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Wowshawk posted:Edit for Der Shovel: make sure you seal the mdf with varnish or hairspray first, so the primer doesn't soak in. Thanks for the tip. I just picked up some MDF sabot bases from Litko, and was going to prime them tomorrow!
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:You could play Black Powder without needing a ridiculously huge table That's a good idea. Also it looks like General d'Armee is written for 15mm which is neat (but still, I don't own a 6x4 table, hence whey I'm drawn to Saga, DBx, etc.)
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Sep 10, 2020 02:14
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lilljonas posted:What army/armles did you get? I'll know when I get it!  The guy just said "it's 5 pounds of lead - 3 ziplock bags full" I could see infantry and horses from the pictures, but couldn't tell anything about uniforms.But I already have my 28mm French infanterie de ligne to paint up first (after my Saga army is done). And then I have a 15mm Polybian Roman army and a 15mm Carthaginian army to paint up.... ok, maybe I do have a problem...
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Geisladisk posted:e: Also I just want to give my condolences that American politics have gotten so incredibly hosed up and divisive that it's not possible to comfortably share a hobby with American conservatives at this point. Here, the historicals crowd is definitely skewed towards the middle-aged conservative side, but we can still all be friends and play with toy soldiers like adults. I hope American society starts healing soon, but I doubt it. Yeah, I have basically no hopes of playing ACW games with anyone in the next decade or so, since I've never really met another left-leaning person interested in it. And right now is... not a good time to interact with American conservatives interested in Civil War.
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Sep 10, 2020 21:33
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Cessna posted:If you're ever in Denver send me a PM. We can flip a coin to see who has to play the losers. I'm in the Philly area, but I'll keep that in mind!
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Sep 10, 2020 23:13
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lilljonas posted:More pics and a longer entry at the blog as usual: drat, my Saga guys look dinky in comparison. Great work!
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Sep 11, 2020 15:02
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More and more Saga minis getting painted over here too... I'm up to a warlord and 8 hirdmen. Just need to paint up my 16 bondi and I'll have a solid 4 point army. Threw together a quick crop field with modular fences today too 
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Sep 12, 2020 02:13
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Fucks sake, even the apology is just "we're sorry you got mad" worded a different way. I'm a Vallejo man, but if I ever had plans to buy AK products, I'm out now.
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My 5 pounds of free Napoleonics lead came in and holy moly Mixture of painted/unpainted, it's gonna take a while to piece out what everything is but... Not bad for the price! Edit-- bag 1: looks like a shitload of horses, hussars, and Infantry... All french? 
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Sep 15, 2020 21:29
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I can easily tell the normal French vs British headgear in here, but I'm confused about these chappies: They're not bearskins, they look like feathers on top of a shako? There's a bunch in the same bag as the British infantries, so I'm not sure. edit-- Highland infantry maybe? Count Thrashula fucked around with this message at 00:21 on Sep 16, 2020 |
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Sep 16, 2020 00:18
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I sorted it out into a huge bag of artillery, a bag full of like 200 horses, a bag full of a couple hundred mounted guys, and a couple hundred infantry... ...next step is to go through and try and figure out nationalities 
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Sep 16, 2020 18:52
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Paint 15mm minis they said... they'll go quicker they said... Two and a half hours later I have one cavalry commander on a base. Two more figures to go on this base before I can add grass. 15mm is pretty rewarding though, considering how tiny everything is and how much you have to concentrate. (I know, the 6mm folks are laughing at me)   Edit-- command base done  
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Sep 17, 2020 02:12
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I've discovered my least favorite thing: trying to attach spears to 15mm lead models.
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Sep 18, 2020 15:16
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DBA Polybian Roman army is done! 1 equites w/ general 1 equites 2 velites 6 hastati/principes 2 triarii    I'm very happy with how everything turned out. Now I have 12 bases of later Carthaginians to paint up and I can play a game against myself.
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Sep 20, 2020 00:34
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NSFW: French Hussar gets sucked up in a vacuum, body is mangled 
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Sep 20, 2020 22:14
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Having trouble figuring out what this guy is in the French ligne box from Perry... There's 2 on each sprue, this is one, the other is in greatcoat.  The shako says command or flank unit (well, command, since there no extra tuft on the pompom) but the uniform looks fusilier to me? Is it a legere unit? What am I missing?
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Sep 21, 2020 22:06
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Think it's fair to call this 4pt Viking warband done. 
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Sep 22, 2020 02:47
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I knew I could count on liljonas. Thanks!
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Sep 22, 2020 13:05
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Cassa posted:drat, so SAGA really is just that good huh. It's a really great game but what makes you say that
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Has anyone tried the Punic Wars era saga yet? People on Facebook have been raving about it and the armies look really neat
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the moose posted:How compatable are the various SAGA ages to each other? I was looking to get into it the other day and saw that there were multiple ages.can 2 people with warbands from different ages still play each other? Technically yeah, I think. They use the same basic rules, there just some addon stuff from each Age book.
