Helicopter crew and soldiers, especially in 1/48.

Rich

ruddratt wrote:

I'd settle for a decent set of 1/48 pilots & ground crew/equipment for WWI aircraft dios.

A big AMEN to that. Except make em WWII guys.

I remember as a kid the plastic army men used to carry "grease guns". Lemme see, ahh, that would be in the fifties.

cassibill wrote:

Soviet WW2 tankers.  I have two tanks and can't find a decent crew.

Have you looked through here?

http://www.coloradominiatures.com/index.asp?PageAction=MFGSEARCH&ManfID=36&Page=1

Great figs.

SteveM 

Ruddratt,

Eduard does make a few 1/48 scale WWI figure sets just for aircraft dioramas.  I purchased a German set, and the figures look as good as anything else done by this company.  I can not recall what all of the kits in this line are but I thought that there were a couple of German sets and an Allies set.  I ordered mine through Squadron, but I would think that they can be found by anyone who can order Eduard items.

Scott

Mortar Magnet and all,

I agree that there are not nearly enough figures of American soldiers available.  I started geting interested in figures when Dragon introduced their 1/16 scale series of figures, and have been having fun with them since.  To the best of my recollection, Dragon has only produced two American figures so far (a D-Day paratrooper,and a navy SEAL).  Tamiya as produced a modern American soldier, but no others.  I suppose that part of the problem is that there were limited uniforms used by our troops, whereas the Germans used several different types.  It may also tie in with the fact that there are tons of German armor kits available, but relatively few American armor kits.  Again, we did not produce the variants and different types of vehicles the way that the Germans did.

Scott

IanIsBored2000 wrote:

Oh, don't you worry, army men still have their "grease guns".  Atleast they did when I stopped playing with them 6 or 7 years ago .  I remember I used to have B-52's dropping nukes on dinosaur-mounted germans while Abrams tanks faught off cavemen.  And then I beat them all up with the all-powerful garden hose.  Ahh, those were the good days.  Finescale modeler is doing a horrible thing here, taking away my creativity!

I want more resin Red Devils in 1/35.

SteveM 

Would love to see more figures (North Korean, Chinese Volunteers, South Koreans, U.S and other UN troops) for Korean war. 

As for what Rob G said about Grease guns, I've also seen them at Fort Knox during mid to late 1990's, used by Tankers and later on those guns were phased out as M4 carbines replaced them.

Sikhs, Aussies, Kiwi's, SS Sunni foreign legion, the best friend a G.I had in the bad old days a Filipino. I mean please can a guy get a Cossack around here.  The scope of modern combat is a bewildering milieu of stories and participants, never to be fully known, and  they weren't all fallschrimjager and heer.  Has anyone ever seen a Soviet troop wearing a khaki cape as many did, or Vichy Moroccan?.  Heck  even a Eidelwiese ski troop would be a nice departure.  I'm hoping to soon release a 200mm aef troop,24th div El Alamein. My apologies to those who like small scale.  But it is different.  Just think zouaves with they're La Belles, or some Zulu spearmen, the mind races.  Great strand MotarMagnet we should start a movment.

P.S.Ianisbored2000, your killing me, funny.

MortarMagnet wrote:

Real modern, not 15 years ago modern.

 Yes, as modern in current stuff with ACUs, USMC digicam uniforms.

Hi, i'm new to the form so hello fellow modellers. been away from the hobby for about 10years, but i recently got interested again when i dug out some old military modelling and finescale modeler mags and books i had hidden away, but anyway i would like to see more American civil war figures preferably 120mm scale, there were none back then. i want the verlinden US cavalryman and horse to start me back off again. could someone please tell me if they have seen this figure if he's from the civil war or base on cavalry fighting on the plains in the west!!.  and if so how does the uniform differ from a union cavalryman or a US cavalryman.

cheers. 

There is certainly no shortage of the miniatures and weapons your after in 1/72 scale!

The last batch of miniatures I commissioned included a US Army paratrooper officer firing a 45!

 stuart :)

http://www.sotcw.net/forum/index.php

http://xsorbit29.com/users5/cpmodelsforum/index.php

IanIsBored2000 wrote:

Its a little too specific to be a big problem, but I noticed that nobody makes a 1/35 LCM crew that actually looks like their alive.  The trumpeter one Im having to use for my Omaha diorama is just standing perfectly still, not ducking or anything.

Usually, small boat and landing craft crews would find it difficult to remain standing with heels together.  Also, if a boat is running up on a hostile beach, I'm sure the crew would be a little less nonchalant.