Figure's Personal Equipment [MINIS]

first I'd like to repeat my (regular) call to
> > Jon for

Here here! Right now, I'm using line infantry for my SOF troops. I'd like to
have more appropriately kitted out guys. Normally grunts may drop their rucks
at the ORP and fight with just belt kit (although my webgear usually also
meant pouches and such on the vertical strapping too), but SOF will travel
more heavily equipped (they too may drop stuff, but the heavy kit would help
distinguish their figures). The only folks I've seen with some heavy kit are
the Mercs and they might merit it because they may do more walking than your
average line Infantry. But even the most mechanized unit will still need guys
with ammo pouches (If your mag holds 1500 rounds, then you'll just end up
shooting 5000 in an engagement.... nature of the beast), a place for your
canteen (or two in some places), a place for a wound dressing and some sulfa,
a place for a bayonet, a spot for your maps and GPS rig, a place for your
Gerber tool, a pouch for your face cam, a chocolate bar, and spare dry socks.

And secondly I'd actually like to suggest an
> > alternative, I have recently been shopping around 20mm WWII figs

Yeah, but they do still look like WW2 Germans - yes some of this mini
work is fantastic. They have great sculptors (or whatever explains
there high detail - Ever compared GHQ microarmour to Scotia? GHQ is
amazing).

> > figs and with a bit of careful shopping around moutain troops and

Really, if you're going to make 10m = 1", then you need to get figures that
are 6mm if you even want to be close to ground scale. I like 25mm because you
can make the figures look good (15mm and 10mm are just too small for ME to
comfortably paint detail).

I have seen games with a
> > couple of

Actually, that is a 25mm Peeve. Why are all 25mm buildings seemingly
pre-smashed? Armourcast makes a bunch of building fragments. Does
anyone make 25mm buildings that don't look hokey? The railway guys make great
stuff, but it isn't in the right scale. Probably the ability to work in
polystyrene as opposed to resin helps here. Although I like the Armourcast
stuff (and am ordering more of it, I like their new concrete bunker), I would
like to be able to build a good looking town in 25mm. Ideally with removable
roofs and floors so one can position the squad inside. You could have
excellent urban battles. I'm not as anxious as our friends from Oz who built
their
own table sized area with multi-level usable buildings (BTW, are you
guys ever going to post a picture somewhere?).

Tom.
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