Chen-song's 1/72 Scale Miniature Gaming Blog

For this year's Mayday gaming convention, I'm running my Strange Aeons: X-Com game again, this time with slightly different scenarios to make it easier on the human player.

I've painted up some extra miniatures for both the human and alien sides, to make the original scenarios better-balanced.

First up are some Elhiem Figures "armoured fed troopers", used as medium-armoured X-Com operatives. These are incredibly good miniatures that fit well with plastic 1/72 miniatures. Hopefully they are part of a trend popularizing 1/72 scale science fiction.

Here's the whole gang I painted up.  They can be used as a squad with rifles, a heavy weapon, and a leader with some sort of carbine.

A close-up of the heavy weapons trooper and his loader.



Here's a comparison shot showing the height of the grays. They look fine as small aliens versus human miniatures.

I'll see if the humans do better this time. The sectoids, just like in the computer game, are significantly weaker than humans and only have plasma pistols. Hopefully this will give the early level humans a fighting chance.

Recently, I've been buying miniatures from Elhiem Figures (doesn't it seem more correct as "Elheim"?) in the UK. This company produces excellent metal miniatures in 1/72 (20mm) scale. I have pictures of miniatures from some of their ranges next to my Caesar 1/72 plastic miniatures to show how well they match sizewise. Sorry, they're not painted yet.

From the left, two cultists from the Elhiem pulp horror range, Caesar modern French soldier, Caesar modern insurgent, Caesar WWII nun.

From the left, Elhiem heroes from their pulp horror range, and the same three Caesars as above

A close-up of Elhiem heroes versus Caesar miniatures.

A couple of Elheim modern police miniatures, not primed or based yet. These actually match quite well. They only look smaller because they don't have the height of the bases.

So overall, Elhiem miniatures are an almost exact match for 1/72 plastics, and they should provide some excellent character models for games.