| Musketier | 13 Feb 2009 5:32 a.m. PST |
technical services seem to be unpopular amon manufacturers – and yet there were sieges enough in the 18th C. for them to come into there own… So, would anybody know who makes tools like spades, pickaxes etc., suitable for converting 28mm figures (artillery crews I suppose) to sappers or pioneers? |
| Randall | 13 Feb 2009 6:33 a.m. PST |
Ooh--this is a good question. I'm pretty sure I've seen some tools from various manufacturers (don't remember who, though), but it will be nice to have a list. |
| Randall | 13 Feb 2009 6:36 a.m. PST |
Here's a start: Brigade Games has an "Assorted Implements and Weapon Set". link No picture, unfortunately, but the set includes: Pitchfork, Bowie knife, Garden Hoe, Shovel, Knife, Rake, Pickaxe, Machete, Spade/trenching shovel, Crowbar. What you would want, of course, is a collection, though, of, say, 5 shovels or whatever. I wonder if such things are available in plastics? Maybe for model railroaders? |
| religon | 13 Feb 2009 7:28 a.m. PST |
I have used Black Tree Design's AA105 Grave Diggers Equipment for this purpose. I love my Uruk-hai sapper pushing a wheelbarrow. |
| Lord Al | 13 Feb 2009 7:30 a.m. PST |
You also might try dollhouse stores. 1/4 scale is a little large for 28mm, but it's not bad and usually cheap. |
| Musketier | 13 Feb 2009 8:15 a.m. PST |
Thanks for the helpful hints so far, and apologies to all for the typos – "Preview" didn't exist when last I posted, so I clean overlooked it… The problem is indeed the scale, as model railroad stuff is mostly too wee. Perhpas I should launch it on Eureka's Club 100? |
| andygamer | 13 Feb 2009 9:21 a.m. PST |
I don't know if they can/would sell you the equipment separately, but Front Rank have SYW Austrian and Prussian sappers/miners that come with shovels and picks. And London War Room has Spanish engineers and sappers/miners too. Also, there might be tools available in cowboy ranges to go with prospectors and settlers that you could get (if sold separately). |
| KatieL | 13 Feb 2009 9:32 a.m. PST |
Interestingly, I recently bought some dollshouse accessories. White metal castings of C17/C18 wheelbarrows; they're designed to be small garden planters in doll scale -- They end up being pretty good 28mm ones. I got them from Maple Street, but alas I can't find them in the catalogue. Tools; Bicorne does a set of artillery tools and one of "farm implements", Redoubt makes various tools around in various ranges to go in the open hands of their pioneer figures, including a wheelbarrow in the ECW, a shovel, various picks and hammers. Amazon makes various tools. Black cat bases do some. Essex makes X25 Assorted Medieval peasants weapons Irregular have SW20 Farm implements HLBSC used to have MPA1 Miners equipment |
| sywplayer | 13 Feb 2009 3:42 p.m. PST |
Front Rank make a French Artillery Crewman with a wheelbarrow. |
| Neotacha | 14 Feb 2009 8:26 p.m. PST |
Ooo, good question. And not just for converting to sappers and such, but using in villages for flavor. Thanks to Randall for that link. I have some tools, but darned if I can recall who made them. Yes, I have the BTD grave digger's tools, but I also have some from maybe Frontline? |
| Neotacha | 15 Feb 2009 7:36 a.m. PST |
I am an idiot. Check Reaper for adventurer's tools. |
| Prestonpans | 15 Feb 2009 4:03 p.m. PST |
For late 17th and early 18th Century Reiver Castings make sappers, tools and field fortifications in 28mm scale.
reivercastings.com |
| Musketier | 16 Feb 2009 2:31 a.m. PST |
yes I have the Reiver sappers, although their cast-on tools are a little on the crude side – but then in the late 17th C. perhaps they were. I shall probably mix and match all of the above tools, and load some of them onto a couple of pack animals, to create a "Charge!"-style engineer battalion…
Many thanks to all contributors! |
| Greylegion | 08 Jul 2019 6:52 p.m. PST |
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