Monday 27 December 2010

Updated: Any idea who makes these figures?

I posted a while ago about some figures I had seen on ebay http://theangrylurker.blogspot.com/2010/12/any-idea-who-makes-these-figures.html and found something similar on a Japanese site, now the debate here and on The Miniatures Page was how many you got for the money (1 or 24?), so I emailed them and found out you got 24 1:35 scale painted battle suits for 3,000 yen and 992 yen postage (£31.96 at the time), placed the order and received them in 4 days!

So I took a few comparison pictures so you get an idea of scale and a link http://www.hlj.com/product/YLSAM-006

Pictures as terrible as usual.

The box itself, had already opened it.

24 little boxes of delight.

L to R, 28mm Copplestone Castings and 28mm Black Scorpion Miniatures.

Will need to base them and repaint them, will probably not use them all.

18 comments:

  1. These were on sale a few years ago by Hobby Link Japan, stating 'they would never be on sale again'. I got a box as well then, really nice figs. They also had scorpion-like tanks and the like.

    They are made by 'Hobby Base', who at that time had the licence of the Maschinenkrieger range, originated by Japanese artist Kow Yokoyama.

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  2. Wish you didnt post this up, just knee jurked and ordered my self a set.

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  3. I knew I had seen those before:
    www.scale120.com/

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  4. I'm going to have to be strong here, but they look great! They look like other than basing though they really don't need a new coat of paint unless you're going for a specific scheme.

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  5. They look ok...great APU´s...and you´ve got loads of em!!!

    Cheers
    Paul

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  6. Hi mate, i discover u blog today, at is amazing and very inspirating, im sure i will visit and put in favorites!!! Visit my blog if u want, it very nice meet people so crazy than u with the wargame!!!! (sorry for my english)

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  7. Awesome! You may not ever use them but they do look good on a shelf.

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  8. Hey TAL, hope you had a good christmas!

    If you've read World War Z, these suits immediately reminded me of the section in that where they talk about the suits warn by the divers; these would be great for that!

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  9. I don't know what they are, but they look good!

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  10. Dont know, but they're awesome. I really wish i had one for my desk :)

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  11. No idea who makes them =] They look quite decent :)

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  12. Ah, Maschinen Krieger. So beautiful!

    Although releases are sporadic the line is still very much alive. When living in Japan I came across these numerous times (and managed to only buy a few!). I heartily recommend this site for further perusal: http://www.maschinenkrueger.com/joomla/

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  13. Those are fantastic robo-suits! They remind me of bomb disposal suits.

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  14. That was a great find! I ordered some after your previous post and anxiously awaiting their arrival. I also picked up some AT-43 Soviet Blok robo-powersuit-thingies from FFG super cheap in december... I foresee some giant-robo-power-armour battles in the near future!!

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  15. Yellow Submarine was the manufacturer.

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