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Speaking of Team Yankee, Battlefront's Soviet Infantry are the bad ones compared to PSC, right?
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feedmegin posted:To be fair it's an accepted military principle that you want to have like twice as many people doing the attacking as the defending if the defenders are dug in etc...
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Sep 28, 2019 01:27
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Yvonmukluk posted:Speaking of Team Yankee, Battlefront's Soviet Infantry are the bad ones compared to PSC, right? BF's old metal TY infantry are really good. Their new soft plastic ones are dogshit.
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Sep 28, 2019 08:52
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Honestly, I don't mind the new ones. They're not the best, but PSC's infantry are kind of rigidly posed, so it's a bit swings and roundabouts. It'd have been better if they'd just stuck to the metal figures, but given they didn't, it's a bit of a shrug of a choice. PSC's are cheaper, obviously.
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Sep 28, 2019 11:26
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The contrast between the old metal ones and new plastics is just so incredibly jarring because I have a company of each.  Look at those faces. Look at those featureless, boxy AKs. They're passable at tabletop, but I'm just extremely miffed at how the newer model is such an obvious downgrade.
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Sep 28, 2019 12:30
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The upside is that the plastics won't break, and 90% of painters will stop around that level of detail. I actually prefer the plastics, having dealt with too many messed up BF metal figures. Their hard plastics were superb though. It's a shame they've steered away from those.
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Sep 28, 2019 14:15
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moths posted:The upside is that the plastics won't break, and 90% of painters will stop around that level of detail. Their later hard plastics were superb. The earlier ones had some really hosed up sides. But, this was kind of also the case with the soft ones; the desert men were horrible, TY soviets were passable gaming figures, and I daresay the paras look quite nice.
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Sep 28, 2019 14:49
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The infantry in Hit the Beach is superb, arguably better than their old metals. They're definitely improving, but the first plastic infantry were apalling.
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Sep 28, 2019 15:53
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Buddy just gave me an Open Fire set he got for pennies. So nice to have all those tanks on the cheap.
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Sep 28, 2019 18:07
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LingcodKilla posted:Buddy just gave me an Open Fire set he got for pennies. So nice to have all those tanks on the cheap. have to say, read that as "got for his penis" for a second......
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Sep 28, 2019 18:20
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Grey Hunter posted:have to say, read that as "got for his penis" for a second...... Wargaming is an expensive hobby, sacrifices must be made.
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Sep 28, 2019 18:28
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Grey Hunter posted:have to say, read that as "got for his penis" for a second...... Autocorrect can be a monster.
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Sep 28, 2019 20:10
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LingcodKilla posted:Buddy just gave me an Open Fire set he got for pennies. So nice to have all those tanks on the cheap. Don't thank him yet, if it's the initial run you're gonna have a bad time with the Shermans.
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Sep 28, 2019 22:49
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Yvonmukluk posted:Don't thank him yet, if it's the initial run you're gonna have a bad time with the Shermans. Lol I’ve put an identically together and I’m 25 year veteran of GW products. Green stuff, rubber bands and clamps have a permanent place on my desk.
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Sep 29, 2019 01:17
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LingcodKilla posted:Lol I’ve put an identically together and I’m 25 year veteran of GW products. Green stuff, rubber bands and clamps have a permanent place on my desk. well I ran out of clamps after putting together two of the Sherman Vs. I kinda forget how warped the first batch was I put together a few years ago
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Sep 30, 2019 08:25
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We needed something to be a monastery for the 1812 campaign, so I made a church     More here
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Oct 1, 2019 11:44
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That is very cool!
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Oct 1, 2019 12:03
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I swear it's huge in person. Like, hard to fit in a photo kind of huge.
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Oct 1, 2019 12:11
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Does anyone here know of a miniatures line that does plastic Ottoman Janissaries?
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Oct 1, 2019 12:21
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1994 Toyota Celica posted:Does anyone here know of a miniatures line that does plastic Ottoman Janissaries? Only in 1/72 afaik. http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/PeriodList.aspx?period=52
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Oct 1, 2019 12:45
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Warlord do metals, no one does plastics?
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Oct 1, 2019 12:53
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lilljonas posted:I swear it's huge in person. Like, hard to fit in a photo kind of huge. 
