Yep I am back into Starship trooper mode!
Today the postman brought me a very nice parcel…
I managed to get a good deal on EBay … sixteen miniatures for £48 with free postage. Yeah that is a lot of money for plastic, but the Starship Troopers miniatures are like rocking horse droppings. I though £3 a mini wasn’t too bad, having a look at other things up for sale I could get six for £45 or one for £11. So all in all not a bad price.
They are a whole lot smaller than the ones I printed… even my 60% sized one is big…
These two were pre assembled, the rest were still on the sprue. I need some flying ones and at least a Tanker bug, but once again these are going for silly money.
I would like some ST mobile infantry, there are less of them than there are bugs it would seem. There are more in the states than over here, £20 postage on top of £30 plus for the actual miniatures is putting me off – that and a poor track record of getting stuff actually to my house from the states.
So to proxy the troopers I ordered some EM4 plastic troopers five miniatures for £2.55…
https://em4miniatures.com/collections/science-fiction-near-future-miniatures/products/troopers
For that price you really can’t go wrong…
I got four sets so have a fair amount to play with. Sadly the command conversion and in fact most of the conversion bits were sold out which was a bit of a bummer to say the least. I will give him a shout to see if they are going to be restocked at any point. These have been sold out for ages so I really don’t see that they will be… but as they say …Shy Bairns get nowt. At the very least I might get a contact for who made them.
So off I go back to EBay to see if anything ST is going cheap… I have more chance of spotting a flying pig!
I have found a proxy drop ship on Thingiverse that I can print myself, as well as terrain and ground vehicles so that should keep me busy for a while.
Bogenwald 
Look like a lot of bits on those bugs! Will be good to seem some of these painted!
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They are a bit fiddly to put together so that all four legs are on the ground at once. It might be a while before I get them painted.
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Those look great-decent price for them too.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Reckon you got a very good deal there, something which seems to be harder and harder to do these days. Will look forward to seeing how you get on with them.
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Yes indeed… EBay used to be a cheap place, but not any more….
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They days of ebay bargains is long gone- I get better deals buying from FB groups these days.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Same here… that is where I got my Starship Troopers (film adaption) board game.
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Very cool, I hope you have fun painting them, etc. Funny you mention Starship Troopers — I’ve been wanting to read the book for awhile now and keep forgetting. I’m going to go and put in my intralibrary loan request now before I forget again.
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There, it is done … excellent! 🙂
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Awesomeness
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I read it years ago and must reread it again if I still have it.
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I’ve read a little bit of Heinlein’s stuff, and I’ve been wanting to read that one for awhile now before I maybe dip into Black Library and look into the Tyranid stuff.
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I was going to use Tyranids as proxy bugs, but then could 3D print them an£ now have managed to buy some.
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