While there are concerns abous stereotyping east and central asian peoples I think a lot more people would focus on how cool it is to have a culture represented or be grateful that their culture ge...

@James Manto as far as the normal sets go im using roman heads on gohic bodies to make archers and then the goths themselves can be used as foederati.  I imagine the army builder sets wi...

@JTam Everywhere I go, I keep seeing his face

This early in the build it looks like two things smashed together.  Some greebles will add detail, interesting textures, and bits and will help the back half match the front better.  It's...

I think it's the double driver view ports that jar a little. I'd consider removing the top front section of the rear half altogether and replace it with  something that blends in organically w...

@Estoc It is - that is the aesthetic difference between them. Of course, part of the lack of detail in the rear is the style of the two kits; the rear one is a very old Airfix kit (I think it was d...

The Front half looks much more organic than the back, and It seems more detailed.

I need some feedback - here is my converted / kitsmashed halftrack (for use by my SPEESE FRENCH Les Grognards, which is what justifies its inclusion on this forum! :) ). I have included a couple of...

Another traditional way of marking a leader or character is to model them without helmet. Just watch out for Norman arrows ;)

@Grumpy Gnome  That's odd. I've not noticed any real increase in postage or delivery times myself. Maybe it's a UK/US thing that doesn't affect UK/Australia. i.e. might be a USPS thing and no...

Let me think about: Game size options 1 and 2, but at the times of Adeptus Titanicus/Space Marines, my club was used to provide Epic games with Skirmish/Necromunda and Casual 40K side-games axed o...

@Brian Van De Walker  The last time Chariots are mentioned in chinese history is c. 119 BCE/BC, when a Han expeditionary force was ambushed by the Xiongnu people at Mo Bei. They were used to ...

Yeah, Brexit has really made postage a nightmare. I used to be able to source things regularly in the UK but now postage just puts too many things out of reach for my budget.

@Grumpy Gnome thank you, that's the very fellow... I'd seen the first one which is a good price, but shipping to the UK is (as always at the moment!) very expensive... they seem to be coming up mor...

@Grumpy Gnome thank you... I could have sworn I'd seen them but that could be age/stress-related imaginings 😆 Perhaps I was thinking of the ones you've kindly put there...

I'm waiting on Goths as well. Gonna be building out my Saga Visigothic army and some archers for my Late Romans. I recognize that WA got behind schedule with the whole supply chain issues and movin...

@Mark Dewis Conviniently, the 0200 Hours Sentries look great and should be coming out quite soon. also, I have discovered the wonderful Five Men In Normandy: 30cal Edition, which is pretty much ex...

I do not think the WGA box includes instructions but I could be wrong. I certainly can not find instructions in the WGA Italian box in my hobby room... but I did find some Warlord Games Italian ins...

Not a WGA model, but it is going to go alongside them (and the main gun and the driver's head are also WGA Grognards!) but more on the little Renault FT conversion.

I seem to recall there were two versions of the Sahariana in 1/43 commonly available on eBay in Germany. https://www.ebay.de/itm/133924278548 https://www.ebay.de/itm/384168260165?hash=item5972367...

@Geoff Maybury been checking out all your "Iron Core" posts and loving them :) I bought the first new box set and fell in love with the aesthetic, so I can see this an area that I'll be following f...

@Mark Dewis  Yep, and did you see it`s running, and having a full make over, brilliant.

@Bill Thomas Cheers, yes I can really relate to your coments above. when illness brings you low,its supriseing how pleasent it is to get in some modelling, and use this forum, and I don`t Know abou...

@Geoff Maybury and pleased to meet you good sir, albeit virtually... I was completely out of games and models for many, many years but due to a serious illness I was laid up for almost a year, in a...

Hi all... firstly I have been what we call in the UK "a right plum" 🤪 I just got round to starting my "Sahariana" project and found that I've misplaced the Italian Infantry assembly instructions :...

Camels were very common ground attack aircraft, and the RAF usually engaged over German lines. A wrecked Camel would be extremely appropriate. That Hobby Lobby option would be a damn sight easier ...

That is quite the loot haul! Great stuff. 👍

I wish Statuesque still sold their old full miniatures. For some reason he decided to just do heads a while back.  And they are gorgeous. Though with the recent explosion of plastic 28mm fema...

@Estoc All historical rule sets are model agnostic, except possibly for basing. Because they are historical. Pretty sure the best you'll get are the Warlord Blitzkreig plastics. Not super expensi...

I presume you know by now that it lives at Kubinka? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obiekt_279

No particular update of my efforts here, I just want to say I am incredibly thankful and grateful for everyone's advice and support. It means so much to have a support system starting in the hobby....

@Estoc   Narrative Game: Story is the focus. this is how i always understood this term, but if you look at the major minis companies like games workshop, they use "narrative game" as cod...

Won't let me edit for some reason...anyhoo, capes are another simple way to denote rank, too, as is a simple raised weapon; little things that are also low-profile enought that they can be ignored ...

I'm pretty much a strictly minis-agnostic player at this point, and like you, I'm trying to make some "generic" fighting forces that can be used multiple different ways. I'm playing the games "Fiv...

@Grumpy Gnome  To be honest when I started to write it down it seemed more focused on building the soldiers, but the wargaming aspects followed despite my inexperience with them.

@lauregami Painting can be hard, especially with smaller miniatures, but you will that it gets better with experience. When I started painting in 2018 I didn't do much in terms of highlights and s...

It seems to me that game sizes are called different things in different groups, most notably with historical vs ahistorical. I'll try to list as many names as possible for each game size. Skirmish...

@Bill Thomas Pleased to meet you, thank you, I`m glad you liked the story. As you may have seen in other posts I`ve been out of modeling and forums for along time. I made some very big changes in m...

What a lovely story, and so well written! Being another gamer and collector who has more grey than anything else now, and having returned to our glorious hobby after illness this resonates deeply w...

Looking good! Some tips that people gave me that helped me improve my painting.... With washes, the tricky bit is to prevent it from pooling on flat surfaces. This leaves what are commonly called...

It is just as well WGA does not make plastic Cuban Advisors....I would be be tempted to wargame Grenada and/or Angola. I did not go to Grenada but I had a Sergeant in my Platoon and First Sergeant ...

My thoughts and suggestions would echo those of@GreenScorpion  and I think his post applies from a wargaming as well as kitbuilding perspective. I do not really have a lot to add but would say...

As I stated on the Lead Adventure Forum, brilliant review. Very informative and highly recommended!

@Mark Dewis Yeah, that is appeal of Stargrave, I think Stargrunt II is like that as well but with a greater focus on tanks,etc.

@Benjamin Hayward True it would work for a lot of Elf, beastmen and orcs options that people want. I do think female knights, Kolbolds and Hobgoblins should have their own sets though. In fact tha...

@Brian Van De Walker oh, for sure, upgrade sprues aren't the answer for everything, but they can be good enough for quite a few applications.  In a perfect world, there would be a miniature fo...

@Eric Howanietz @Mithril2098 Given that the Japanese themselves heavily use the trope of “gobliniod monsters in Samurai armor” both in their folklore, literature  and current med...

Fantasy/Medieval is a lot easier to build agnostic collections for than science fiction, especially if they're human based.  The trouble with SF is that the tech assumptions tend to be varied...

For sci-fi, I would just build the majority of them as the common weapon option(s) in the box and proxy that as the common weapon option in the game if we are talking platoon sized games(40+ minis ...

The problem with text-only communication is that tone, inflection, body language and other audio-visual cues that are huge parts of how we read context in a conversation are absent, and so the pers...