| cooey2ph | 07 Nov 2012 4:43 a.m. PST |
another dimestore find frokm Chintatown that may get drafted into my 25mm sci fi army.
Men in Boxes
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| VonTed | 07 Nov 2012 7:27 a.m. PST |
Hmmm…. gun could work for a hydra flak in 40k….hmmm.. |
Phil1965  | 07 Nov 2012 7:34 a.m. PST |
Nice, nice blog too, who makes the Terran Marines? |
 richarDISNEY  | 07 Nov 2012 8:12 a.m. PST |
Those look right to me…
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| Ivan DBA | 07 Nov 2012 10:54 a.m. PST |
The Marines look like they are from a line of toys released in the late '80s called "XPanders." They are about 1/72 scale or 20mm, IIRC. Made of semi-soft plastic. There were maybe four or five poses, with various weapons. They were usually sold with military vehicles that "xpanded" into fortified bases, rather like a transformer. However, separate sets of about twenty of the figures by themselves were also sold. link Good little figures, but hard to find. |
John Leahy  | 07 Nov 2012 12:54 p.m. PST |
That's interesting. I picked up those soldiers in packs from the Dollar Store in the 90's. They included either a black jet or a buggy with a super cannon on it (I use these with my 15mm figs). I believe there were other sets but I forget what they were. Each set had 4 or 5 infantry in it painted with gray or tan colors. I own probably 50-60 of the infantry. they are Gzg 25mm sized. I like what you have done with the vehicles and infantry. Nicely done. Thanks, John |
| Phil1965 | 07 Nov 2012 1:25 p.m. PST |
I do not think they made it across the Atlantic, shame, they look nice, almost 'Galoob' like! |
| Ivan DBA | 07 Nov 2012 7:47 p.m. PST |
Hmmm. Sounds like there are two sizes of these figures out there. The ones I have are definitely more like 1/72 than 25mm. And they came in tan and black. |
| John Leahy | 07 Nov 2012 10:42 p.m. PST |
Maybe Ivan. Place them next to a Gzg 25mm fig and see. Mine fit right in. Thanks, John |
| Lion in the Stars | 07 Nov 2012 11:26 p.m. PST |
GZG's 25mm are very close to 1/72. They're almost all right around 1" tall. They are most emphatically NOT 28mm in the modern sense of the size. |
| cooey2ph | 07 Nov 2012 11:52 p.m. PST |
@ivan DBA -- I have the same set of figures in 20mm. I think the original soldiers that were released as Xpanders were around 25mm, nearer to the old 25mm standard. the second set i chanced upon lacked two poses, were cast in black and seemed scaled 1/72, being the same height as my italeri plastics. they came with a hong kong jetplane ('round 1/144) i believe. |
