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As for manufacturers, not really. You'd have to go up to 28mm as all of the 15mm makers I can think of focus on Cold War stuff to tap that Team Yankee market. If you've got a 3d printer you could shrink some of the 28mm scale stuff down to 15.
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Eureka Miniatures kind of comes out of nowhere and has what you need most times. Want Nazi apes with rocket packs? They are there for you. 15mm Russians? https://eurekaminusa.com/collections/moderns-russians Chechens https://eurekaminusa.com/collections/moderns-chechans-15mm Then there's Khurasan with an equally diverse amount of offerings from Sci Fi to Modern. https://khurasanminiatures.tripod.com/ukrainian.html Here's the rest of Khurasan's historical ranges. If you go back in the future and it says, "the shop is closed" the owner just runs it whenever he feels like it. He gets overwhelmed, he shuts it down for a month. Got to keep checking. https://khurasanminiatures.tripod.com/historicalindex.html
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That’s exactly what I’m looking for, and the figures largely don’t suffer from the worst excesses of 15mm historical figure proportions. Thanks!
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By the way, the video that got me thinking about wargaming this conflict (includes long-distance combat footage, nothing gory): https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/xblel0/ukrainian_combined_arms_assault_on_peski_near/ I've never seen something that so closely approximates an actual tabletop wargame engagement before, right down to the terrain of ruined buildings amidst open ground and scattered foliage.
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One of the STl creators I follow specializes in age of sail naval stuff as well as the 6mm land stuff I usually get. I'm thinking about dipping a toe into 1:1200 naval stuff (Napoleonic era). Any suggestions for good rules? I see a bunch out there but I'm flying blind a bit.
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I've played Black Seas a couple of times and had a lot of fun. There are basic and advanced versions of the rules in the rulebook so you can go either beer and pretzels or full grognard, as you please. edit: It's a little too granular if you want to fight like, the battle of Trafalgar or something but if you're looking for a game for 3-6 ships per side it works great. Class Warcraft fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Sep 14, 2022 |
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Sails of Glory is pretty fun, too. I have a couple of write-ups in this thread about it.
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Throwing together some 3d printed 1:2400 WW2 models to play around with some rulesets. My first time ever painting naval, I think it turned out okay! I learned a lot along the way.
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Count Thrashula posted:Throwing together some 3d printed 1:2400 WW2 models to play around with some rulesets. My first time ever painting naval, I think it turned out okay! I learned a lot along the way. Those look really good!
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Count Thrashula posted:Throwing together some 3d printed 1:2400 WW2 models to play around with some rulesets. My first time ever painting naval, I think it turned out okay! I learned a lot along the way. Wow, yeah very nice! What game is it for, out of curiosity? I'm always curious about naval games (especially age of sail ones, but drat they'd be fragile and a pain to paint etc) but have never dipped into the sub-genre
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Count Thrashula posted:Throwing together some 3d printed 1:2400 WW2 models to play around with some rulesets. My first time ever painting naval, I think it turned out okay! I learned a lot along the way. These are rad but also very dangerous because you’ve made me want to paint some too
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Major Isoor posted:Wow, yeah very nice! What game is it for, out of curiosity? I'm always curious about naval games (especially age of sail ones, but drat they'd be fragile and a pain to paint etc) but have never dipped into the sub-genre I'm hoping to play General Quarters 3 since so many swear by it, but... On the other hand people also say it plays best on a ten foot square table so. Who knows.
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Hey man got a source for those STLs? I'm building a tiny fleet for Fire at Sea.
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Springfield Fatts posted:Hey man got a source for those STLs? I'm building a tiny fleet for Fire at Sea. Sure! This is where I got them. They're all paid, but like $3-4 per ship is still cheaper than buying premade models. https://www.cgtrader.com/ghukek
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Ohhh Ghukek, yeah I saw him a while back and $50 seemed eye-popping for STLs but looks like he's having a sale. Hmmmmmmmmmmm...
