlle 36 MAS
Type 56 carbine
MAT49
Grenade
RPG7
PPSh41

Colonel Bill’s
Depot Battalion > Weapons
Lewis guns
“Rifles”
“SMGs/Grenade launcher” (SMGs are Bergmann and Thompson)
66mm LAW anti-tank weapon
84mm Carl Gustav anti-tank weapon
L1A1 Self Loading Rifle
Lee Enfield sniper rifle

Commando Miniatures
QM Stores 2
Machete
Lee Enfield No5 Mark 1 rifle
L4 Light Machine Gun
Armalite AR15 rifle
Browning pisols, on a sprue with M79 grenade launchers

Crooked Dice
Miniature accessories
Minion Weapons 1 (truncheon, pistol [Colt or Browning style], SLR, SMG [M3 grease gun ?])
Minion Weapons 2 (shotgun, AK47, Luger pistol, “Schmeisser” MP40)
Minion Weapons 3 (automatic pistol, bolt action rifle, M16)

Hasslefree Miniatures
Modern & post-apocalyptic > Modern armoury
Mac10
SA80 assault rifle
Mac-10 silenced
MP5
G36c
Thompson SMG
Machine pistol
P90 SMG/PDW
Vulcan mini-gun
Zombie hunter weapons (pump-action shotgun, pistol, sawn-off shotgun, chainsaw)

Miniature Figurines
Matchlock Miniatures > Winter of 79
Weapons Pack 1 (RPG7, automatic pistol, AK74, pump action shotgun)
Weapons Pack 2 (SLR, Sterling SMG, pump action shotgun, shotgun, Webley revolver)
GPMG type 1 with bipod mount
GPMG type 2
LAW
Mortar
Wombat
Carl Gustav

Reaper
Chronoscope
Weapons pack III (flamethrower, Bazooka, Thompson SMG, unidentified)
20th Century Weapons (2 different revolvers, bayonet, 3 different rifles, HMG, 3 SMGs, shotgun)
Modern weapons pack (MP5[?], Uzi, M16[?], AK47, another automatic weapon, automatic pistol, revolver, knife, shotgun, baseball bat, ice-hockey stick)

Statuesque Miniatures
Pulp > Pulp Alley
Pulp Alley Weapons 1 (Webley, Luger, Colt 1911, Mauser Broomhandle, Tommy Gun, Shotgun - all with hands attached)

Warlord Games
Bolt Action > Sprues and components
British Weapon Sprue (Lee Enfield rifles, PIAT, Sten guns, grenades, Bren gun, Webley pistols, Thompson SMGs and is that a Vickers?)
German Weapon Sprue (Kar98 rifles, stick bombs, P38[?] pistol, MP40s, MG40s and an MP44)
US Weapon sprue (M1 rifles, M1911 pistols, M3 grease gun, Thompson SMGs, BARs, sniper rifle, Bazooka)
Soviet Weapons Sprue (rifles, Thompson SMGs, ATR, 2 pistols and a revolver, others I can’t identify)
STG44 assault rifles
Panzerfausts

Modified 25 Sept 2016: added Statuesque Miniatures
Modified 1 Oct 2016: added Crooked Dice Minion Weapons 3

[traveller]

Great list you made there! I was just looking for a Carl Gustav and you helped me find it. Many thanks!

[Ballardian]

Good list! Statuesque Miniatures also do a useful sprue - slightly oversized but not terribly so (in fact a boon in that the barrels are a bit more robust) - with a p/a shotgun, a Thompson, (in gangster style minus the stock) plus Mauser C96, Webley, Luger & Colt 1911 pistols.

[katie]

Happened to overhear a conversation with Crooked Dice and they said they have a couple more sprues of modern stuff on the way. An SLR maybe?

[Steve F]

Thanks, guys: I'm glad this is useful to someone other than me.