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Oct 6, 2020 14:32
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Liljonas you are an inspiration
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Dec 27, 2020 16:38
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Man, I'm really tempted by the new Warlord 15mm ACW, but... I feel like I could get a whole lot more bang for the same buck if I picked up a couple packs of Baccus 6mm ACW. I only have a 3'x4' table anyway
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Finished my (technically) first fully painted Napoleonics figure today, which was just done as a basing process test (testing out chip board + mod podge + joint filler as a base). A 15mm British fusilier. I have about 100+ of these in a bag, so it wasn't any skin off my back to waste one. This is from the huge grab bag of lead that I got a few months back - I'm not sure if it's because they've been banging around in a bag with 100+ other guys for months, but holy moly these sculpts are bad. There's basically no detail on the chest so I had no idea where the straps and such were. I kind of just winged it for most of the model. I've painted other 15mm models that were way more detailed than this, so who knows. But eh, I have like 5 pounds of 15mm Napoleonics so I guess I'll paint them as best I can! Hopefully from a 3 foot distance they're readable as British infantry.  edit-- Now that I'm looking at the photo, I'm seeing chest details I didn't notice before 
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I picked up a bunch of 6mm Romans and Gauls to put together a couple To The Strongest armies. Also I threw in a British Nappy army and a French Nappy army while I was at it (both 6mm). No idea what I'll do with those!
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Anyone have any good leads on 3d printing army packs? I just got a 3d printer and it'd be fun to print out some cheap armies (a la 6mm or 10mm) to mess around with. Any good patreons or makers out there?
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I did a late pledge for the March to Hell: Rome set of 3D printing files since it should be everything I need to build both sides for a Boudica campaign. Really happy with the quality of these prints for 15mm! I can crank out about 1 of those 40x15mm infantry stands every couple hours, which sure as hell is faster than I'll be able to paint them. I even threw together a movement tray in TinkerCAD I feel like I'm living in the future  Edit-- leaning toward Hail Caesar since it seems to be the most popular ancients system that isn't DBA Count Thrashula fucked around with this message at 23:34 on Mar 12, 2021 |
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Mar 12, 2021 23:20
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Springfield Fatts posted:Their site says they scale up to 28mm, have you tried once at that size, and if so are the proportions wonky? As far as I can tell the proportions are all the same, it's an exact 1:1 scaling. The downloads have both 15 and 28 versions in each zip file
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Still have to finish putting the shields on, but a unit of legionnaires, a leader, all the bases and the movement tray isn't bad for an afternoon of printing.  I was worries 3 ranks wouldn't look full enough but I'm pretty happy with that. And yeah, I think these sculpts would look wonky in 28mm but I think they're decent in 15mm  Next up is printing a bunch of Celts with their dicks out Count Thrashula fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Mar 14, 2021 |
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lilljonas posted:At 15mm I think the kinda cartoonish proportions work fine and should make them easier to paint. Exactly. I think exaggerating the features works best at small scales, but it would look odd at 28mm.
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Woo, got all my Romans shielded up and printed out a unit of Celtic Warband last night  Considering the resin cost for each unit is $1-$2, I'm pretty happy.
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I love small rules publishers... I just sent €5 to some email address via paypal for the L'art de la Guerre rules, hopefully they show up some day.
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I absolutely love the rules of To The Strongest!, and I've setup some Celts and Romans for a little test game. Nothing's painted yet, but everything on the table is 3d printed at home, and after a couple weeks straight of printing, I'm excited to see how my Boudicca's Rebellion game is coming along   I actually really expected to hate the grid system, but it works pretty elegantly compared to similar small-density games (DBA for example) where a millimeter or two can be worth arguing over. And the little grid dots I put on my game mat are super unobtrusive. I'm happy. Can't wait to get everything printed and painted.
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I've lost my mind and, rather than buy new minis to game out English Civil War stuff, I'm just modeling and printing out 2mm units. I haven't quite figured out how I'm gonna paint these, but printing out a full unit all in 20 minutes is pretty neat
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Tias posted:Did you sculpt those yourself? :o Looks like there's PLA 3d printing lines in it, which I'm hoping for because I'd love to have those STLs!
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Definitely lost my mind. I have no idea how to make 2mm look good, but I have to admit I love the effect. And I printed out a sled for it that I can put a label on to remember whose regiment it is! Stand battalion of pike and shot, Royalists, ECW:  
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mllaneza posted:I'm partial to Catton's books on the Civil War. His prose evokes the grandeur and tragedy of the great events in motion better than anyone else I've read. The Coming Tragedy is an absolutely fascinating analysis of the 1860 presidential campaign and Buchanan's miserable lame duck period. Heck yeah, March to Hell Rome has been an incredible value... Republican roman, imperial roman, Celts, germans, gauls, carthaginians, and more that they're still developing! Its hundreds of minis and more to come, and it was a wildly low cost to kickstart.
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Yessss I've been looking for ACW STLs for a while that look decent at small scales. That's awesome. Now I just need to find a ruleset that I can play on a 3x4 table. Speaking of STLs, I just bought a 100YW pack on a whim, and there's a ton of stuff here (it's like 4gigs), but I realized too late that there's no bowmen, no flag holders, and nothing on horse :| I need to do more digging before I can print and paint a 100YW army or two I guess.
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