miniatures for Cyberpunk/Modern:

Anyone can get a great miniature collections very cheaply, thanks to collectible miniatures vith very rare miniatures and stores selling singles. For as low as $25, you can get a basic set of 50 miniatures that has a lot of those extras your player characters are going to meet a lot, plus a lot of different characters for pc's or villains. I've chosen to use Troll & Toad as I've made a lot of purchases with them I'm happy with, and they have a great collection (including Mage Knight) and good photos of everything. You might get some minis cheaper elsewhere but mailing costs might be a bit higher - but I can only tell about international shipping.
Now to the miniatutres themselves. Some of the miniatures have been repainted or possibly modified a bit, but not much.

Street toughs and minions

You want some street toughs, villain's minions, nomads or rough heroes to your miniatures collection? 

Luke Cage, Thunderball, Kraven, Thug, Peace Brigade Thug and Henchman work excellently for this.

Armed ladies

If you want some beauty on the game table - gang chicks, female solos with style or bodyguards, here's a few great examples: Nightshade, Sin, Lex Corp Security, Checkmate Knight Black (great for police/swat too), Tiger Lily (with little modification). I don't think the photo brings out the best of Nightshade, I was amazed that this amazing miniature can cost just 50 cents. I immediately gave her a role as a npc in my next Cyberpunk session.

Military and Swat

From left to right: HDC Trooper, S.H.I.E.L.D. Sniper, SHIELD Medic, Lt. Marcus Stone (Front),  Code: Blue officer, S.W.A.T. Officer, S.W.A.T. Heavy Weapons.

Metropolis S.C.U. couldn't make it to the photo but you might want to check it out anyway.

SHIELD soldiers have stupid paintjobs so I've repainted them, as well as modifed a bit the sniper's weapon. Other SHIELD (or S.H.I.E.L.D) guys are a bit more expensive.

Corporate people & men in suits

Left: Norman Osborn, Bruce Wayne, Diana Prince

Middle: Gotham City Detective #006 (with two repainted versions - and sorry, I just realized this one's $3. Thought of sharing it here though as it's a magnified miniature and I had already photographed it with the rest of the minis)

Right:Tombstone #003 Marvel HeroClix Secret Invasion, Black Mask (Somewhat modified), Jessica Jones

Hmm. Is there something missing? Of course, those heroic guys with guns and whatever you want them to be. While above men in suits can be used for them, most guys with guns are unfortunately a bit more expensive than 50 cents which I kept limit for this article (except for Gotham City Detective which I had supposed to be cheap). There are some options though, especially if you are willing to do a little repainting. 

So here we go:

Guns and blades

Pete Wisdom (needs little modification)

Two-Face (another version) (repainted)

Blade (Alternative) 

Gotham Undercover

and the last one is Officer 7/Officer 13/Officer friendly (the last one is the only one left, unfortunately it's a bit expensive - and none of the versions doesn't seem to be 50c so this is another mini that made it to the post even if the post was supposed to be only about cheap ones - sorry!)

Final words

This is my first article about Modern/Cyberpunk miniatures. If you're on budget, in these genres it's quite easy to get a collection that is everything you need for very low cost - a lot of minis you're going to want are probably men in suits & swat/soldier -type.
The miniatures I present in this series of posts have been used in Savage Cyberworld -campaign, and so far I've posted miniature articles about prepainted miniatures fitting for Sword & Sorcery, which is almost complete.

Modern Accessories that may be useful

http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/lif/lif1619.htm

http://www.antenocitisworkshop.com/wargames-scenery-terrain/sci-fi-scenery-terrain.html

-Has alot of other unique items. This was really cool though.


http://www.scalehobbyist.com/catagories/Buildings/ITL00006130/product.php


http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=sandbags&_sacat=19128&_trksid=p3286.m270.l1313&_dmpt=Model_RR_Trains&_dmd=1&_odkw=&_osacat=19128


http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/fal/fal144057.htm


 http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=model+garbage+trucks




Special Effects: There are alot more there kinda expensive


http://armorcast.com/store/index.php?cPath=100&sort=5a&page=3


Way too expensive might be possible to copy it:

http://www.stronghold-terrain.de/shop/product_info.php?info=p26_Burning-Barrels.html&XTCsid=bb9c46075f57d319f8e21daef08ce694






Random Trainset O items:
http://www.sceneryexpress.com/products.asp?dept=1223

Sites:
http://www.hfminis.co.uk/shop?category=accessories~resin-terrain

Possible Vechicle items

More Vehicles for 28mm Zombie Gaming

Finding good die-cast vehicles for a 28mm Modern Wargame isn't necessarily difficult, once you settle on a scale, most of us go for 1/43 (I certainly did), it is simply a case of trawling the interwebs, scouring ebay and visiting high street stores.

Unfortunately, it is not always so easy to pick up suitable models at a reasonable price. Some of the more desirable 1/43 models can sell from anywhere up to £200 (yeah, I was surprised too). And at the lowest end of the price scale, the cars are often not even marked so you know what scale they are.

Whilst hunting for vehicles to fill the streets of Outbreak City one tip I found useful was to keep a 28mm model (unpainted) in my pocket whenever I headed to the shops. So if I stumbled across something that looked promising, I had something to compare it against. This didn't guarantee against the perils of scale creep, but it certainly helped.

This little trick stood me in good stead this weekend when, whilst guarding the trolley against the addition of surplus items (kids do that sometimes) during our weekly food shop, I spotted these three beauties in the reduced goods aisle at Tesco.

1/43 - 28mm stone quarry tipper.

1/43 - 28mm Up-and-over skip

1/43 - 28mm refuse lorry, comes with an 1100l Eurobin

These are from their 'large industrial series' and the three models available were a refuse lorry, a truck hauling a large skip and a stone quarry delivery tipper. These are not the smaller HotWheels/Matchbox scale cars. These 1/43 equivalents are not always on the shelves for long, but they're worth it if you can find them.


£1.75 each in Tesco's reduced section. It got my attention.



The potential of the Tesco models was first highlighted to me over at Colin's Down Among the Zed Men. I've always kept an eye out since. Each one of these models was sold for the princely sum of £1.75. Falling prey to the 'addition of surplus items' demon, I almost bought the lot, but settled on one of each instead.

I think they're actually might be just a little bit bigger than 1/43. But they match very closely in scale to the delivery trucks I picked up - the Tesco Load and Go sets, which I updated with BioFlex livery.

Comparison - same scale, more detail, lower price.

In comparison these vehicles are of a far better standard than the previous ones, with crisper lines and additional detailing. They all have moving parts - great for us gamers who like to move bits on models to represent different scenarios on the tabletop and the inclusion of the 1100 litre Eurobin (sometimes referred to as a Taylor bin) is a bonus.

A little large for 28mm but it works well enough.

However, as the name suggests, I'm not sure they have Eurobins in the states, where my Outbreak City campaign is set. I think I'll use it all the same.

Possible Dogs in 28mm

Megaminis  12.00


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Carnevale - Dog Keeper and Dogs