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yahoo !! there was much rejoiceing in my house hold !!!

Woo Hoo!, No rmore paying 85NZD for 5 tanks !

Brings the cost for my planned 1,750 point army down to around $310ish from closer to $400. Below $250 for the 1,500 point version.

How is the quality on these pieces? Anybody own some of their previous 15mm sets?

The sprue image they have up look good, though they're CGI.

I have some of their T-34s and they are very good.

Ive had a good close look at the Panzer 1V's in the flesh and they are very, very good.

I had a chat with him back in May and I think Stugs will be soon too.

Maybe I will make that late war Brit tank company after all. Have to check the brass tubing at the local hobby shop to find something that is the right size for 17pdrs so I can convert some to Fireflies.

Skriker

Skriker wrote:Maybe I will make that late war Brit tank company after all. Have to check the brass tubing at the local hobby shop to find something that is the right size for 17pdrs so I can convert some to Fireflies.

Skriker

If memory serves Fireflies are generally a different type of Sherman (ie not the ones in the PSC boxes.) M4A4 or Sherman V. (VC)

I think even if he left them to there current state, no one would mind if he said "hey one of these shermans are a firefly, do you mind?"

Rogueyopants wrote:I think even if he left them to there current state, no one would mind if he said "hey one of these shermans are a firefly, do you mind?"

Well, he would have to do something to show that the model is a Firefly.

I don't think modelling it would be all that hard. Just copy the Battlefront model by adding a block of greenstuff to the back of the turret and extending the barrel of the gun to show it's a 17 pdr isn't that bad.

Just a quick check, if I wanna play flames of war, should I buy the 1/72 scale or the 15mm scale (Im just not sure cause i was thinking they might have to be the 1/72 scale because the tanks should be massive over the infantry figures

15mm scale. 1/72 is actually 20mm scale.

You will be surprised at the relative sizes of WWII vehicles to infantry, while the miniatures aren't exacting in their relative sizes, some things just aren't as big, or small, as you thought they were.

That and infantry at 15mm is scaled in such a way that they are slightly larger, or chunkier, than they would be if it was exactly to scale. This can throw off your perception of scale.

infinite_array wrote:

Rogueyopants wrote:I think even if he left them to there current state, no one would mind if he said "hey one of these shermans are a firefly, do you mind?"

Well, he would have to do something to show that the model is a Firefly.

I don't think modelling it would be all that hard. Just copy the Battlefront model by adding a block of greenstuff to the back of the turret and extending the barrel of the gun to show it's a 17 pdr isn't that bad.

He will be doing a different box set for Fireflys and other versions

infinite_array wrote:

Rogueyopants wrote:I think even if he left them to there current state, no one would mind if he said "hey one of these shermans are a firefly, do you mind?"

Well, he would have to do something to show that the model is a Firefly.

I don't think modelling it would be all that hard. Just copy the Battlefront model by adding a block of greenstuff to the back of the turret and extending the barrel of the gun to show it's a 17 pdr isn't that bad.

Sherman V is a longer tank. Bit like the difference between a Panzer 3 and a Panzer 4. They share a general outline but one is generally bigger.

Which is why he's doing a seperate box

ArbeitsSchu wrote:If memory serves Fireflies are generally a different type of Sherman (ie not the ones in the PSC boxes.) M4A4 or Sherman V. (VC)

In my circle as long as it "looks" like a firefly and is easily recognizble as different no one is going to care that it is based on the M$A1 chassis instead of the later sherman chassis. Happily I do not play regularly with a bunch of anal freaks.

In the recent EW league I used standard bren carriers for my scout carriers and used marmon herrington armored cars for my CS9 armored cars. All easily identifiable as what they were, so no worries on converting a few fire flies either...

Skriker

Skriker wrote:

ArbeitsSchu wrote:If memory serves Fireflies are generally a different type of Sherman (ie not the ones in the PSC boxes.) M4A4 or Sherman V. (VC)

In my circle as long as it "looks" like a firefly and is easily recognizble as different no one is going to care that it is based on the M$A1 chassis instead of the later sherman chassis. Happily I do not play regularly with a bunch of anal freaks.

In the recent EW league I used standard bren carriers for my scout carriers and used marmon herrington armored cars for my CS9 armored cars. All easily identifiable as what they were, so no worries on converting a few fire flies either...

Skriker

And some people don't like "wrong". C'est la Guerre.