15mm vehicles?

So what is being used for 15mm vehicles, I really like this scale for my
troops, but want to be able to throw in the occasional tank, apc, or civilian
craft.

In message <ML-3.4.985203873.495.books@babinga.dms.state.fl.us>, Roger
Books wr ites:
> So what is being used for 15mm vehicles, I really like this

I've got a lot of stuff at http://www.cowell.org/~andy/min/15mm/

Irregular Miniatures makes some reptilian aliens

Ainsty Miniatures also make some Predator like aliens that are cast in clear
resin

> On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Roger Books wrote:

> So what is being used for 15mm vehicles, I really like this

The main sources of 15mm vehicles in our group are, in no particular order:

- Roco Minitanks (1/87th HO scale) - I've got a trio of German Marder
IIIs redone with hoverskirts. Slightly overscale for 15mm, but not hugely.

- plastic kits - usually 1/72nd scale; the basic Airfix/etc ones,
sometimes 'SFed' into grav or hover vehicles. I also made a VTOL from
1/144 scale aircraft kits - it's technically undersized, but it's an
aircraft so it doesn't matter much. For kits and the Roco stuff, get
vehicles you aren't going to recognize instantly - for Canada, that
means European stuff, mostly.

- DP9's Heavy Gear line - the new walkers make great size 1 infantry
walkers; we run a LOT of these damn things.

- kid's toy trucks/cars - I've got a couple of trucks that I've
repainted, and some of the more outlandish vehicles could make really cool SF
cars. One of these days I'm going to spend a couple of hours in a good toy
store...

Brigade in the UK are doing new, resin 15mm vehicles, which look good in the
pictures I've seen. Stan Johansen in the US do several 15mm SF vehicles, of
which I've heard mixed reviews. Various other manufacturers have one or two
15mm vehicles in their SF lines, but no more.

Did someone say that Tabletop Miniatures really is dead? Pity, they had some
interesting stuff...

Hope this helps,

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 15:24:23 -0800 (PST) Brian Burger
> <yh728@victoria.tc.ca> writes:

Arrgh, I just sold all that stuff off!

> - plastic kits - usually 1/72nd scale; the basic Airfix/etc ones,

This begins to sound like that website that argues 1/48th vehicles fit
best visually with 25mm scale...

> - DP9's Heavy Gear line - the new walkers make great size 1 infantry

Oh, now that's a nice idea. Maybe I can adapt the idea for my 'Mice in Space'
under Starguard rules.

> - kid's toy trucks/cars - I've got a couple of trucks that I've

Remeber if you have a wife and kids, that you have to spend over 50% of the
money on the kids' stuff! Looks suspicious otherwise. <grin>

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 15:24:23 -0800 (PST), Brian Burger
<yh728@victoria.tc.ca> wrote:

> - Roco Minitanks (1/87th HO scale) - I've got a trio of German Marder

Brian, how did you make the skirts? I've been converting mine to
anti-grav, by
whipping off the treds and covering over the "gaps" in styrene. What did you
use to make skirts?

Allan,

My brother made the skirts by using an air-drying clay called "Das
Pronto".
Any air-drying clay will work however.

> On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Allan Goodall wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 15:24:23 -0800 (PST), Brian Burger

> Brian, how did you make the skirts? I've been converting mine to

Air drying clay, actually. I rolled long snakes of it, shoved it into the
areas I wanted the skirts, smoothed the outer face, then let it dry in place.
After it's dry it falls out, so just superglue the pieces back in and paint
them.

Check your local craft store for the stuff - I've used it in a bunch of
scratchbuilding & conversion projects, where regular modelling putty wouldn't
work.

> Brian Burger wrote:

> - plastic kits - usually 1/72nd scale; the basic Airfix/etc ones,

There's also some old 1/76 scale stuff that I've been finding. The M113
of Gerald's is one of them.

> - DP9's Heavy Gear line - the new walkers make great size 1 infantry

I'm not sure it's as much a "we" as a me and you guys trying to match them. I
personally just think they look cool:) So what if they're really effective.:)

> Brian Burger wrote:

They're in metal rather than resin

You can, of course, get to Tony's Brigade site by editing the URL from his
last note, but:
http://www.brigademodels.co.uk/

The direct path to the 15mm vehicles is:
http://www.brigademodels.co.uk/sf15/tanks15.htm

I've become much more tolerant of frames, by the way, now that I a) have a
moderately fast PC at home, b) have a larger than 13" monitor, and c) have
ADSL at home for snappier response. I still give higher marks to sliced bread.
*shrug*

***
> Brigade in the UK are doing new, resin 15mm vehicles, which look good

They're in metal rather than resin
***

Of course, several of the piccies at his site are not metal, being, I believe,
the mould masters. I gather he's in such a hurry to get an image,
he flashes them before even making the mold. ;->=

> devans@uneb.edu wrote:
have a
> moderately fast PC at home, b) have a larger than 13" monitor, and c)
have
> ADSL at home for snappier response. I still give higher marks to

I'm in the process of revamping the website completely at the moment;
the new site will have a non-frames version which is designed
specifically for the purpose (rather than the current kludge which is to
simply drop out the main content frame - this is rather lacking on
navigational links!).

> ***

The main reason for this is our 'Design Studio' page where we preview models
before they enter production. We find quite a few people are very interested
to see the masters and how we go about creating them;
Schoon's a good example - he asked a few questions, decided that he'd
have a go and the result is there for all to see.

Often the master pictures tend to hand around even when the model is in
production; this is just me being lazy :-/

> The_Beast

On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 14:57:57 -0800 (PST), Brian Burger
<yh728@victoria.tc.ca> wrote:

> Air drying clay, actually. I rolled long snakes of it, shoved it into

Sounds good! I'll look into this...