Army men general: Green is the best color edition

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I hate these :/

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Don't have any new photos yet but here's a bump.

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I got these recently from TSD. I love them, so cool and very detailed!

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>>6330596
I got the police set from them because of that blue M-113, cuz cops these days need a boxy APC to fight crime eh.

>>6333920
Haha, very true. I'm really impressed with TSD.

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safety bump

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Pretty nice out today.

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I love the Dollar Tree so much. I'm so glad they still sell these. For a buck, I seriously cannot complain.

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>>6347062
Granted, the molds are far from the best, but for a dollar, there's no going wrong.

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>>6347062

This dollar tree wall looks familiar...what state are you in??

>>6347097
Florida.

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>>6347062
>>6347064
Heh I picked up a couple packages of these the other day just to get something new(ish), definitely not as good as previous production runs but at least it's better than the crap they've had lately.

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88mm is best artillery.

Who do I have to sacrifice to dark gods for good quality army men?

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>>6350413
We're currently in an army men bear market, the in-store trend is to stock sparsely or not at all and most of what they get is the cheapest crap. There's always online but it doesn't quite have the same thrill as poking through an out of the way dollar store and finding awesome stuff like pic related. Doesn't help either that most mom-and-pop dollar stores have been run out of business by the soulless quasi-monopolies dollar tree and dollarama.

Can only hope that someday there will be a reversal, a revival of cheap plastic warfare.

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Here are a couple of pics from when I went back to my parents place for a weekend. I think I had one or two more of the big guys and they had accessories like air tanks (which had hoses that plugged in.
The one guys face has gotten smushed by constant removal of his helmet and I chewed he tip off of the one guys gun.
None of these guys had a pleasant expression. and the poses are weird.

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>>6354361
And I have a bunch of the smaller guys as well.
These also came in "space walk" poses...

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>>6354366
I have about 15 of them and 2 lonely knights that originally came with horses. I remember the plastic of the horses was weirdly "peel-able" so if it got nicked or something you could peel off a layer of "skin"

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>>6354357
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>>6354371
Neat, always nice to see rare and unusual army men. How did the larger spacemen interact with the regular-sized guys, were they a race of giants out exploring the cosmos that encountered their diminutive counterparts on a world in the middle of its medieval age?

>>6330545
>That's an oddly shaped flail
kek

>>6354951
He spins it so fast you will nazi it coming.

>>6354395

They pretty much stayed out of each other's way...
Are those new? - or new-ish?
and if so may I ask where you got them?

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>>6355150
I had a set of them as a kid, came with a space shuttle, rocket, couple other space accessories. Most of my originals are gone but I picked up a bunch more from ToySoldiersDepot, they have a 50-pack of the astronauts (what I got) and a couple sets with varying amounts of accessories (kinda want to get someday). Not sure how far back they go, I know Matchbox had the molds at one point as I have a mini version of one pose with Matchbox printed under the base.

>>6355162
tempted by the lunar module set but just got the 50 pack. I think my original guys came with a spring fired missile as well. I also had the old compressed air/water powered rockets as a kid. - one even had a second stage.

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>>6356270
Pretty cool stuff. I wasn't into space much but the astronauts make for decent biohazard guys in a pinch. I'm trying to catch up on my army men paperwork, ever since I trimmed down my collection a couple years ago I've neglected to update all the various infosheets for every unit of plastic soldiers, just chipping away at it now heh.

I get the appeal of toy soldiers, but why are all the minis on the pictures unpainted?

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>>6360125
I suck at painting, don't have the patience for it and have literally thousands of soldiers, vehicles and equipment.

So if I'm looking for a basic array of plenty of soldiers and ideally things like tanks and artillery and the like, what's my best bet?

>>6360188
Start looking up "army men" on amazon, there's a number of sets to choose from.

>>6347062
Heads up cause I own a few of those robots and they're fun as fuck to use with your army men

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Dollar Tree is really upping their game, found these yesterday.

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>>6361100
Got the last three of the military set, this was the first one opened.

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>>6361101
Between the three I got a pretty decent assortment of soldiers, I hope to find more in the future.

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>>6361104
The police set is nice too, might get more for the copter and inflatable.

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>>6361106
The wagon is pretty neat, first one I've seen that comes with a driver, I also like the campfire and cooking pot accessories, one spear-wielding indian versus two cowboys with firearms seems rather unfair though.

>>6360188
>>6360204


plasticsoldierreview.com if you are interested in historical sets and not just the "generic" toys from china.

>>6362221
Aww yea, not him but thanks for the link Anon!

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>>6362221
Interesting site, thanks. Just a note on it, everything is at or around 1/72 scale, much smaller than the average army men which are typically between 1/32 and 1/35.

Speaking of 1/72 I picked up a couple more packs of this mixed-bag set I got from Dollarama back in winter, the main draws for me are the accessories which are far too large for the tiny soldiers packed with them, the jets are pretty neat too.

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>>6361114
I was just there not a few days ago and they haven't updated their inventory.

Neat as hell, though; different sets other than army men and with vehicles for a dollar? I need to jump on that too, if I can find a Dollar Tree that stocks these.

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>>6363193
They had them at one Dollar Tree here, I checked out a different one today and they just had the green and tan Vietnam guys. I hope they spread to the other stores or at least restock more, it's about time proper sets returned instead of the usual handful of crappy soldiers and (if you're lucky) a flag.

>tfw grew up in a golden age of army men when soldiers were identifiable by nationality and war era and came packaged with tanks, trucks, jeeps, cannons, sandbag walls, barbed wire, flags, even landing craft and cardboard buildings

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>>6326452
Got a bag from Dollar Tree. Pretty terrible molds! But they will do with a little clean up

>>6350413
Could always go slightly towards the wargaming side and get some of the armies in plastic stuff. Nice-quality 54mm plastic toy soldiers, not too ridiculously priced.

https://ilikethethingsilike.blogspot.co.nz/2013/03/new-armies-in-plastic-war-of-1812.html

https://www.armiesinplastic.com/playsets-fort-kandahar-afghan-hill-forts-1890s.html

>>6368903
I mean, ridiculously priced compared to generic bags of toy soldiers, but coming from /tg/ they're practically free.

