RE: Just a thought

1/72 modern troops exist.  These figures would likely be your best
chance for sci-fi conversions.	Cut down the M-16s on Americans.  Ad
some fine wire around helmets to represent the cables for optics?

Modern British or French would be good too as they have nifty bullpup
guns which always seem more futuristic.

Modify some cheap 1/72 plastic kits into hovercraft or gravs or leave
them basicly the same for that matter and you could do it.  Just have to
put in the time.

We used to wargame modern combat with 1/72nd plastics.	Another idea
that hit me for those who are into the FMA Skirmish and like to model -
try 1/35.  You get a huge range of gear, a figure big enough to easily
modify.  Several companies make seperate heads, hats and gears.  Swap
out nationalities helmets or combine elements you like and you could get
a highly detailed, visually stimulating squad.

Eli

>Subject: Just a thought
>From: Glenn M Wilson <triphibious@juno.com>
>Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 00:02:53 EDT
>Reply-To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>
>While fuming over the 'joys' of finding the old ESCI Khyber Pass
package
>(I now have several leads besides eBay which cost me $11.95 (when I won
-
>the other times some other crazy 'won' the auctions...  I do have a
>budget to try and keep within!) for 50 plastic figures (of which I want
>the 10 turbaned figures only) I had a heretical thought.
>
>If we use 25mm or 15mm figures in metal for SG2, just as some use 25mm
or
>15mm metal or 1/72nd plastic (old days and sometimes even today) for
>colonials - why not plastic 1/72nd figures for SG games?  Well, I
realize
>that those figures (1/72nd plastic SF figures) are not even close to
>common - but do they exist at all?  I realize that the plastic figures
>part of the hobby is supposedly extremely depressed but the per capita
>cost of plastic figures (except on eBay of course) are less then the
per
>capita cost of metal figures.	Does anybody have any ideas if such
>figures or easy conversions would even be do-able???
>
>Like I said, just a thought. <grin>
>
>Gracias, Glenn/Triphibious (American Mongrel) You don't have to be
French
>to be 
>a 'frog', or even human! Nektons - Real Marines! (Die, Ralnai, Die!)
>Starguard, 
>Dirtside 2,  Ratner's Space Marines and Full Thrust/FB1.  Resistance is
>everything!
>aka - Warbeads@juno.com (historicals) and Dwarf_warrior@juno.com
(Fantasy
>and
>6mm/10mm figures.
>
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