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Oct 1, 2019 13:06
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Oct 1, 2019 14:15
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I bought an assorted ancients lot from a dude on Ebay. I've identified all but a couple of the miniatures (they were mostly Hoplite variants). Any help figuring out a few randoms would be appreciated.   My guesses, from left-to-right: Velite? Standard Bearer? No clue. Some sort of auxiliary? General? Hastati?
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Class Warcraft posted:I bought an assorted ancients lot from a dude on Ebay. I'm pretty sure they're Romans. :|
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Oct 3, 2019 02:12
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Barbarians playing dress up with captured gear.
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Oct 3, 2019 02:12
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Class Warcraft posted:I bought an assorted ancients lot from a dude on Ebay. Looks like you've got... 1. Definitely a Republican era Veles. 2. A Legion Standard Bearer, either Republican or Imperial era. 3. This guy is a bit odd, but it could be an Italian Auxiliary from the Republican era. The wings on the helmet and the small shield are a bit confusing. 4. Looks like an Imperial-era Auxiliary. 5. A Centurion or other officer. There wasn't much standardisation of Officer equipment in either the Republic or the Empire, so he could fit just about any Roman army from 200BC to 150AD, although his helmet suggests Early Imperial era. 6. This guy is a bit confusing because his head looks like an Early Imperial era helmet, but his equipment suggests a Hastatus from the Repulican era. Possibly a headswap done by the original owner?
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Oct 3, 2019 02:43
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Cross post from ol' paintin' thread: White trousers will forever be the bane of my existence, but I think I've hit on a recipe that does the job reasonably: 
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Oct 3, 2019 07:53
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Endman posted:Cross post from ol' paintin' thread: That looks amazing! What's the recipe?
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Oct 3, 2019 08:42
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Signal posted:That looks amazing! What's the recipe? Thank you! Someone in the painting thread asked too, so I'll just quote myself: Endman posted:Thanks!
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Oct 3, 2019 09:26
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Endman posted:Cross post from ol' paintin' thread: Looking real tight! I like when you get a bit of contrast and shades in the whites, not just flat areas. Also, we might just dip a tad bit into Age of Sail gaming. Just a tiny tiny bit. Anyone else getting some of the new Black Sea stuff?
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Oct 3, 2019 11:52
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Those look great, and of course the officer's trousers are nice and clean. These are mine:  lilljonas posted:Looking real tight! I like when you get a bit of contrast and shades in the whites, not just flat areas. Yep! I got the M&C kit, some extra frigates, and of course the USS Constitution on the way.
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Oct 3, 2019 11:57
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Anarcho-Commissar posted:Those look great, and of course the officer's trousers are nice and clean. Those are some fancy pants. Speaking of the American Revolution, I was planning on varying the colours of the hunting coats these guys are wearing, because I figured there'd be no standardisation and that the hunting coat was more an ad-hoc garment, but is that actually accurate, or would they have dyed them the same colour?
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Oct 4, 2019 06:08
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Endman posted:Those are some fancy pants. I can only answer for New England troops, but they were all undyed, and they were an issued uniform. The customization troops did amounted more to adding extra fringe and pleating the sleeves to keep them out of the way of the musket, but that's a model issue not a paint issue.
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Oct 4, 2019 11:31
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Endman posted:Those are some fancy pants. There was almost no uniformity except in the very best equipped troops. From most of my research in doing my own Revolutionary War force, even vaguely dyed roughly similar colors wasn't assured a lot of the time. I am doing the Southern states where things were worse, so that may matter.
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Oct 4, 2019 13:37
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Also that, yes. And it would be pretty rare to have a whole company in matching uniforms. Of course that doesn't look as nice on a table....
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Oct 4, 2019 13:39
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That is something I am debating about. I plan on having my British forces all uniform, but I will probably do the Continental Army guys in a mostly uniform way just for the look of it. Gotta have my lovely peasant skirmishers in a wild variety of colors though. I definitely want the feel of some militia guy just running to grab a gun out of his house to rush to a battle feel.
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Oct 4, 2019 13:45
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 Finished my Ferdínand. My wife asked if I was going for a "autumn wibe" with the color scheme. 
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Oct 4, 2019 14:01
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autumn weib indeed
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Lord_Hambrose posted:That is something I am debating about. I plan on having my British forces all uniform, but I will probably do the Continental Army guys in a mostly uniform way just for the look of it. For extra points, paint your Redcoats in varying shades of pink 
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