Wednesday 23 September 2009

N Scale Near Future/Sci Fi from GFI

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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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5 comments:

  1. Tom's stuff looks great! I'm finding the sub-15mm sculpts very tempting for use in larger scale engagements!

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  2. Lovely vehicles. A nice variant on the combat car.

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  3. Those look simply fabulous !!!

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  4. If 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!

    Cheers
    Mark

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  5. Great idea Mark!

    It'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

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