Having pretty much EVERY component on a seperate sprue cannot have been very efficient in terms of mold layout. Unless maybe the initial production had particularly small equipment? In any case, ma...

Or, this: http://erminestreetguard.co.uk/optio.html Optio's staff with silver ball? 

The wikipedia does mention the version with a knob, and suggests that was the more common form.

Salut à tous, As I am (sometimes) French, I allow myself to react to the first photo. Objectively, it is difficult to identify exactly the rounded headgear worn by the two men. All black A...

Vine stick for centurion and a club used by legionaries against cataphracts among other things. 

Dust Tactics has some neat walkers you might like. The company went under, and you can usually find them pretty cheap.

My take on a couple of points here. #1: Courage for me is mostly knowing what you're facing, and doing it anyway.  I'm not really sure that applies to the average conquistador. Blundering int...

I agree with Mark. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine_staff

I'm converting mantic halflings with Wargames Atlantic parts. Mainly from Les grognards  

I was a bit disappointed with the lady gunslingers, especially the heads. But they aren't that expensive, are standard 28mm scale and do have a lot of useful parts. Head swaps from other kits go a ...

Yeah... I'd have thought you could get the same effect with plastic rod for much less risk to fingers.

The wand is a command baton of some sort, I think:

Some random thoughts generated by the POW pictures. 1.  It's conventional wisdom that one should ditch your helmet if you're trying to surrender.  The first few minutes at the point of c...

Can anyone help me identify what these objects are? They both are on the Late Romans sprue.      

That weapon looks great! I would mention that spade grips and bipods are two great flavors that GENERALLY don't go great together.

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@Mark Dewis yeah I remember on the old wgf forum, the reasoning for the amazons was so they could sell sprues easier. But they probably realized the profit vs effort was not worth it. Or the a...

@William Redford on the other hand, if we want a head sprue and a body sprue, it would make sense to design and market those together. Maybe as two frames with the frames also sold seperately? On ...

Would love this. "Modern civilians" is still pretty much only covered by the old WGF Apocalypse Survivor kits that can still be gotten from Warlord (but you need to search the website. Project Z ha...

@JTam  Always a pleasure my friend ... while I must confess I am still amazed when looking at Napoleon's funerary rotunda, quite an impressive architectural work of art. Vigipirate had been ...

I'd love some generic bodies for NPCs, hostages, etc. I keep looking, but so far, nothing has hit the right spot.

@Vitor Soares Yeah, I would buy these.  I would want something like the old WF Numidians. something that would not look out of place with different time periods heads or weapons. A female set...

As the title sugests, I would like to keep this suggestion in our colective minds. A box just with simple male and female generic bodies would be a great deal. Most of us have a ton of spare parts...

@Paul Cziganj  Looking forward to it.  As you may have noticed in that other thread ;) the WW2 Soviet Army is of deep interest to me....

@Steven StGeorges  Great pics.  Thanks.  That is how a SOLDIER'S tomb should look.   Why was the facility at Vagpirate Red?

@William Redford except if you are Portuguese, the occupation and liberation of East Timor from Indonesia was a big thing here. But you are, of course, right, most people draw a blank in this matt...

@Don Williams really nice work, congratulations.

@JTam I'll do that this week! So far, I've only painted one Soviet miniature, the rest are unpainted, but I think I'll tackle these this week-end.

@JTam That's it, there's not enough demand for either of these armies, but for both ?

Nice work!

Have just sent a rare Tuesday email to our list (sign up at our site - they usually send out each Friday!) This one is mostly about the excellent Great Wargames Survey (but also has a sneak peek in...

Most of the surviving photos of these troops in the field in 1940 are propaganda pics taken by the Germans after these famously brave soldiers surrendered.

@JTam they are a very close match, in my opinion.  I  have combined Gripping Beast plastic Dark Age cavalry and foot figures with the WA 'Irish Warriors' with great success. Heads, arms, ...

This is why I always use terms like Visigoths and Ostrogoths!! ☺️

@JTam  And your favourite, le Tombeau du Maréchal Foch / Shrine of Marechal Foch Please note, The Hôtel and the Museum were under Vigipirate level Red -the penultimate lev...

Apropos:

@Don Williams  I think those are the first "in the wild" painted up Goths I've seen. They look really good.  Thanks for posting them. How compatible are the Gripping Beast parts?  

Last week I finished building 2 squads of heavy weapon teams based on spare cadian weapons/arms and grognard parts. I also finished painting some mantic plague zombies and larger monsters ...

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@Don Williams  Thanks for following up and sharing this information.

@Mark Dewis 

@jon gawne  Would still include some helmets with EGA.  For modeling post war Marines or for those that want a little flavor over authenticity with their WW1 Marines.   This c...

@Andreas Mayrhofer  The steel wire looks the part.  Might be careful handling the mini though - Khorne does not care from where the blood flows ;)

Cheap smaller scale Gundams might be worth looking at. A gundam is meant to be about 18m tall, so  at 1:200 it stands 9cm. 1:200 is a pretty popular vehicle scale and you can definitely get pl...

@Brian Van De Walker yeah which is probably why it wouldn't make a great set as no one would know enough to buy it. I mean I certainly would.  When you ask most people about Indonesia, y...

@Brian Van De Walker Starship trooper bugs had two smaller limbs which they attacked with while standing on four legs!

@Brian Van De Walker no... but I have heard that they are not fun builds. Though my next sprue order, I do plan to get a couple. But yeah, I am unlikely to get anywhere near the numbers that w...

L'Hôtel des Invalides, le Mausolée/The Shrine Le tombeau de Napoléon / the Tomb of Napoleon. .