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I just found some alternatives for some of the GW models. They're made by Tehnolog under the product line of Robogear.

Sentinel: http://www.tehnolog.ru/product/robogear/t_rex.php

Manticore/Deathstrike: http://www.tehnolog.ru/product/robogear/varan.php

Valkyrie: http://www.tehnolog.ru/product/robogear/varan.php

Cadian Shock Troops: http://www.tehnolog.ru/product/robogear/shturmoviki_prot.php

   
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The site doesn't seem to list prices.
Hard to tell though, not familiar with Cyrillic alphabet, but numbers should be the same.

Depending on how cheap they are, they are a converters wet dream.
   
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Texas

I've seen pics of robogear stuff. The vehicles fit in somewhat, but I think the figures are a bit big

 
   
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Newcastle, OZ

There is one vendor on ebay who is willing to ship out of Eastern Europe (for the Technolog stuff).
There are no prices because much of it is not allowed to be sold outside of the boundaries of the former USSR.

Some of it has been licensed for production outside of these territories (the hexagon, platformer, syberclix and a couple of other building kits), though because Western companies bought them.

Airfix, Pegasus Hobbies, Urban Mammoth and IMEX all carried the above products under their own labels.

The figures are taller than a terminator (and they are the unaugmented human troops).
The walkers are taller than a sentinel (around 50% taller), and the ground vehicles are about the size of land speeder. The flier is much too small to be a valkyrie (and you seem to have the varan missile tank listed twice as both a valkyrie and a deathstrike/manticore.

I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.

That is not dead which can eternal lie ...

... and yet, with strange aeons, even death may die.
 
   
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Sorry here is the link for the Valkyrie: http://www.tehnolog.ru/product/robogear/condor.php

I ordered a "Condor", "Locust", and a "Varan" to see how they match up. eBay's got 'em for around $10 ea
   
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Chicago

You may find this thread interesting. I've built up a bunch of these.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/355685.page

I like them alot, though it must be said that the walkers are too large for sentinels and the figures are too large for IG. However, the whole line is golden for orc players or those who want to build 28mm battlemechs.

The Varan is too small to be a proper IG vehicle, but with a few conversions, you can make an excellent manticore missle deck (see the second page of the thread above for more pics and info) so that your Bassilisks can serve double duty (assuming you didn't glue the bassilisk deck in place already).

The condor is too small to be a valkyrie (no troop space). Still, there's no reason it couldn't be proxied for a vendetta, even if it is small in size.

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