Darkest Star Games  | 30 Nov 2015 9:08 a.m. PST |
Anyone know which brand of standard WW2 figures best match the Dust troops? I've always liked the Dust mechs (especially the Axis ones) so took the plunge when FFG had that sale. I also lucked into an excellent (and cheap!) bundle on ebay and ended up with some of the infantry figures. I like some of the power armor guys, but want to have them supporting "regular" plain old grunts which would make up most of the forces. Much obliged!
Darby |
| 15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 30 Nov 2015 11:06 a.m. PST |
DUST infantry are 1/48 and less heroically proportioned than popular 28mm ranges including Artizan, Crusader and Warlord, so go with smaller 28mm figures from BTD and Wargames Factory. |
| John Treadaway | 30 Nov 2015 11:17 a.m. PST |
Or… er, 1/48th figures? John T |
| Lowtardog | 30 Nov 2015 11:28 a.m. PST |
Scarab do 1/48 ww2 and weird war at that |
| Darkest Star Games | 30 Nov 2015 12:39 p.m. PST |
Ah, thanks guys!
I thought they may have been some odd scale, like 1/45 or 1/39, as some of them measure oddly. |
| Darkest Star Games | 30 Nov 2015 1:17 p.m. PST |
Thought Warlord is 1/56, so wouldn't they be too small? Also, didn't they buy WF, so WF figures are no longer available? |
| Lion in the Stars | 30 Nov 2015 7:30 p.m. PST |
1/48 scale works out to about 36mm tall, so you'd want the tallest "28mm" minis you can find. Personally, I'd go with Tamiya etc 1/48 plastics, which will also give you a small range of traditional vehicles. |
| Coyotepunc and Hatshepsuut | 30 Nov 2015 8:36 p.m. PST |
I second the Tamiya 1/48 kits. |
| haywire | 01 Dec 2015 9:33 a.m. PST |
I would go with Tamiya 1/48th as well. |
| Griefbringer | 01 Dec 2015 9:39 a.m. PST |
Thought Warlord is 1/56, so wouldn't they be too small? Also, didn't they buy WF, so WF figures are no longer available? Warlord vehicles certainly are 1/56. They did not buy WF, though they made some sort of exclusive distribution deal with them, so WF is no longer selling their own kits. You can still buy old WF stock from various retailers (though they are also more of 1/56 in scale). If you want actual 1/48 figures, the previous suggestions for Tamiya sound pretty sensible to me. |
| haywire | 01 Dec 2015 9:43 a.m. PST |
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| Darkest Star Games | 01 Dec 2015 9:56 a.m. PST |
My only worry with the Tamiya is the limit of poses. Some of them aren't really gaming poses either, ya know? |
| Darkest Star Games | 01 Dec 2015 9:58 a.m. PST |
Oh excellent Haywire, thank you. |
| Fred Cartwright | 01 Dec 2015 1:55 p.m. PST |
There is a huge range of 1/48 stuff available from Quarterkit either as resin kits or built and painted version. The built models are not cheap. Also Blitzkreig miniatures do 1/48 resin kits that are a lot simpler than the Quarterkit ones. They have things like a Maus that would do nicely for a Dust scenario. Finally Corgi did a small range of prepainted infantry to go with their die cast tanks. They are of a similar slim build to the Dust infantry so worth searching for any on eBay or similar sites. |
| Darkest Star Games | 02 Dec 2015 8:41 a.m. PST |
Thank you Fred. I dig that Maus, it's HUGE! |
| Lion in the Stars | 03 Dec 2015 8:59 p.m. PST |
Looks like the Dreamforge troops will also work. Shame that they're only scifi Germans right now. Otherwise, Projekt X, Incursion, and Victory Force all look to fit in. |
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