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Bumping with artillery, all kinds except self-propelled, have to dig for those sometime.

>>6362817
>much smaller than the average army men which are typically between 1/32 and 1/35.

Really? Maybe thats a regional thing?
In Germany all the classical army men (the china ones) you can buy in bags in 1-euro-stores as well as the more expensive historical "correct" ones are 1/72. Bigger miniatures exist, but they are not that common here.
As a child i had probably several thousand soldiers and tons of tanks/vehicles, but all were around 1/72.

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>>6377158
I've lived in Belgium and Canada, 1/32-1/35 has been the norm everywhere that I've seen, occasionally there's been 1/72 but it's been a novelty.

>>6373768
Man, I need me some stuff like that. I've actually had no luck when searching (though I'm sure I'm just not trying hard enough); where can I acquire such things?

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>>6377517
A lot of the better pieces I got from ToySoldiersDepot, though he seems to be sold out of most his artillery now. A lot of sets include a field gun or two, just a matter of seeking them out on amazon, browsing ebay for army men lots is another option. There's a number of other specialized army men online stores as well (Little Green Men if you're in the US) that may have individual pieces for sale.

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Anyone ever get the Green Apple Army Men gummy candy as a kid? Those were fun as shit to play with. You could eat their limbs when they die, easily dismember them, and when you were all done you just fucking ate them to clean up.

Tasty af.

>>6377929
I've never heard of these. They look amazing

>Just dumped $100 on army men
I never thought my life would come to this.

>>6384550
Was the price due to it quantity or quality?

in these threads some anon always recommend the "Lanard Corps elite army playset"
haven't gotten it so far, but just incase

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me0UXFdW4_w

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>>6384550
Pics whenever you get them plz.

>>6384560
I wonder sometimes how much I've spent on army men after a lifetime of collecting, granted it's probably not as much as I have on Halo Mega Bloks but stuff can add up over the years. Currently in the process of updating my order of battle files, as well as taking a photo of every pose of every unit.

Are fantasy green plastic figures allowed in this thread? I got a vaguely D&D-ish set from our local TRU going out of business.

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>>6384637
By all means, army men is really a generic catch-all term for all kinds of plastic figure toys, everything from soldiers to knights to cowboys and indians to pirates and spacemen, etc.

>>6384560
Probably quantity, but they have favorable reviews and promising previews.

It's TimMee if that means anything.

>>6384683
Any good pirate sets available online?

>>6384717
ToySoldiersDepot has some good stuff.

http://www.toysoldiersdepot.com/store.php/thedustyloft/ct33086/pirates_figures

>>6384750
>Everything that interests me is always out
I want to appreciate this website but never can.

>>6384767
I know that feel.

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>>6384683
Cool, just wanted to make sure before posting.

This set's got some pretty damn good sculpts, honestly, and the terrain pieces it came with are really cool. I'm definitely gonna buy a few bags of skeletons and knights to help round it out, though, since the orcs(?) are pretty puny compared to everyone else. Does anybody know any other sets that could work well with a fantasy theme?

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>>6384875
Buy actual fantasy minis from Reaper.

These are called Bones and they're probably more durable than your average modern toy soldier. They're rubbery and can be painted without priming them, but they do cost quite a bit more than your typical bag of minis... but look at them and dat detail!

They also selll certain figurines in a clear colored plastics, like fire elements being done in a transparent red or orange. Ghost too, in a limeish green clear plastic.

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>>6384895
here's an example of their transparent color plastic figures.

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>>6384895
I really don't mean to be rude, but why even recommend those? They're completely out of scale with >>6384875.

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>>6385630
Scale standards with army men can be pretty loose, the standard tank one sees with a lot of plastic soldiers (M48 Patton) is about 1/48 scale, but packaged with troops at the 1/32-1/35 scale, in the end it's personal preference.

>>6368904
Thanks but those prices are just too high for this kind of interest.

>>6386223
Gotta agree with that, when I buy army men I want an actual army, paying a dollar or more per soldier is just too much.

>>6386132
Still, saying what amounts to "oh, well you can buy much more expensive minis made exclusively for miniature gaming" isn't really all that helpful in a thread about buying green plastic army men, which are known for their low price point. If I wanted expensive miniatures for tabletop gaming, I'd buy expensive miniatures for tabletop gaming.

Also, scale might not matter to you, but that's not how everyone else feels about it. I personally think that tiny-ass tank next to those huge green guys looks completely retarded.

>>6386483
Sounds like you take army men a little too seriously, but to each their own.

>>6386487
>you're too serious so I'm gonna be smug about it
Oh, knock it off.

>>6386494
They're toys, just sayin' man.

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I only have three tanks in scale with most of my army men as it is.

>>6360125
Army men are traditionaly made to be cheap toys, so they use rubbery plastic that paint has trouble adhearing to.

>>6373768
Amazing collection

>>6360183
Those soldiers are ace.

Who made them so i can buy em?

They're tiny, right? Like, smaller than normal army men, right?

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>>6387030
Mine are about normal-sized army men, I believe they were originally 1/72 scale Airfix poses but they also produced them in 1/32, they're unfortunately out of stock at this link but you get the idea.

http://www.toysoldiersdepot.com/store.php/thedustyloft/pd187251/132nd_scale_airfix_wwii_british_8th_army_plastic_soldiers_set_

Those red tommies go all the way back to when I was around 7 or 8 and were some of my first army men, they came matched with blue german infantry (also Airfix) but I'm quite certain mine were copies, very good quality ones mind you.

Over time I've picked up the odd few soldiers here and there of similar or same origin, always second-hand through flea market finds though.

>>6387040
Man, gaming miniatures are always the best.

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>>6387040
I actually do have a little container somewhere with 1/72 versions of those guys, cheap copies but less generic at least.

