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Well, warlords presidents day sale coincides with me wanting to build up my sharp practice AWI forces. That's a box of Milita, the cannon/commander set and some Hessians with a bonus sprue to make up the numbers. Thanks!
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PSC with more 15mm resin goodies, PRTL and Gepard 
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Grey Hunter posted:Well, warlords presidents day sale coincides with me wanting to build up my sharp practice AWI forces. That's a box of Milita, the cannon/commander set and some Hessians with a bonus sprue to make up the numbers. Thanks! Warlord sale?
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yeah. bolt action US and all AWI are 20% off.
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My clubmates started playtesting Pike & Shotte, so maaaaaybe I'll find a use for my samurai army for the first time in ten years! I celebrated by continuing to rebase some old cavalry. All ruleset treat samurai cavalry wrong, as if they are some kind of cuirassiers or medieval knights. Really, they rode on sturdy ungelded psycho-ponies, backed up by men on foot who could jog along since the horses were slow as poo poo under all that armour. So I tried to depict that by mixing the two:  Once done these'll take me to about 50 bases all and all, so it's starting to look like an army. 
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lilljonas posted:My clubmates started playtesting Pike & Shotte, so maaaaaybe I'll find a use for my samurai army for the first time in ten years! I celebrated by continuing to rebase some old cavalry. All ruleset treat samurai cavalry wrong, as if they are some kind of cuirassiers or medieval knights. Really, they rode on sturdy ungelded psycho-ponies, backed up by men on foot who could jog along since the horses were slow as poo poo under all that armour. So I tried to depict that by mixing the two: What do you use for basing? Acrylic resin? If so what kind
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Phi230 posted:What do you use for basing? Acrylic resin? If so what kind The bases themselves are just cut from thick plasticard, as I didn’t have any of the right size at home. I glued the minis on with PVA glue, and then smeared on a layer of ordinary drywall spackle paste from a DIY shop. That’s pretty much my go-to basing method now. You can smooth out the paste for a sandy basing, or stipple it from above with an old brush to get a more broken terrain type of texture. This will KILL the brush, so use something that’s already beat to hell.
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So I've been painting at about 2 models per day which means I'll finish my French Waterloo force in about...45 days
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Feb 21, 2018 23:03
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I wound up buying a box of US paratroopers from Warlord's President's Day sale. This now means I own a box of every plastic US infantry they've made. Probably should start painting it...at least I have plenty of options! Oh, also a TARDIS, which is good for all eras of historical gaming.
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Phi230 posted:So I've been painting at about 2 models per day That's actually a quick turnaround. I paint about two figures a week 
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I want to give 1/72 a shot, anyone have experience with the infantry sets at this scale? Do you need to actually glaze them with PVA before painting or can you just prime as normal after a quick scrub?
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Depends on the plastic really. Also depends what the weapons are like. Sometimes they will be fine and sturdy, other times they will bend and you're almost better off coating them in superglue. What period are you looking at?
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Moderns, a company called Caesar makes some nice looking US forces so I would assume barrel bending could be an issue.
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I can't pick just one so I'll have to be a... Senile, prude potato who hit menopause years ago.
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KV-1: Disloyal Tiger II: Never around M10: Bald M26: Always late Late model M4: Had plastic surgery 
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Springfield Fatts posted:I want to give 1/72 a shot, anyone have experience with the infantry sets at this scale? Do you need to actually glaze them with PVA before painting or can you just prime as normal after a quick scrub? I've never heard of PVA glazing, but in my experience PVA glue slides right off the material so it would likely only make chipping worse. Also, bookmark plastic soldier review.
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It works, but you have to basically just coat the entire model in it and that gives you a sort of thin PVA skin for paint to adhere to. It seems to be a thing from when people used to paint toy soldiers with enamels over modern acrylic methods though.
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Arquinsiel posted:It works, but you have to basically just coat the entire model in it and that gives you a sort of thin PVA skin for paint to adhere to. It seems to be a thing from when people used to paint toy soldiers with enamels over modern acrylic methods though. Yeah, and for those very soft and bendy plastics.
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Looks like Battlefront are going back to Vietnam. I'm sure third time's the charm.
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This one is based on Team Yankee
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I think BF just have a problem making the designated opfor in any of their games someone you'd actually want to play.
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They have an irrational hatred of Communists 
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And a lust for tanks (which works even less in Vietnam).
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Did v4 ruin infantry completely or something? The army deal boxes seem to be very tank heavy.
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Colonial Air Force posted:And a lust for tanks (which works even less in Vietnam). I have absolutely no idea what the NVA box is T-55s. Surely an infantry company would've been far more iconic?
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Did v4 ruin infantry completely or something? The army deal boxes seem to be very tank heavy. I suspect that they are having internal troubles with the new bendy plastic infantry. Also the new late-war rules from the preview look painfully generic and have order codes in the organizational chart. So you know exactly what BF kits to buy. I'm really nonplussed about this direction. But excited to have ordered the OOP Battlegroup Overlord book! I just hope it's actually in stock. E: I mean the PSC Overlord supplement, not the FoW one. moths fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Feb 24, 2018 |
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Battlefront only care about tanks. If the NVA used a single tank during the entire war, then you need to have 50 of them in a normal game. I actually like the v3 veitnam game. As long as you avoid the tanks its an interesting asymmetrical clash.
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Don't play battlefront games but a lot of their minis are ok
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There were only 5 kinds of tank in Vietnam - PT-76, T-54, M41, M48, and Centurion mk 3 - they're going to run out of fodder very quickly.
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NTRabbit posted:There were only 5 kinds of tank in Vietnam - PT-76, T-54, M41, M48, and Centurion mk 3 - they're going to run out of fodder very quickly. They're basically making the T-55 kit for Team Yankee like they loving should've done years ago, it's just it's also applicable for post-withdrawal Vietnam so they have something to give it a promotional slot with. Also there was the sheridan. I don't think any of the vietnam infantry are bendy plastic, they seem to not actually be making very much in bendy plastic at all, probably because everyone hates it and it looks terrible I guess? No idea why they didn't stick with their hard plastic.
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NTRabbit posted:There were only 5 kinds of tank in Vietnam - PT-76, T-54, M41, M48, and Centurion mk 3 - they're going to run out of fodder very quickly. Which, yeah, seems like they're just getting more mileage out of their moulds than anything else TBH, these would all work fine for Team Yankee and Arab-Israeli war settings with a bit of clever moulding.
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And they probably just want to sell you more tanks.
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Arquinsiel posted:Dont forget the M113 Gavin 
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CROSS-THREAD COMEDY 
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NTRabbit posted:There were only 5 kinds of tank in Vietnam - PT-76, T-54, M41, M48, and Centurion mk 3 - they're going to run out of fodder very quickly. how could you possibly forget about the glorious M551 Sheridan
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Acebuckeye13 posted:how could you possibly forget about the glorious M551 Sheridan If it's made out of aluminium and shoots Irish missiles does it really count as a tank? 
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   The most glorious 80es american tank force! I roped a friend into Team yankee and he went ahead and did his americans like this.
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Frobbe posted:
Man, I was loosely considering that but boringness won out. That's amazing 
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