How do Steve Weston's Bandidos match in scale with AIP Japanese Infantry? (1 Viewer)

[Bid_kahuna]

I'd like to use the Japanese for Mexican Revolution Federales fighting Weston's bandidos and some Reisler bandidos I have in my collection. Does anyone have a pic of the AIP figures side-by-side with Weston's? I have a feeling the Westons are noticeably larger.


Thanks

 

[Scott]

I'd like to use the Japanese for Mexican Revolution Federales fighting Weston's bandidos and some Reisler bandidos I have in my collection. Does anyone have a pic of the AIP figures side-by-side with Weston's? I have a feeling the Westons are noticeably larger.


Thanks

Hope this helps. I have the Peasants and the Banditos. Here they are next to two AIP CSA Marines. I boosted the AIP figures because of the larger Weston bases.



I suggest using AIP Boers and Spanish as Mexicans with 1900 US Marines. Mexicans wore a lot of US military clothing including campaign hats. You can even use pith helmet heads on the Spanish as Federales. Works with AIP British artillery and cavalry from the late 1800s. Hard to find the iconic sombreros.

 

[Bid_kahuna]

Thanks very much for going to the trouble of taking and posting the pictures. They are indeed considerably larger, even disregarding the bases. I suppose I'll have to grin and bear it though... I wish the new "scale creep" had never started. It was much easier when 1/32 meant the same thing universally. The AIP figures look like they might match perfectly in scale with my Reisler bandidos as Villistas and the peasants could make good Zapatistas. I have thought of using the AIP Spanish as Carrancistas. I want to use the AIP Japanese as Federales for their forage caps. Boers will be American mercenaries and more sophisticated urban Mexican revolutionaries. I think the 1900 Americans will have to serve as Pershing's troops until AIP puts out "campaign hat" US WW1 infantry, even though they are over a decade too early.

 

[tws1956]

Thanks very much for going to the trouble of taking and posting the pictures. They are indeed considerably larger, even disregarding the bases. I suppose I'll have to grin and bear it though... I wish the new "scale creep" had never started. It was much easier when 1/32 meant the same thing universally. The AIP figures look like they might match perfectly in scale with my Reisler bandidos as Villistas and the peasants could make good Zapatistas. I have thought of using the AIP Spanish as Carrancistas. I want to use the AIP Japanese as Federales for their forage caps. Boers will be American mercenaries and more sophisticated urban Mexican revolutionaries. I think the 1900 Americans will have to serve as Pershing's troops until AIP puts out "campaign hat" US WW1 infantry, even though they are over a decade too early.

I wouldn't say they are considerably larger as I have used the reisler bandits with westons. You can also use the world war I british lancers in their soft caps as mounted federales. The issue I have with the weston bandits are that they are rather chunky. This happens across the hobby. Compare AIP woodland indians with CTS woodland indians. Height wise they right in scale with each other. But AIP are much "chunkier" (and better in my opinion as the CTS heads are almost flat and shrunk). Same deal with CTA zulu's compared to Conte and AIP zulus. CTA are almost 1/35 scale while Conte and AIP match perfectly. I suppose it's like the original Marx civil war figures: the original ones were much thicker than the centennial poses but standing side by side both are 54mm. But give CTS a big thumbs up to their new world war 2 and civil war figures: they match perfectly with Marx. As does AIP. Your time periods for the mexican revolution should be good with the new AIP figures. The time periods are really not that out of whack, 1900 to 1914. Technology didn't change that much so your stuff will look good. Good luck.

 

[NY Collector]

I'd like to use the Japanese for Mexican Revolution Federales fighting Weston's bandidos and some Reisler bandidos I have in my collection. Does anyone have a pic of the AIP figures side-by-side with Weston's? I have a feeling the Westons are noticeably larger.


Thanks

Tony at AIP told me a year or so ago that when his Jap Infantry were released I would find they would make good Federal Mexican troops

-Frank

 

[Scott]

Tony at AIP told me a year or so ago that when his Jap Infantry were released I would find they would make good Federal Mexican troops

-Frank

Good-ish. The Japanese heads on the Spanish bodies are closer. Photos show more bandoliers of bullets rather than slings and pouches on Mexican troops of all sides. With some imagination, an exacto knife and glue, you can take many AIP sets and make Mexican artillery infantry, cavalry, and infantry of all sides plus the United States for the 1910-1920 revolution. You just can't do the peasants of the Zapatists or any unit with sombreros.

I bought 2 boxes of the Spanish in white to do double duty. Not real exciting figures but they are useful for numerous battle. Only a 13 year gap between the Rough Rider set and the Spanish. My BMC Spanish can now go to small cousins.