I'll try to keep this list up-to-date, so I've added Ballardian's Statuesque tip, and will add the new CD sprue katie mentioned when it arrives.  I assume this is the weaponry for the upcoming security guards: the latest newsletter refers to "hand weapons, pistols, rifles or SMGs".  There is already an SLR on CD's Minion Weapons Sprue 1, by the way.

[Dr. Zombie]

This is a most helpfull list. Thank you.

[zemjw]

I'm not sure if they're available separately, but the Warlord (formerly Wargames Factory) male and female zombie survivors have a sprue with M16s, SA80s, UZIs, pistols and a bunch of other modern weapons.

Some have arms attached, but others are just the weapons

[Steve F]

Thanks, zemjw.  The Project Z weapons sprues are not available separately from Warlord, alas.  You can't even get the figures without having to pay for a lot of printed cards and booklets for the game as well.

[Silent Invader]

Thanks, zemjw.  The Project Z weapons sprues are not available separately from Warlord, alas.  You can't even get the figures without having to pay for a lot of printed cards and booklets for the game as well.

There are box splitters on eBay. I've seen the WGF sprue of weapons for about a tenner (whereas you can get the full box for about £13/£14).

[zemjw]

Thanks, zemjw.  The Project Z weapons sprues are not available separately from Warlord, alas.  You can't even get the figures without having to pay for a lot of printed cards and booklets for the game as well.

I was fortunate enough to buy the figures before Warlord got them and made them much more expensive , but that's annoying. They have sprue sales occasionally, so hopefully they'll add them to the single sprues section at some point.

The less I say about adding cards and things to figure packs, the lower my blood pressure gets

Interesting list, by the way. I hadn't realised TAG sold separate weapons. Time for a wander around their website...

[carlos marighela]

I've bought some of the old Wargames Factory sets purely for the weapons.  The Survivors box comes packed with weapons including half a dozen or more spare AK-47s another half dozen M16, SA80s etc. The female survivors pack adds RPG -7s ( not the most convincing one admittedly). I've also bought a Perry 8th Army sprue simply for conversion purposes and Warlord do sell single weapons sprues from their Bolt Action range.

I'm fortunate in being a regular customer at Eureka so over the years I've picked up enough loose weapons to keep the spares box full.  They don't make them commercially available but there is a chap who frequemts the Melbourne shows that Nic and Kosta have licensed to sell spares.

[Wyrmalla]

Aye, what Warlord's done for the Wargames Factory stuff's pricing is ...unfortunate. They had their 4 post-apocalyptic sprues (Male + female survivors - with lots of generic guns, bikers and soldiers - with plenty of modded modern guns). There was also the 3 WWII boxes, though only a quarter/ third of the guns were loose, but each had enough IIRC to give 2/3rds of the box one type of gun (be it rifles or SMGs), with added support weapons and grenades (or molotovs in the Soviets' case).

The WGF stuff is common enough second hand though, and was dirt cheap last year before it was rereleased. :/

Oh, and not to mention that the guns in those kits weren't gigantic like most of the metals on offer. From what I've found myself other than the Statureque and Hasslefree miniatures stuff (which you can't buy because they're paranoid about recasters - quote) everything else makes my minis look like they're 40K Imperial Guard carrying MMGs...

[Steve F]

Added Crooked Dice Minion Weapons 3.

[katie]

Maybe we should have a wiki where people could assemble/maintain lists like this?

If it would work better as a medium I could look at options?

[bobblezbob]

Does anyone know what Mini Figs - Matchlock Miniatures - Winter of '79 GPMG type 2 looks like ? I'm looking to mount a GPMG on a soft skin vehicle and need a version with wooden stock.
Also looking to source ; 

Milan ATGM (other than Eureka's that comes with a figure) to vehicle mount,
Mk 19 40mm Grenade Launcher (other than Tamiya's offering with their 1/48 HUMVEE) to vehicle mount,
and M2 .50 Browning Machine Gun, also to vehicle mount.

Any help would be gratefully received.

Regards