Pic related are an interesting bunch, on the surface they're the same set of poses but on closer inspection there's some small differences such as the submachinegunner's Thompson no longer having a foregrip and the charging trooper's rifle has had it's bayonet blade removed (though not the handle). The other oddity about them is while I obtained most of them in bulk from somewhere I forget, a number of them were mixed in packages of cowboys and indians at an awesome and massive dollar store across town, same store where I got the 1/72 guys incidentally. Sadly they've since been taken over by Dollar Tree...

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This thread is giving me a nice dose of nostalgia.

Even though this is more in the domain of /tg/, I recently ran a Dungeons & Dragons game and we used a hex map for the dungeon-crawling. Instead of using actual miniatures, we used a bunch of Army Men since I don't have any real minis but I do have a whole small toybox full of army men. Using a Dollar Tree bag of soldiers and some extra troops from a boxed playset, my players and I did the following....

>Green Army Men represented the player characters
>Tan Army Men represented monsters and enemy NPC's
>Gray Army Men represented friendly NPC's

Now I really want to run a tabletop RPG where the player characters are toy soldiers, sort of like Toy Story or the old Army Men video games for PS1.

I love playing with toy soldiers.

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>>6355162
v. comfy :3

>>6387218
There's a neat idea.

>>6386132
The plastic greenery really takes me back. Sure is old, or is it still in production like that?

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>>6389338
Those trees in particular were packaged with "updated" clones of Timmee Vietnam soldiers, I'd bought a ton of them once on the cheap, haven't seen them in any sets recently though. Over the years I've accumulated a fair amount of plastic forestry, mostly through army men buys, considering a bag of 30 or so soldiers might have a couple trees tops, it's a lot heh.

What's the strangest color of army man you own? TimMee sells some weird choices like Cyan and Pink.

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>>6390126
For me, probably these Japanese, they're a shade of pink the camera doesn't quite do justice.

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Random soldiers bump time. I found bags of these at a store called Blokker back when we lived in Brussels, there were green, grey and yellow and about a dozen of each per bag. Can't say I've ever found them in stores again, though I've gathered a number of green in slightly different scale from flea market buys.

They were originally an Airfix set made in 1/72 scale, I have one somewhere with my 1/72 stuff. These guys were upscaled and a lot of the details were lost along the way, they also dropped a couple crawling poses from the originals and they're slightly smaller than average army men. I remember being so thrilled though when I first bought them, the poses include many firing guys and they were obviously meant to be commandos of some kind (US paratroopers actually), they were my go-to guys for dangerous missions behind enemy lines.

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Here's some of the mixed bag of green commandos, some being around the same size, others a bit bigger, some less detailed and some more so. The one guy holding a "drummer baton" had an entrenching tool in the original 1/72 set, I suppose it can pass as a crude club for silent takedowns.

>>6384767
I got an astronaut set before it vanished. I wish I had gotten the one with spacecraft.

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Some army men preparing to invade tan land. The tank can't move its turret that much sadly.

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>>6396474
Eh that just means it's an assault gun, like the workhorse StuGs of WW2.

anyone know where to get some tanks? I know i can get some of the teemee ones from amazon.

>Found Army Men RTS on GoG
Time to relive my childhood, lads.

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I wish I could make something as awesome as this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClffzUrRDXk

>>6397588
There's often mixed lots on ebay, craigslist, kijiji that have tanks and stuff.

>>6397844
>15 million views
sheeeeit

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I legitimately sat down and played with army men for about an hour for the first time in nearly a decade.

It felt odd, but so right at the same time. I felt childlike glee for the first time in forever.

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>>6397902
They're like old friends eh

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>>6326452

>Green is the best color

I think not, comrade

>>6354951
Seig Flail

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Besides the Soviets, some American WWII infantry, and the "Generic" Vietnam army men, I have these guys a bought for a high school history project. I ended up keeping them because i used hotglue which is pretty easy to remove. Should i post pics?

>>6398669
pics pl0x

>>6398639
where did you get your soviets?

>>6326452
is there one with futuristic soldiers/spess marines?

>>6398683
Theres the Elite corps, star craft marines, alien vs predator marines, and storm troopers

>>6398681
A little Mom and Pop toy store in Emerald Isle, NC. Heading there this weekend actually. They had abunch of Army in little 15pc tubes. They had every army of WWII, even the Chinese, tho they were just Soviets in light green, but the rest were different molds, even the Italians.

>>6398708
*Army men*

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Bump

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>>6399290
Buddy, it's ok, the board is so slow this thread will stay alive for at least a couple days without a bump.

>>6399492
My Bad,Im used to boards like /b/ discarding a thread after a few hours if no ones posting

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>>6399652
No worries.

>>6399492
>shorts

is that a fucking afrika korps set?

>>6400092

>Das are mien kompfy shorts

Nah, Hans is probably just chillin

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>>6400092
Sure is, even comes with an Erwin Rommel pose.

Nice commiemen

In wisconsin for 2 weeks, anyone know any good places to get army men?

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I have 3 sets of tin toy soldiers from the Soviet Union. This picture is a little old, if you guys want to see more I can take some new pictures.

>>6408533
Looks nice! Can we get more pics

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>>6408565
Sure! Sadly my camera isn't that great.

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>>6408675
This is the "Attack" set.

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>>6408679
The "Parade" set.

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>>6408682
And the boxes.

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>>6408533
>>6408675
>>6408679
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>>6408683
Awesome, thank you for sharing. I have maybe a hundred Russians all told in my army of thousands, they're not easy to come by and those tin guys are even cooler than most plastic fare.

What are your guys favorite tanks/soldiers?

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>>6411735
While there are several better tanks out there I'd have to choose the classic M48 Patton that most army men have been equipped with through the years, standing in for Panzers and Shermans alike they've become iconic on the fields of plastic warfare.

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As for favorite troops, it's more difficult to single out any individual army as there's so many that stand out above the rest. The Timmee Vietnam series and its variants is an easy contender, as are WW2 American GIs, Japanese infantry, British tommies... But I think I'll give special mention to Germany's Afrika Korps (seen here >>6349351 and >>6386944) for the excellent selection of fighting stances, an actual loader for the machinegunner and a badass Rommel pose.

