Post by listy on Jun 1, 2020 6:50:29 GMT
I'm looking for some models for a new army, and I'm not having much luck. Mostly because I'm so out of date with mini companies, and have lost my collection of companies I used to use.
As the title would suggest what I am after is Home Guard models, in 28mm (1/56) and I'm seriously struggling to find any that fit my needs. It seems to be in part me being a picky git, but there are a few main issues.
1: Home Guard models seem to fall into one of two groups. The first is best described by the phrase "LOL Dads Army!" and is either entirely based around that show, or at least the concepts suggested by it. These immediately get binned as I want a proper historical Home Guard, which leads us nicely onto:
2: Rifles. I'll accept I may being picky sod here, but nearly all the models seem to be armed with SMLE's, not P.14's. If I wanted them with SMLE's I'd just buy the relevant mid war infantry models (although those seem to be just as rare)! From looking at sources I need the following weapons in the range: P.14's, Lewis Guns, Sten guns, Blacker Bombards and Northover's. I'm yet to find a decent helmeted Lewis gun team. I suspect this is an impossible order, although the two entries in Sub artillery can be obtained from warlord. In this category it seems the best options are 1st Corps and or Foundry. Although I have reservations about the sculpt quality of faces for 1stcorps.
The easiest way at current is to get Warlords games plastics, some P.14's from god knows where, and switch out the heads (again I don't know where from). But it seems like its going to be impossible to do that.
I wonder if I should be looking at WWI models instead?
So if anyone knows of any 28mm Home Guard, with P.14's (and in this non-existent range there's a Z-projector as well...) can you please point me in the right direction?
Thanks!
As the title would suggest what I am after is Home Guard models, in 28mm (1/56) and I'm seriously struggling to find any that fit my needs. It seems to be in part me being a picky git, but there are a few main issues.
1: Home Guard models seem to fall into one of two groups. The first is best described by the phrase "LOL Dads Army!" and is either entirely based around that show, or at least the concepts suggested by it. These immediately get binned as I want a proper historical Home Guard, which leads us nicely onto:
2: Rifles. I'll accept I may being picky sod here, but nearly all the models seem to be armed with SMLE's, not P.14's. If I wanted them with SMLE's I'd just buy the relevant mid war infantry models (although those seem to be just as rare)! From looking at sources I need the following weapons in the range: P.14's, Lewis Guns, Sten guns, Blacker Bombards and Northover's. I'm yet to find a decent helmeted Lewis gun team. I suspect this is an impossible order, although the two entries in Sub artillery can be obtained from warlord. In this category it seems the best options are 1st Corps and or Foundry. Although I have reservations about the sculpt quality of faces for 1stcorps.
The easiest way at current is to get Warlords games plastics, some P.14's from god knows where, and switch out the heads (again I don't know where from). But it seems like its going to be impossible to do that.
I wonder if I should be looking at WWI models instead?
So if anyone knows of any 28mm Home Guard, with P.14's (and in this non-existent range there's a Z-projector as well...) can you please point me in the right direction?
Thanks!
