[SG] 15mm Infantry [CLEAN STAMP]

Hiya,

It depends on how close to "true" 15mm you want to be. I've been looking
around for 15mm scifi figures for about a year now, and I've found that
there are two different types of 15mm scales for science-fiction, one of
which is noticeably larger than the other. In most cases, the older the figure
is, the smaller it will be, while the more recent figures are somewhere in
between 15mm and 20mm scale. Unfortunately, the difference is big enough that
you can really see the size gap between them when they stand next to each
other on the table. I don't know where GZG's 15mm scale figures fit in this
range. I'll be ordering some from England soon.
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"True" 15mm scale figures (smaller):

Freikorps 15 colonial marines & aliens I got a bunch of these from Outland
Games in Ohio, and the figures aren't
really well sculpted -- they're chunky, and the human figures are
somewhat misshapen. They remind me of historical figures from the 1980s.

Tabletop Miniatures They're in Nottingham, I think, and the ownership recently
changed.
Cool figures, if you like the "science-fantasy" look.

Old Grenadier 15mm Traveller miniatures
OOP, and hard to find -- one of the holy grails of 15mm scifi figures.
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"Large" 18mm? scale figures (larger):

Alternative Armies I got a sample pack in the mail from Lon Weiss at Brigade
Games, and I'm
going to order some soon. They're definitely "science-fantasy" figures.

Old Heavy Gear infantry OOP, and getting harder to find. I scrounged around a
lot of conventions & game stores last summer looking for these, and found some
good deals. These are the figures that I use for most of my StarGrunt games,
but unfortunately there isn't very much variation in the figure line.

Tactical Command Games This is a small, relatively new company in Iowa that
has been selling scifi minis rules & 15mm figures this past year, and I picked
up about 50 of them last summer because they're the same size as the old Heavy
Gear infantry figures. I wouldn't recommend them, however -- the faces
& human proportions are very poorly sculpted, and the uniforms make them look
like WWII soldiers with shoulder pads and kneepads.

-- Rick Rutherford

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Well, Rick, Brian had most of what you had covered on his page. I was
wondering, though:

You said:
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"True" 15mm scale figures (smaller):

Freikorps 15 colonial marines & aliens
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Brian's description was taken from what several folks said, and I tend to
agree:
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Apparently these are 'large 15s', actually scaling out to 17mm or so tall.
I've never seen them.
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However, I agree with your assement, and disagree with Brian's reviewer, on
the casting quality.

Still, useful and pretty good for instant Aliens-in-15mm for a travel
play
version, if I ever get around to it. ;->=

By the way, Chris of Outland, distributor, and I think licensed caster of,
Friekorps, has been doing the vehicles for TCS. Don't know about the soldiers.

For OOP 15mm, don't forget the Ral Partha Galactic Grenadiers and Final
Frontier box sets. 40 or so figs in three groups: power armor, armed
'colonists', and a weird alien (not not-Aliens). Simple and lumpy, if
you find the boxes as I have for about $5US (painful after paying $10 on
eBay), not too bad. And, each has a ruleset, scenerios, and maps you can
consider
for tinkering. By the way, not sure off-top-of-head, but I think GG was
the PA vs aliens, and FF was PA putting down revolting colonists, but I could
well have that switched.

I tried to jump in on the Traveller stuff recently on eBay. *O*U*C*H*

Otherwise, TTM came from or bought out Table Top Games, which put out the
Laserburn figs as well as the game system, right? I know some of those were
pretty weird; Redemptionists with long pointy spears. ;->=

The_Beast

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