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Wider Wargaming => Non-Pendraken Stuff => Topic started by: Norm on 16 February 2021, 09:57:51 PM

Title: A look at Victrix 12mm
Post by: Norm on 16 February 2021, 09:57:51 PM
A look at the new 12mm (1/144) World war II figures from Victrix, plus a couple of comparison shots with Pendraken 10mm range.

Blog link

http://battlefieldswarriors.blogspot.com/2021/02/victrix-12mm-world-war-ii.html
Title: Re: A look at Victrix 12mm
Post by: Steve J on 16 February 2021, 10:29:57 PM
That's very useful Norm, thanks for sharing :).
Title: Re: A look at Victrix 12mm
Post by: jambo1 on 17 February 2021, 04:57:29 AM
A very interesting read Norm, WW2 is not my "thing" but enjoyed your review. :)
Title: Re: A look at Victrix 12mm
Post by: Ace of Spades on 17 February 2021, 06:41:42 AM
You can never have enough of those comparisons, thanks for the info!

Cheers,
Rob
Title: Re: A look at Victrix 12mm
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 17 February 2021, 07:00:29 AM
I'll be sticking with 6, 10, 15 and 20mm for my stuf but the Victrix stuff looks good.
Title: Re: A look at Victrix 12mm
Post by: steve_holmes_11 on 17 February 2021, 12:20:54 PM
They do look good, and the big packs contain appropriate numbers of each type.

I'm not convinced I need figures of vehicles in anything like those multiples.
And there lies a great strength of Pendraken.
The other being their range of nationalities.

Noseying a bit deeper, Victrix may have missed a trick by not including more conversion options.
For example the Hanomag builds six of the vanilla version, where a couple of extras could have supplied optional builds for gun, radio, AAA, or  mortar versions.

The plastic soldier company are very good at offering this sort of flexibility with their plastic armour.
I seems a reasonable expectation when the punter is buying batches of six (or four with PSC's 15mm).
Title: Re: A look at Victrix 12mm
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 17 February 2021, 12:49:18 PM
Quite a lot of the PSC stuff comes with lost of extras like the 15mm Universals. Anyone want 106mm RCL's at cost of postage - got a shed load.