Now this is how you do a heavy weapon! Probably an STL though.....

No email this week, apparently. So no teaser.  

I believe Defiance Games had licensed that design before they went under, they didn't even have the decency to release the STL they had, to the people who already paid for the physical release. I'm...

Thanks for sharing this image... it is now one of my favorite visions for Heinlein’s Mobile Infantry. The only thing holding it back from being my very favorite is the bits in the book that I...

@Yronimos Whateley We are basically.... Neanderthals. 

@JTam Dang, those are slick!

Had another playtest today and some changes will have to be made again. Mostly to unit stats but I think the mechanics are there; just need some ironing. Expect V0.14 by months end! I hope. 

The story that was going around back then was that the guy who made the film (I'm never going to remember his name) was supposed to be adapting the Heinlein story, but read one page of it, decided ...

Nice find! If wood is your preferred terrain material, Mad Bob has some nice stuff with a similar concept. Anybody ready for some Mordheim!!!      

Great heads up.  Thanks! Shame about the French being already sold out.  

"Back in my day, we had to Telnet and IRC uphill in the snow - both ways! - to get to our social media, and we LIKED it that way!"  And the kids stayed off my lawn while we did it....  ...

That's great! I'd been saying for a while that the giant spiders ought to make great alien bugs, played straight with the sci-fi bits included in the kits, but I hadn't considered modifying the fi...

Hand grenades and horseshoes, when it comes to my resources and budget :) The 28mm figures I'm working with are about the same height as the 1/48 scale drivers, and some of the (nonimally 28mm) Re...

@lauregami Thank you for your kind comment. The paint I used for the metal was a citadel paint called Leadbelcher, then I did a balck was and some Runefang Steel for a little highlight. Hope that h...

@Yronimos Whateley This post is amazing, go back a while to when we were scale chating remember when I said to you 1/56th is our true scale, 1/64th, and 1/50th work for some cars and civilian lorri...

HA! Those are awesome!

technically the live action film wasn't based on the book at all.. the film had originally been shot under the name "bug hunt" when one of the assistant directors brought up the heinlein book and c...

Thanks for that, Mithril!  I might check one of those kits out!  sounds like they're bigger than I thought. I remember seeing those Gundam kits all the time back in the early '80s, and I...

Work is still blocking them, but not your problem. I'll have a look on my phone or at home on the PC later. [LATER] Excellent work! I love using the faceplates to put a face on the rear part. Th...

I'm not familiar with Rubicon miniatures, but came across two 1/56 hard plastic army kits by them:  Viet-Cong Fighters and USMC Marines, and figured I'd give a quick first impression of them h...

Nice heads up, but I'm personally good for all those. Won't need more than my existing box of halflings, not a mad fan of the Aztecs, and I've got a lot of the old WGF horses.

Don't forget there is also the weekly email based newsletter. That has the sneak peeks as well. Did find it a little amusing to hear Facebook described as "Modern", though 😂 

Miniature Market Sale link   Halflings, Horses and Aztecs for $26. French are sold out. 

From "Ancient China simplified": by Edward Harper Parker: "In the year of 632 BC, when Tsin inflicted a great defeat uopn it's chief rival Ts'u, the former power had 700 chariots in the field. Aga...

@Geoff Maybury  Thanks, I kept as simple a possible. The most work goes into attaching the abdomen to the little spiders with a little filing.  

@John Wilson John you did the impossible, turned simple, into brilliant, very nice work mate. So easy, any one can copy and look great from one set.

Sorted out now, see above....  

@Mithril2098 Yeah, that does look odd. My guess is that it's part of it still being a work in progress, like all of the heads being the same. The barrel mesh may not have been done yet, or is being...

Honestly, it's more GBP or Victrix's thing than Warlord's anyway. Unless one of the Perrys gets the bronze age bug... then you'd see three dozen metals and four plastic kits in quick succession! ;)

I agree about Hector, but I just have a soft spot for cunning old Odysseus.

i'm just trying to figure out why the rifles have a featureless rectangular bar at the end instead of say, barrels for the rifle and grenade launcher?

@Yronimos Whateley  Mobile Suit Gundam:  Most figures looked more like "Shogun Warriors" or Neon Genesis "EVA" suits, but this model is very close to what I had always pictured the MI ...

when it comes to Starship Tropers depictions, the version i prefer that actually depicted something akin to the book's suits is the anime, Uchū no Senshi.  its one of the few attempts to depic...

I favour the Eisenkern suits as armoured (as opposed to powered) spacesuits (i.e. Star Wars trooper armour, or Combat Armour in Traveller RPG terms). The Cannon Fodder suit helmets are a godsend fo...

@Andrew Stoeckle Those Mantic ones match Heinlein's text description pretty well, actually. 

@Mark Dewis true, but that was already happing back then, even before WGF let Warlord have the distrubtion rights for thier minis (Frostgrave already had thier plastic foot soldiers out).  And...

@Steffen Seitter If I am not mistaken the Tsu (or Sui) state rebellion they are referring to was either the Wagang rebellion or one of the others which happened around 611-613 CE/AD in China. The ...

I had the game before I read the book. This version will always inform my headcanon. The book description is this: "Suited up, you look like a big steel gorilla, armed with gorilla-sized weapons....

I'm on Facebook, but it's blocked at work. Other links, or direct picture dump would be appreciated from me as well.

Fair enough. We're both working from old memories in any case. I know I don't have any sales figures from either company.  One thing I'd say though, is that the miniatures scene has jumped sh...

Argh!  Da links is brokin'!

@John Wilson  Sounds like a cool project. Links aren't working for me though. Would it be possible to post the pictures here?  A lot of forum members don't have Facebook profiles and/o...

@John Wilson  That looks really good.

Mantic enforcers are another reference point for power armor.

@Mark Dewis As someone else who was on those forums all the time before things died, I don't really remember them ever showing renders for the modern troopers but I will take your word on that (th...

This was an experiment in making sci-fi bugs out of the spiders... Edit: Okay worked out how to get the pictures to work on here. Basic attack type Basically a mobile bomb Acid spitter

@Geoff Maybury I really loved that power armour design, I remember it was based of someones art work.   Edit.... https://www.deviantart.com/flyingdebris/art/Mech-suit-177173677  

@Brian Van De Walker  The article sometimes confuses BCE with CE. The article refers to the year of 613 BCE not CE. As said the last mentioned use of chariots in chinese warfare was 119 BCE ...

That is nice...

@Estoc @Estoc @John Wilson @Stephen Sutton Oh the mess the old farts get into on this web site, Estoc, the Eisenkern male and female. have been converted and used for Hellgate London, to great effe...