I'm just about finished with painting up my second box of Tirailleurs depicting early war (France 1940) units.These are truly amazing miniatures, with so many possibilities for variation in poses a...

Late Romans were often local recruits. A bit of Germanic height may not be out of place.

Cat's out of the bag: I might pick this up...  Will depend on if the associated book miniature is awesome and if I can get a signed edition..... Anyone have thoughts on the current editi...

@JTam oh, I think your post is HIGHLY relevant to the conversation, and I almost 100% agree (I don't think the Sisters are that bad. They only share legs and cloak with the Shadow Warriors. And the...

They look great.  Thanks for posting these.

Also, the original author and artist Russ Manning only died in 1981, so trademark and corporate IP ownership issues aside, the earliest Magnus could become public domain in the US is 2051. That's w...

Not particularly relevant, but I always thought the old 4th Edition monopose plastic High Elf Spearman and Archers looked better and made better units than their replacement plastic regiment set. ...

@Estoc Unlikely. The original run of Magnus was 1963-1977 and Jim Shooter purchased the rights in the 1980s, then managed to keep it in publication on and off through the 90's and 00s. Dynamite Ent...

I think the Games Workshop Dark Elf plastics look excellent.  The Corsairs and Cold One Riders in particular are great.   Now the High Elf Shadow Warriors/Sisters of Averlorn kit is...

@Brian Van De Walker I agree they don't look that great, but it's 80% the chunky weapons and hamfists doing that. It might be interesting to see them made up with Oathmark Elf arms (anyone that's m...

I'm pretty sure that he's in public domain now.

@Bill Thomas Three turns sounds impossible to survive.

@Geoff Maybury at the end of the day they ARE mostly intended for wargaming, but there is always scope for some civilians to be caught up in things. I do put mine together with an eye for RPGs as w...

Magnus is a skilled martial artist able to break steel with his bare hands. Because that's a thing. Pretty sure he does use rayguns sometimes. Definitely uses jetpacks. I doubt we'd need any kind ...

@Geoff Maybury in pictures 1,2 and 5 of those you shared it certainly looks like he is punching some robot. :)   but yeah, robots have often been requested. I guess I misunderstood thou...

@Davy Jones Never in 100`s of magazines have I seen a plate were he punches a robot, a real bone breaker for sure. You missed the point that Robots have been requested for some time now and this ra...

contras, sandenistas, farc, auc, the various african bush wars, the congo crisis, this is a set with lots of potential, if coupled with the modern operators, and maybe a more militia style of kit i...

@Big Boi I like having height differences (within reason) in my models, but also think some of the height stuff tends to be a tad over stated for various reasons.

So let me get this straight, this man finds a different robot every episode, and then just beats the snot out of it with fisticuffs? im suprised theres not a saturday morning cartoon about this.&nb...

I see your comparisons, but I'm just not seeing the relationship that you do. That high elf is pretty clear based off a mix of European Armor designs, from a Norman cone atop a Corinthian helmet, a...

It was not retro at the time but the robots were well drawn as wellas the characters the stories ended in each book but items carried on to give a bigger picture of the world being 4000AD there was...

Hm... I dont know if I had ever heard of Magnus. At least not directly. But it sounds cool. Definitely has a retro flash gordon vibe based on the artwork you have shown. I am a fan of retro bronze ...

@Latin Gandalf Sounds cool. I followed the link on Facebook. I am interested but I guess it will depend on if I can get any of my gaming friends interested. I have been looking for an excuse to col...

As you can see arms are the same on most of the basic Robotic styles so with varied bodies, Heads, Hands etc the variaty is only limited by our imagination the civilians wouls be great for any Si/F...

It may just be the young lad in my old farts, mind and body, but there has been an hero, thats stood the test of time with me. From a comic store on an old market every other Saturday after a frenz...

@Mark DewisI just was so pleased with that total none combat use of "Cannon Fodder" in my mind after seeing yours I thought "Disaster Rescue Team". all of a sudden there is so much more than fighti...

@Mark Dewis I meant just GW's elves in general not just dark, all of them🤣. Though that might be because no one is actually buying the AOS elves due to the high price🤣😆  Though if these are th...

Yeah, they even had diffrent bodies, shoes and armor from the Ooh Rahs. I think they are planning for a more realistic historical scale propotion look for the modern operaters.

@Mark Dewis HM clearly wasn't aware, you may stick to that if you want, we don't need to agree😉. Regardless of the UK popular Airfix Romans and Trajan wall scale mail with skirts though, I will st...

There's definitely been sneak peaks of a "modern" kit that's not the "Wild Geese" and not the "Ooh-Rahs." Exhibit A: We got boonies, ball caps, and the modern high cut helmets with NODs mounts....

Further thought, inspired by a post on the FB group. Einherjar stripped of all their space dwarf bits do end up looking a bit retro-SF: Note the smaller guns - pretty much rayguns. Just add a sm...

Funny, I thought the basic complaint was the cost. Which in-print models did you have in mind there, Brian? I agree the old Dark Elf regiment set was atrocious, but that's ancient history, man. Th...

@Mark Dewis Could even throw in the bonus sprue maybe.

@JTam Actually that used to be a kit.  

@Alessio De Carolis Why not just do a female warrior set and then a male set and make both a mix of armored and unarmored, makes more sense proportionally and would help keep them from being ugly b...

@James Cutts I don't know, the people who really like early Hellenist armies really want them, everyone else is like "there is more to the Ancient world than Greece and Hellenist states🤬" and almos...

Also consider the Frostgrave Demon Sprue. Suitable crossbows, three of the bodies have normal knees, usable hand weapon. Most likely just a source for bits, though. The other two kits are more suit...

@Brian Van De Walker I could see the Ooh Rahs getting a modern weapon sprue to expand use. There's really nothing in their heads and bodies that clashes (I've said before I'll probably get some for...

For that matter... the Oathmark Elves look pretty suitable for Dark Elf spearmen anyway. Their chain shirts look fairly similar to the older GW Dark Elf style. Use a single helm feather (or plastic...

The Frostgrave Cultist sprue with Elf headswaps (Oathmark spares are a source) should make pretty good Dark Elves. Has spiky crossbows, has a suitable spear, axe and sword. Has a decent amount of C...

This inspired me to try Cannon Fodder bodies with some of the Stargrave alien heads to make Saucer People. The jumpsuits will be silver and the skin likely green (making them grey is just going to ...

For those thinking this could be some sort of group*, sorry 😀 * Sadly not like the The People's Front of Judea, or was it the Judean People's Front?

For some unknown reason I recently decided to start up a Ancient Greece / Macedonian force for various games and in my quest to find more plastic minis stumbled on the post from last May on the Thu...