"1/32 Airfix versus...what?" Topic

If you had 1/32 Airfix modern Germans, British, Soviet, and SAS figures, and you were also using the accompanying vehicles as transport / support – Saracen armoured car, Alvis Stalwart, Bedford truck – what sort of sci-fi opponent could you pit them against?

Skirmish size battles maybe in a BUA against, I don't know, something nasty coming out of the ground? Something a bit Quatermass, or maybe the Thing?

A mate has come by a stash of these and we're thinking about a change of pace. They are all 70s vintage, i.e. made then but also depicting the troops of then. Who could they fight?

A friend of mine ran a famous Twilight 2000 scenario with US Army veterans fighting radioactive slugs.

How about sculpting an alien parasite onto backs of similar troopers and having them as mind-slaves like Robert Heinlein's Puppet Masters?

Daleks?.

Clearly something that looks like a bloke in a rubber suit….

More helpfully – giant plastic insects and/or arachnids?

Airfix did do a set of 1:32 sci-fi figures, which were actually rather good that included some lizardmen-like aliens with blasters that would be rather good. But I doubt you could get hold of even a handful for anything other than really silly money.

Zombies, of course.

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Those 70s Airfix figures are some of the best they made. The "Modern British" is a particular favorite of mine.

Yeah, the scenario I'm envisaging would be small units sent out in their Stalwarts / trucks with a Saracen as support to, well, do something or retrieve something.

I'm thinking something like the XCom PC games. What would they fight and who does the miniatures?

Daleks could be good except that in recent times one Dalek would be invincible. Does anyone do 1/32 Daleks?

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Does anyone do 1/32 Daleks?

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I remembered having some soft plastic "Timpo" style ones as a boy in the '60s.

Zombies is always indeed a good choice.

Also, dinosaurs.
Or Godzilla ( = overkill!)

I'm lucky, I live in Thailand which appears to be the home of cheap plastic Taiwan/Chinese/Vietnamese/sweat shop du jour models. I can get Godzilla models in about 20 different sizes. So I picked up a dozen of them at about 60mm high. With just a smidge of work with plastic rod and strip, plus a paint job, they become great alien invaders.

Scour the cheap pound or dollar stores, it's amazing what you can find.

The OP offered his own suggestion. NATO vs. Warsaw Pact. Russians vs. any of the others mentioned.

The Warsaw Pact aren't really sci-fi enough. Where are the plasma cannon, the endo-rifles, the quark lasers, the hovertanks?

Those 70s Airfix figures are some of the best they made. The "Modern British" is a particular favorite of mine.

I had a set as kid, good sculpts, poses not bad and IIRC it actually had a good number of support weapons.

There is at least one Russian company churning out 54mm sci-fi figures. Size difference probably won't mean much for alien-types. Stylistically probably not quite what was asked for, but not badly priced if you if you don't buy from the first ebay seller you find.

I also have a vague memory of cheap plastic not-cybermen?

What about plastic toy spiders, luminous or otherwise.

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I recall an old Dr.Who with giant spiders.

Not so "Giant" robots.

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How big are the SCS things?

How do people game versus (eg) giant spiders – do the spiders have hit points or what?

I quite like the idea of a large adversary you need to fire missiles at, but which doesn't shoot them back, so you don't need to be armoured. This would allow the incorporation of SHADO mobiles…