"Heads and head swapping." Topic

One of the most common requests asked about 15mm miniatures is ‘where can I get some alternative heads so that It might be possible to do some head swaps.' I find it very frustrating that only a couple of miniature companies produce a limited selection of individual heads specifically for this purpose especially when you have the likes of the ex-Armies Army now Brigade models Penal Troopers and most recently GZG's mercenary / irregular troops that have such highly detailed human heads with unbelievable facial expressions I just don't understand why no one wants to produce what a large percent of 15mm gaming community appear to want most of all… Discuss

Economics. Unless the cost of sculpting just heads is substantially lower than sculpting full figures – and why would it be? – the manufacturers are going to have to sell just as many packs of heads as full figures to make their money back. I suspect the most common use case would be, you buy a substantial amount of infantry to build a new force, but only one or two packs of heads to add variety/create characters.

Have you seen the 15mm heads produced by CP Models?

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Duane

Peter Pig makes separate heads, too.

I have a lot of Peter Pigs heads that I use for duplicate figures just to change them up a little bit.

I agree, more 15mm heads would be good, peter pigs heads are good, but are true 15mm, and therefore not great for figures towards 18mm, I bought a heap of WWI German heads for use on my 15mm Death Korps of Krieg figures, but they were to small for the Blue moon minis.

Well it appears that just doing a run of lets say eight different human heads is simply not worth doing for most lesser established miniature companies as there is only a minimal profit margin to be gained after the full run has been sold.I posted the same question over on the 15mm Sci-fi Facebook Group forum, scroll down about twenty posts see below.
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Pennies worth – just got some of the GZG heads (I blame you Gunner Dunbar for encouraging conversions) – they are excellent. Obviously scaled for their miniatures (chunkier 15mm+ size). Full of both character and detail. Already used half a dozen.