Sunday 22 September 2019

A post for Blacksmith!

Blacksmith, who runs the 'Javier at War' blog (well worth checking out, he's recreating the old X Com games with miniatures, a fine project!), has asked me a couple of times where the minis I'm using for Five Parsecs are from.

I've been terribly remiss in not replying; so, just for him and anyone else interested, they are from Games Workshop's old Dark Future range.  I used to love the game and had quite a few foot warriors for it, which I've supplemented with a few careful ebay buys (they sometimes turn up for stupid money as well though).

Scale-wise they are a bit of an oddity.  Smaller than 'true' 25mm, but slightly bigger than 20mm/1/72.

Here's one compared with an airfix model and Hasslefree's Grant, for comparison.


And here's a few more that were painted up for the last game.


Terrain is mostly printed card (wish my printer was better!) from various sources including:

https://www.wargamevault.com/product/167915/SciFi-Style-Buildings?filters=0_40209_40014_0
http://www.toposolitario.es/workshop/index_scenery.html
http://www.germy.co.uk/paper25mm.html


6 comments:

  1. Miniatures these days definitely lack the personality that these ones have.

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    1. You can tell they had a real strong idea of different gangs when sculpting - punks, rockers, western, so on

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    2. Yep! These days, you got hipsters, goths, and emos. Wonder how that would look! XD

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    3. It would be a terrible game, all navel gazing and no action!

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  2. I've just seen this entry Alan, thank you very much for replying! Those figures are really sexy.

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    1. I do like them, just a pity it's such an odd scale!

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