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25mm Models Plastic or Metal
Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 7:00 pm
by david53
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
Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 7:52 am
by chubooga
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
Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 8:15 am
by hammy
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.
Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 11:10 am
by nikgaukroger
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
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:11 pm
by bobm
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.
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:17 pm
by philqw78
...1/72 is "sort of" 25mm.
If a man is six feet tall 1/72 is slightly over 25mm
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:14 am
by bobm
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!
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 12:18 pm
by hammy
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.