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Wider Wargaming => Non-Pendraken Stuff => Topic started by: Wulf on 29 August 2016, 07:53:30 AM

Title: Whippet required - no flat caps, please
Post by: Wulf on 29 August 2016, 07:53:30 AM
Recently I bought the Boardgame "The Great War", a Commands & Colors variant, for those who know the system, by The Plastic Soldier Company. Lots of little toy soldiers, and I also got the Tanks expansion, with a couple each of Mk.IV Male & Female & a couple A7V, to scale with the figures (which makes them quite big!) Figures & tanks are very nice, although I'm not too fond of the hard plastic. Only a single German rifle has broken though. Sadly, I lost the torso of one of the British machinegunners while cleaning up, I'm trying to contact them to buy a new sprue (no reply in 3 days though...)

Anyway, the rulebook includes stats for a Whippet fast tank, but notes that they're for completeness, as there's no mini for it.

So, the point of this post, does anyone know a good manufacturer of Whippets in either big 15mm or small 20mm? The figures are officially 1/100th scale, and are about 18mm tall to the tops of their battle bowlers.

Title: Re: Whippet required - no flat caps, please
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 29 August 2016, 08:04:55 AM
Try QRF, not the best models sometimes. Peter Pig may also do one. Both 15mm.

IanS
Title: Re: Whippet required - no flat caps, please
Post by: brelly on 29 August 2016, 08:19:29 AM
Hi

The Whippet was included in the Kickstarter and they are nice.  I have just gone to Plastic Soldier and they have a pack of 3 for 16.50 pounds the same as supplied in the Kickstarter. Link http://theplasticsoldiercompany.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=163_159&products_id=1226  Hope this helps.

Paul
Title: Re: Whippet required - no flat caps, please
Post by: Orcs on 29 August 2016, 09:42:15 AM
QRF do one for £4.50

http://totalsystemscenic.com/product/wbt05-medium-mk-a-whippet/

Title: Re: Whippet required - no flat caps, please
Post by: Leman on 29 August 2016, 09:46:13 AM
Have you tried Devo? They do a very good Whip it.  :d
Title: Re: Whippet required - no flat caps, please
Post by: Wulf on 29 August 2016, 10:20:40 AM
Quote from: Leman on 29 August 2016, 09:46:13 AM
Have you tried Devo? They do a very good Whip it.  :d
I missed that one while I was Working in a Coal Mine...
Title: Re: Whippet required - no flat caps, please
Post by: Wulf on 29 August 2016, 10:28:27 AM
Quote from: brelly on 29 August 2016, 08:19:29 AMThe Whippet was included in the Kickstarter and they are nice. 
Excellent  - I got mine with the Kickstarter for the Peloponnesian War version of Quartermaster General (Death or Glory? Something like that...) and no Whippets were ofered.

That'll do nicely!
Title: Re: Whippet required - no flat caps, please
Post by: petercooman on 29 August 2016, 11:44:46 AM
Been looking at the great war boardgame myself, and a whippet pack and extra sprues of miniatures are just in the catalogue on their site.

http://theplasticsoldiercompany.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=163_159&products_id=1094

http://theplasticsoldiercompany.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=163_159&products_id=1226
Title: Re: Whippet required - no flat caps, please
Post by: Wulf on 29 August 2016, 12:44:03 PM
Excellent. Pricey, mind you, you have to buy the figures in packs of 3 sprues.
Title: Re: Whippet required - no flat caps, please
Post by: NTM on 29 August 2016, 03:35:36 PM
Blue Moon may be suitable as they are generally large 15mm

(http://www.oldgloryuk.com/images/products/15wwi311-1.jpg)

Min figs also produce one
Title: Re: Whippet required - no flat caps, please
Post by: Wulf on 29 August 2016, 03:39:22 PM
I have an urge to buy them from the game publishers, but I'll look at the alternatives, thanks all.
Title: Re: Whippet required - no flat caps, please
Post by: Orcs on 29 August 2016, 05:19:10 PM
Try Here :-

http://www.galr.co.uk/