Re: [OT] Alien Figures

http://www.wargames-figures.com/shop/science/pm10sci.htm#aliens

These are 'large' 10mm/small 15mm but are reasonable.

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From: <devans@uneb.edu>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] Alien Figures

>
> Natch, you see the Leading Edge Aliens, 25mm, regularly on eBay, and
> tending towards less pricey than I used to pay.
>
> If you're interested in 15mm, I know that Friekorps(sp?), distributed
in
> the US by Outland Games, do a fair, if beefy, bug.
>
> If desperate, you can try what I did many years ago, and take some
plastic
> skeletons, replace the head with a carved 'lima bean' from round
sprue,
> with the mouth part sheared from the skulls. Black base paint and a
quick
> dark grey dry-brush, and I know I surprised myself.
>
> I never did get the back pipes right, though.
>
> I was going to take this off list, but wondered if other list members
had
> knowledge of not-Aliens, though, if I missed them on the GZG site,
I'll
bow
> my head now.
>
> Also, has anybody tried working up SGII rules for these? They tend to
be
> closer to fauna than troops, so I suppose someone's lions and tigers
from
> darkest Africa conversion might work.
>
> I did collect a bunch of Kenner <>6" bugs, hoping to get some
> action-figure-to-colonial-marines conversions, but never found the
right
> army guys, though I thought I was close with some Marx-style WWII
GI's, if
> I could have figured how to work with the soft plastic. Also, I had my
> visions crushed by the folks that did the 12" GI JOES and Ken dolls
with
> large Tsukuda bugs at Gencon. *sigh*
>
> Richard, was there a particular number you needed, and what size?
>
> The_Beast