Pic related are some of the runners-up, an anon made this edit some time ago and I still find it funny as hell.

Really, where do you guys get your soldiers? I just find the same poses and colors wherever I look, but maybe I'm just not looking hard enough.

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>>6412813
Most of my better soldiers were obtained in the first half of my life when they were more widely available in stores, a golden age of sorts for army men looking back on it. Nowadays if you want something better than the basic oft-copied dollar store troops it's usually online or bust, or if you're lucky a nice mixed bag from a thrift store/flea market/craigslist/kijiji/garage sale etc.

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You know, there isn't enough tan love. You only ever find single green packs, or tan and green packs. Never just tan.

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>>6413821
I've found a few in the past, usually alongside bags of the same soldiers in other colors as well, I have pic related in tan, green, red, dark red and blue.

Tan are generally pricks anyway.

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>>6413843
> Tan are generally pricks anyway.

You take that back, green scum!

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>>6414006
>green

>>6413821
Yeah, it's a shame there's no color balance. It's either all greens, green and tan with a distinct green advantage (more accessories), or in the event you get a color like blue or red there's never tanks or anything like that for that particular color.

>>6413843
What is with that space marine in the back?

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>>6414392
For some reason someone thought it'd be cool to take that pose from some long-ago line, scale it up and include it with a bunch of more conventional soldiers.

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So I think we can all agree that "guy shooting pistol 1 handed" is the best pose of them all. He's like an officer that decided to get out from behind the lines and cap his enemies with a 45. The only thing that would make this guy better is if he had stars on his helmet like Patton.

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> You fought well, Lieutenant Dan. But I fought better.

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And of course, the second best is David Bowie running around with a hatchet and a rifle. He even has a Ted Cruz smile going on.

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>>6415019
>>6415023
Great poses for sure. I'm rather partial to this guy myself, the original stoner.

>>6373768
Amazing, before these threads I never even knew there were army men style AT/artillery pieces made, it was always just plastic tanks and planes for me

Anyone have this? https://www.amazon.com/Action-figures-Pieces-Soldiers-World/dp/B0060NJUYI/ref=sr_1_1?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1499805319&sr=1-1-spons&keywords=army+men&psc=1 and is it worth it?

>>6415353
Honestly that's a really good deal, but I don't know about the quality of the plastic.. But two things... there's a freaking bagpipes player in that assortment. That's reason 1 to buy it. Plus, sheer numbers and color variety is a bonus...I'd say go for it, only 12 bucks.

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>>6415344
Some of my very first army men came with a couple of the smaller anti-tank guns at the top back, the one with a little Union Jack sticker notably. That was all the way back in the early 90s in Belgium, haven't seen that particular set since. Usually when there's artillery included it's those dual-purpose brown guns that can be anti-tank, anti-aircraft or even howitzers but even those are uncommon these days.

>>6415353
>flag mix-up between the two upper armies

These are partial clones of an assortment that's been around a while, with (clockwise from top left) British Highlanders, German Afrika Korps, Japanese infantry and US GIs. I say partial as some of the poses, particularly the GIs have been modified some and the Germans have an extra pose of a soldier with shouldered rifle who is actually a modern infantryman but apparently tossed in cuz of the similar helmet (see here >>6399492 top left at the very back).

As the other anon said the main concern is quality, they seem to be like those soldiers I have with some slightly flattened poses, but the price is pretty good for ~200 troops, I might have to get some myself for the variations and new colors.

And yes, bagpipes.

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>>6384875
TimMee cavemen.

>>6398639
I love the look of the "Commissar" commander guy. So arrogant and commanding!

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>>6384875
TimMee Legendary Battle Fantasy Figures. I wish they sold smaller ones. These are great as giants. One of them is from the cavemen set too.

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>>6384875
TimMee science fiction figures. The evil turtle crab and not-vader might make decent fantasy figures.

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>>6384875
Stuff from a monster bucket I got on amazon. The Cyclops, Demon, and Fishman make decent fantasy figures.

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>>6384875
Random "sparkle" fantasy set I found on Amazon. The figures are very detailed, and the dragon is fantastic.

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>>6384875
How to train your dragon stuff. Figures are on the softer side.

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>>6384875
The purple figures are from some bucket I got at Target. Monsters vs Soldiers I think. Most of the guys look like Ninja Turtle rejects, but I like the eyeball dude.

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>>6384875
Toys R Us does the fantasy warriors bucket, as well as the knights, and skeletons vs pirates. The knights looked a little scrawny. Toysmith has a beefier and more interesting line.

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>>6384875
The Toy's R Us pirates vs skeletons is worth the money. Some of the pirate sculpts are ripped off from Games Workshop.

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>>6384875
The Skeletons have a GW vibe to them as well.

Anyone try out the rereleased Tim Mee line of M16 soldiers? I bought a bag last year but the plastic was too brittle and not like the originals. I hear they may have changed their formula again though

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>>6415449
>>6415455
All these fantasy figs are awesome, I have a bunch of those silver knights (and in black and some painted too) and a few of the skellies, thanks for sharing anon.

>>6415456
Were yours official TimMee? Their men have been copied and cloned so many times to varying degrees of quality, I'm not even sure which of mine (if any) are theirs, I've yet to order some direct.

>>6415487
Yeah they're official. Some guy dug up the moulds and restarted the company

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>>6415927
That's unfortunate about the plastic quality, I hope they've resolved it by now. Back in 1995 when Toy Story came out I got the original Bucket-o-Soldiers, with the classic TimMee guys instead of the new color and poses of the more recent re-issue. I'm not sure anymore which of my soldiers they were but I believe at least some of these guys are them, if I hadn't packed them away again I'd check for the paratrooper guys, back in the day the parachutes got ruined through rough play so I just cut the rings off the soldiers' heads and made them regular infantry with the rest.

For that reason I haven't even opened up the four paras in my two re-issue buckets heh.

>>6415021
Aww, that suit has heart-eye.

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>>6415962
This guy's got a heart-shield.

