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Got a sample pack of WW2 Germans to check the range out. They look good and also match the scifi range I picked up (onslaught)
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Oct 14, 2017 05:02
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Class Warcraft posted:What scale? Looks like 6mm, and that would line up with Onsluaght. (Onslaught is amazing)
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Oct 14, 2017 06:44
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Finished my last squad of WW2 Americans. Now I have a complete platoon, as well as two bazooka teams. Huzzah!
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Oct 14, 2017 18:09
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Ilor posted:Finished my last squad of WW2 Americans. Now I have a complete platoon, as well as two bazooka teams. Huzzah! Nice. What brand are they?
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Oct 14, 2017 18:45
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They're Black Tree Designs. They're a little "heroic" in their proportions, but overall they're really nice sculpts. Lots of detail and a huge variety of poses. EDIT: They're also among the easiest models I've ever painted - except maybe skeletons - because they're all base-coat (with straight-up VMC paints, only one mixed color for the web-gear), MinWax wash, metal details, drybrushed bases, done. I need to hit these guys more thoroughly with a last spray of Dull-Cote, but I love how refreshingly straightforward WW2 historicals are. Which is my way of saying that you Napoleonics guys can keep that crazy-colorful poo poo to yourselves. :P Ilor fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Oct 14, 2017 |
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Oct 14, 2017 22:04
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JcDent posted:What if I go insane and buy this? I remember that game ! Not a bad game for the period and scale. I'd actually recommend digging up a copy of Assault and its expansions if you want to really get geeky about the 1980s in Europe. Also, I like Frank Chadwick designs more than John Southward's. For non-hex n' counter games, there's also Command Decision which will give you battalion scale rules and equipment lists for 1939-1992. That was a very sophisticated game for the early 90s and it should hold up against modern games.
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Oct 14, 2017 22:23
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Signal posted:Looks like 6mm, and that would line up with Onsluaght. (Onslaught is amazing) Onslaught?
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Oct 14, 2017 22:32
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spectralent posted:Onslaught? http://www.onslaughtmini.com/ They do great 6mm stuff, wonderful proxies for epic
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Oct 14, 2017 22:59
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mllaneza posted:I remember that game ! Not a bad game for the period and scale. I'd actually recommend digging up a copy of Assault and its expansions if you want to really get geeky about the 1980s in Europe. Also, I like Frank Chadwick designs more than John Southward's. Define "more geeky?" Fire Team seems difficult enough, or it rates itself like that.
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Oct 14, 2017 23:26
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There was a discussion in the Wargames thread a few weeks about an RPG/Wargame hybrid I have filled a legal pad with notes, ideas, and rules and other outlines/etc... to comprise a design document for such an RPG/Wargame hybrid set in an alternate history (yet historically plausible - just a more fantastic and romanticized - think Aubrey/Maturin or Sharpe) I'm going to type it all up this weekend into a google doc, if anybody wants to help make this happen hit me up
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Oct 14, 2017 23:30
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Warlord Games posted this on Facebook:
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Oct 14, 2017 23:42
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Colonial Air Force posted:Warlord Games posted this on Facebook: They've started doing all metal expansions for Test of Honour. I didn't pick up Test of Honour because I spent all my money on Antares stuff.
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Oct 15, 2017 00:24
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Class Warcraft posted:What scale? 6mm, I'll be ordering more for sure.
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Oct 15, 2017 04:28
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JcDent posted:Define "more geeky?" Fire Team seems difficult enough, or it rates itself like that. Assault has 4 expansions (more stuff, air cav, Bundeswehr, Brits) , making it more of a challenge to collect.
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Thundercloud posted:They've started doing all metal expansions for Test of Honour. I didn't pick up Test of Honour because I spent all my money on Antares stuff. Has anyone tried Test of Honour and is it good?
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Oct 15, 2017 10:22
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Commissar Kip posted:Has anyone tried Test of Honour and is it good? In the demo I got, the chits you draw seemed really random and like they could swing things pretty dramatically without much control over them. But, that was a demo.
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Oct 15, 2017 12:00
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Phi230 posted:
Crossposting While I'm here, what color is the hilt and scabbard of these swords that Grenadiers/Voltigeurs carry? Phi230 fucked around with this message at 01:28 on Oct 18, 2017 |
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Oct 18, 2017 01:21
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 Got some paint on my first squad of US Airborne.  Only four more to go...
