The T2K Model and Miniture Thread!

[DCausey]

Empress does make nice stuff.

That Ambush Alley link was where I was thinking for info on the 25/28mm. Thanks for posting it.

nate, I got confused on the scale of figures you were talking about. Cy Girls, Dragon, and Sideshow are nice indeed! I have a modern 75th Regiment Ranger that took 12 hours just to dress because he had so much gear, but he's great, he looks like he stepped out of a news photo or maybe Modern Warfare 2.

[natehale1971]

The figures are 1/6th scale.

the 12" figures are classified as 1/6th scale... and if you do your shopping through ebay you can find pretty much ANYTHING on there for the figures. Going from nude bodies, specialized head sculpts (you can get YOUR OWN HEAD done by these people for a figure), mini-books and toys for the figures, it's amazing what you can get to make diaromoas.

For a long time i tried to talk my fellow players to get these figures to make 'action figures' of our characters for every game we had. But nobody took me up on that one... even after they saw how good my character looked done up as a 1/6th scale action figure...

[DCausey]

I would love to do up a 1/6th as a T2K character! You can even get Russian guns and gear if you needed it, it would be so cool.

[natehale1971]

I would love to do up a 1/6th as a T2K character! You can even get Russian guns and gear if you needed it, it would be so cool.

heck... you can get russian/soviet uniforms as well. you can make a T2k character from ANY side of the fight with 1/6th scale, and you can be even more detailed than in drawings or any other scale. It just will cost you around $100 to $200 if you go REALLY detailed.

[weswood]

One of my other hobbies was collecting 1/6 figures, got about 50 on display, and a huge pile of leftover stuff. I stayed away from modern military though. Then it just got too expensive.

I found a LAV in 1/72, can't remember if it's a LAV 75. I found it at Target a while back.

[natehale1971]

One of my other hobbies was collecting 1/6 figures, got about 50 on display, and a huge pile of leftover stuff. I stayed away from modern military though. Then it just got too expensive.

I found a LAV in 1/72, can't remember if it's a LAV 75. I found it at Target a while back.

Have you seen the vehicles that have been done in 1/6th scale Those things are really, really good. But damn are they expensive.

[weswood]

Have you seen the vehicles that have been done in 1/6th scale Those things are really, really good. But damn are they expensive.

I've got a couple jeeps, 2 Soldiers of the World, not too detailed, and a 21st Century jeep that's fairly detailed. Nothing like the Dragon ones though. At one time Hasbro put out a HMMWV that looked good, but was in the over $100 range.

The money is why I got out of it, I could buy decent figures for $25-$50 with the occassional $75 one, now it seems the norm runs around $100.

[natehale1971]

Yeah.. that's been my poblem too.

[raketenjagdpanzer]

If it makes you guys feel any better, things aren't much sunnier on the fantasy front.

WotC did their whole "here's prepainted plastic minis" thing, most of which I never liked. But the tin and antimony and lead that is in "white metal" minis skyrocketed because the Chinese are using huge amounts of those base metals in their construction (and, in the case of lead, their food and toys they ship to the US...but I digress...), so the price of minis in general went through the roof. Of course, that was from 2003-2008. Then in 2008 and thereafter, oil prices have started to skyrocket (that unnatural little dip in '08 aside), so, guess what happened to the plastic minis Thaaaaaat's right! Bam, up through the roof, too.

I used to be able to buy a handful of orcs or men at arms or whathaveyou on ebay for $.99 each. Now single plastic D&D minis are like $2-$2.50 and it's getting worse. Reaper started out with a line of prepainted plastic minis...and they've just about shut it down to a trickle because of the cost of plastic.

Sucks, I tell you...

[B.T.]

5th Infantry Division fashion extravaganza

Hi guys,

hopefully it'll work this time

[B.T.]

Sorry for double-posting, but I was not shure, if I could really post the picture. And man, it is huge ...

The mini is in 1/35 scale. The majority of the pieces is from Dragon and Tamiya. I've tried to build a captain of the 5th. Inf.Div. in a more or less "standard" uniform. He is armed with a M16/M203 combo and a M9 pistol in the ambidextrous M12 holster. He carries his 40mm grenads in an older pouch on his belt and in the Vietnam-era style plastic 3-cell carrier. His helmet is scrounged, supposingly from a former policeman. On the back of his helmet the "Red Diamond" of the 5th division has been painted on. A buttpack (not visible in this shot, but I'll give it another try, if you like) on his back is the only item on that mini, I had made out of greenstuff.

The mini is part of a group I did about 14 years ago, but never found the time to set them in a diorama. I wanted to have some figures, to show players, how their characters might look like. As I'm not that good in sketching/drawing, as Nate is, I had to go with the minis
The jacket (or is it a blouse) is painted in the "urban cammo" style. I'm not shure, if it would have been fielded in reality, but I like the style. And it was fun to paint. I can see uniform pieces like this on a lot of ETO soldiers. Maybe, at least in my Twilight world, there will even be a clothing vest, like they were used in 3/6 color DCU, to put on the PASGT jackets, we will see.

Comments are very welcome.
Thanks for watching.

[DCausey]

Very dramatic! You did a very good job on the figure. I really like the camo, why wouldn't they issue Urban Camo, with all the urban combat the armies must have seen

Excellent job!

- Dave

[B.T.]

Some more pictures:

[Raellus]

That's some nice work, BT. You've certainly got some skills.

On my monitor, I can barely tell the difference between the standard woodland-pattern BDUs and the urban cammo. I didn't notice it until you guys started discussing it.

The guy with the woodland pattern top, tiger-stripe bottoms, WWII-era helmet, and cammoed G3 w/scope is an interesting figure. What's his story

One suggestion, though. That captain might not want to advertise his rank so openly. Those bars on his helmet are going to be attracting snipers' bullets, I am sure.

[weswood]

Excellent work.