"Dirt Cheap Cows! and other critters...." Topic
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 Extra Crispy  | 01 Nov 2018 11:12 a.m. PST |
Needing a herd of cows fast and cheap for play testing, I picked up 5 boxes of Farm Animals from Pegasus in 1/48 scale:
Each box gets you 5 walking cows and 1 lying down (not counting all the other critters: goats, pigs, sheep, geese etc.). I bought 5 boxes at $8.99 USD each:
A tad large at 1/48 but not too bad. Vendel Border Reiver supplied for scale:
Since they are already brown I'm just basing them and then will touch up a few details: eyes, noses, horns etc.
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| 14Bore | 01 Nov 2018 11:19 a.m. PST |
Cows come in many sizes, and they all taste good. |
79thPA  | 01 Nov 2018 12:56 p.m. PST |
Thanks for posting. That's within my tolerance range. |
| Extra Crispy | 01 Nov 2018 3:08 p.m. PST |
Size difference will be a lot less noticeable if your troops have thicker bases than your cows. For example, in LoTR the slotta adds 3 or 4 mm to the figure, while cows get based on less than 1mm thick steel… |
| MSU John | 02 Nov 2018 5:13 p.m. PST |
I got some for my Old West games. They blend in well. |
| Cacique Caribe | 04 Nov 2018 4:02 p.m. PST |
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