"Fantassin/Warmodelling and AB comparison pics" Topic
7 Posts
All members in good standing are free to post here. Opinions expressed here are solely those of the posters, and have not been cleared with nor are they endorsed by The Miniatures Page.
Please be courteous toward your fellow TMP members.
For more information, see the TMP FAQ.
Back to the 20mm WWII Message Board
Areas of InterestWorld War Two on the Land
Featured Hobby News Article
Featured Link
Top-Rated Ruleset
Featured Showcase Article
Featured Profile Article Paul Glasser reports his experience in the Second Battle of El Alamein at Gen Con 2007.
Featured Movie Review
|
| Hrothgar Returns | 22 Sep 2009 6:16 p.m. PST |
link I took a few shots of AB and Fantassin late war Germans for comparison. Close enough in my opinion. |
peterx  | 22 Sep 2009 6:55 p.m. PST |
Does anybody have pictures of AB, Fantassin and plastic Valiant minis together? If not, could some kind soul take some? I'd like to get some other poses for my Brits, Yanks and Germans and perhaps get some Soviets to fight on the Eastern Front too. That would be a big help, thanks. |
| aercdr | 22 Sep 2009 9:36 p.m. PST |
No pics, but my Valaints are way out of scale with my Fantassin. I use the valiants with some 1/60 armor that I picked up. |
| Frothers Did It Anyway | 23 Sep 2009 1:58 a.m. PST |
On the whole I like Fantassin but their helmets look more like WW1 style to me. |
 Extra Crispy  | 23 Sep 2009 4:56 a.m. PST |
I've seen the Valiants next to the Fantassin and I agree with aercdr – they dwarf the 1/72 and look closer to "true" 25mm to my eyes. Mark "Extra Crispy" Severin
Owner, Scale Creep Miniatures
ScaleCreep.com
DeepFriedHappyMice.com |
| PeterH | 23 Sep 2009 7:18 a.m. PST |
why why why did Valiant do that ? I will never be able to understand it. they basically re-invented the hard plastic miniature market (for WWII) and decided to go WAY out of scale from anything else – as it is, I've gotten two of everything they've put out just because they are innovative, the poses are great and the ability to customize is entertaining – but if they were in line with AB/Fantassin scale wise – I can honestly say I would have gotten 5 boxes of each and probably never purchased the same amount of AB again (assuming they ever put out more WWII). Same with Fantassin, which would have become my "fill in" figures. |
| Hrothgar Returns | 23 Sep 2009 12:51 p.m. PST |
PeterH,
I agree. As soon as I found out they were incompatible with my existing collection I avoided them. Why make something you can't use with anything else? |
|
