Tuesday, 22 March 2011

Conundrum

Okay folks, I have a bit of a problem.
I've gotten some more Heroics and Ros 6mm figures.  This time it's their modern US, that I plan to use for my 6mm vietnam project.  That's all well and good, but I need some opponents for them.
H&R don't make any VC figures.  I could try to convert their Warsaw Pact range, but that's likely to be a fair bit of work.
As far as I can tell, there are a few manufacturers who make VC and NVA in this scale:
  • Mainforce - too big
  • GHQ - too big and too expensive
  • Irregular - my usual choice, but big against the H&R.
Below is a comparison shot between H&R US infantry and some Irregular VC.  I've lifted the H&R to account for the base on the VC, and they aren't too bad:



The problem really arises with the comparison against the NVA (really Main Force VC for the most part) range from Irregular:

Not as close....
Every time I look at the second picture, my response ranges from "That's not too bad..." to "that's awful".
My budget appears to have backed me into a corner on this.
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8 comments:

  1. Lord Gumby22 March 2011 at 19:10

    If in doubt change the budget!

    If you can notice the difference beyond arms length then worry about it otherwise, bah, who will really notice...

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  2. ScannableGoose23 March 2011 at 09:51

    No changing the budget unfortunately.... :(
    I think you're probably right about the arm's length thing. It will show up in my pretty close-ups, but probably won't be too bad from a couple of feet.

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  3. Anonymous29 March 2011 at 05:23

    Hi,
    check here for some good ideas using H&Ros figures for Vietnam wars :
    http://vendheaume.fighters.pagesperso-orange.fr/indochin.html

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  4. ScannableGoose29 March 2011 at 10:13

    Thank-you anonymous stranger!
    They don't look too bad!

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  5. Anonymous31 March 2011 at 08:09

    A convincing painting job helps ; this doesn't mean that you have to cram details on H&R Indochina figures. Also , if necessary, converting some of these tiny troops
    is easy .
    If you need better pics, just ask :-)

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  6. ScannableGoose1 April 2011 at 11:04

    I've just had to outlay a significant amount on keeping my rapidly aging car on the road.
    Coversion of the existing H&R figures is the only way forward.
    Also I'm going to have to scale back to reduced company sized games.

    @Anonymous - Can you drop me an email at scannablegoose at yahoo dot com to discuss the options of conversion?

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  7. Anonymous2 April 2011 at 02:59

    Hi,
    the emails bounced back ( 3 times ) with the following : This_user_doesn't_have_a_yahoo account
    Well...

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  8. ScannableGoose2 April 2011 at 13:41

    Hmmm....
    That explains why I haven't seen any email on that account recently!
    Try scannable dot g at gmail dot com.
    Sorry about the email issues.

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