>>6397844
>stopmotion
>outside
impressive

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Now I don't mean to sound like those nerds who are my age and say "I was born in the wrong generation!", but they really don't make toy soldiers like they used to. Name 1 toy soldier set that isn't a model that comes with medics, dogs, and soldiers in good marching poses. There's so much detail on these guys too! The medics have crosses on their helmets, the dog has some pouches, and the guy on the stretcher is wearing casts.

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>>6416421
They also made the "Lieutenant Dan" pose look way cooler. Sure, he isn't as good as the "I'll plug you point blank" pose, but at least he isn't standing around with a dopey face and a limp wrist.

>>6349351
Loving that howitzer!

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I like using army men figures with 1:72 scale miniatures. It is a nice way of gaming on the cheaper side.

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>>6418327

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>>6418327
I've considered doing some wargaming with Army Men instead of miniatures. There's several different free rules sets for these type of games.

Thor Trains's Army Men homepage has a treasure trove of free wargaming rules for Army Men

I do have a question. Did anyone ever make Army Men versions of Pilgrims/Colonists? I mean, I've seen Army Men of all types from the Vietnam/Modern style stuff you find at the Dollar Tree to World War Ii and Cowboys and Indians, to even more obscure stuff such as Medieval, Vikings, Pirates, Romans, Ninjas & Samurai, Cavemen, Fantasy, American Revolution, Civil War, etc.

But I'm wondering if anyone ever made little plastic figures of the English Colonists? Pilgrims, Puritans, Jamestown settlers, doesn't matter. If I could find something like that, it would be awesome.

If someone did make such a set, it would probably come with Indians as well. I mean, if they made American Revolution figures back in the day, it's not that far of a stretch to assume they made Pilgrims/Jamestown Colonist figures.

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>>6418790
Safari makes a Jamestown settler tube. All of the other pilgrim sets I know of are in 1:72 scale. If you are in the New England area the Hobby Bunker in Malden Massachusetts might be able to help you out. They have a ridiculous toy soldier collection. At the very least they might be able to point you in the right direction.

I feel like i'm really close to getting what this is about, but I'd still like for someone to explain it to me.

There were already videogames when I was born so that's where I expend all my childhood at. I bought maybe 1 or 2 army men bags as a kid, but I got bored of them pretty fast.
Right now i'm thinking that these could be really cool to setup some sort of RTS or T-RPG like game but IRL.

Idk, what ARE these supposed to be used for?

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>>6419133
Short answer - playing at war.

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>>6419201
As in...Just like that? With no rules or defined objectives?

Y-you mean I have to imagine whatever is going and take it easy? There are no win-lose scenarios?!

>>6419207
if you really need something else use for them then go look up some rules for them.

>>6419212
I'm not opposed to the idea, I just remember how as a kid it would bother me that they all had fixed poses and how weird it was to try and imagine them moving around. Tho maybe you can use different models to simulate different stances?

I mean, it never occurred to me as a kid, but then again I am an adult thinking that playing with toy soldiers will be fun, so I should probably not think i'm overly clever either.

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>>6419207
>>6419219
You might want to watch the video linked here >>6397844 for inspiration, this was more or less how I played army men as a kid, sometimes more structured, sometimes less.

>>6419133
>>6419207
There's Army Men RTS on GoG if you need more structure. All the novelty of army men in video game form.

>Y-you mean I have to imagine whatever is going and take it easy?
Yup. I usually just divide points of my house up into territories based on the various colors of army men I have and make them fight each other for strategic points and the like. I like to think of them as having some level of self-awareness, as in they understand the world around them is huge and refer to objects as they really are rather than pretending that couches and tables are mountains and the like.

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>>6419316
>>6419316


Holy Crap! I did the same thing! Divided the house up into "Macro Points" but then subdivided into smaller "victory points" like

+10 Toaster captured and destroyed
+10 Fruit Bowl reached and defended
+50 Stove Top torture device captured
+60 Coffee maker converted to energy source

Stuff like that. Speaking of which, I need to get to Toys R Us to get a new "Bucket O Soliders...." I really..really which they'd make this level of quality but in other colors...

And yea the Army Men RTS game is loads of fun and has some great inspiration.

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>>6419777
"Fruit Bowl captures sir! Defending now!"

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>>6419824
"Ambush!! They have the high ground!"

>>6397844
I always come back to this one...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKi9uQg9UyM

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>>6419898
"Take that Green scum!!"

Does anyone play Mean Greens on Steam?
I won a copy of the game but there is never anyone around despite people saying it's great when you mention it.

I had a "custom" army man, Lieutenant Carmichael wielded a shotgun (A rifle I clipped the muzzle off).He was an A-Class Soldier and went above and beyond the call of duty!

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I need to work on making more floor space available, this jungle of a lawn is difficult at best.

>>6420674
ha! Post more if you have 'em. I like the outdoors shots..

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>>6420693
Got several scattered through the thread, here's another angle of this latest one.

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>>6420713
Ohh it's you. You're the guy that I accidently told to remove the "tread sticker" from your tank and I sort of ruined that side of the tank for you...I'm still sorry about that!

Here's some more from my battle front indoors.. The battle looks to be a stalemate!

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>>6420723
Haha yeah, it really isn't a big deal though. I would like to do some grander scale setups but outside just doesn't work and there isn't anywhere in the house right now that's any better. Before it became a bit of a storage area there was decent floor space in the room across the hall, had a number of fun setups there including the circus train raid that's popped up a couple times, and pic related. Would be nice to reclaim it again, I'll look into it.

Nice ongoing little skirmish, can't wait to see what's next.

>>6420741
ahh yes, I think you posted the train raid in the last thread, yea?

Are you the same person who has posted the "snow battle" scenarios like this one: >>6360183

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>>6420767
Heh that'd be me yeah, killing time over the winter running a pair of outdoor ice rinks.

I've posted a pic or two here and there in this thread and the last, there's quite a few of the battle but most are pretty fuzzy, they were taken with a cheap camera about 12 years ago now... damn that was forever ago.

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>>6420777
nice. The snow "winter" campaign pics are newer I'm assuming?

From the dining table raid, Paratroopers inbound! Backup's arrived!