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Count Thrashula posted:Throwing together some 3d printed 1:2400 WW2 models to play around with some rulesets. My first time ever painting naval, I think it turned out okay! I learned a lot along the way. This seems like a really good idea and I might crank out a few for the old Axis and Allies naval miniatures game if I can find some good STLs.
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I realize the Soviet Navy did almost nothing on the water, but I do wish companies would make their ships anyway for alternate history purposes.
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New dad milestone: kiddo got ahold of two of my tanks and apparently had a grand time smashing them together. Hahaha, oh you little... rascal
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Count Thrashula posted:Throwing together some 3d printed 1:2400 WW2 models to play around with some rulesets. My first time ever painting naval, I think it turned out okay! I learned a lot along the way. They are so good that I can pick out Fletcher, New Orleans, Kongo, and Akizuki without reading the nameplates  Anarcho-Commissar posted:I realize the Soviet Navy did almost nothing on the water, but I do wish companies would make their ships anyway for alternate history purposes. Someone ought to make the models from World of Warships printable, if that's even possible
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I've seen them out there, but they're really too detailed. All the rigging and such, it would take forever to clean up and make printable.
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NTRabbit posted:They are so good that I can pick out Fletcher, New Orleans, Kongo, and Akizuki without reading the nameplates That's about the highest praise I can think of! Thanks!
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And tonight's little naval jaunt is three British 3rd rate ships-of-the-line from the Napoleonic era. 1/2400 is an absurdly small scale for doing details, but I might see if I can print off tiny flags and MAYBE do some basic rigging. Or I may just leave them like this and put labels on the bases.
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BT stands for Best Tank
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Count Thrashula posted:And tonight's little naval jaunt is three British 3rd rate ships-of-the-line from the Napoleonic era. 1/2400 is an absurdly small scale for doing details, but I might see if I can print off tiny flags and MAYBE do some basic rigging. Or I may just leave them like this and put labels on the bases.
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A while ago people mentioned 3dBreed's WWII STL files, March to Hell. I looked them up, and they looked nice enough, but I am wondering if anyone has printed them out? They look a little thick/chunky and I am wondering if they look ok printed out? They also seem to appear to have really short legs, which was especially noticeable for the US paratroopers. The knee reinforcement material on the march to hell ones, where the knees would be, seem to overlap behind the bottom of the field blouse, so they look like they have really long blouses or really short legs. I am just wondering if they look off like that in person, on the odd chance anyone here has printed some of them.
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yeah i've printed a bunch. they are chunky but look good for what they are at 12-18 mm scale. it works. sorta like adler at 6mm if you're familiar. the exaggerated features are for both strength and also to give an impressionistic effect at a distance
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   some bad phone pics that i just snapped of some unpainted samples when i was testing out some basing sizes (these are printed at ~12 mm as i recall)
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They look like they would work just as well as official models for Flames of War. How do you like them at bigger scale, like 28-32mm?
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You can also scale the X and Y to about 85% and they'll look a lot less chonky at 28mm. At 15mm or below, you barely notice it.
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moths posted:You can also scale the X and Y to about 85% and they'll look a lot less chonky at 28mm. That is a good idea too. My resin printer arrives on Monday, so maybe a week or two from now when I have got it dialed in I will buy a few of their STLs to do a few test prints and see how it shapes up. Even if they were chonky that might be better than some of the bolt action figures, some of those faces are just really poor.
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Yeah the warlord games faces are mixed at best. I still lol remembering that Korean War line. There's a "march to hell" facebook group that has lots of posts of people trying to dial in scale settings to match other manufacturers if you want to check that out.
