"Team Yankee: Twice the BMPs?" Topic

This fellow on Facebook made an interesting discovery about the BMP kits:

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If you don't Facebook then here's the quick summary. If you don't glue the top hull to the bottom hull then you can field either version of the BMP using the same kit. You simply build the bottom hull and both top hulls, but NOT GLUE the top hull to the bottom hull together. The author says that the hull and bottom hull snap nicely together so you should be able to field BOTH the BMP-1 and the BMP-2 with the same kits.

One interesting thing he did was he snapped the hulls together and turned the miniature up-side-down and the whole model held. I'll have to try that out with my kits.

So if this is true and it holds during game play then the BMP kits are very flexible! And it will save me from making a final decision about which version to make.

That's a nice feature.

Shhhh, don't let BF hear you.

Even with that you will usually be a box short

Hey if you buy 285th scaled GHQ minis instead, you could buy a pack each of BMP1's and BMP2's and it would still cost less than half of what you paid for your 1 pack of BF models.

Ah but they will be 1/3 of the size so your £/mm value is actually not as good :-)

No doubt 285th scale is cheaper! It's just a matter of what scale you like and $$ you have. I'm a bit lucky. I have the money to do both, to a degree, anyway. I'll probably do 15mm for small actions with a company or so per side (20 or so vehicles) and 6mm to do much larger actions like say company+ to battalion- (30 or so vehicles per side).