Where to get civilian accessories in 1/285?

Ragnar65 · Post by **Ragnar65** » Sat Dec 24, 2011 2:44 pm

Hi guys,

my latest pics of my village seemed a bit (or a lot?) liveless, because thereÂ´s only some building, but no civilian guys or any kind of stuff laying around.

So IÂ´d like to know if there is any supplier who offers such stuff...

Any hint will be much appreciated.

Have some wonderful X-Mas-Days!!!!

Ragnar65

RedLeif · Post by **RedLeif** » Sat Dec 24, 2011 4:30 pm

Due to this forum being hosted by GHQ, links or references to other providers products are discouraged and or not permitted topics.

Since you've contacted me by e-mail I'll send you my list that way.

I've created a yahoo group called MATG2012 where I posted this file, and all my calculators, but only a couple have joined the group yet. I will likely close it down after i create a MicroArmour website again.

RedLeif

Ragnar65 · Post by **Ragnar65** » Sat Dec 24, 2011 5:40 pm

RedLeif wrote:Due to this forum being hosted by GHQ, links or references to other providers products are discouraged and or not permitted topics.

Since you've contacted me by e-mail I'll send you my list that way.

I've created a yahoo group called MATG2012 where I posted this file, and all my calculators, but only a couple have joined the group yet. I will likely close it down after i create a MicroArmour website again.

RedLeif

Hi Leif,

yeah, got your email, thank you. IÂ´ll check it out.

Concerning yourYahoo! group - IÂ´m one of the few proud members.

Looking forward to a new MicroArmour website...

Ragnar65

av8rmongo · Post by **av8rmongo** » Sun Dec 25, 2011 1:35 am

Links are not permitted but it has been acceptable practice to name other companies.

There is an architectural model supplier I use called Microform Models. Do a Google search and you should find them. The scales are not exact, 1/240 and 1/300 are the closest ones but they have many items that will work.

Mk 1 · Post by **Mk 1** » Sun Dec 25, 2011 1:44 am

Ragnar65 wrote:my latest pics of my village seemed a bit (or a lot?) liveless, because thereÂ´s only some building, but no civilian guys or any kind of stuff laying around.

With a bit of creativity you can re-purpose military vehicles to represent civilian vehicles.

I've managed to create a fair collection of civilian vehicles over the years. While there are a few purpose-built civilian cars (from one of the UK micro scale tank vendors), most are military trucks that I have either simply painted in civilian colors, or have kit-bashed a bit.

For example in this picture there is a bulldozer made from a Russian artillery tractor, a police car and a taxi made from US jeeps, and a station-wagon made from a Russian BA-10 armored car, among others. (Oh yes, and a sky-blue bus made from a British command truck...)

For WW2 civilian vehicles the Soviet GAZ trucks are particularly useful. The GAZ-AA truck was a direct copy of the Ford Model A truck, which was fairly widely used in the 1920s/30s. But I typically paint up one truck in civilian colors from almost every set of military trucks I buy. That way, over time the collection grows, and there is a lot of variance.

However in WW2, particularly on the Eastern Front, there weren't a whole lot of civilian cars and trucks around. Most vehicles were agricultural tractors, and most transport was horse-wagons.

I again use the Russian artillery tractor here as a farm tractor. The Stalinets tractor was, in fact, produced both for military and civilian agricultural use. Also, though not particularly clear in this pic, there is a horse-wagon behind a house on the right side.

Here in a pic from another battle you can see the same wagon a little more clearly.

This is a single-horse farm wagon that I scratch-built. It was rather easily. I used a single horse, a small thin square of balsa for the base of the wagon, two turn-tables from British 25pdr cannons for the large pair of wheels, two thin rods (pulled molten styrene plastic) for the horse-harnesses, and a single seated figure (from the US Armored Infantry pack, I think). Plus a bit of miscellaneous scrap in the back to represent whatever the farmer might be carrying. I should probably have given the driver more colorful attire, but alas he is fairly old and not too colorful of a character at this point. He shows up often in my battles...

bora_guy · Post by **bora_guy** » Sun Dec 25, 2011 3:26 am

There is a british company that manufactures small detail accesories. Here is the link. All scales are 1/300.

SNIP! Time cast miniatures is the name.
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6mmwargaming · Post by **6mmwargaming** » Fri Dec 30, 2011 1:58 pm

I've got a few suggestion on my 6mm wargaming site here http://6mm.wargaming.info/page200.shtml

I need to update it as I have lots more civilian stuff now.

Cheers
Kieran

6mmwargaming · Post by **6mmwargaming** » Fri Dec 30, 2011 2:11 pm

oops double post!

RedLeif · Post by **RedLeif** » Sat Dec 31, 2011 5:47 am

6mm wargaming - your resources lists are very good. thank you

RedLeif

Where to get civilian accessories in 1/285?

Where to get civilian accessories in 1/285?

Re: Where to get civilian accessories in 1/285?

Vehicles, street lamps etc.