"best 6-10mm Ultramodern infantry? Buildings" Topic

The new H&R 6mm infantry are superb, if you are on facebook have a look at the 6mm wargames site, exact name eludes me! The best buildings are Timecast but they are solid.

Tally Ho!

The GHQ modern infantry tend to be very large compared to other 6mm manufacturers, sometimes looking bigger than the GHQ vehicles when next to them.

Some would even say GHQ ultra-modern infantry are just about 10mm anyway.

They are certainly detailed.

Have a look at the GHQ forum and discussions there on the size of GHQs latest infantry packs.

Check out Pendraken for early cold war in 10mm. Some of the vehicles will still work today and their range is growing.

Gamecraft has matboard and acrylic buildings that can let you put together a city pretty quickly, specially the bigger buildings.

Yea, the GHQ infantry are about 1/220t scale, last time I checked.

Minifigs and Pendraken both have nice infantry sculpts.

I've got both 1/285th and 1/144th vehicles and troops, and of late have been working on acquiring forces for the larger scale. You can get prepainted plastic vehicles for the Cold War in 1/144th scale, and even a small selection of troops.

I see them as 12mm, but in the UK 10mm is supposedly 1/150th scale, so its pretty close.

The GHQ ultra-moderns are nicely sculpted and detailed, too many in the port-arms pose for my taste (I want them shooting!). I agree with all the comments above and can add in a couple freely available paper building links.

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Go back and forth a couple pages on this link to find all the buildings and road tiles.

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For the infantry, I mark my bases to tell them apart.
No mark – regular Assault Rifle.
Black Dot – Grenade Launcher.
2 Black Dot – SMG

etc…

TimeCast has both 6mm and 10mm buildings but I think they are solid.

timecastmodels.co.uk

GameCraft are hollow, depending on the material chosen.

Forgot to add, I'd go with H&R infantry for 6mm scale vehicles, if you want them to match the size of the armor.

Another vote for GHQ.

I have a few quibbles with some holes in their product line but they're the most complete of any company out there.

Personally, I like for figures to be a little bigger. Makes them easier to paint and they mount better on a base, I suspect they are a little sturdier for handling as well. And since they're representative of a squad/unit anyways, exact scale representation vs vehicles isn't that important.

Queen Catherine:

First welcome to modern gaming and I hope you find it entertaining and rewarding. It will certainly be bloody and destructive!

At what level of forces do you wish to game? If it is fireteam or squad level then 10mm/12mm or even 15mm might work well for you. If larger formations are to be used then 10/12mm and 6mm are better suited and if you mean to game large battles on your 3X4 table then you might consider 3mm minis; diminishing visual acuity notwithstanding.

As to rules, check out Skirmish Sangin and No End In Sight for team or squad level actions, Force on Force by Ambush Alley for squad to platoon level actions, the upcoming Too Fat Lardies modern version of IABSM for company/combat-team battles and for battalion level and up A Fist Full of Tows 3 for larger battles. The 5Core family of rules are also very good and quick to play so if you want a fast battle these may be your best bet.

I hope you enjoy your foray into this genre and best wishes for a rewarding experience!

Cheers and good gaming.
Rod Robertson.

paperterrain.com offer 6mm and 10mm buildings for various theaters.

Queen Catherine:

The way you describe things, the 5Core rules sound about right for your purposes. Given the size of the table you have at your disposal 10/12mm sounds like your best bet. Minifigs, Pendraken and Aotrs Shipyard are first stops for figures and vehicles.

Here is a slightly dated but nonetheless comprehensive list of all things 10/12mm:

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For buildings check out Gamecraft Miniatures. They also carry 6mm stuff should you decide to go that way.

Please keep us posted on your progress and enjoy!

Cheers and good gaming.
Rod Robertson.

There are quite a few modern 1/144 (10/12mm) on Shapeways , Google AOTRS SHIPYARDS and look for Maneouver Group moderns for cold war stuff. Fits with both Minifigs and the plastic pre painted stuff. I have lots of all of them. There are a few 1/144 fold flat buildings on Wargames Vault under Maneouver Group. You buy the images and print them yourself. These are gamers buildings not models. However in significant numbers, say ten or more they are good as the detail is lost anyway. If you are playing at platoon leavel you probably want to make temporary village bases as at this scale if you don't get then back exactly you can change sight lines significantly.

I will declare my bias. I dislike GHQ intensly! I will not deny that provided you spend hours straigtening the guns and then painting them as works of art and never touching them EVER they are great. As a wargames model they are (in my opinion only) rubbish as the guns bend to easily and a great model with a bent gun is not a great model. The old Skytrex now defunct (I think) with a pin for a gun was better as at least it stayed straight even if it lacked detail. Again its personal preference.

Working my rule of thumb the min size for a WWII with any sort of armour is about 8 by 6 at 1/72 representing (in my terms 960m by 720m) tight for tanks but they are OK at that. In 144 we use 1mm=1m so you get jusr a bit more 1800yds by 1200 yds out of a 6 by 4 albiet the tanks are a bit over my ideal of about 5 times groundscale but livable with.

Threfore on a 3 ft by 3 ft table using 300 scale at about 1mm=2m you get 914m by 914 m, Tight but tanks can keep a reasonable distance. Thefore I think that despite it being a bit too small to be ideal 1/300 scale looks a sensible scale for you.

As said before terrain is up to you. We use "Angel Hair" to indicate soft going wooded areas (with trees on top) over an appropriately coloured sheet.

Not done it at 1/300 but the ideal may be single hex high Hexon II, not cheap but you can now get flat and single hex high features. You can save money by using it for just hills. or cover everything. These are green but they do do sand. These hills are 2 hewx high with 1/144 models on them.

A very quick test scenario.

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an OTT show display again 1/144 but you get the idea.

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