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Oct 18, 2017 01:52
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Nice!
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Phi230 posted:Crossposting
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Arquinsiel posted:Looks like you're hilighting too wide an area for a single layer hilight to me, but it might blend in when you get to the next stage? I'd have to see it "finished" to be sure, but my gut says you will be happier if you just put thin lines around the edges and then hit it with a wash. What I posted was basecoat-wash-basecoat again. Not even on second tone yet Too wide an area is pretty much my suspicion, though, thank you. I need to study some other people's models to see where I'm supposed to highlight and the size of the area.
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Oct 18, 2017 02:18
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Phi230 posted:What I posted was basecoat-wash-basecoat again. Not even on second tone yet If it is your first coat (as in re-applying the base coat after a wash), then it looks just fine to me. Just add a slightly lighter tone and make a smaller highlight, and if it stil feels too wide, add another and so on. You're in luck that you're painting the greatcoat, so you don't have to feel like you're risking the final result to be too light or dark. Greatcoats came in many colours, all depending on what cloth they could find. The voltigeur and grenadier sword (briquet) has a black scabbard with brass hilt and details. The voltigeur would probably have a yellow chord on the hilt, and the grenadier a red one. https://img3.exportersindia.com/product_images/bc-full/dir_10/289207/briquet-saber-sword-6023.jpg
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Phi230 posted:What I posted was basecoat-wash-basecoat again. Not even on second tone yet
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Oct 18, 2017 09:43
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Enentol posted:
Those look great!
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Oct 18, 2017 12:09
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I played the Gates of Antares Fantasy Adaptation with Rick Priestley at the weekend, here's the playthrough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyjI8OEJrkE I've done a youtube poll to back up my opinion that Warlord should develop it as a product. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=use7ddDtmJE I'm really interested in playing this. I think Warlord should probably do it as Bronze Age through to Dark Age skirmish, as those are the miniature ranges that they have.
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Will attempt to watch it tomorrow.
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Oct 18, 2017 21:27
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JcDent posted:Will attempt to watch it tomorrow. I know 90 minutes is a bit of a time commitment.
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I am travelling, so I can't really sit down for that :p
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JcDent posted:I am travelling, so I can't really sit down for that :p Me too. I'm in Japan, getting stoked about a project that I really shouldn't start since I'm up to my ears in projects (19th century Boshin War). Got some nice pictures from a museum in Hakodate to base my forces on, even.
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Oct 19, 2017 09:19
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Does any grognard know what they call these hats? I'm looking to source some Belgian infantry for a small game where we play the Ten Days Campaign.
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Oct 19, 2017 09:23
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Looks like some kind of woolly forage cap to me.
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Commissar Kip posted:Does any grognard know what they call these hats?
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Were the Polish paras equipped any differently than their British equivalents? (Other than different berets, obviously.) E: Cool, thanks. It's weird how so much available information is big-picture. moths fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Oct 19, 2017 |
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Oct 19, 2017 14:53
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moths posted:Were the Polish paras equipped any differently than their British equivalents? (Other than different berets, obviously.)
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 Working on my 10mm mans, about halfway through my German battalion. I found painting camo on such a small scale surprisingly hard. My first instinct was to paint it to-scale, but this ended up looking like a mess on that scale, so I stripped my Panzer IVs and tried again. I found the trick was to use relatively few, large blotches. I'm not hugely happy with the sandbags, they feel kinda sloppy. Sculpting sandbags at that scale is hard. Geisladisk fucked around with this message at 12:30 on Oct 20, 2017 |
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Oct 20, 2017 12:26
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We're working on new scenarios for SP2, as frankly the ones in the book are not all that great. My clubmate Shirty wrote up an AAR about our latest duel, where we're pitting a smaller defending force against a larger attacker: https://krigetkommer.weebly.com/napoleonic-blog/battle-report-the-first-repulse
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Alternate historicals, Team Yankee! I've ordered a Kampfgruppe Müller, some luchs späh truppe, gepard flakpanzer, 2 panzergrenadier zug and marders to help them out. This is a nice core for my army, but i'd love to expand it at some point. any suggestions as to what? i see that PSC are releasing a plastic leopard 1 kit right soon which i'll deffo be picking up as their models are quite lovely.
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Geisladisk posted:
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I have basecoated 2 Grenadiers and I am happy
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