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Guest2553 posted:Any goon recommendations on primers to use with GW contrasts that don't cost $20/can? I'd rather use the matte white rustoleum I have on hand if it won't cause cataclysm. Get the cheapest white matt spray can you can find. I could recommend a brand, but I'm UK based and only ever buy the cheapest white matt I can find. Shake the can for 5 minutes. Fill a sink with hot water. Float the can in hot water for 5 minutes. Give it another shake for a minute or two. It makes the cheapest spraycans work very well at laying down perfect paint in thin layers.
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I need some tree's for wargames (historical, European) and Rangers of Shadowdeep/Oathmark. What companies make nice 28mm scale trees?
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Fashionable Jorts posted:I would unironically play a game that forces players to play out an attrition campaign for half an hour before putting models on the board. Local goon seen wanting to play AK-47 Republic 
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JcDent posted:Local goon seen wanting to play Blücher Fixed that for you. 
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I am getting into Bolt Action. I have lots of Soviet models, mostly painted. I am painting a bunch of infantry and weapons teams right now. I am not a good painter but I am happy with my Officer: Does anyone have a good shop for battle mats in the US? I am going to make a board for my garage but at this point I'd rather use a battle mat than flock a whole board.
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alg posted:I am getting into Bolt Action. I have lots of Soviet models, mostly painted. I am painting a bunch of infantry and weapons teams right now. I am not a good painter but I am happy with my Officer: Tablewar makes great mats. They have sales all the time so wait for one to get like 20% off. https://tablewar.com/collections/fatmats
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Cigar box battle mats has some great stuff too. It's a pity they don't have EU distribution. Comstar, check out model rail trees, Heki, Noch have diverse ranges in various sizes. I use trees in the 7-12 inch range, as they're of decent height and look the part.
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I know a lot of people are getting into O Group and that a lot of people ITT are Chain of Command players, but can anyone tell me if Too Fat Lardies’ other WW2 Ruleset ‘I Ain’t Been Shot Mum’ is worth getting into? I’ve got a bunch of Flames of War kit that would suit a company level game like that.
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Has any collected/painted anything from the War of 1812? I moved to the Niagara area and would love to collect something. I think I'd prefer 10 or 15mm for myself if anyone has recommendations but would love to see anyone's collection!
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The Soviets are slowly but surely taking over my work desk. The tiny Frenchmen have been relegated to the hole in the protractor.
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Six months ago finding historical STL files for anything that wasn't a WW2 tank was nearly impossible. Now there are two equally tempting Napoleonic artillery packs on offer: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/napoleonic-stl-files/french-foot-and-horse-artillery/description https://store.regimientosdeamerica.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=16_17_19_20&products_id=20 Napoleonic experts, please help - if I can only afford one of these packs, which would be better? Class Warcraft fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Jul 26, 2021 |
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yeah the content is coming on super fast, and resin printers are dirt cheap. i'm never going back to hand casts/injection moulded
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The second one has more detailed guns, but the crew looks kind of wonky. I'd go for the first one for those possible stretch goals.
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Springfield Fatts posted:The second one has more detailed guns, but the crew looks kind of wonky. I'd go for the first one for those possible stretch goals. Lol I thought the opposite. I don’t like the oversized shakos and disco pants. I have the Regementos AdC set, they look good in physical form.
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I think the kickstarter is meant to be printed at either 15mm or 28mm so some of the features are exaggerated to ensure they'll print at either scale. I agree, I kind of like the other figures better, but it's more expensive and you don't get horse artillery figures but I'm not sure really how big of a deal that is.
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Class Warcraft posted:I think the kickstarter is meant to be printed at either 15mm or 28mm so some of the features are exaggerated to ensure they'll print at either scale. I agree, I kind of like the other figures better, but it's more expensive and you don't get horse artillery figures but I'm not sure really how big of a deal that is. Basically you want horse artillery if you're doing a divisional size infantry army or a pure cavalry force. For example, in 1812, almost every division had one battery of line artillery and one of horse artillery, and then the entire corps would have an artillery reserve of line artillery. And then of course the various cavalry reserve corps would only have horse artillery. By 1812 you'd also have regimental artillery, with light guns, but line artillery miniatures will work for them as well. But you'd need a source for 3 pounders for the regular corps and 4 pounders for the guard, where captured Austrian or Prussian guns were the most common for the regular corps. ("Ask me why I have a gazillion Austrian guns in my French army"). So you'd often see just one battery involved in smaller encounters, where maybe just a few battalions are off doing something like guarding a pass, threatening a flank or chasing off a smaller detachment. But if the entire division is working together, such as during a bigger battle, you'd have both line and horse artillery involved. So you'll be fine with just line artillery if you're planning to have like, less than a dozen battallions or so squaring off. lilljonas fucked around with this message at 10:53 on Jul 26, 2021 |
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Endman posted:I know a lot of people are getting into O Group and that a lot of people ITT are Chain of Command players, but can anyone tell me if Too Fat Lardies’ other WW2 Ruleset ‘I Ain’t Been Shot Mum’ is worth getting into? I’ve got a bunch of Flames of War kit that would suit a company level game like that.
