"Size of your 54mm WWII collection?" Topic

How many vehicles and soldiers are in your 54mm WWII collection and what size is your playing area? I bought way too much stuff years ago and I am thinking about selling off 1K worth of vehicles. I have over 100 vehicles (all kinds of tanks, armored cars, trucks, half tracks, jeeps, etc.) and several hundred foot. I'm interested in hearing about your collection and playing area.

Hi,

I have about 120 infantry with scout cars and light and medium-sized armour. I have a few AT guns as well. I have several good sized buildings and my table is 12 x 6 feet. I only play skirmish games with them and the armor is there as an objective. Rules I use are Chain of Command and I have tried Force on Force.

Matthew

Forgotten we even had 54mm….a bout 60 each Brits and Germans, two kubelwagens and two hanomags. Might well be interested in more toys though; what have you got?

I picked up a bunch of the conte germans, us airborne and brit para for skirmish actions up to either platoon or weak company level (cant recall which). Also have some metal allymer ( i think) us airborne 30 cal gun teams and marx germans and airfix brit para for fill ins here and there.
Didnt acquire any vehicles. Did pick up some card buildings from hobby lobby.

I just have my old stuff from the 1970s, a few boxes of various Airfix (Paras, Commandos, German Infantry) and various Tamiya kits. Used to use them with the old Paragon skirmish rules.

I haven't had my WWII collection on the table in some time. I use a 6x8 table and have about 100 infantry from each nation. Tanks and vehicles may number 60-70 all nations combined. Wrote my own skirmish rules. I also have a lot of terrain. See my blog under WWII

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I have about 40-60 vehicles and a couple 100 infantry. More importantly, I have several buildings.

If you do decide to get rid of some of it, I call first dibs!

Thanks,

John

Zero, nada, ziltch, none, etc, etc, etc :-)

54mm bottom of foot to top of head.

One miniature exactly. Painted 54mm of Winston Churchill in RAF uniform (of all things). The RAF uniform reflects when he visited my Grandfather's sqn. during his command (1941-3).

Painted for my late grandmother who knew him personally and exchanged letters over the years. Letters from 10 Downing St. and his personal residences around England and Scotland.

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RavenscraftCybernetics thank you I was so dying to say that and now the urge is gone.

Fatman

I've got zero these days, gave it all to my chum who posts here from time to time ( john54), he probably doesn't know how much stuff he has, it's a lot. An awful lot.

^^^ He has a great collection.

We do quite a bit of WWII gaming in 54mm.

A few photos of our Russian Front game back in April 2014:

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I have Russian, Japanese, and Chinese armies. My friend has Germans, British, Americans, and Italians.

We usually play on a table 12.5' long x 6' wide.

Nice. And some people say 28mm is "too large."

I have dozens of Cold War, essentially 1958, era US Army 60mm figures with Air Force, and Navy figures too. I probably have 2000 figures total, mostly Tim Mee, MPC, and Marx and others.

My table it 16 X 7 but I often play outside in my very large backyard, 24 X 60 feet.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

About twenty infantry and three tanks

Zero. I only got into 54mm recently and just have colonials and horse and musket stuff. The hard plastic airfix reissues are calling though.

A walk in the sun

Baby Face

Alvin

Gunner

Sarge

Hans

Fritz

Wolfgang

Dead to rights

Action

This could take a while.

Coabeous

Great stuff!

I have about 80 to 100 vehicles, lots of scout snuff and early war, about 1/2 21st century and 1/2 models, brought built and painted on ebay, Armies are American, German,Italians,Japanese and Nationalist Chinese all about 100 figures each :example Americans 7 squads of 12 men each plus ? 30 men spec. crew served weapons,Anti-tank Gun crews etc.also have ? 50 Brits and over 120 Russians. Have lots of terrain and 54mm buildings. We have a 12.5 X 6 foot table and use Battleground for the BLOOM/BLOOMs except "Hollywood " it up some {normal damage} is AFV Blown-up. and Use Red/White/Blue/Green/Yellow/Black for all small arms. We attempt to run 2 games a month here and about a third are 54mm--My Wargame Center is a townhouse 30 miles south of Washington D.C.--always openings for more gamers.
Ron

My Dad found 50 of my old Airfix 1/32, from 3 differents sets – Japanese, Russian, and 8th Army – in the loft.

There should have been 87 in total, so I went online to identify and fill the gaps. At one point ended up with over 350 more of them, as you do. I flogged most on, but then when Airfix reissued them I bought more, along with desert Italians from Waterloo 1815. I must have 200 or so by now. Very slowly, I am painting and basing them for Crossfire.

Then as now, vehicles and buildings are bulky and quite pricey, which is why I never used this scale much as a kid.

I have probably a couple of dozen of the Monogram Panzer IV variants and as many more of the Airfix ready made Skafizz 251s, plus 250s and Monogram armoured cars. I have about a dozen Monogram and Airfix M3s and M4s, plus a 17 pounder and a few Crusaders I plan to convert into gun tractors and other cruisers.

The prize of my stash is two Beaverette armoured cars scratchbuilt for me by a mate in Australia, followed by an Ogonek JSU152, which is a Soviet-era plastic kit made in Ukraine. It is somewhere between 1/28 and 1/30, so overscale, but then it's so huge it would look overscale even if it were bang on 1/32…

The lack of buildings is a bit of an issue, but one can scarf up quite a lot off the 'bay. The Airfix 1/32 figures remain the best-sculpted and best-animated wargame figures I have ever seen.

I agree, the Airfix 1/32 figures are some of the best available.

My Japanese army is composed of 1/32 figures from Almark, Marx, BMC, TSSD, Atlantic, Classic Toy Soldiers, 21st Century Toys, Airfix, and 1/35 figures from Tamiya and Mini Art.

The old plastic Airfix figures look terrific with a little paint!

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Yeah, you have some very cool stuff at your site! I've spent some time going through all those pictures. Nice use of a wide variety of figs.

You know, we could use some solid Soviet plastic infantry in steel helmet. Airfix is about as good as it gets. I'd like some basic infantry in overcoat, helmet and rifle.

John Leahy -- there's a new company producing inexpensive WWII figures in 1/32 scale -- Armies of the World.

Two sets work well as WWII Soviet infantry:

I got mine from "The Toy Soldier Depot."

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They don't look that good unpainted, but with a little paint they look good!