"One born every minute?" Topic

Do you have a circus for the tabletop?

For me, I have a decent sized menagerie (in 28mm) for a Victorian circus (people, animals, and some wagons), but not a full up proper one and no Big Top terrain piece or smaller stages and buildings. I do have an amusement park hex-map that the circus folk frequent (as such performers are really not period- or genre-bound).

Mostly they fill the Scooby-Doo villains, Something Wicked This Way Comes types, or Victorian Super Hero team roles. Once they had a parade in a modern setting.

I don't but now that you mention it, I feel an intense need to collect one for my sci-fi games.

It would be cool for my 15mm sci-fi slum gang warfare to have a travelling space-circus set up next to the shanty town.

We have a range…

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Knights of dice have carnival and circus rides

The only 15mm size circus pieces I have found are by a company with the unlikely name of International Resource Services. They made two or three nice resin circus vignettes… similar to the things that Hawthorne Miniatures makes. For my 28s I have been pulling things together for a circus for years. The Brigade Games figures are a lot of fun. Reaper makes some as well. Horrorclix also made some circus figures. O gauge circus wagons (a wide variety) were once made by K-Line and can still be found on eBay. For my carousel and ferris wheel I got lucky and found a Christmas circus layout (plastic/a music box) that was not covered with snow and other Christmas decor at the swap meet… it is just right for 28mm. For bumper cars I bought some of the bumper cars made by Matchbox… just right for 28mm, and I got 3 for $5 USD (including shipping on eBay. Thanks to thor666 I just checked out Knights of Dice and will be adding some of their pieces to my circus as well. As for tents and side show game stalls, Lemax made a number of really nice circus side show game stalls in resin, and for my larger tents, I bought some nice toy big tops at the swap meet. The tents will need a little modification but should work out well. I sorry that I can't offer a manufacturer for those because since they were effectively "broken toys" when I bought them there was no manufacturer name attached.

Tents may be old MARX circus parts.

my 15mm sci-fi slum gang warfare to have a travelling space-circus

In a space traveling genre that has aliens, it's hard to imagine 'stuff' weird enough for a circus, but the other side of the coin is a slum/post-apoc/whatever might be primative enough for just about anybody with crude facepaint to be a circus performer.

For VSF, on the other hand, almost any creature, the fouler the better, could be an exhibit. AND, a VSF circus could hide so much, from a League of Extraordinary, to a vile cabal.

I can imagine a tall, skinny undertaker running a Phantasm show, for a bit Gothic example.

Doug

I need to amend my earlier posting. I said that my bumper cars are by Matchbox. In fact, they are by Hot Wheels. My only excuse for the error is that this weekend I picked up a really nice 1919 Walker truck by Matchbox at the swap meet so Matchbox was probably on my mind.

Right, Terrement, and Zombie Clowns are the most evil.

But Nazi Zombie Clowns are even worse.

Phil

Well, still Zombie Clowns, those.

If you're going to be specific, never forget the Cthulu-spawned Nazi Zombie Clowns… *shudder*

Oo, I think I lost a san point.

Doug

My guess is you are the only one.