Other Alternatives for Models

[JayRaider]

Hi all.
I've been fervishly reading up the forum here and at Evo Command in preparation for my first purchase.
I'm gonna take advantage of the free MEA Techs offer in S&P and make a large purchase.
Then i plan to be more economic with my money and i'm open to buying others companies stuff if its cheaper and even if its 1/72 rather than the closer 1/65 (since there doesn't seem to be alot of on ebay.)
Some questions i have:

Anybody know if Tag Assault Groups modern series of soldiers are a similar scale?
Is anybody using old Airfix/Revell/Esci/Italeri tanks/vehicles?
What are good prepainted/unpainted alternatives for troops/tanks etc?.
Some of the names i've come across so far, Johnny Lightening, Dragon Armor, Forces Of Valor.
Thanks for your time

 

[Pietia]

Dragon Armor and Easy Model are quite good as source of prepainted vehicles. Matchbox is quite good, if you need technicals (you have to convert though). If you have time to assemble and paint models, the possibilities are endless...
For 1/72 soldiers check Caesar - these guys make very good modern US infantry as well as SAS and middle-eastern urban resistors. Orion makes very good Chechen pack (expensive, but still cheap compared to MP) and Russian Federals. Of course Revell is a good source too.... Go here: http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/ and take a llok...

 

[JayRaider]

Thank you for the website link!
Its perfect

 

[The Old Soldier]

The only modern range of Metal miniature that scale well with BFE stuff is Eurkea's Kreigspeil line of soldiers. Mainly because they are 25mm. They are however slightly more bulky, but not bad.

 

[JayRaider]

Is the Corgi Abrams a good choice at 1/64?

 

[Ben2]

1/64 scale corgi stuff is virtually an exact match for scale. They do a Bradley and Humvee as well.

 

[Dorb]

The Corgi Tactical Strike Series works great at 1/64.
I believe these are what Ben is talking about.

Its just the bases that make the infantry seem to tall. But hey it works for Mongoose. I have been getting the Humvees for around $10 and the Armor in the $10-20 range on ebay.

 

[JayRaider]

Excellent.
Thank you for the pics Dorb

 

[Armchair_Marine]

Check out my comparison pictures between BFE Marine figures and Eureka Marines on evocommand.com http://forum.evocommand.com/viewtopic.php?t=855

 

[JayRaider]

Anybody tried Muscle Machines brandfor humvees/trucks? 1/64 scale and very Cheap!
Checkout this ebay link for an example!
http://cgi.ebay.com/Muscle-Machines-Military-x5-all-tan_W0QQitemZ220131900799QQihZ012QQcategoryZ45358QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Check out my comparison pictures between BFE Marine figures and Eureka Marines on evocommand.com http://forum.evocommand.com/viewtopic.php?t=855

Thanks for the link.
Eureka's are the closest i've seen yet for scale to BFE.

 

[JayRaider]

My apologies for the double post!

I've started buying armour!
But its not Mongoose! :shock:

Dragon Armour 1:72 M2A2 ODS Bradley
Dragon Armour 1:72 M1A1HA Abrams w/ plough,
Forces of Valour Iraqi T-72 Tank (just couldn't resist this one!)
Forces of Valor US M3A2 Bradley Tank .
Price 60 euros including shipping.Nice :wink:

As you can see from my purchases i've decided to be flexible on exact scale.

Don't worry Mongoose you'll still be getting some of my money!
I've decided to buy just Mongoose infantry for MEA/USMC. Guessing around 8 boxes total.
What can i say, i'm excited

PS. Already bought 3 Arabic building off Ebay, waiting for them to arrive, gonna put together a Middle Eastern town battle board.
8)