Tom over at GFI gave me a heads up last week about his 19 new AFVs for Near Future/Sci-Fi in N scale.
You know, I'm tempted, really tempted by them. There's enough detail in N Scale for the model soldier freak in me but without the painting pain of 15mm. Whilst N scale are also small enough to have many of the benefits of 6mm especially affordability, combat ranges and room for manouvering Grav on the tabletop.
Plus, and it's a big plus..... these AFVs simply ARE my personal vision of Hammers Slammers....look at that 'Combat Car' above! Whilst the enclosed hull might not be strictly canon, I definitely prefer it, as I never got the Slammers open top Chelsea Flower Show 'pergola' look.
GFI already produce some nice Near Future infantry and a comprehensive range of N scale Modern armour, vehicles, infantry and accessories. If you need additional suitable infantry, the N Scale Modern Germans, Brits and SAS/Spetnaz put many established Modern figure manufacturers to shame, whilst Force XXI has a small but tasty range of opposing 10mm Grav armour.
Even if you are a committed 15mm gamer, take a look, there are some potential ideas for Future kitbashing Modern armour:
Cheers
Mark
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Tom's stuff looks great! I'm finding the sub-15mm sculpts very tempting for use in larger scale engagements!
ReplyDeleteLovely vehicles. A nice variant on the combat car.
ReplyDeleteThose look simply fabulous !!!
ReplyDeleteIf Jon at GZG turned his NAC tri-barrel or similar gunners into half-figs on a ring turret mount 2 or three of which could fit in a modified hull top insert for the small and large High-Grav APCs....voila!
ReplyDeleteCheers
Mark
Great idea Mark!
ReplyDeleteIt's an easy conversion piece to make. Actually a line of separate hatch fitting and crew might be nice. Do for vehicles conversions what he did for buildings.
-Eli