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So I made myself some terrain!   This is a complete trench system with barbed wire for The Great war Spearhead. I've gone into a little more detail on how I made it here, if you are interested.
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Grey Hunter posted:So I made myself some terrain! Nice! 6mm?
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lilljonas posted:Nice! 6mm? Yeah, for use with Baccus 6mm. They had a British WWI tank out on their stand at Warfare, so they can't be to far from releasing them!
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Nov 24, 2015 06:24
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JcDent posted:6mm best mm A clubmate is drawing me back to 6mm. I just started on a French infantry booster from Baccus, I almost forgot how much of an endurance test it is to paint hundreds of identical infantrymen.
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Since this thread is moving slowly later: Now that the Gebirgsjäger platoon is starting to take shape, I can't let them be ordered around by an ordinary Heer officer. So I converted up a Zügcommander with pistol, a Panzerbüchse 39 team, and an intrepid cameraman to follow them around as well!     The cover for the AT rifle was made with sculpey, and the cameraman is a Warlord Games mini. The Gebirgsjäger minis are all converted Perry Miniatures DAK, like the rest of my Gebirgsjäger platoon.
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JcDent posted:6mm best mm Hell yeah. My current painting project is Western theater ACW:  Sooooo close to having enough rebs for Sherman to properly terrorize! Painting the little fuckers is definitely a great way to find out just how many guys you're willing to paint in a single batch.
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Great job on the cameraman. I have that dude and copied his camera for a model of a USMC dude at Tarawa. Will have to dig up a pic Edit: any particular unit or battle you painted those ACW southerners for?
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muggins posted:Edit: any particular unit or battle you painted those ACW southerners for? No, I want to keep them generic but plausible participants for any battle in the Western theater- they're maybe a little too ragged and mismatched to be at Shiloh but the long term dream is to have a table that can do Grant's amphibious operations against the Mississippi river forts (perhaps against an AS Johnston that didn't take one in the artery for his first big battle) as well as Sherman and Bragg's maneuvers in Alabama and Georgia.
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Anyone make use of Warlord's 50% OFF PLASTIC SPRUES?!eins! I feel like my ambitions for Blitzkroeg Getmans will jave to wait after New Year. After that, I'm buyan' 30 krauts
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JcDent posted:Anyone make use of Warlord's 50% OFF PLASTIC SPRUES?!eins! I was until i realized that the club has roughly 120 german infantrymen, and I still have about 40 unpainted ones left. And after that, I think I will do 6mm or 17th century, rather than start another ww2 force.
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I finally got around to starting on my Late Romans from Footsore Miniatures. These guys are great, and I had a fun time painting this little trumpeter:
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Nov 28, 2015 12:01
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Nice. I keep getting tempted to do a Late Roman/Romano British force. I love that look
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Endman posted:I finally got around to starting on my Late Romans from Footsore Miniatures. These guys are great, and I had a fun time painting this little trumpeter: This guy is great! I love how the expression unambiguously indicates that he's so tired of your poo poo.
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Nov 28, 2015 17:54
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Is it at all possible to get 15mm plastic Cold War British models? My friend is enthusiastic about trying team Yankee, and I want to do British counts as for the NATO side.
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Dunno about plastic at the mo; apparently BAOR are next in line for TY, and I know there's a few places that do them in metal like QRF and Skytrex.
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spectralent posted:Dunno about plastic at the mo; apparently BAOR are next in line for TY, and I know there's a few places that do them in metal like QRF and Skytrex. Oooh nice. I had no idea Brits were planned for ty at all. Any source on that?
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Ensign Expendable posted:This guy is great! I love how the expression unambiguously indicates that he's so tired of your poo poo. Thanks! All of the Footsore minis have great personality to them. I used to always choose plastic over metal, but I think they've sold me on the lead poisoning.
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secretly a baby posted:Oooh nice. I had no idea Brits were planned for ty at all. Any source on that? Admittedly I can't find it; it seems to be repeated a lot of places where there's TY talk though. Apologies 
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spectralent posted:Admittedly I can't find it; it seems to be repeated a lot of places where there's TY talk though. Apologies The source is various BF employees including the guy who wrote the game posting on the forums and stating as such. British and West Germans are confirmed and are coming "soon." They will probably be paired with more soviet lists and lists for Poles, East Germans and Czechs. While it isn't officially confirmed it seems logical that BF is going to expand FoW/TY into Cold War conflicts both real and fictional. They just about done with WWII (pacific is all that is left) so the only place they can go is forward into the Cold War/Moderns. Its the only historical market where they could drive lots of model sales and hopefully pick up a lot of new players (my group has seen a lot of interest from guys who don't currently play any historicals, much less BF ones). So yeah, if it was a NATO or PACT nation then expect lists and models for them at some point in the next few years from battlefront.
