Old Warzone: What scales well with it?

Machen

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Hi all,

I just got into the old Target games Warzone line this year and was wondering what other sci-fi Oldhammer metal figure lines scale well with them.

Tim Prow sculpted many Warzone figures back in the day, so it's not surprising that his current sculpts from Diehard miniatures scale pretty much perfectly with most of Target's older minis. (I say "most" because the Warzone line has it's share of internal scale hiccups and extremes: compare the Ral Partha-sized, minutely detailed 25mm-28mm Callistonian Intruder to the practically 32mm early Mortificator units, for example.) Likewise, I've found that Knightmare Miniatures' new Oldhammer-style sculpts generally scale very well with old Warzone figures.

As for 40K / Trader sculpts from roughly the same era, in my experience Warzone figures tend to be larger, chunkier, less elegant, and less detailed (but not without their own stonky charm.) They're not unworkable together, but Warzone figures will tend to loom over GW equivalents a bit more than they should.

Has anyone here with a metal Warzone collection found other miniature company lines that scale particularly well with them?
 
Thanks for the response, Fimm.

I have a couple Void and Urban War figures. Void scales O.K., but their troopers are less chunky and generally shorter than Warzone, though I find the Warzone designs more imaginative. I got a couple of Triad grunts from Urban War, hoping they'd scale well with Mishima, but they're too small for that. It's quite possible that some of the power armored Shock Trooper figures would fit better, but I haven't tried that yet.

One inviting thing about the Warzone figures for me right now is that I'm getting back into painting after years away. Bigger, chunkier figures look ideal right now as easier projects to start revving up my skills again.
 
I don't know if Copplestone did any Warzone figures, but his sculpts for frostgrave / stargrave work (which I generally quite like) are at a noticeably smaller 28mm scale.

Warzone is admittedly odd in that even within the range their are some striking scale fluctuations between 32 and 28mm - Kev White's Warzone sculpts, I've noticed, are on the smaller side (although in terms of quality and detail they're some of the best in the range,) while Tim Prow's sculpts are consistently "heroic" scaled and large, often out-chunking contemporary 40K figures. In general, though, the majority of the figures seem to trend towards 32mm.
 
Ah, reading a couple of things, one said that in deed, Mark Copplestone did miniatures for warzone along with Kev Adams and Kevin White, and another place saying he did Figures in the first wave miniatures like the first version of the 'Blood Berets' (sorry, don't know much about warzone) and a couple saying they do indeed go well with his future wars line from his site..

O should have had a bit more time to research it seams ^_^
 
ManicMan":os7jr5su said:
O should have had a bit more time to research it seams ^_^
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Perhaps so, my good fellow! But hopefully it's OK to shorten my own research by attempting to draw on the collective wisdom of other enthusiasts here?

It's pretty evident that the very, very first wave of Mutant Chronicles minis (the ones that preceded Warzone and were made for the RPG) were all 28mm, and those look like Copplestone's work. They're fairly small, and also generally harder to find than the later Warzone miniatures, which itself had a couple of "waves." I got into Warzone through the easily available and relatively inexpensive figures available through Prince August, so they are my benchmark. Most of those are 32mm (but not all of them, including some very fine Kev White minis. (If you need a Space Ninja - and who doesn't? - his "Toshiro" sculpt recently came back into stock there after a long absence, and you won't find that mini that cheap anywhere else.)
 
damn, made a typo there.. I mean 'I should have' and it's always a good idea to ask people if you don't know something.

interesting that they decided to change the scale like that.. though alot of companies seam to be going for 32mm these days ¬_¬; annoying really
 
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