Speaking of which, I need a bomber plane or something...

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>>6420795
The winter photos are all from this last season, having a semi-active army men thread was good motivation for digging stuff out for some fun in the snow heh.

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>>6420799

ha, yea I know what you mean. sometimes getting the motivation to take the trek outside and setting up for shoots is stronger when there's an active thread with people actually interested.

>>6420795

Looks like Green Team has the upper hand again here..

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>>6420810
I'll just about be freezing my fingers off too, though for this setup the cold wasn't so much of a problem as a dang heat wave. Ice was sweaty from slightly above freezing temps and my pants were soaked by the end of it... totally worth it.

>inb4 tan flamethrower either explodes or wrecks green's shit... and then explodes

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>>6420823

Is this the same bomber you have in this pic?

https://www.amazon.com/TimMee-Plastic-Army-C130-Playset/dp/B00C4Y6XU6/ref=pd_sim_21_6?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=W2ZTWBTRR0NY46TZGCKZ

last pic of the night, more to come tomorrow! The Tans look like they lost the battle for the dinning table...

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>>6420832
>we're green - we don't take prisoners

They're basically the same plane, with a few differences. Mine is an older C-130 cargo model, the linked one is an AC-130 gunship model. Think I got mine from a garage sale, it's a bit beat up but still awesome.

>>6420842

Ah yea, you did mention that earlier many threads ago..I think I asked you the same thing then actually. yea I haven't pulled the trigger on buying the bomber yet lol. I need to put on the big boy pants and just do it.

Tomorrow I think I'll be posting the conclusion to this one and start another campaign. I stated earlier, I really wish there were a "bucket o' soliders" for Tan troops

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and what the heck... I want this set, but only with Cyan blue troops? ugh, ..
https://www.amazon.com/TimMee-Plastic-Army-HELICOPTER-Playset/dp/B00GH62EZK/ref=sr_1_1?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1500096824&sr=1-1&keywords=TimMee+helicopter

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>>6420848
Can blame the Toy Story movies themselves for that I guess, theirs is a world that doesn't need racially motivated plastic warfare it seems.

While we're nitpicking, these guys are lacking a machine-gunner pose, a glaring omission as they're provided with mortars and bazookas, I feel like I'd have to attach a machine-gun unit to get the best out of them. They also nixed the flamethrower, war just gets a little too unfriendly when those psychopaths are tearing up the battlefield eh.

>>6420860
That chopper's been tempting me for a while but I haven't been able to justify the cost. I bet they're blue to represent marines, I'd hate to guess what the pink soldiers they also sell are supposed to be though.

>>6420869
Definitely Navy. :P

And yea, The machine gunner I can put up with..but the flame thrower was the first thing I noticed missing, literally seconds after I cracked open my bucket.

In the army men games he was always my favorite and I was really (realllly) hoping to get atleast a handful in the bucket o' soldiers...

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>>6420891
They're unfortunate omissions for sure. My solution would be to send them and this other unit into battle together, the former have the heavy weapons while the latter provide machine-guns, grenadiers and those all-important flamethrowers.

My armies aren't strictly governed by color-based factions, indeed I have several units that are mixed, largely because they are most effective that way. Many armies go by the historical troops they represent, but by and large the tans still end up the bad guys most of the time anyway heh.

>>6420674
>>6420713
>tfw no yard to play with army men outdoors in

>>6420823
Where can I acquire crates and barrels and the like? I don't see too many accessories.

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>>6421057
>tfw don't want to play in yard because it's got dog poop

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>>6421058
For me it's mostly been luck of the draw in finding packaged sets that include accessories or secondhand market bundles. Those particular barrels and crates came from Dollarama, packed with some tiny soldiers and a few fighter jets, posted a pic here >>6362817. Haven't seen them there in a good while now, consider myself fortunate to have obtained two as well as two of a similar assortment with helicopters instead of jets.

There are playsets out there that have accessories, browsing amazon might be your best bet.

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>Spend a fuckton of money on articulated anime and game figures
>Rediscover army men
>Still want to complete my lines but also kind of just want to box my figures because they're taking up space where I could place my army men

What the fuck kind of problem even is this

>>6421079
You need a bigger house.

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>>6421083
I know.

>>6421085
Alternatively just hang more shelf space to the walls.

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>>6420908
Haha, call me a "Racist" but I just can't bring myself to mix army colors... Greens for greens only! :P I think I have slight OCD, cause even if the color variation of greens, and tans, and reds is really noticable, I get ansy.

Here's the wrap up of the Dining Table raid. After the successful Air drop, the remaining Tan were taken prisoner! including the captain!

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>caution: pic related may be triggering

>>6421592
Haha, yes, very much so. But it's cool, with so many variations in companies making army men, and the fact that not one set has EVERYTHING we want, Mixing is inevitable!

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>>6421606
My system of organization requires a unit to be at least squad-sized but generally speaking a platoon of up to two dozen is the standard minimum. Several times I've bought bags of mixed soldiers who would not meet these guidelines if they were separated by color so they've remained as a single formation.

Pic is pretty typical, they could be split into two companies of 60 men but the pose assortment is unequal, one would have most of the bazookas and light machine guns. I think the fact that my very first army men were red British versus blue Germans had something to do with my "progressive" integrated views heh, the green vs tan school of thought didn't get on my horizon until much later.

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>>6421630
Ha, I don't have that level of detail with my sessions and campaigns. Usually I just grab the amount I want, usually eyeballing what would be a good set up.

>>6409668
Do you know a specific brand that produces russian soldiers ?

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>>6421768
I believe some of my Russians are clones of an old Airfix set, Marx and others have done Russians as well. Beyond that I couldn't say really, the painted guys I have came from TSD and weren't branded that I remember.

http://www.toysoldiersdepot.com/store.php/thedustyloft/pd2285874/russian_world_war_ii_12_plastic_soldiers_set

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>>6421721
Some years ago I got the idea to organize my various armies, each would have designated officers and a sheet detailing their troop types. Pic is an example, these being the contents of two Bucket-o-Soldiers organized into a battalion (in my system a battalion is roughly 80 to 200 men, and can be commanded by either a colonel on the lower numbers side or as high as a lieutenant general). Vehicles, armor, artillery etc. will be assigned as required, with some units being particularly equipped toward motorized/mechanized warfare. Others might be best suited to airborne operations, garrison duty, ambushes, having these sheets makes it easy to figure this out in advance.

