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Having lost my few Epic Landspeeders somewhere in the loft/office/previous house moves/eaten by greyhounds/take your pick 'cos ai don't know, does anyone have some good ideas for proxies at a less unreasonable price than £12.50 for five that Workshop are asking?!

Something light hover/grav speeder, preferably with a GW ish grim dark gothic-y style rather than high tech & shiny...

Any suggestions?

Have you tried wargames emporium in sheffied, they do quite a bit of 2 nd hand epic stuff and are reasonably priced, not sure of their web address but they do have a site

Here: http://www.wargamesemporium.co.uk/

Do they have a secondhand section on the website? Was having a look at their site and there isn't one I could find, nor any Epic scale at all...

I may give them a bell if that's the best course or just cruise the B&B's and second hand traders at the shows as and when I go...

Ah ha, just in the nick of time I got five off of Ebay at a not unreasonable price incl. P&P. Should have bid on both auctions that were up, might have got a bit cheaper but hey.

Less than 90p each for an OOP model whose replacement goes for £2.50 each is acceptable even to my frugal, northern soul

Just to add annoyance though I then spotted the Chinese Grav-scout in the Brigade Models web store (http://www.brigademodels.co.uk/6mmSF/CDSU/SF300... which would also be perfect. Think I'll pick up a few of those to use as the more heavily armed variants of the craft...

I'm also impressed with their French Montsabre tank , as its hull form is very close to the Trepida Grav-Tank from Traveller - I'm leaning towards the Gloire SPG version as it's got the most similar ish (to me) turret, and the same stubby ish look to the gun (http://www.brigademodels.co.uk/6mmSF/EuroFed/SF...

Few of those, some with turrets removed & replaced by a little 'IFV style' one for the Astrid IFVs, a pack of GZGs' UNSC troopers for 'clamshell' style battledress helmt/armour and a couple of Adlers rather nice air/rafts for, well, air/rafts, and I feel the beginning of a new army coming on

Nice!
Like the Giap Grav Scout Vehicle. Can definitely be used for the Landspeeder. Has the look that could replace the enclosed Tempest variant and at £0.75 each much more appealing to the pocket.
Sounds like you have the makings of a very punchy force.
Good luck toxicpixie.

Yeah, I thought the Giap was pretty much spot on for the enclosed Landspeeders. Will make a good distinctive visual difference on table so I don't have to keep going "Errrrr is that one the Tempest, or is it an ordinary one or a..." every turn

Of course that probably means they'll get mercilessly picked on