Post by manoftinblog on Sept 20, 2016 20:30:13 GMT
Nobody has started a 20th century or moderns 54mm thread yet - I was feeling sorry for this board.
One cheap source of WW2 and modern figures are pound stores and party favour suppliers. They may not be as well moulded as the originals but they provide bulk figures or conversion potential at discount cost.
Erratically soldier types range from the following:
Airfix copies - quite commonly are selections from German Infantry, Japanese Infantry, Afrika Corps and British Eighth Army
Again Matchbox figures (now unavailable) reappear in copy form, usually the ever present American WW2 infantry as the archetypal green Toy Army Men from various suppliers like Hawkins Bazaar/ Tobar. Matchbox Eighth Army, Japanese and Afrika Korps and German also sometimes appear jumbled in pound store or toy soldier bucket selections.
BMC US marines (distorted pirate copies) occasionally appear.
Lots of modern US infantry / gulf war / desert storm type figures around.
Tip - buy them when you see them as they aren't usually available for long.
It is mildly entertaining trying to name that figure or work out what range it is copied from.
One cheap source of WW2 and modern figures are pound stores and party favour suppliers. They may not be as well moulded as the originals but they provide bulk figures or conversion potential at discount cost.
Erratically soldier types range from the following:
Airfix copies - quite commonly are selections from German Infantry, Japanese Infantry, Afrika Corps and British Eighth Army
Again Matchbox figures (now unavailable) reappear in copy form, usually the ever present American WW2 infantry as the archetypal green Toy Army Men from various suppliers like Hawkins Bazaar/ Tobar. Matchbox Eighth Army, Japanese and Afrika Korps and German also sometimes appear jumbled in pound store or toy soldier bucket selections.
BMC US marines (distorted pirate copies) occasionally appear.
Lots of modern US infantry / gulf war / desert storm type figures around.
Tip - buy them when you see them as they aren't usually available for long.
It is mildly entertaining trying to name that figure or work out what range it is copied from.
