"Are You a Picky Mixer?" Topic

Do you mix figures from different manufacturers together happily, or do you carefully select which figures look well together?

Mix them happily. Sometimes even mixing scales (15mm infantry with 6mm tanks)

Wargamers are picky? Color me shocked!

Carefully select

Picky about figures, but since people come in different sizes, I will mix

Carefully

People do come in different sizes, However, I'm picky on the size of weapons.

In the Vietnam ranges A TAG M-60 would never match with WestWind/Baker company.

That said, I will gladly use the SKS armed troops from TAG, WestWind, Baker company and even London War Room within a single unit.

Yes, I am very picky. While people come in different sizes, weapons do not.

Carefully / Picky.

I have a wide mix.

I am picky if sufficient different minis are available. Using VCarter's Vietnam example, I have not so happily mixed TAG and WestWing due to the relative dearth of USMC looking chaps. But I keep them in different squads so that it is not so visible. If either range was sufficiently large I would stick with it alone. In the land of WWII, I also not so happily mix the newer 1/56 stuff with the older Diecast things with plans to a gradaual drawdawn to 1/56 only.

My record for an FIW game was 23 different manufacturers on the table.

Very picky.

I love to mix ..the more diversity the better..

Depends some style are more unique than others. Also some periods require you to mix. As no single range give enough variation.

I am a picky mixer.

I mix loads of different manufacturers, especially in my Dark Ages armies. Even weapons were not standard sizes back then….

Picky…I will try to stick with the same sculptor…Cooplestone with Cooplestone, Perry with Perry…etc.

Picky

Very picky

Not picky at all but I generally do fantasy and sci-fi so it's much easier to justify things like different sized weapons than it would be for historical gamers.

Picky

Not very picky but they need to be close to size which isn't to hard.

Carefully select.

Carefully select, however, weapon or human body part sizes are not the main criterion. I am concerned with the overall effect rather than the details of any one or any subset of pieces.

Massively different weapons that are supposed to be identical (less of a problem the further away in time or organization from modern, industrially equipped armies – I have a hard time believing everyone's pike was the same length; even modern irregulars can have a dozen different makes of AK-47/knock offs) can ruin that effect.

I've mixed 28mm figures from several manufacturers and 25mm figures from West Wind in my WWII games and no one has ever noticed. Maybe it's different if they're all standing tall in ranks with some games, but with the variety of poses: crouched, prone, running, aiming etc… no one has noticed.

Picky

Mix with abandon.

I pick out the figures I want and, once painted, I play with them – and let others join the fun. Does that count?

Life is too short to be picky about miniatures – and sometimes you can't get what you want that way anyway.

I will mix but generally stick to similar sizes, but I do tend to stick to manufacturer's that I like. My Arab army has 4 or 5 different companies mixed quite liberally.

And I agree that people come in very different sizes. Our ERU has a team that consist of one 6'4" guy who is quite bulky and a 5'3" guy who is rail thin. It really looks like a heroic 28 next to a true scale 25. However like Etotheipi states, they have the same size weapons. Both carry the same breeching shotgun, and same size sidearm. That is my issue with mixing figures in the more modern periods.

Very picky to the point that I rarely mix.

Rarely mix, mostly picky.

Mixer? I drink straight from the bottle!

Generally don't mix figures from different manufacturers in the same unit. When gaming with my friends, it's common for different units to be composed of figures from different manufacturers.

Pretty picky, have to really be near each other for me to mix.