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I know that there are tons of bits sites out there that have these but can anyone give me some suggestions on backpacks with the key word being cheap?
im looking at needing like 90 so I thought i'd ask.

thanks.

Your best bet might just be to make a press mold a bunch.

otherwise its about a little less than a dollar from 90% of the 3rd party sources like pig iron, and shapeways.

Laststand Convertables has decent steampunk packs 12 for 4 bucks...


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Hoard o bits has some cheap deals on back packs
as well as a few other sites have to look thou ..and do not just look at 40k specific but other games ..may just find a deal

Pig Iron Productions are probably your best bet.

Thanks guys. I wonder how those mutant chronicles 80 guys for 27 dollars would work?

The Prince August Warzone deal is hard to beat, the only downside is the plastic used neither takes plastic cement nor super glue very well. I've heard epoxy glue works.

A while back i got a box of Perry Napoleonics

https://www.perry-miniatures.com/index.php?cPath=22_62&osCsid=psbpjcnn80jm9rqaa6c5s8dbl7

and plundered it for backpacks. I think I got 40 packpacks from a $30 kit.



I've also used one of Tamiya's stowage kits, it's 1/35 but the small packs fit fine on IG.

http://www.amazon.com/Allied-Vehicle-Accessories-35-Tamiya/dp/B00061H4SO

thanks kid k. how did those nap backpacks scale up?
that's a pretty good idea.

I don't have a great shot of them, but you can see them here on some WGF guys.



They fit fine, a bit small but if you're assuming they're just 'day packs' with the heavy gear in an APC or truck they're fine.

Thanks kk.
Do you happen to know if you can still pick up that bag of 80 warzone guys anywhere?

Should be here somewhere

http://shop.princeaugust.ie/mutant-chronicles-warzone-classic/

Just the figures, I presume? I couldn't see it there, else I might have grabbed one myself.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Should be here somewhere

http://shop.princeaugust.ie/mutant-chronicles-warzone-classic/

afaik they've been discontinued

Try http://madrobotminiatures.com/

I use the Pig Iron backpacks myself. They are designed to perfectly fit the plastic Cadians.

You sure? it lets me put a copy on the shopping cart...

 bubber wrote:
You sure? it lets me put a copy on the shopping cart...

Me being stupid, I was looking for them being sold seperately, rather than in the game like they used to be

If WW2 stuff is workable, might want to check out plastic US soldiers from Bolt Action. If you have a buddy who plays BA Americans you could probably work a deal where you get the backpacks and he gets cheaper troops (sans backpacks).

The mutant chronicle guys don't scale perfectly with IG. Their arms and head are too small for standard IG. That being said, the backpacks fit my cultist models pretty well and if you wanted to use the models, I'm sure if you could swap the arms and head out.