25mm Models Plastic or Metal

david53 · Post by **david53** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 7:00 pm

Hi There
Looking at a Swiss army in 25mm looking for good figures in UK are there any plastic that would fitr in with the period.
Dave

chubooga · Post by **chubooga** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 7:52 am

Ive not heard of any specific swiss plastics....... but the GW empire range has been known to be used.

Ebay will produce lots of cheap figures i fyou go the GW route

jon

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 8:15 am

chubooga wrote:Ive not heard of any specific swiss plastics....... but the GW empire range has been known to be used.

Ebay will produce lots of cheap figures i fyou go the GW route

jon

Ian Speed's Swiss army at Britcon was made up of GW empire plastics.

Check out Wargames Factory, they are a bit behind their initially planned schedule but it looks like they may be about to start churning our 28mm plastics of all sorts.

nikgaukroger · Post by **nikgaukroger** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 11:10 am

Not that Swiss appear to be in their plans, at least as yet.

In fact until I hear that players have actually got any of their stuff I've given up on them

bobm · Post by **bobm** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:11 pm

Mini Art do Swiss, pretty good too....see plastic soldier review for pictures
http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Rev ... code=72009
...1/72 is "sort of" 25mm.

philqw78 · Post by **philqw78** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:17 pm

...1/72 is "sort of" 25mm.

If a man is six feet tall 1/72 is slightly over 25mm

bobm · Post by **bobm** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:14 am

philqw78 wrote:
...1/72 is "sort of" 25mm.
If a man is six feet tall 1/72 is slightly over 25mm

...and a 25mm figure is slightly over 28mm in most cases these days!

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 12:18 pm

bobm wrote:
philqw78 wrote:
...1/72 is "sort of" 25mm.
If a man is six feet tall 1/72 is slightly over 25mm
...and a 25mm figure is slightly over 28mm in most cases these days!

Sadly true

That said the 1/72 soft plastics look fine based up for FoG, I would just avoid mixing them with any of the modern 28mm figures.

Personally all but one of my '25mm' armies are actually 1/72nd plastics but I expect that I may end up buying some 28mm plastics in the future.