Not that I've gotten much practical use out of it all... but I enjoy organizing stuff so there's that at least, heh.

>>6422121
Hey, do you think spray painting the bucket o soliders guys would work? If I wanted a platoon of Tan or Red Troops, but the poses and quality of the Bucket o Soliders, you think spray priming them black, then hitting them with beige or red spray model paint would come out well? i may experiment with this...

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>>6422136
Could work with the right paint, I'm a terrible painter and haven't even attempted army men but maybe the guys in the model kits thread could be of help. It's a peculiar kind of rubbery plastic so not just anything will work I guess.

>>6422142
Yea, I'm wouldn't be painting details, just covering them completely with 1 color.

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>>6422144
I figured, but again the wrong kind of paint will just not stick at best or melt your guys at worst. I have a few guys from a thrift store bag that were painted by the previous owner with white-out (far left)... I wouldn't recommend it heh.

>>6422147
lol, maybe they can stand in for another snow campaign if you do one. :D

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>>6422153
Haha yeah maybe, if I can find them afterward...

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>>6422165

After capturing the few remaining Tan forces, we learn that they have a hidden snowbound garage hanger in which they're doing some odd experimentation.... After some aerial photographs were taken, it's confirmed. Green heads out to investigate and see what can be learned!

>>6422375
Oh yeah, shit's about to get real. Sweet Nissen hut by the way, where's it from?

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>>6422381
Isn't it cool? It's from the movie Cars. Check it out here: https://www.amazon.com/Disney-Precision-Sarges-Surplus-Playset/dp/B01K7JBSI6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1500168091&sr=8-1&keywords=cars+precision+sarge
>>6422375

All seems quiet... Green sets up. A surgical strike would be in order here.... Kill the power, move in..Doesn't seem too heavily guarded..

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>>6422393

Alright, guys, Green support fire unit in place..

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>>6422427
Oh btw, notice how I'm trying to relax my "Racist" ways. I have dark greens with the light greens! :P

Green Strike team move in!

>>6423192
Heh good, baby steps eh.

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>>6423192
Meanwhile at the Green support line...

BANG Headshot!

What the heck!? Where did that shot come from??

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SNIPER!! They spotted us!

I wonder if any of you will indulge me. I've been lurking /toys for many months and came across this specific thread and was wondering a few things.

I was thinking about creating a line of these figs w/custom sculpts and such. The problem is the cost is prohibitive to start so i'm trying to get a rough gauge on if anyone even gives a shit.

1) What size figures would you guys want to see? (1", 2", 3" etc...)
2) Are you interested in cutomizeable figures?
3) Are you interested in single color units and/or painted?
4) Are you interested in poseable figs?
5) What sorts of sets would you want to see?
6) Are you interested in these figures because they're cheap only or would you want to see higher quality figures? If so, what is the upper limit (per fig) you'd be willing to pay... I mean if the quality is good.

Thanks if anyone answers. I don't want to start into this only to find out nobody gives a fuck and i've just blown away who knows how many months and thousands of dollars on this idea.

>>6424536
1. Most army men are 1/35 scale or two inches
2. Not really.
3. Single colored.
4. Not really.
5. Probably Rome era/cold war sets
6. I personally prefer cheaper figures

>>6424536
1_dunno about inches, but about 7cm
2_Seems like it would make them a bit too complicated (and thus expensive)
3_single colour, you can paint them yourself
4_Yes, tho again bear in mind price.
5_Anything from Late middle ages to WW1 is cool for me
6_I'd rather them be cheap, not more than 1$ a figure. That's why you bulk buy them in buckets or packs of a couple dozen or so.

Thanks for the replies guys, I was trying to see if there was any interest in higher quality figures.

As it stands the main issue is cost and production. 99.999% of these figures will be produced in China, so I cannot compete with them on that basis.

My idea was mainly to produce things domestically, but again that would increase cost and nullify the value proposition since you guys are interested mainly in the cheaper bucket based figs.

I'll have to rethink this idea entirely. I really appreciate the feedback. Just seemed like a really cool idea, albeit with most things they work on paper really well but from a business point of view they fall apart quick.

>>6424875
Only 2 of us have answered so far, but the fact that these are so cheap is definitely part of the appeal. There are other figurine markets that are willing to pay more tho, people who play tabletop wargaming for example are willing to pay quite a bit more for their figurines to be really high quality.

>>6424880
Yeah I was wondering that. But GW and Warhammer shit is super expensive and i've never been able to get into it. That said there are still a lot of players, i'm just not sure how many are still keeping up with GW's bullshit and their pricing or if demand is slowing.

I just need to know that if I dump a year or two into something and spend the money up front that there's a market for what i'm trying to produce. The sad part of business is that I could dump all I have into something, but unless people buy it, it's a waste of time.

That said, i'd like to produce some higher quality, slightly larger figures more for collectors to display and maybe a separate line of smaller figs 1" or 2" for table top gaming. But higher quality. I think i'd aim for a 2.50+ for the 2" figs and maybe a line of 4-5" figs at 10-20 each but display quality with all kinds of other shit included and optionable.

Not sure who'd be interested though. I do very much appreciate the responses though.

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>>6424076
Damn! The Green raid onto the depot has been spotted! It was a trap! Tan is actually well entrenched, Armoured car spotted!

>>6424536
>1) What size figures would you guys want to see? (1", 2", 3" etc...)
1/35 standard army man size
>2) Are you interested in cutomizeable figures?
No
>3) Are you interested in single color units and/or painted?
Single color
>4) Are you interested in poseable figs?
No
>5) What sorts of sets would you want to see?
Fantasy and science fiction
>6) Are you interested in these figures because they're cheap only or would you want to see higher quality figures? If so, what is the upper limit (per fig) you'd be willing to pay... I mean if the quality is good.
Cheap for the most, that's why I gravitate towards army men. More $1 would be unreasonable if we are talking about mass produced army men quality.

