i was planning a dio with a captured british landshp rolling over a british trench followed by a bunch of stormtroopers w/ gas masks etc. and maybe a couple british soldiers sitting/sleeping in their trench, anf a dead one in a water filled shell crater with rats. any ideas where i might b able to find figures for this? preferably affordable

What scale are you looking for?

If it's 1/35, M-Model (of Poland) offers few:
http://www.m-model.pl/1wojna-eng.html

As well as ICM (of Ukraine):
http://www.icm.com.ua/en/eshop/c2

I'm sure there is more out there.

Some good WW1 figs here:

http://www.japanesearmorking.com/jak3.htm

Al

The other poster mentioned the Japanese armor web site. Very nice figures, indeed. I have several and will get more. Excellent quality and decent price and they are nice folks.

As Ales said, ICM do a set of late-war German assault infantry (stromtroopers) in 1/35.

I don't have them, but I do have the accompanying ICM set of WWI British infantry, and they're very nice.

Plus Model (of the Czech Republic) do a set of rats in the same scale.

https://www.missionmodels.com/product.php?productid=16419

- Steve

Verlinden has a few, you might be able to get them cheap nowadays (my local shop sells two-pack Verlinden figures for around 15$). Dunno about the sculpt, they can be hit or miss.

ok great thanks all!! yes 1/35 is what i was thinking ofbut i forgot to specify it

can the japanese figures and the icm rats b bought in the US?

Andrea, JMD and Hecker and Goros have some, but I think they might be a bit for what you are looking for

can the japanese figures and the icm rats b bought in the US ? Yes the ICM and the rats can be purchased in the U.S. Ive gottin both from Squardon models,and seen where GreatModels has them too .