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IncredibleIgloo posted:A while ago people mentioned 3dBreed's WWII STL files, March to Hell. I looked them up, and they looked nice enough, but I am wondering if anyone has printed them out? They look a little thick/chunky and I am wondering if they look ok printed out? They also seem to appear to have really short legs, which was especially noticeable for the US paratroopers. The knee reinforcement material on the march to hell ones, where the knees would be, seem to overlap behind the bottom of the field blouse, so they look like they have really long blouses or really short legs. I've printed a lot of them and in general they've turned out really well at 15mm. The only caveats is that the bases they come on and the pre-supports are not very good, I tended to just remove those in my slicer and print them without. Another thing is that a couple of them will have like a mid-stride pose that really hosed with my printer until I gave the back foot a bunch of extra supports.  This is an American Rifle Platoon at 15mm that used the March to Hell STLs, if you want to get a sense of how they look painted/based. I think the chunkiness works kind of the same way as 28mm heroic works, where it just adds a bit more visual interest at small scales.
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SpaceViking posted:I've printed a lot of them and in general they've turned out really well at 15mm. The only caveats is that the bases they come on and the pre-supports are not very good, I tended to just remove those in my slicer and print them without. Another thing is that a couple of them will have like a mid-stride pose that really hosed with my printer until I gave the back foot a bunch of extra supports. looking good. yeah i never ended up painting any of mine, and honestly i dunno if i will. i just like 6 mm too much, even scaling down to 12 mm (10 mm made the guns just a little too spindly) wasn't enough mass effect. good points on the proportional scaling in x and y, but honestly i'd try a test run first before doing that. at 28-32 i think they'll still be good, and any distaste i'd chock up to stylistic preference. these are the kind of figs made to be viewed top down or oblique at the wargame table imo, looking at them up close or front on like it's dioramic un-distorts the proportions that are intentionally distorted for the game table
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I printed MtH for FoW. The infantry dimensions don't bug me but those who care recommended reducing the x/y axes by 5-15%. Guns are fine too, but for vehicles I prefer m_bergman or tigerace stls - turrets fit much better and scale is the same battlefront uses.
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I will say their Wild West STLs are scaled for 32mm and they're great models. I really wish they'd go back to their WW2 stuff and reissue it properly scaled for 28mm instead of upsized 15mm.
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SpaceViking posted:I've printed a lot of them and in general they've turned out really well at 15mm. The only caveats is that the bases they come on and the pre-supports are not very good, I tended to just remove those in my slicer and print them without. Another thing is that a couple of them will have like a mid-stride pose that really hosed with my printer until I gave the back foot a bunch of extra supports. These look really good for that scale, or at least you did a great job. I I agine with 15mm you can print a bajillion guys with a tub of resin.
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My first historical convention is in the books. I played Chain of Command, Carnage & Glory, and ran Sharp Practice. I was really dreading my game but it went really, really well. The players had fun and nobody was a bad sport. Chain of Command was really fun outside of some old guys trying to give me orders as if I were somehow loving up...they didn't even understand the strategy behind dumping shock on stuff. Carnage & Glory is definitely not my thing. I really like to understand how a game works or why things happen. Having the computer do everything and not knowing why it decides something isn't fun for me. There was some bad sportsmanship from some old guys on the losing team too. Now on to the club GameDay in October. I think I'll probably take Napoleonic Sharp Practice, but my ironclads have been painting quickly so Dawn of Iron might be on the table.
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alg posted:
Ah, the old bossy grognard. There's always one at every wargaming event. My favorite sub-variety is the ex-military grognard who ties to use their veteran status as their credentials for bossing others around - because a couple years fixing humvees in Iraq apparently makes someone an expert at Napoleonic wargaming or whatever. Also, of course any time something doesn't go their way the immediately resort to "well in REAL LIFE that would never happen".
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I think part of it too is that I'm at least 20 yrs younger than any of these guys, and I am a yankee. Meanwhile they can't even count dice correctly
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Whoa I had a similar experience at my local scene this weekend. The Carnage & Glory 2 table seemed to swing between incredibly bored waiting around to put in spreadsheet notes to incredibly confused on implementing the actual results.
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