Why mix OUDF kit and modern (or antique)
weapons like the M-79?
Second point: I don't buy figures in chaps. Just don't go there. Visions of
the Village People dancing in my head... (ugh).
Third: If you can persuade Nic to do the same thing that was done with the FSE
and NAC motrocyclists, that'd be good. Mould the horse and the rider separate,
that way you can easily just produce different riders (so I can get some real
OUDF riders with OU rifles and SAWs). That would be the best approach I think
for general
utility/saleability. Probably for casting too.
> Why mix OUDF kit and modern (or antique)
> Second point: I don't buy figures in chaps. Just
Thomas Barclay schrieb:
> Third: If you can persuade Nic to do the same
And you could have different mounts (Horses, Llamas, Lizards, Birds, Spiders,
whatever..)
Greetings
Exactly! OUDF already has a grav-bike riding figure.
Mould the mounts to fit that figure. And mould the other nation's calvary to
fit that mount.
And do it in 15mm too. :-)
> "Bell, Brian K (Contractor)" wrote:
Amen to that!
Give my creature life! The two mad scientists return to their lab
laughing gleefully ..................
> Thomas Barclay schrieb:
Don't forget Yaks...:)
> Greetings
John, Don,
I think I'd be interested in these too, I'm not sure about having visor's
moulded on, my modelling skills are just about up to adding them if required
but not really up to removing them. I've just be reading (again) Pournelle's
"Future History" which is a collection of Falkenberg's legion stories -
plenty of mounted troops in a Sci Fi setting here.
In the past I have produced Sci Fi cavalry using 25mm Pony Wars figures and
Denizen sci fi weapons packs. I've also just (as in the postman knocked on the
door while I was composing this) received "A History of British Cavalry
1816 - 1919 vol 5 Egypt, Syria and Palestine 1914 - 1919" which has a
large
section on Light Horse/Mounted Rifle/Dragoon tactics so I'll probably be
very horse orientated for a while.
Hi Guys,
Sounds very interesting. If the figures are good, I'd most certainly be
interested in ordering a bunch. How many "poses" or types were you
planning to order - enough to make up a mounted platoon without every
other figure being the same?
If they are "lower-techish" they would make great mounted
militia/rebels/colonials. If "higher-techish" they would be good
mounted regular light infantry. So, I don't have a preference either way for
the
visors-no visors discussion or the GL / no-GL discussion. I don't see,
however, why the 25mm integral-type GL's of the SG universe would cause
a problem to a rider on a horse. They aren't very big.
You might consider giving them all some type of LAW like the new Gurkha
figures have.
> pack-wearing figure that with an antenna becomes an EW trooper, and =
good idea.
> mike). They would be wearing cowboy-style boots, spurs, and leather =
I have to side with the group that doesn't much like the idea of cowboy boots
and leather chaps. I'd sorta think that the SG future troopers could be
equipped with something that provides the same protection, but as an integral
part of their combat uniforms. Leg armour, if they're wearing it, or the cloth
material of their uniforms otherwise. Spurs would be easy to remove from a
figure unless they're done with all kinds of straps around
the boot, and doing a generic-ish boot that doesn't show straps or
laces, but has a standard boot toe, is a decent compromise between the cowboy
boot/no cowboy boot debate.
At the scale of a 25mm SG figure, it really isn't a big deal, unless they are
archaic looking, in which case people will notice.
and instead of traditional web gear they should have LBVs =
> (loadbearing vests like the US Army has--will send pictures if =
good idea
> Other armament would include: a bull-pupped rifle (simillar to NAC one,
why not? the SG universe ones are small - not at all like an M203-type
setup.
> Don's doing up some drawings and we'll be taking pictures of some =
Well, if they're good, I'd buy a platoon worth, or so.
> At 1:52 PM -0400 6/26/01, adrian.johnson@sympatico.ca wrote:
Though one really needs an equivalent number of mounted and
un-mounted figs. Additionally, there will probably need to be a
fellow holding a bunch of leads as well.
> If they are "lower-techish" they would make great mounted
Please don't do the changing size law like the Gurkhas have....
> why not? the SG universe ones are small - not at all like an M203-type
It's more like the planned OICW (just the barrels are flipped). Not a
bad looking rifle in the figs either. The over/under arrangement does
make for a nice firepower level. I would personally prefer the standard L7A3
combat rifle.
Some troopers with shotguns would be a good idea. A packed Mortar for mounting
on a horse would be nice as well.
> Well, if they're good, I'd buy a platoon worth, or so.
Same here....