Wargaming with 20mm Soft Plastic Figures

Hobby Sites

• Military Miniatures Magazine Note: this site requires virtual cash to view, downloadable free from the site
• Toy Soldier HQ
• Toy Soldier and Model Figure Magazine
• Steve Burt's Site - an active UK plastic warrior from way back!
• Low cost wargaming - from Italian wargamer Luca Fazio
• RayCon 2000, a little weekend at Lake Huron in Canada, fighting DBA with 20mm plastic figures.
• The 1/72^nd Scale Plastic Figures and Low Cost Wargaming Site by Paddy Shoesmith
• 20mm & 54mm Plastic's from Lazarus' Lair, Bill Bennet's site.
• Ancient Armies, a very flash site about diarama's with 1/72^nd scale figures by Thomas Riegmann. Really impressive!
• MiniatureZone by John-Michael Murray - a very comprehensive site about modeling wiht 20mm plastics
• MacPhee's Military Modeling Site, of HaT's painted Future Releases fame - have a look at his painted ancient figures to see what I mean!).
• History in Miniature, a great idea whereby plastic figures are used to teach and refight famous battles as an aid for teaching history at school. Brilliant! Now if only someone had done that at Branston Intermediate, I'd have had a 10 year jump start on my painting - and when I had time to do it too!
• Plastic Soldier Review, for information, news and reviews on the whole gammut of 1:72 scale plastic soldiers.
• Greg Kelleher, from Dux Bellorum Australis has posted pages concering his own 20mm DBA armies - Thracians, Early Achaemenid Persians and Hellenistic Spartan.
• The Plastic Pilum, being a chronicle of David Medlock's ongoing obsession with De Bellis Antiquitatis and 20mm plastic miniatures...
• Ancients Wargaming in 20mm, a great new site by Claudio Berni.
• Bob's Old Guard, DBA Ancient Brits in plastic.

Manufacturers

• HaT Industrie - An excelent site dedicated to plastic figures
• Imex in America
• Italeri
• Nexus Games. Very interesting.
• Revell. The site is in German, which is all Greek to me!
• Newline Design - in the UK - specialising in 20mm metal figures (which should be quite compatable with plastic figures)
• Fine Scale Factory, another 20mm metal manufacturer, this time in Germany.
• Odemars, Another 20mm manufacturer, this time in Mother Russia.
• Art Miniaturen, another German 1/72^nd/20mm metal manufacturer (though they are labled 15mm!), but this site is actually in German. Have a look at their Antike (Ancients) range.
• Ultimate Miniatures, manufactures of 20mm metal figures. Take note of their Ancient and Crusades ranges.
• Orion, a Russian company with a small but growing selection of plastic figures.
• My English translation of the Zvezda Catalogue as it appears, in Russian, at their site.
• Strelets R, another Russian producer of soft plastic figures

Retailers

And here are some links to some model shops that sell plastic figures by mail order (that's apart from me! Have a look at my DE BELLIS LUDIS CUM HOMUNCULIS MOLLIBUS for Sale page!).

I know I said that if you've got to order them from overseas that sort of defeats the whole purpose of the excercise, but if you've done what I have, and have started a DBM army with figures that are now discontinued, but still need more of them to finish off the army, mail order is really the only reasonable way to go.

• Canterbury Miniatures - here in New Zealand
• Milmod Hobbies - over the ditch in Australia
• Woodrow�s War Store, in Canada.
• Roll Models - in the US
• Stumpfle's Military Miniatures - in the US
• Stad's Toys - in the US
• Hannants - in the UK
• BAUEDA Wargames by Claudio Berni. Baueda [Claudio] makes a range of fine tabletop resin wargame accessories, specifically designed for DBM in 15 and 20mm.