@H M True.
@Mithril2098 Actually its 30 figures for the male set, 24 for the female set. Both sets cost $32 to $35 normally.
@JTam They are supposed to be, and to be honest a lower "zeroish" amount of hellenist elements and even greater focus on the steppe nomad aspect would make me happy. Same deal if we are...
A similar thread over on Lead Adventure... https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=136810.0
I know it's not the intended topic, but I would be very down for some Dahomey Amazons 😁
I think this idea is better pitched at the fantasy end, though using Grecian style elements. It would denitely benefit from having science fiction options. Placing it in Classic Fantasy would likel...
@JTam Absolutely! Such a fantastic crossover, although anything with Nubia AND Diana is going to get a passing grade from me.
@Grumpy Gnome The USMC definitely had different body armor than the Army in Vietnam. More hard plates. Might have been left over Korean War stuff. But they are all very sim...
Plot twist 2. Just paint them green. It's certainly the iconic look for Vietnam. It IS appropriate for a big chunk of the Cold War. And after the introduction of the woodland c...
@Charles Tottington there's always spare Lizardman heads. Aside from the gas mask ones, that kit has three different styles, so a lot of people will have spares. Also occurs to me lizardman heads ...
@Caratacus They just don't have anything that could hurt a Terminator. Pit traps? Siege Engines? Good Luck. Now a Bronze Age Greeks versus Predator or Aliens movie would b...
One caution with the Perry hats... those heads are fairly small (i.e. reasonably realistic proportions) compared to a lot of the fantasy kits. You may have to do a bit of surgery to fit them onto s...
I need to set things up better for proper photos. The phone camera is handy, but I should get out the old digital and day bulb lamp.
And yet neither of those tyrants were overthrown by their people. That only happens rarely, and never if the people in general are doing okay. (I do not count dynastic civil wars. That's jus...
@JTam I recall you mentioning your Squad Leader before, different battalion I seem to recall. I was in the Heavy Mortat Platoon, Combat Support Company 4/502nd. If I did know him, his name ha...
You say the truth, Alessio : the parallel is obvious for me. Except that Napoléon, Emperor, screwed up generous ideals, while Hitler propagated "stinky" ideas. The result is almost the same ...
I note that the Pyrrhus (I) period corrresponds with a very strong expansionist trust of Celtic tribes towards Eastern and Southern Europe. This is the great period of the "Gallic" raids towards E...
@Geoff Maybury The M113 remains in wide spread service with ALL of the Army. Sheridan was retired out of the 82nd decades? ago.
@Geoff Maybury The Battle of Hue (good beer) was early '68 and there's no ERDL to be seen. Not sure how long it took to get to the field.
@Mark Dewis Fantastic as usual a tallented squad that will fit most systems.
@JTam Thanks Tam I hadn`t seen any pictures of Marines waring ERDL only tiger stripe on the pathfinders and Rangers. Even black and white photos show camo, and I`ve amasssed quite a few. that would...
Plot twist. If you paint them with ERDL camouflage you can use them from 1968 to pretty late. I would argue there is no discernable difference between ERDL and woodland when painte...
@JTam @Grumpy Gnome New I could count on you two, thank you both, it`s a bit better than I thought. Play about change of some helmets, add bits of more modern types of weaponary. Wood land camo and...
@Grumpy Gnome I think your right that the USMC doesn't do helmet bands. Which is weird as they obviously did in Vietnam. For the unititated we are talking about this thing: It help...
@Grumpy Gnome Did you know a guy named Aikens? My first Squad Leader. He was a Berlin BDE guy and 11C.
@Grumpy Gnome Whoops. You're a 100% right. The M113 family is still going strong in the US Army. The 4.2 inch is gone, but now it's 120mm mortars in the back of M113s (M1...
I think@Caratacus just wants to see WGA avoid something like the admitted well made but perhaps contentious sculpting of Brother Vinni.
@Geoff Maybury Yeah, if they gave you the ability to switch tails so you can have dog tails for dog heads and made them less bodybuilder buff (and add Sci-Fi weapons), it would improve them signifi...
@JTam Ah, you make fair points and jog my memory some. I concur with your observations and recollections. Good shout on the webbing suspenders over instead of under the armor, however that...
Pretty much concur with @Grumpy Gnome here: There's a few things worth discussing. 1. I don't believe the USMC has ever had a sizeable presence in Europe. To the best of my knowledge...
@Grumpy Gnome Warlord actually supply metal sprues of Monmouth caps to add to any human models that aren't already wearing a headdress:
@Alessio De Carolis For the Death Fields sets MAYBE sci-fi crests and antennas to glue on the historical heads is the way to go. Certainly would have made more sense for the D...
@Caratacus Suitably well dressed and the ancient world are SEMI-incompatible. People showed a lot of skin. All the time. Why are you in combat naked? It's disturbing....
@Vitor Soares I think the RGD Amazons are Scythians (or are supposed to be).
I would prefer either fantasy Amazons, or Scythians.
US Army supply services can be less uniform than some folks might suspect. In Berlin 88-91 some of my platoon had the latest woodland camo kevla flak jackets but some, like me had the older, softer...
The "Fritz" helmet started to enter in service in early '80s, but f.e. in Lebanon marines had yet the old M1, probabilly it was widespread for the mid '80s.
@JTam great image, realistic armour, no fanservice, it has a retro-sci-fi feeling.
Bear in mind I am not quite old enough to have served in ’Nam.... The minis should work fine if you paint them in Woodland camo for up to mid-80’s in my opinion, for regular Army/Marin...
The wool Monmouth cap on the Warlord ECW sprue makes a fine modern day wool watch cap.
Guys the Rubicon figures that I`m using for "Nam", how versitile could they be as "Marines in Europe. How long could I stretch the time period of these with just painting schemes. I realized as I w...
@William Ings Good find - this is another Ancients faction that could do with some attention. I would have thought it would be possible to convert most Illyrian infantry types from kitbashin...
@JTam Bronze Age Terminator... that would be a fun game idea in itself. You thought it was difficult enough to beat him in 1984 with motorised vehicles, firearms and automated factory equipm...