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moths posted:Was the camo pattern on the Soviet MI-24 Hind standardized? I doubt that all however-many-thousand built were standardized, but within a unit it looks like they would have followed similar patterns: 
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I've finished a bunch of poo poo for operation Martlet    Friday will kick off the first game. I'll adjudicate or jump in as the Germans in case one of the players has to leave early.
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Fish and Chimps posted:I've finished a bunch of poo poo for operation Martlet
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Before you drag me before an international court in the Hague, we play it as unable to fire at tanks and it has to spend an activation to reload.
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Firepower: remove target unit Warlord is starting their Black Friday sale, some tanks and sprues are 50% off. But they seem to do that annoying "let's chang what's on sale as the week progresses so that you can't plan your purchases" thing.
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Also all the Italian stuff is already sold out... did everyone suddenly decide to do Italians at the same time as me?
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Warlord are being complete assholes and having a 50% off tanks sale
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Colonial Air Force posted:Warlord are being complete assholes and having a 50% off tanks sale 
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So glad Warlord are the wrong scale for me. My hobby budget for November has come and gone already
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I'm seriously considering spending the £20 for a subscription to https://ncap.org.uk to get hi-res air recon photos for CoC-campaigns. Am I about to grog out beyond hope?
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That depends on whether or not you're planning to print the screencaps onto canvas.
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moths posted:That depends on whether or not you're planning to print the screencaps onto canvas. I'm safe!
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Go with mouse pad material, they're really nice.
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Sounds like one hell of a terrain project
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Guys, I know Lindybeige is an idiot, but what do you guys think of Crossfire? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO81x71xaqk Apparently there's a TTS mod for it!
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what on earth is Warlord going for with this rolling sale thing? to make sure they have to pack as many separate packages as possible?
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I was wondering the same thing.
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It's annoying. I passed on the tank I wanted because shipping ate the discount, but if more had been on sale at the time it would have been worth it. Also I finally got to paint the new Battlefront bendy-men, and they're not as bad as I was anticipating. One thing that's Real Nice is how they're all attached base-side to the sprue. Another is that the weapons are much more uniform than they used to be, and are held in more durable close-body poses.
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Battlefront's bendymen have improved markedly - Their cold war Soviet infantry are ham-fisted monsters, but their WW2 infantry are okay. However, the nature of the material is that any model that has a long gun (like, say, WW2 riflemen...) will be awful, because the barrels will get floppy and bent.
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Geisladisk posted:the barrels will get floppy and bent. But enough about Historicals players being an older crowd
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JcDent posted:Guys, I know Lindybeige is an idiot, but what do you guys think of Crossfire?
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moths posted:It's annoying. I passed on the tank I wanted because shipping ate the discount, but if more had been on sale at the time it would have been worth it. Yeah I'd probably pick up a char bis from the previous "round", but then I'd have to pay for international shipping so it wouldn't have been worth it.
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moths posted:It's annoying. I passed on the tank I wanted because shipping ate the discount, but if more had been on sale at the time it would have been worth it. I strongly suspect that Black Friday is going to be all their rolling sales combined and they are trying to use FOMO to generate some sales prior to that
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Class Warcraft posted:what on earth is Warlord going for with this rolling sale thing? to make sure they have to pack as many separate packages as possible? Yesterday: Hm, maybe I should buy that JS-II. drat, shipping is going to take my savings - I'll hold off. Today: Hm, maybe I should buy get that Gaz truck. drat, shipping is going to take my savings - I'll hold off. Tomorrow: Hm, maybe I should buy get that (Soviet thing). drat, shipping is going to take my savings - I'll hold off. But if they'd all been on sale at once I would have combined the orders, got free shipping, and bought them all.
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Now on Friday you will definitely get them all though 
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Fish and Chimps posted:
I met this guy at Salute a couple of years back and thought he was a massive arsehole.
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Has anyone bought anything from Skytrex lately? I ordered some stuff this last weekend, but haven't gotten an order confirmation yet. I haven't bought from them since 2014, so a lot can have changed since then.
