"Best 28mm Martians (Barsoom Style)" Topic

I've seen the parhoon station models and like them, but I wonder what else is out there. Any suggestions for leads?

I'm looking for some one to oppose my 28mm boys in red, and am on a John Carter fix presently.

Thanks for any leads.

Bronze Age Miniatures and Tin Man both have good options.

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tinminis.com/TinManCatalog.htm

ps – Bronze Age is having a sale right now!

IMO, the best figures for this genre are those from Bronze Age Miniatures 32mm SciFi line.

BRONZE AGE!!!!!

Bronze Age Miniatures

Bronze Age, + characters by Tin Man.

No other immediate choice, but one could try Raging Heroes Blood Vestals with very minor conversions (e.g. replacing #half of the swords with Dark Eldar splinter pistols):
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Bronze Age.

While the Bronze Age figures are quite nice, I still prefer those of the Parroom Station line sold now by Brigade Games.

You really can't go wrong with either line.

I'm going to agree with the others and say Bronze Age too.

I have to say that while the Bronze age figures are a great effort, they don't do it for me.

Aside from Tin Man's great character figures Bronze Age is really the only company making anything that comes close to a Barsoomian Panthan warrior.

Somebody needs to step up and make a simple line of 28mm Panthans. (HINT: TinMan)

I prefer the Parroom by far as well. They make a good range of character figures for both the Martians and Earthmen, including no less than two each of JC and Dejah Thoris. The only model I have added to my collection from another line is the Woola figure from Tin Man since Parroom never did one.

I do like the Bronze Age models stylistically but they are gigantic and match nothing else out there, plus the Tharks are a monstrous bear to assemble, have tons of thick flash to clean up, and all require pinning. I put together a bunch for a friend and all I will say is "No thanks, and never again!"

That said if you do want them then now is the time with that nice sale going on.

The Parroom link look really good, but are Martians of the 'Space 1889' type, humanoid but not as perfectly human (as far as can be seen*) as Red Martians of Barsoom. Their faces are 'Elfish'; specially obvious (and, for a John Carter setting, unfortunate) are their hears of the 'creature of the black lagoon' type.

[*: as far as can be seen, since Red Martians are egg-laying mammals, with probably some… intriguing anatomo-morphological consequences ]

Abdul666lw: They're monotremes, like the playtpus.

That's indeed what I was hinting to
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Which, for (lack of) easily visible evidence, would let unanswered this intriguing question: since that Green Martians have two pairs of arms, do their males have two pairs of… well, never mind.

The Bronze Age Tharks I have gotten (admittedly, only five different poses of all available) did not require 'thick flash removal' and while one of the poses required head pinning, the other four did not.