>>6424875
There are a couple outfits that produce army men domestically, maybe reach out to them?

>>6425400
Should've anticipated this with bazookas and mortars, tsk tsk.

>>6424536
>1) What size figures would you guys want to see? (1", 2", 3" etc...)
The standard army men size, 1/32-1/35
>2) Are you interested in cutomizeable figures?
Not particularly
>3) Are you interested in single color units and/or painted?
Single color
>4) Are you interested in poseable figs?
No
>5) What sorts of sets would you want to see?
Not so much specific eras or factions but sets that include vehicles, artillery, terrain, accessories
>6) Are you interested in these figures because they're cheap only or would you want to see higher quality figures? If so, what is the upper limit (per fig) you'd be willing to pay... I mean if the quality is good.
A balance between quality and cost is the ideal, there's a number of sets online like described above but they generally suffer from quality bugs that make them not worth their typical cost.

My favorite army men sets were the ones that had two or three different flavors of soldier (differentiated by color and faction), vehicles for each, cannons, some bunkers and barbed wire, maybe even little plastic or cardboard buildings, and of course flags for each army. They tended to be decently priced at the time, can still find some nowadays but they're more expensive as they're more rare leftovers from those years than newly made.

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>>6425400
More Tan emerge, to bolster the defenses. Looks like Green are in trouble here... call off the attack?!

>>6425461
Problem is they will bring up ip and contracts and other legal bullshit. It's easier to just start your own me thinks. Great idea though, any idea on names of those companies this side of the ocean?

I mean the last set of figs I was impressed with I got from wally world for 10 bucks it was a bucket of red, grey and so on color figs with this mech looking thing. It was probably one of the best sets i've come across.

I'm tempted to get the TrU sets that have the skeletons and such that i've seen. Just nobody seems to be doing what i'm thinking.

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Managed to snag three of the tank packs today at a dollar tree. I needed more tanks

>>6425994
Nice, bolstered the calvery then. All Green?

>>6425994
Every Dollar Tree I've visited since my one-time find hasn't had any of these, just those green and tan troops which I have plenty of already. This is what's killing army men enthusiasm, not providing the soldiers with any vehicles, accessories, etc.

>>6426119
Bro, you can find army men supplies everywhere. Why are you limiting yourself to Dollar Tree? Amazon is your friend.

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>>6426120
+ebay...heck your local Toys R Us probably has more selection than Dollar Tree.

>>6426120
Most of the stuff on amazon is varying degrees of mediocrity and/or is priced too high for what you get (looking at you TimMee). I'm pretty set for accessories and vehicles from a lifetime of collecting, was just musing that the lack of in-store battlepacks has been detrimental to army men interest in general.

>>6426122
TRU here (if they have anything at all) tends to have one overpriced tub of the green and tan modified Vietnam poses with admittedly a decent assortment of extras but I don't find it's worthwhile compared to what I've found in the past. Walmarts here haven't carried army men for a couple years now that I've seen, the only places they show up in these parts are the Dollar Trees and Dollaramas, and they're mostly crap.

>that tank 3-pack

Couple of things, they're $18 USD which is laughably overpriced for what they are, I already have plenty of those anyway (even sold off some a couple years ago). The other thing is the American listing doesn't ship here (Canada) and the Canadian listing well... I'll let the link speak for itself.

https://www.amazon.ca/TimMee-Toy-TANKS-Plastic-Army/dp/B00BURMUD2/

>>6425853
Might have to nuke the site from orbit, we're 5 images from the limit...

>>6426122
>>6426136
Also after reading a few reviews of those tanks, sounds like the plastic quality isn't the best and they don't have wheels with axles, just fake ones, why even bother at that point. The tank in >>6425994 is the exact same thing less the stickers and it has proper wheels, plastic quality is good enough too and it's only a dollar and a quarter (with a few soldiers and accessories to boot).

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>>6426137
The Conclusion will then be in the next exciting Thread!! I'll create one later today!

For now.. Even the Green supporting firing line is all pinned down by the Tan Sniper! The attacking squad has no covering fire, and an armoured car and full squads of Tan on the defense!

Are there any army men that look more like modern military rather than 40s to 60s era military?

>>6425909
TimMee and Toysmith.

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>>6426487
During the holidays I found these guys at TJ Maxx. "100 Special Soldiers".

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>>6426487
Walmart has their Corps! Elite bucket. The two tan soldiers up front.

>>6426497
Those are the ones I had! Those are awesome! Surprising amount of detail and consistency between pieces, no melted guys out of the box.

I hope they make some sort of expansion or new sets. Those are wicked good!

>>6426524
It would be nice to see some more variety from that line. The art had some female characters. I can't think of any toy soldier lines out there including women.
For other non-50's and 60's soldiers, Target has had some great futuristic stuff over the years. I'll see if I can dig out some photos later today.

>>6426745
Totally, would be rad to see more variety. That's part of what i'm after and want to make my own line of these damn things. It takes months to make the figures though and molding and shit but I could do whatever I wanted.

>>6426492
I got those guys in green and white (>>6421630), they came packaged with some really neat stuff like a fortress artillery piece, Hawk missile battery, various accessories, terrain pieces... It was a one-time find at the liquidation center, wish they'd get in more stuff like that but the only army men stuff they've had lately are these little buckets with a mixture of really cheaply made action figure soldiers, a few army men, some small vehicles and more or less random bits.

>>6426957
>>6426926
>>6426745
>>6426524
>>6426463
New Thread mates:
>>6427522

>>6373768
King of arty

>>6390146
i have a similar bunch of soldiers like these where did you get yours?

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Anybody know where to get samurai toy soldiers from i can't find any large packs anywhere are they not manufactured???

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>>6427655
They're japanese infantry, those particular men are often packaged with Americans, British and Germans in large containers, can also find the armies individually sometimes.

The ones linked here >>6415353 are an example, I don't have those specific ones but similar.

>>6427715
thanks