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Is Team Yankee any good? Moderns seem cool but I'm not really interested if it's just Flames of War with different statlines and a couple different special rules.
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A brief examination of it seems to suggest that it does a fuckton of stuff marginally differently but is basically just FoW.
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There's a rule preview here: http://www.breakthroughassault.co.uk/2015/10/team-yankee-rules-preview.html Or you can go filez since one guy on /fowg/ on 4chan scanned it already. It's still FoW anyways, but Battlefront makes a mean mini. Too bad that Zvezda doesn't, their Abrams is basically plastic blog vaguelly shaped like an Abrams, their T-72 is actually of the B3 variety... but you can load up on cheap Shilkas and Carnations. And as soviet TY player, you'll need them savings.
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[quote="JcDent posted:It's still FoW anyways, but Battlefront makes a mean mini. Too bad that Zvezda doesn't, their Abrams is basically plastic blog vaguelly shaped like an Abrams, their T-72 is actually of the B3 variety... but you can load up on cheap Shilkas and Carnations. And as soviet TY player, you'll need them savings. What about their infantry? Bf only does metal infantry at first so Zvezda might be a decent infantry alternative. Fish and Chimps fucked around with this message at 08:19 on Nov 29, 2015 |
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I think TY is gonna be plastic infantry, which shows comitment. I have never checked Zvezda's Hot War dudes. Maybe plastic soldier review has anything on them?
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JcDent posted:I think TY is gonna be plastic infantry, which shows comitment. I have never checked Zvezda's Hot War dudes. Maybe plastic soldier review has anything on them? I'm pretty sure they're not. This link advertises the products that are in plastic pretty well, and the infantry isn't among them http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=5038
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Zvezda for some reason makes their vehicles in 1/100 and their infantry in 1/72. I have no idea why.
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spectralent posted:Zvezda for some reason makes their vehicles in 1/100 and their infantry in 1/72. I have no idea why. Review dates them at 1986, so it might be too late anyways As for scale, umom Rossyu nipaniat EDIT: yeah, I dunno how I dreamed up plastic FoW. Anyways, I'm waiting for the Brits and Jerries. All the hipster coolness of not playing Americans and a third cheaper than Soviets. JcDent fucked around with this message at 14:07 on Nov 29, 2015 |
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December's WI has an excerpt from the Team Yankee novel, and boy howdy is it garbage! Last month's had a decent demo game write-up though. It's doubtful I'll grab Team Yankee, as I've really moved in to more skirmish-type games and I could use FoF or something for that, but there are some differences in the rules that intrigue me.
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Colonial Air Force posted:December's WI has an excerpt from the Team Yankee novel, and boy howdy is it garbage! I think Cold War Airpower thread OK'd it, putting the book somewhere between Red Army and Red Storm Rising. I'm also a fan of skirmish and individual basing, but 28 mm moderns are either disgusting, expensive or both. I'd get some of that Spectre stuff if it wasn't almost Infinity expensive
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spectralent posted:Zvezda for some reason makes their vehicles in 1/100 and their infantry in 1/72. I have no idea why. 1: making a game like Memoir '44, but NOT Memoir '44. 2: ensuring that both miniatures and infantry are desirable, but to different scale gamers. I have a fuckton of their WWII stuff for FoW, and a few packs of their Hot War stuff for Force on Force.
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I'm not sure if this was posted, but for Dark Age geeks out there, a former Gripping Beast designer started his own line: http://saxonminiatures.com/
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Dirt Worshipper posted:I'm not sure if this was posted, but for Dark Age geeks out there, a former Gripping Beast designer started his own line: These are really nice models.
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Oh god that Winter King range. Want.
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Serotonin posted:Oh god that Winter King range. Want. Too bad Arthurians aren't right for SAGA.That chi ro, maaan... What's ya'll opinion on Spectre Operations, both minis and rules? At least they don't have the activation tango of Skirmish Sangin.
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The minis look nice, but I can't even find the rules on the site so... uh... bad. Very bad.
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JcDent posted:Too bad Arthurians aren't right for SAGA.That chi ro, maaan... Late Romano-British arms, armor and combat style basically laid out the foundation for most Viking age combat so It'd not that far off to field them in the same system. Probably as Anglo-Danes or Byzantines, maybe as Joms if you wan't to field just the Knights of the Round as an army on foot.
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If I was going to use them then I'd probably go with War and Conquest.
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Dirt Worshipper posted:I'm not sure if this was posted, but for Dark Age geeks out there, a former Gripping Beast designer started his own line: Those are gorgeous. I've got such a fetish for Late Roman/Dark Age stuff right now.
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Spent a bunch of the long weekend working on my SAS dudes for Bolt Action. Went with a Fall theme to go along with their green/red/tan forest camo  Still have to do some detailing, but I'm happy with how the clamshell packaging windshields turned out  Also did some work on Nicole Minet and her merry band of partisans:  
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