Re: Just a thought

Sure--I've got some that I planned (before Istarted buying 25mm leads,
anyway) on using.  Some Revell Modern German Panzergrenadiers, Modern US
(with the Fritz helmets), and ESCI NATO troops llok pretty decent.  The
larger "Action Fleet" Star Wars figures (not the slightly smaller
micromachine ones) are about the same size, to boot.  And one of the WW2
Fallschirmjager sets (I think it was the ESCI one) had appropriate
figures
too--the straight-rimmed helmets and armed with MP43 AR.  And I know
someone
produced Vietnam War sets that could be used as well.

And recently, I saw that Revell was doing a Modern German Paratrooper
set...

Just a few suggetions.

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn M Wilson" <triphibious@juno.com>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>; <Stargrunt-Fullthrust@yahoogroups.com>;
<Starguard@egroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 12:02 AM
Subject: Just a thought

> 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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