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Ilor posted:I'm primarily a CoC guy and have only played IABSM once, but I liked it. It's kind of like a cross between CoC and SP2. If you already have company-sized forces for WW2, it's absolutely worth getting into. Awesome, I’ll keep it in mind I haven’t bothered to base my infantry yet, so there’s potential for a lot of different games
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CROSS-POST! It's been a productive month, got a 6 point Viking SAGA band done - now I just need to find opponents.  OATH COMPLETE!  Also claiming OPPOSITES ATTRACT for these two figures:  (One is a Viking acting like a bear, the other is a bear acting like a Viking.)
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That warband looks amazing.
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Thanks! I've been focusing harder on color choices and I think it's paying off.
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Excellent work on those!
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Endman posted:I haven’t bothered to base my infantry yet, so there’s potential for a lot of different games
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BaronVanAwesome posted:Has any collected/painted anything from the War of 1812? I moved to the Niagara area and would love to collect something. It's 50 years after 1812 but god I wish someone I knew would give me an excuse to make a small Perry British Intervention Force... force.    I wore that uniform and shot that rifle, the models are so good and sexy, give me a reason, world. And frankly I love the royal artillery outfit more than the classic redcoats too. The one period where I want to collect brits, and it's a fictional conflict. Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 06:34 on Jul 31, 2021 |
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What, like VBCW?
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:It's 50 years after 1812 but god I wish someone I knew would give me an excuse to make a small Perry British Intervention Force... force.
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Someone posted an old parody ad of a ridiculously overpowered GPU in the retrocomputer gaming thread.quote:not one, not two, but ALL FIVE of today's hottest chipsets -- and they're all jimmied together in some kind of nutty, five way, scanline-interleave boullabaisse. It shouldn't work... but it does.
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xthetenth posted:all hail the multibank. King of the things that shouldn't work but do.
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out of curiosity, what historical system best represents Roman-era barbarian armies? I've got the ADLG rulebook and a lot of them are just undifferentiated masses of medium swordsmen, and I seem to remember FoG being similar E: although I'm mostly thinking of migrations/fall of the empire stuff, the earlier stuff looks a little more interesting StashAugustine fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Aug 3, 2021 |
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If I remember correctly, Hail Caesar has some good stuff in it. But my friends and I stopped playing that in favour of ADLG and I can't recall why.
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Picked up the D-Day US Sector book for Bolt Action and I’m very happy to see it has rules for Armoured Rifles. I kind of wanted to recreate a unit that was stationed in my local area and now I can! I guess I should put in an other for some halftracks. Got to figure out how many MGs to pack and if it’s worth shelling out slightly more for Rubicon M3s.
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So I just become a victim of the algorithm. My wargame blog has been blocked/soon to be deleted because it was reported for violating PHISHING policy. The link i go to then tells me:quote:Blogger's spam-prevention robots have detected that your blog has characteristics of a spam blog. (What is a spam blog?) Since you are an actual person reading this, your blog is probably not a spam blog. Automated spam detection is inherently fuzzy and we sincerely apologise for this false positive. My blog was killed by robots. So...seeing as Google is going to kill my blog for being a human, whats a good platform to have a new blog on? One that does not require any HTML knowledge and I can have blackjack and hookers and not have my memories deleted by a Necron  . Maybe one that can import my old posts too.
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Comstar posted:So I just become a victim of the algorithm. My wargame blog has been blocked/soon to be deleted because it was reported for violating PHISHING policy. The link i go to then tells me: I use blogspot but I don't know if that's part of the Google group that almost killed your blog to begin with.
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Jobbo_Fett posted:I use blogspot but I don't know if that's part of the Google group that almost killed your blog to begin with. I'm pretty sure that's under blogger and Google? Anyways, my blog got unlocked, for who knows how long. I still need a solution to getting off Google if there's a better way. I guess that would be Wordpress? Comstar fucked around with this message at 14:58 on Aug 3, 2021 |
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Bung them all up on Medium
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I think that blogger as a whole ended up on the wrong list some time ago. I noticed that my blog had zero incoming traffic from Facebook around February 2019, that finally pushed me to buy a domain name, traffic came back. If you don't want to spend money, medium is a good platform, I heard. I also moved some of my stuff directly to Facebook, it works fairly well for photos.
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If you're not concerned about readership, Post My Favorites is basically SA's own blogging platform.
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I finished my 7YW Russians. Despite the two month delay in shipping, I'm still a few weeks early. Let me know if I missed something absolutely terrible that should be corrected. Thank you all so much for your help in navigating this strange world of tiny pewter men.          Leading the charge are supposed to be Valementov and Orlo, given the limitations of the scale I think I did alright.  
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For my blog I use Weebly. I'm also testing Wordpress for my new website, and I'm not sure if it's just based on user experience, but I find Wordpress to be more frustrating than Weebly. Heads up for a really nice looking Napoleonics kickstarter, both STL and metal casts. Würtemberg for roughly 1809-12: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pianowargames/the-price-of-crowns Would make a nice SP2 force if nothing else E: I'm quite tempted to get them just to make a SP2 force, and then convert more of my French to proper 36 man battalions for division sized games instead. lilljonas fucked around with this message at 09:39 on Aug 4, 2021 |
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