Best Humvee Deal Around? Plus more!

This Humvee for $16?  I'll take 5 Please!

In the never-ending quest to build up great looking modern forces at affordable prices, some time and effort gets sucked into following leads from various helpful people at Fb and other gaming Forums.

When it came to vehicles, there's an interesting tension between finding the right size toy vehicles [die casts can be as little as $6-8 and around the right size] and more detailed resin / metal miniatures from traditional manufacturers like Empress, and finally scale model kits in the 1:48 range sometimes work.

Overall, my search resulted mostly in Humvees being around $27-35 depending on options, which can easily push one Hummer to $50 from Spectre, for example.

As I wanted some pretty "standard" vics with crew-served weapons mounted in a turret atop the Humvee, I felt like there had to be a better deal out there...somewhere. In this case, web searches pushed me to ETSY where I have bought a few resin items now and again.

Walter Norton: licensed Etsy printer of Miska Miniatures, Quartermaster 3D and more, in 6mm, 1/100, 28mm, 30mm and more. Small shop with continuing development of products and service. Shop located [HERE].

Service and Response time: Excellent, often same day within hours.

Prices: Average to Low, various discounts and sales push prices down. Free shipping on orders of $35+

Quality: Superior work on modest order I placed, no "layers" visible, models have been very clean. I've placed a full order valued at $125 or so, but got a coupon lowering it about $19.

Let's check out my test order...

28mm HMMWV HUMVEE by Quartermaster 3D  [CLICK]

Dimensions: Main body is just under 4" x 2", around a 1:50 scale after crunching the numbers Wikipedia offers for the Humvee.  Hole is for the turret.

Note: there is some camera lens distortion in the image below due to the top-down angle and the height of the model off the cutting board. I'm minimized it best  I can.

Comparisons with known figures: 28mm Lord of the Rings by GW.  Remember, Orlando Bloom acted in both "Blackhawk Down" and "The Outpost"!

What does scale really mean?  It just needs to look right on the table, and I think this Humvee suits my figs and table...

Two left Figs, 30mm Enemy Spotted Studios. Right figure, 28mm Rezolution. Keep in mind that they are on 2-3mm bases, so a bit tall next to the model!

Pulling out a bit for distance, ESS 30mm to left, a die-cast car from CVS on the right, overall things "look right" for a game table, IMHO>

I also ordered Technical Gunners, so here they are from left to right: ESS 30mm, Rezolution 28mm, Walter Norton print, ESS 30mm, Walter Norton Russian Kord and Dshk machine guns on mounts. Second with gunner.  The figs are all set up so feet are on the line, and the heights can be compared. The insurgent gunners are a little shorter, which I think is correct as most Western Soldiers are a bit taller [and these are 30mm].

Below, gunner, MGs with shields, unshielded. Note fig is about 28mm foot to eye.

Gunner and MG make nice fit on my die-cast toy from Walmart.

- The Humvee is $20 in a variety of configurations [some $18 or $19].

- The turrets can be purchased separately at $10 for 4 turrets. This allows you to buy extras for your kit-bashed vehicles!

- The Force Recon option is 5 vehicles and 10 Turrets for $80, so $16 a vic!

Overall, I think that this shop is offering the best deal I've seen for me in the Northeast USA, considering the total cost of product, shipping, etc.  Plus there's always an Etsy wild card of a small discount coupon that applies to certain items, so one can get another 5-15% off or so on a total order, typically.

I'm open to being directed to a better deal, of course!

FWIW, I placed my order for a Force Recon patrol of 5 Humvees and some additional vehicles and figures to round out what I already have!