One of the challenges of gaming Star Wars in 25mm scale is that, compared to 28mm, there aren't many figure options, especially for the Rebels. I was trolling fleabay and ran across a set of proxies which included mortars and shoulder-fired anti-tank missiles and was intrigued.
These turned out to be old 20-25mm Star Guard figures, most recently produced by tin-soldier.com (although I can't tell if they are still in business). The batch made two units of support infantry for Xenos Rampant, which was perfect.
The figures were painted nicely enough so I just adjusted some of the clothing colours to fit in and based them. The figures are slimmer than the West End Games figures (more like the 20mm or 1/72 norms from the 1970s) and the integral bases were also small, so they were a lot shorter than the WEG figures.
In the end, I just doubled the washers to give them a similar height. They look close enough on the table to work as proxies. I'd like to get some of the other figures in this range but, so far, haven't had any response from the manufacturer.
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