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Title: Warship crew member models
Post by: Armo61 on February 14, 2013, 04:37:19 am

Hello Shipmates just thought I would inquire as to does anyone have information on crew members for our models.
I can only seem to find the etch crews in 1/350 etc. Does anyone know of any plastic full crew one can buy not just in 1/350 but in some of the bigger scales. Like 1/200 1/125 etc would be nice to know if possible. A ship just isnt correct without some crew onboard is it?

Title: Re: Warship crew member models
Post by: VC on February 14, 2013, 05:41:12 am

Hi Armo, I googled and this came up, maybe you want to take a peek. Complex scale conversions though - what scale is 1/50" = 1' ? %%

http://www.howardmodels.com/supplies/onlineorderform.htm


Regards,

VC

Title: Re: Warship crew member models
Post by: Armo61 on February 14, 2013, 05:46:02 am

Thanks Vc will take a peek see if I can work it out.

Title: Re: Warship crew member models
Post by: glendavis1971 on February 14, 2013, 07:17:58 am

hi charles
12/(1/10)=120 scale
Glen

Title: Re: Warship crew member models
Post by: TailUK on February 14, 2013, 09:16:49 am

You might like to try;  http://www.modelshop.co.uk/ekmps/shops/modelshop/index.asp (http://www.modelshop.co.uk/ekmps/shops/modelshop/index.asp)
 
They have figures in a lot of different scales.  They're not naval figures but at that scale a little knife and filler work should be feasable.

Title: Re: Warship crew member models
Post by: Armo61 on February 14, 2013, 09:37:55 am

Thank you Glen and TailUK yes its a cruel world. Plenty of figures if you model 1/35 especially military. Never mind will get used to the 3d stuff I guess they look ok at 1/350 on Nimitz.

Title: Re: Warship crew member models
Post by: Klunk on February 14, 2013, 10:49:56 am

Check out preiser figures and also railway scale figures n gauge is 1/145 and z gauge 1/200 plenty of figures in them scales

Title: Re: Warship crew member models
Post by: Harquebus on February 23, 2013, 10:21:43 am

For 1/125 I would use Preiser TT scale figures. It's a European model train gauge, not too common. Otherwise, raid the figures from the Revell U-47 and somehow clone them (as I alluded to on the Lindberg Fletcher thread).

For 1/200, I found some on ebay very cheap. White, unpainted, 100 pcs for a few bucks They're civilians and quite a few are obviously women or train passengers with bags, etc., but I can modify them.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=10a+esc&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313&_nkw=1%2F200+figures&_sacat=0 (http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=10a+esc&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313&_nkw=1%2F200+figures&_sacat=0)