Anyone know where I can get some modern pilot or airfield ground crew figures in 1/32 or 1/35 ??

Ground crew figures are tough to come by, but there are some pretty decent seated pilots in the Tamiya 1/32 F-15E kit, complete with HGU-55 helmets. You can order the sprues by calling Tamiya. There are alos some good pilots in the Tomcat and Phantom kits, but they sport the earlier style HGU-33 helmets.

Reheat also makes some nice standing pilots, but the poses are a bit limited. As far as ground crew figures go, they shoud actually be fairly easy to convert from various figure sets.

HTH-

I found this Top Gun pilot over at squadron:

http://squadron.com/ItemDetails.asp?item=AESGF43

Verlinden is the only one I know of.

Are there any 32 scale German Luftwaffe pilots out there? I would like to make one look like Adolf Galland to set beside my Bf109...

I know this isn't what everyone wants to hear, but here goes . . . .lol

Occasionally you can still find the old Airfix multipose 1/32 figure sets out there -- British, German, U.S. infantry, USMC, etc. -- with separate heads, arms, legs, upper bodies, boots, pouches, packs, small arms -- that make good raw material for all sorts of scratchbuilt figures.


HTH