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Apologies if this is the wrong thread. I was talking to my Dad recently about miniature gaming. I play and paint GW miniature games primarily (don't hate me) and he told me about when he used to build and paint WW2 tanks when he was a kid. Particularly a cool story about how he built a tank with a mine flail. Now that he's retired I'm trying to find him a WW2 tank with a mine flail that he can put together in his spare time. 1/35 or 1/48 scale I guess? I don't really know where to look or what's available. I believe the Sherman tank used to have a "crab" flail. Can such a thing be purchased as a model kit? Other tanks with mine flails could also work. Thanks for the help!
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Rhaegar posted:Apologies if this is the wrong thread. You know, I know of plenty of Shermans in 1/48, but I don't think I've ever seen one with the Crab Flail. A bit of googling hasn't turned up anything. Weird.
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I found this https://www.thewarstore.com/Battlefront-Flames-of-War-Sherman-Crab-Flail.html but I can't really tell how big it is. It looks small.
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Thats 15mm so around 1/100 scale. So yeah it’s pretty small. i see a conversion kit with some quick googling. There’s also the Grant or Matilda Scorpion if you’re fine with a Brit tank.
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I'd get a 1/35 or 1/48 scale tank if I'm not building for a game. They look much nicer as display kits, IMHO. The Crab version of the Sherman is often built by getting a Sherman kit, and then a Crab conversion kit. The only one I could find that comes as a complete kit is an airfix 1/76, and your dad probably deserves better. Examples: http://www.missing-lynx.com/gallery/48/crab48sz_1.html This 1/35 conversion kit looks boss: http://www-legend.co.kr/portfolio/lf1139-sherman-crab-conversion-set/?ckattempt=1 It's specifically made for a Dragon Sherman kit though, and Dragon are famous for being nice looking but demanding kits. Scalemates is the "IMDB of model kits", so I'd start by searching for crabs there, and then google the kit name to find a retailer. https://www.scalemates.com/search.php?fkSECTION%5B%5D=All&q=%22crab%22 There's a model kit thread that can help you out even more. Be warned that conversion kits with lots of etched brass parts are kind of the deep end when it comes to modeling, but if he has some experience and time, it's a perfect time sink. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3148869 lilljonas fucked around with this message at 08:51 on Nov 21, 2018 |
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Fish and Chimps posted:Has anyone bought anything from Skytrex lately? I ordered some stuff this last weekend, but haven't gotten an order confirmation yet. I haven't bought from them since 2014, so a lot can have changed since then. I bought some stuff back in late 2016. Never got a confirmation either but about two weeks later everything showed up at my door.
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Fish and Chimps posted:Has anyone bought anything from Skytrex lately? I ordered some stuff this last weekend, but haven't gotten an order confirmation yet. I haven't bought from them since 2014, so a lot can have changed since then. I bought some stuff a month or three ago, can confirm the spotty feedback. My stuff just showed up in the mail one day.
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Rhaegar posted:Apologies if this is the wrong thread.
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Thanks for the feedback on Skytrex. I got a reply an hour after I mailed them, where they stated they sent two auto generated order confirmations that I never received. But the goods are on the way.
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Oh God, the Churchills and Fireflies are on sale today, God no please, I can't do it
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Finally a good sale from Warlord! One Stuart for Lend-Lease One Stuart for the Pacific One Churchill AVRE, just because I have to have one One Churchill for Lend-Lease One T34/85, so I'll have one of we ever leave 1941. Also for WaT One tank crew for free shipping I had to do it all by myself, betrayed by my club mates. Not even lilljonas would contribute to make sure I made a bad financial decision
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Thanks for the help on the Sherman crab. That scalemates site is very useful. I think I might just go with a basic Sherman or Cromwell Tamiya kit since this would be his first model in many many years.
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Warlords sales are pretty good today. I was mighty tempted to grab some Test of Honor stuff, but I opted for a T-34 instead.
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