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I know the boots are just primer but clean up the border and paint the other bits and, honestly, you've captured what if feels and looks like trudging through a cold wet field in early spring.
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Tias posted:Thanks for the painting tips. If I were to hasard a try and painting my soviets with GW contrast paints, which would you recommend for the brown, tans, greens etc? I liked the results this guy got for his Soviets with contrast paint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4U52RV8M6s
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Hey guys, one way to accumulate some more tiny soldiers and obscure 1980s wargames is Trad Games Secret Santa. You have about a week left to sign up! You could be the recipient of some period-accurate sand bag drop terrain, or perhaps a full-color reference book for 15th-century polish pikemen uniforms?
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Battlefront is having 3-for-2 sale on some of their plastics, mostly FOW but there's some TY in there too. I bought three starter boxes because a bargain is a bargain and I don't like money, I guess 
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Leperflesh posted:Hey guys, one way to accumulate some more tiny soldiers and obscure 1980s wargames is Trad Games Secret Santa. You have about a week left to sign up! You could be the recipient of some period-accurate sand bag drop terrain, or perhaps a full-color reference book for 15th-century polish pikemen uniforms? 1648 Khmelnytsky Uprising pikemen or nothing! 
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Cessna posted:1648 Khmelnytsky Uprising pikemen or nothing! https://sklep.wargamer.pl/en/koz-4-moloitsy.html?
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Fire and Sword is the game that I'd love to play, but - well, see the thread title.
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Cessna posted:1648 Khmelnytsky Uprising pikemen or nothing! I tried to find an image to reference but instead I found myself assured by random posters in broken english on the Cossacks 3 game forum that Cossack peasants fighting the Khmelnytsky army either mostly or entirely or not mostly used muskets. I hope this information is helpful somehow.
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Warlord Games annouces a new release  It's metal  You see the faces 
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JcDent posted:Warlord Games annouces a new release lol is it as bad as the Korea range?
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Has anyone got any experience in playing as the British in the Peninsula/Napoleonic war at the division/corps level in a wargame? My opponents (not just the French) have more and heavier artillery, better cavalry(?) and more infantry. I don't understand what I'm supposed to build my army as (the game is Field of Glory Napolonic 2nd ed, but I *just* got Black Powder rules for the Peninsula too today).
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Comstar posted:Has anyone got any experience in playing as the British in the Peninsula/Napoleonic war at the division/corps level in a wargame? My opponents (not just the French) have more and heavier artillery, better cavalry(?) and more infantry. I don't understand what I'm supposed to build my army as (the game is Field of Glory Napolonic 2nd ed, but I *just* got Black Powder rules for the Peninsula too today). Not played division/corps level, but I'd assume the ruleset would make your British infantry shootier, since that's pretty much what all rulesets do. I'd try to funnel them using deployment and terrain to try to make it so that they can't get all their forces to bear on you at the same time, so that you can get local superiority and stop them by infantry shooting.
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lilljonas posted:lol is it as bad as the Korea range?     
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lol To be fair, a good 30% of that is the poor paint jobs, especially the eyes, but still
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The dreaded Neanderthal partisan contingent.
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JcDent posted:Warlord Games annouces a new release Good thing Wargames Atlantic released those plastic partisans!
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Doing the finishing touches on my vistula legion battalion, and yeah... poo poo’s getting weird.
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lilljonas posted:Doing the finishing touches on my vistula legion battalion, and yeah... poo poo’s getting weird. Hell yeah stripes rule
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Endman posted:Hell yeah stripes rule Triple stripes is just nuts. And this drummer who has white-red lacing all over for some strange reason.  The rest are more straight forward:  Except the grenadiers, who have czapka (a square top helmet) and WHITE epaulettes instead of red for some strange reasons.
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Those look lovely! Are they the Paul Hicks sculpts from Brigade Games?
