"Scruby and Jacklex Colonials" Topic

Couple of questions y'all.

Does anybody have any pictures of Scruby 25mm Colonials?

Are they compatible with Jacklex Colonials?

Thanks in advance.

No pictures, but having had many Scruby Colonials years ago, I can tell you they are "true" 25mm, ie similar in size to the larger figures from plastic manufacturers (Caesar, Zvezda, etc.). Jacklex I am fairly certain, are advertised and sold as 20mm, so they would be noticably smaller.

I only have a few, mainly British naval landing troops. They fit well with MiniFigs, Iron Brigade, Ral Partha, and other "true 25mm" figures. If the Jacklex are 20mm then the Scruby figures may be too big.

The naval unit is in the last picture in this play test report:

link

but they are behind the MiniFig Royal Marine Light Infantry troops on the right side of the picture and its hard to make a good comparison.

Jim

Photos of Jacklex 20mm Colonial on spencersmithminiatures.co.uk

I can't say what size the Jacklex 20mm figures are – most folks refer to 1/72 scale figures as 20mm. But in our book 1/72 is 25mm and 1/87 is 20mm…

Anyhow our Scruby figures are 25mm (1/72 scale) – if you happen to already have some Jacklex and need to compare with Scruby 25mm I can pull a random (most likely Zulu War) Colonial figure or two from one of the bins and send to you as samples.

Email to mike at historifigs should you want a sample figure.

Thanks y'all.

I'm looking to do the Sudan in 1/72/20mm/25mm/whatever the scale or size actually is toy soldier style.

Recently I bought some plastic cowboys and indians…converted the cowboys in to cavalry and gave 'em quick simple shine. I realized I liked 'em a lot better than any of the more careful paint jobs on more detailed figures that I'd done.

picture

Anyway I'm always a little confused about some of the listed scales. Somehow I got the idea that both Jacklex and Scruby's were made to work with 1/72 figures (Arifix or whatever was available at the time). Sounds like I was a little off on that one.

Col. I'm right here in Jackson any time you want to make space by getting rid of and those old wargaming figures :).

Mike..thank I'm probably gonna be putting an order in with you pretty soon…and I appreciate the offer.

efredbar,

Just looked through your photobucket of painted figures and have to say, you are a talented dude! I especially liked the Maximillian Adventure French, both paper illustration cut outs and 3D minis.

I appreciate that Guru.

The drawings started out as kind of guide to help me figure out which minis would work for conversion. I liked the way they looked and soon lost focus on the miniatures. Never came up with a satisfactory method of basing them or whatever. I do enjoy drawin 'em though.

Thanks again.

The illustrations are nice. They remind me of (and this dates me) the ones in the opening/closing credits of "The Wild Wild West"60's TV show.

Thanks. I know exactly what you're talking about and I never thought of that. I don't remember them the first time around, but I've seen 'em. I wonder if it was a subliminal influence.

The lankiness of them comes directly from old cowboy movies on T.V. Before wide screens they used to have mash the picture to get the credits in at the end…the cowboys, without exception riding off somewhere, would end up really narrow and tall…I thought it was the coolest thing.

Anyway, I've got some Sruby's and some Jacklex on the way. I'll post pictures when they arrive.