"What is missing in 54mm ?" Topic

It appears I am becoming very interested in having some 54mm miniatures sculpted, after seeing several shown by my 'friends'… They are simply amazing !
The question now is whats missing in this size ?
Would you prefer metal or resin castings ?

Thanks,

Piotr @ Pole Bitwy

I personally like the old Airfix glue together 54mm figures.

I like more detailed models, such as these 54mm figures from Victrix

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Whatever you can do in that level of detail will be interesting for me.

Early Saxons… Early Saxons are missing in this scale. If they're going to be 54mm, then they also need to be freaking impressive and realistically proportioned miniatures… Otherwise, they will not sell worth a damned.

Naked Goth Chicks… these also serve double duty as daemon princesses in Waryammer…

Impala: 54mm goth chicks in V-hammer ?! Shocking ! :D

1/35 WWII British infantry, Normandy, 'light order' minimal webbing, coupla bandoliers, No 4. Classic!

John

WWI heavy machine guns--all nationalities.

More S.t.a.l.k.e.r. inspired figs. There are 2 castings that I know of but I could definitely use more.

Modern AK carrying types. Generic would be good. Generic Warsaw Pact troops would make me very happy.

54mm gasmasks for figure modding.

More mainstream scifi 54mm. The Inquisitor players would appreciate it as well.

Retro scifi wouldn't hurt but you'd have to test the demand.

If the detail could be balanced with a price tag below $7 USD a fig that would rock. Otherwise it would just make more sense to stick with plastics more often than not.

Here's the unreleased Inquisitor range:

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1. Pirates--resin would be nice. They don't even have to look like certain movie stars.
2. Vikings--resin, but maybe I'm missing something, and there are already Vikings out there. I either haven't seen them, or they didn't take my fancy, in which case, Vikings are still needed.
Grelber

In 54mm?

Well, maybe some more Lilliputians, about 15-17mm high. :)

Dan

I collected 54mm plastic playsets for twenty years.

My newest acquisitions being some great Aztecs and Mexican rebels/cartel soldiers I bought last trip to DF.

Maybe some complimentary figures for Ken's ATKM game?

Generic civilians for decor? Mountain men/farmers? Indians?

I played his game at our cons and bought the rules, fun, old school style game, I'll tell you what.

You can get mountain men thru the Conte, CTS alamo ranges and AIP makes a French and Indian war line. (54mm) MARX recasts have mountain men, also, from their Boonsville and fort sets. TSSD have a nice line of plains indians, too :)

I'm always looking for more 54mm fantasy figs. Enigma miniatures sets the bar in my opinion:

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In plastic, SYW or mid-18th Century cavalry and a variety of infantry. But with the exception of AIP's American Revolution cavalry, there's nothing remotely accurate out there for tricorne 18th Century cavalry.

I see from Wolfshanza's post that AIP now makes pseudo-18th Century tricorne infantry (doing double duty as French line for F&I and Prussian musketeers for SYW as is IAP's wont) but there'd be plenty of room for other SYW infantry too. (And please, no running-all-out bayonet charge figures--a good advancing figure to go with loading and firing ones would be just fine.)

If you wanted to start something completely untouched by others to "corner the market" or get a head start on imitators, I don't think there are any (mass produced) WSS 54mm figures at all. It would also have the added benefit of being able to use basic masters for all of the different nations' troops as the cut of the uniforms was much the same but with added details of differing grenadier headgear or where the cartridge-box was worn being added separately to produce unique national figures. You might also get some crossover business from SYW/WAS wargamers looking for tricorne cavalry (even if the coat skirts aren't turned back; and the hair styles would need some conversion work).

Samurai!

Railway guns

Medieval foot knights for tournaments, with various weapons, and action poses, e.g. with swords, maces, morning stars, polearms, warhammers, etc. Figures striking, preparing to strike, evading, dodging, etc. are needed. Late HYW period, or early renaissance would be nice.

Some nice knight figs on horseback, with frog-mouthed helmets, charging with lances leveled would be great too.

Pirates, Samurai, Three Musketeers, etc. – all skirmishy, man-to-man combat types.

All of the above, sculpted to a very nice degree, e.g. up to the par of the latest 15mm and 25mm/28mm releases.

