| boggler | 07 Jul 2009 2:21 a.m. PST |
Who makes giant (or even middly sized) ants in 28mm? Or do you know where I can find el cheapo (but still decent) plastic toy ants? I'm thinking of a game of ant hunting in the jungle for my 28mm future wars troopers. Incidentally, do you remember a hex based game in a very early edition of Miniature Wargames called 'Ant-something or other' which had the US army tackling a giant ant invasion. If you know which issue it was in I'd be interested to know. Thanks |
| Cacique Caribe | 07 Jul 2009 2:29 a.m. PST |
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Formerly Regiment Games  | 07 Jul 2009 4:52 a.m. PST |
I think Scale Creep makes some nice ones. |
 Extra Crispy  | 07 Jul 2009 4:56 a.m. PST |
We did make some but have withdrawn them for the time being. Recent metal increases meant they would have to be priced at $10-12 each and they were a serious pain in the ass to assemble. You might look for some plastic toys from party stores and scientific stores, etc. |
 Saber6  | 07 Jul 2009 5:38 a.m. PST |
You might look through thrift store for the old Cooties game. IIRC the "bugs" are about 3 1/2 inches long |
| auton1 | 07 Jul 2009 5:51 a.m. PST |
These are the ones I used in a Them! inspired game, although they are listed out of stock right now.. link |
| Daffy Doug | 07 Jul 2009 7:14 a.m. PST |
Giant bugs: go for the legs. The bigger the bug, the weaker the legs. If not, then your rules are stoopid…. |
| Top Gun Ace | 07 Jul 2009 7:30 a.m. PST |
Those plastic ones look good, and the price is superb. Too bad they are out of stock, and don't have any army ant soldiers with the giant mandibles. |
| CorpCommander | 07 Jul 2009 8:00 a.m. PST |
Proper tactics are force them back to the nest with white phosphorous, rappel in and finish them with flamethrowers. Textbook! |
| Shagnasty | 07 Jul 2009 8:54 a.m. PST |
Check out dollar stores. They often have "Bug Bags" with one or more giant ants. Then there are Grasshoppers, Manti, and Spiders! |
| consectari | 07 Jul 2009 9:02 a.m. PST |
MegaMiniatures does some pretty nice ants.
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The small ones are about 1/3rd the size of a 25/28mm mini, the large ones are almost the same size as a mini. |
| camelspider | 07 Jul 2009 9:09 a.m. PST |
I love playing games with ants because, whenever you kill one, you can point to it and sing "dead ant, dead ant" to the tune of the Pink Panther theme music. Giant bugs: go for the legs. The bigger the bug, the weaker the legs. And meanwhile, as you are aiming for their skinny little legs, they swarm over you and eat you up.  |
| ming31 | 07 Jul 2009 10:43 a.m. PST |
Flame throwers are the answer . J Geils …she's a flame thrower at night ! |
| nnascati | 07 Jul 2009 1:58 p.m. PST |
Plastic "toy" ants are generally an inch or more long. You want bigger than that? |
| 28mmMan | 07 Jul 2009 2:40 p.m. PST |
link (12 2.5" for $3)
link (1 6" hoo yaa! $3)
auction (50 2" for $25…free shipping) |
| Top Gun Ace | 07 Jul 2009 3:25 p.m. PST |
Sadly, none with the big, sharp mandibles to bite things in half….. Then again, maybe that is a good thing, depending upon which side you're on. |
| Broadsword | 07 Jul 2009 4:52 p.m. PST |
You might be able to find some of the Steve Jackson Atomic Horrors Giant Ants on eBay. Photo: link |
| Mil Dot | 08 Jul 2009 6:53 p.m. PST |
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| Midlam Miniatures | 12 Jul 2009 3:34 a.m. PST |
You can get a radio controlled giant ant from the Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the crystal Skull toy, range, it's about 7 inches long. I got one myself for £5.00 GBP in a cheapo toy shop. It's not bad! |
| Cacique Caribe | 23 Aug 2009 5:16 p.m. PST |
Man, these look pretty cool, for the price: link With Halloween just around the corner, most craft stores have lots of spiders and webs, though I haven't seen any ants yet. CC |
| khurasanminiatures | 23 Aug 2009 6:14 p.m. PST |
Who makes giant (or even middly sized) ants in 28mm? What would you consider to be middly sized? Length in terms of mm, I mean. |
| Cacique Caribe | 19 Oct 2009 9:20 a.m. PST |
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| Cacique Caribe | 31 Mar 2011 10:17 a.m. PST |
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| Mithmee | 31 Mar 2011 12:06 p.m. PST |
I'm thinking of a game of ant hunting in the jungle for my 28mm future wars troopers. You do know that Bug hunting never ends well for the hunters. :) |
| 28mmMan | 31 Mar 2011 1:10 p.m. PST |
Bug hunts do sound like more fun than avoiding mohawk rape gangs :) ***** One of my favorite Necromunda (highly modified with house rules) games was a huge bug hunt…I had 10 bags of 150 12mm plastic brown roaches ($1 per bag Halloween sale)…put 8-10 on a standard miniature base with all the roaches piling over each other in one direction…if I remember right, the final count was 165 bases of a pile of roaches. Players (5) were given a certain number of points, enough for 2-4 hero types or a big group of 10-15 gangers or like I went with my SBD (nearly naked ghoul-scavengers) gang from the last big pile up game (only common found item weapons, no armor, and no heroes…run away at the drop of a dime), 30 of those scumbags :) We had to get from point A to point B…A was at ground level and we each had our own start point (A)..B was five levels up on a platform, push the button and everything below the platform would be flooded…game over. The bugs refreshed back to set points; I want to say 10-12 refresh points. It was a slaughter…the first couple rounds the hero types were blasting away at the bugs and each other…my SBD horde were running around like lunatics…we all lost over half our gangs by the second round…at that point the random fleeing of my gang (I use this term loosely) was causing the bugs to chase after them (most other gangers had the sense to take cover). So the third round was mostly the others waiting as my remaining guys were being chased by trains of roaches, completely random at this point…I was mostly the roach guy by now having lost control of my guys by the end of round one. One of my guys made it to the platform first but was sniped by a guy stuck on a tower with a dozen or so piles of bugs waiting below him. ***** So yes, while entertaining, bug hunting is usually futile. |
