"6mm UFO's?" Topic

I'd like to know if anyone has a decent source for metal miniatures of UFO's for 3mm/6mm aerial/space battles?

I've seen the Majic ones, and while nice, the big one is a bit too expensive for my tastes.

I'm looking for a nicely detailed, and/or shaped miniature, that isn't too expensive.

Anyone have any ideas on who might make some decent ones?

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Rob

Gee, Rob. I was just going to suggest Majic, as I don't know of any other manufacturers of 6mm-1/285 scale UFOs.

Anyone else out there have any other suggestions?

Yes, indeed – the flying saucers from Scotia/Grendel are rather nice and not expensive.

As for other alien craft, there are some out there if you look through catalogues. . . .

Been looking for them myself for a HOTT army, Irregular Miniatures have 3 UFO's listed in their spaceships range but I have no idea of what they look like.

I'm in the process of scratch building some from glass nuggets and green stuff, ok so far

Rob

Hi Rob,

You have a number of choices:

- Irregular
- Scotia
- Majic
- Mongoose's Vree

They're also very easy to scratch-build from beads, buttons and trinkets.

A number of UFO sites also have various toys, X-mas ornamnets, and the like. I have several from various UFO sources.

Japanese Gashapon "candy egg" toys sometimes have UFOs. Clawmark is a good source for those. I know you have aircraft Gashapon so maybe with a bit more searching, you could find UFOs as well.

A number of space combat games also have saucer or saucer-like UFO miniatures. I can't name them all, but I'm sure the Silent Death line has a few good UFO candidates.

In addition, some "Hong Kong" party trinket stores such as Wishing Well, Michaels, etc. have had small, plastic UFOs for sale before. "Oriental Trader," a trinket catalogue, has had UFOs before and so has US Toy.

My collection has:
- Irregular
- Scotia
- Mongoose's Vree
- UFO site toys
- Plastic party trinket UFOs

I use my saucers fro a variety of purposes:
- As GROPOS (surface sci-fi combat) Vree forces (home-made rules as GROPOS never included the Vree)
- As Mongoose Vree spaceships
- For Monster Island alien scenarios (cow abductions, alien invasion, etc.) They make greet Darloks!
- For the odd Air Pirates alien or foo fighter encounter
- For 6mm sci-fi games of other persuasions as well…

Abd as far as scale goes, UFOs aren't real (Sorry to disluusion all of you X-file fans out there, but, HEY, at least you ahve a new X-files movie coming out!) so…

UFOs can effectively work at any scale. Mine work in 6mm, 10mm, and whatever else I choose them to be. I've never had a complaint yet. Saucers are saucers, abductions are abductions, and the cows fear my aliens!

Good gaming to you!

Shalom,
Maksim-Smelchak.
6mm-minis.blogspot.com

Bergstrom has some nice "classic" saucers I use for 6mm MI.

link

It looks like there will be flying saucers in the Monsterpocalypse set.

Character Options really missed a trick by not including a Dalek saucer in their Doctor Who Micro-Universe series.

I'd suggest the Vree saucer ships from Babylon 5, and not just because I've got a pile of them on ebay right now. I'll send you my auction link as a PM so as not to violate TMP rules…if nothing else the photos should be useful.

Does anyone stock the Scotia saucers and Irregular's 6mm sci-fi in the US?

Hi everyone,

Thank you very much for the suggestions.

I really appreciate it.

Sincerely,

Rob

alternative armies (15mm.co.uk) do saucers for their 15mm greys. Here's the link:
15mm.co.uk/Grey_Aliens.htm
the page is wider than the screen so move over to the right to see the saucer pack.

They come with a seperate lid so you can have them as open topped mini suacers (obviously no good for 6mm) or as convetional saucers suitable for any scale.

I have a HotT army of little green men (Third Spear Carrier: if you are a member of the HotT yahoo group look under Owen's armies in the photo section)

How about this bad boy:

link

Found a few buttons last night that are just the ticket.

A bit small perhaps for 1/300th scale, but perfect for 1/600th scale, being nicely detailed on top, in a natural metal finish, and with a nice black wash already applied. All for the outrageous sum of about 40 cents each, including the sales tax. Bought a formation of six of them.

I found some other nice ones that I can fashion into suitable flying saucers, with a little cutting, and gluing.

Now, to paint up some F-104 Starfigthers to scramble against them, and to be knocked out by those wonderful alien ray guns…..

Best regards,

Rob

Don't forget Studio Bergstrom. They have flying saucer ships.