From: Glenn M Wilson <triphibious@j...>
Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 17:06:48 PDT
Subject: Answers to Re: Looking for a particular 1/300 - 1/285 - 6 mm figure
I got such a great set of answers from all the lists to the question that I decided to share them with all of you. Enjoy! Gracias, Glenn > See if you can find Scotia, they had a lot of the "weird" stuff. If ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ G'day, What some of the guys here have done is take the chassis from a standard vehicle from their force and put the sensor dish from the FSE superdreadnaught (full thrust obviously) figure on it (picked these up from Nic as they're separate from the main figure). You could do something similar, not necessarily buying from parts from nic, but using a chassis from your force and sticking a but or bead to be the sensor stuff on top. Cheers Beth ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------- I use PanEuropean Light Tanks from SJG's Ogre line: http://www.warehouse23.com/item.cgi?SJG10-0508 You've got the big sensor boom, plus that little radar dish at the back. Might be a little too high-tech looking for your needs, but hey -- maybe they've managed to make a purchase from a more advanced ally.... And while I'm talking about SJG, check out this for an interesting addition to SGII: http://www.sjgames.com/miniatures/img/uplift/fen.bw.med.jpg I'm certainly going to get a few for myself when the set is released; I'm not sure about the rest of the Uplift set, but I can't resist that. The separate bit, by the way, is the Warmask -- seems to include a pair of guns, and it would be child's play to add some different ones. John Crimmins johncrim@voicenet.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------- It happens I just kitbashed some interesting vehicles: a counter battery radar vehicle, a tactical operation center and a zone air defence vehicle. The base hull for all three is GZG Aurora light wheeled APC (DF-C07), there's a picture of it on GZG catalogue, page 31. Bits and pieces are leftovers from old aircraft model kits, two hellfire launchers from a 1:300 Apache and thin cardboard. The fast way: find a vehicle you like with a wide flat top or a separate turret. Stick a stick on the top, it's the radar support. Find something that already resembles a radar or cut, bend and fold a piece of plastic card or cardboard until it has the right shape and glue it to the support. Prime, paint, play. Ciao, Matteo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------- Glenn Have you looked at CinC 's Modern Russian Radar/Air Defence page There are pictures on the page of the various acquisition radars Bob ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ Try Skytrex (http://www.skytrex.com/) - not sure who distributes in the US. In their 1/300th Modern Russians range they have M756, Tracked Dish Artillery Radar or M797, Straight Flush Radar + Flat Face Radar. In the British there is M690, FV432 Cymbeline. A DIY alternative is to take an example of whatever chassis you desire and beg / steal / borrow a radar from the GW Space Marine vehicle accessory sprue (on their website as 'Hatch Sprue Land Raider Sprue C') and glue it on top. If you know anyone who has a Space Marine army they should have one or two of these to spare since every Dreadnought / Rhino / Land Raider variant comes with more accessories than you can possibly use. Tony ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------- Scotia do a nice range of modern Soviet support vehicles and you can buy individual models. I'd give them a try. all the best Barrie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------- Some of the FT bits that are sold seperately are radar dishes. Roger Books ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------- How would the radar from this do? http://www.brigademodels.co.uk/NoFrames/SF15/Items/SF15-403c.html If it's any use, next time you order I'll put one on the chassis of your choice for the same price as the vehicle (normal head swap deal) Tony ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------- One idea I've seen done is to use an APC hull and mount on it a radar from a battleship kit (there are some pretty cheap ones out there -- good for kitbashing). Another option would be to take any spare model piece with a grid or corrugation on it (such as the interior flooring from an APC model), cut out a square or ovoid, and then boil and bend it to a slight curvature. I'll see if I can find any pictures that might give you and idea. Andreas ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------- AFAIK they sell the radars single (since I can't see any mention of there being more than one model per pack, whereas there are such notes for other items). Not sure how large the models are though - different companies have somewhat different ideas about exactly how large "1/285" is, and that's without counting those ranges which claim to be "1/300" or "6mm" :-/ Pfc-in-C have pics of including all their Russian air-defence radars in their on-line catalogue at http://www.pfc-cinc.shoppingcartsplus.com/page/page/305463.htm (if the link doesn't work, use http://www.pfc-cinc.com to reach the main page instead). *** I'll be off-line for some days; should be back on-line again on Sunday. Later, Oerjan oerjan.ohlson@telia.com "Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it. - Hen3ry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------- Could try the old 1970 British cymberline radar mounted on the FV432 APC - It actually is a mortar locating radar M690 FV432 Cymbeline (x 4) Price: £1.50 Kev ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------- Dear Glenn Scotia Long Track radar should do the trick - its in their modern Russian range. Hmm may be a bit big - perhaps their Pat hand would be better, Of cours in Real life these are airdefence radars Cheers Bob Mackenzie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------- Check out this page from CnC. I've got a Long Track Radar vehicle and its huge(it dwarfs my T80s)! http://www.pfc-cinc.shoppingcartsplus.com/page/page/305463.htm You can always order from Scotia but these pictures will give you an idea of what they look like. Cheers Kieran ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------- You can get a huge variety of dishes and things for naval model makers. I am particularly tempted by some of the turrets and radar/range finders. One URL is http://www.euromodels.fsbusiness.co.uk/modftenm.htm Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------- I didn't follow that thread real close, so I don't know if this is just what you're after, but I felt it couldn't hurt to let you see this: http://www.pfc-cinc.shoppingcartsplus.com/page/page/310092.htm -- Flak Magnet (Tim) www.geocities.com/flakmagnet72 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------ I like the "Longtrack" from CinC. Personally, I converted my CBR vehicle from the chassis/tracks of a German WW2-era Tiger and made my own radar dish from sheet styrene and card (although this was a bitch to do and I wouldn't recommend doing it). I thought GZG had a CBR vehicle in the DS2 rulebook??? From: "JDO" <ancientsociety79@yahoo.com> > -----Original Message-----