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lilljonas posted:Except the grenadiers, who have czapka (a square top helmet) 
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Endman posted:Those look lovely! Are they the Paul Hicks sculpts from Brigade Games? Paul Hicks indeed, but from Murawski Miniatures. And a czapka worn by vistula legion:  But they could be even more fancy:  It’s god damm glorious and one of the main reasons that my second project after the French and Vistula Legion is a detachment of Poles from the Duchy of Warsaw. lilljonas fucked around with this message at 08:53 on Nov 21, 2020 |
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Class Warcraft posted:The dreaded Neanderthal partisan contingent. The Innsmouth sleeper cell: half man, half Nazi.
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After painting the lowest ranking artillery, i.e. the poor regimental artillery that got whatever guns were left over, it's time to paint their opposite. The horse artillery was stupidly expensive since everyone in the regiment were mounted, so that they could rapidly re-deploy on the battlefield. Their cannons were also drawn by six horses instead of four, for extra speed. And in proper napoleonic fashion, the regiment that was already expensive would also need more expensive uniforms, to show that they were, well, expensive. First crew out of three:  These are from Foundry, and pretty nice sculpts. I could not resist to paint the sabretaches as well (the big flat bags worn on the side).
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lilljonas posted:And in proper napoleonic fashion, the regiment that was already expensive would also need more expensive uniforms, to show that they were, well, expensive. Not giving them expensive uniforms would make the expenses on horses and gun go in vain! Forward, men! Speeend!
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Is that man on the end there holding the inanimate carbon rod?
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JcDent posted:Not giving them expensive uniforms would make the expenses on horses and gun go in vain! Forward, men! Speeend! When the Polish Duchy of Warsaw started a regiment of cuirassiers, super expensive heavy cavalry, Napoleon went "WTF you madmen, you're providing me with Europe's best light cavalry and you spend your money on this poo poo? I already have 15 regiments, I don't need more!". But Poniatowski went "but my swaaaaaag...." and postponed dismantling them until they all died in Russia.
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Endman posted:Is that man on the end there holding the inanimate carbon rod? He's holding a rod painted green, but I need to go back and recoat it with a slightly less irradiated green.
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I wonder how good/historical the Annie sculpts are when compared to Warlord Soviets: https://badsquiddogames.com/shop#!/Female-Soviet-Infantry-Squad-10/p/77407036/category=36713221
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I did it. I'm hitting the start button on a converted Italian Wars army... ...made of hobbits. Suitable for the historical thread or should I take it to another thread?
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I would like to see your italian war hobbits.
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lilljonas posted:I did it.
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Ironically it’ll require me to do MORE research than if I just bought historical minis, as I want to convert them with historical designs for clothes and armour. Starting with Atlantic’s plastic box, but looking at the sprues pretty much every helmet will be scrapped. Hoods will be converted with green stuff. And so on.
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In case anyone was following the development of the Grumbler Miniatures range, the online store is up at last. They are some really nice looking 6mm Napoleonics, right now only the Old Guard are for sale. I've ordered some and will report back on quality once I get them in. https://grumblerminiatures.com/
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Cessna posted:Fire and Sword is the game that I'd love to play, but - well, see the thread title. Same. I've got some old Essex 15mm Poles, which are decent but don't have a lot of variety. I've been hoping Old Glory would do some Eastern Renaissance, I've liked their minis ever since they dropped their original ACW line and blew everyone's (everyone at Games of Berkeley and environs anyway) mind with quality, variety, and price. I wonder if... Oh they did, https://oldglory15s.com/Polish-Commonwealth-15th-17th-Century-Phase-I_c502.htm?page=all Okay, fine. A few packs of minis and the rulebook go on the shopping list for Christmas.
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Hell, the £6.5ish fee for non-EU parcels will be in full effect for me after new years. Gonna suck having such a barrier for picking up small orders from the smaller manufacturers. 
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I wonder how badly that's going to affect Amazon's shipping to Ireland. Their free shipping threshold is already twice what it is to the UK.
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Is there a reason that SP arty is cheaper than field artillery point-wise for the same effect in Flames of War? Beyond 'Battlefront going gently caress you, buy more stuff', that is. I like PSC models but SP guns are one of the things they just don't have.
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