I'd prefer these in metal, and at a reasonable price.

Grabula, the halfling looks like a kid. That always bothers me about halfling figures. They are supposed to be normally proportioned, not proportioned like children, nor have kid's faces (no matter how angry they look).

And, why can't 54mm producers (like Victrix), do a line of Ancients/Medievals for 54mm armies?

I can just imagine the Early Saxons and Picts that one could do in 54mm… It gives me chills and shudders.

GW almost had me with Inquisitor, then they discontinued the line.

So SF…

What is missing in 54mm ?

Smallness.

Porfirio Rubirosa: ROTFL !!!

Please a modest line of plastic 54mm feudal period figures. A few decent poses for bow, spear and crossbow and maybe a few mounted cavalry with and without helmut. All that is out there right now is 100 years war and later. One company did release a robin hood series but for the most part they are not usable.

Chris P.

French revolution
jean
ca-ira.blogspot.com

HAT do Punic War figures in 54mm

hard or soft plastic?

If it's hard plastic, I might be interested, otherwise, I loath soft-plastic miniatures. They are too hard to clean and prep (getting rid of mold lines is nearly impossible, and I have NEVER seen a soft plastic figure without mold lines – making me think that they are not only too hard to clean, but impossible to clean)

How about metal or resin Cog Comp ?

I love metal or resin. Dexter mentioned that HAT do 54mm Punic War figures… I wondered if they were hard or soft plastic.

Giraffes

Napoleonic French Line Fusiliers. The elites are available from any number of manufacturers, but the Line infantry (which ought to account for most of the troops on the table) are hard to find. Metal, resin, or plastic would be welcome.

TV western heroes: Paladin, Josh Randall, Maverick, Johnny Yuma, etc. Marx did a few back in the 1950's. Not many though.

The Magnificent 7. Rich Conte has done Chris and Vin, but hasn't released them. He says that he plans to do all 7 eventually since he is now dealing directly with MGM.

All of the characters from "Tombstone", including "the cowboys".

The characters from "Raiders of the Lost Ark".

Characters from serials like Spysmasher, The Masked Marvel, and Tiger Woman. An entire playset for the serial "Flash Gordon".

Pulp magazine characters like The Shadow, Doc Savage, Tarzan, Conan, El Borak, The Spider, John Carter etc., and all of the main characters that appeared with them in the novels.

Some personalities of The ********* Wars, or Wars of ***** (add adjective according to taste). That is, some well researched and lifelike portrayals of commanders from one or more historical conflicts, from Alexander to Zhukov. From a business point of view (as distinct from, or in addition to, personal preference), any manufacturer would surely anticipate purcheses both from figure collectors and from gamers with 54mm collections. On the other hand, each would only buy one examnple of a figure.

B29s.

>>B29s.<<

You're thinking small. How about a 54mm Empire State Building to play "King Kong" with? (-:

Mr Cog Comp, about your question of Hat platic, the answer is that for those figures they used PE.

Amicalement
Armand

Along with the figures the Shadow mentioned, I'd like to see Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scottie, Sulu, Chekhov, Uhura, Rand, and Chapel and a bunch of "red shirts" in various poses in 54 mm: along with suitable 54-mm Klingons, Andorians, and Romulans, scantily clad green-skinned dancing slave girls, Harry Mudd, tribbles, etc., of course.

Mulligan

I'd prefer the original tv series uniforms for the boys and girls of the Federation, although it would be nice to have the later version forehead-bump Klingons from the movies and subsequent series.

hey did this ever come to anything? any sculpting done? Put me down for 54mm/ 60mm sci fi

Mithril has done some Lord of the Rings figures in 54mm

54mm for WW2 wargaming! this is a joke right?

As Defiant mentions there are kits in this scale. There is of course Historex for napoleonics with a decent range. Traditionally kits tend to be more expensive and time consuming but there are options for headgear and most other uniform spare parts etc. if there is a need for something very specific.

I would love some skirmish rules in this scale..

Thematic Byzantines!

Caeser war Romans,particually the cavalry, archers etc.
Loads more knights would be good too…100YW period would be good. The italeri sets, although good donīt cover enough ground.
Cheers
paul

WWI Machine Guns, and medics and communications guys…