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...

I wouldn't call them active, exactly, but for some reason they still exist. It's crazy to think it has been 13 years since that thread started and there's still nothing on the market that really fi...

@Stephen Sutton I was on that forum a lot before things went sour and I was also active on the Defiance games forum until the guy running it (having been forced out of Wargames Factory) turned out ...

Your phone may not have it (almost every digital camera will, though), but macro mode mostly just affects focus depth, optimised for taking shots of small, close in things. If your shots are in foc...

Yes, I agree that Warlord probably overpriced the stuff they snapped up and reboxed from WGF... but to know how much you'd need to know what they paid for it.  Honestly, I never liked the Mod...

@Mark Dewis Actually given they where always on the 40% off side of the "black Friday sale" on the old WGF store and were kind of a pain to build, I get the feeling the civilians didn't actually do...

I wonder if anyone else here is a veteran of this thread:  https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/wargamesfactory/generic-power-armoured-suit-and-weapons-t964139.html

Ajax Commander with battle damage. Maybe somthing more like this? I believe that Anvil is porting over to MyMiniFactory, which I think will let people order print on demand(I double checked i...

I've never read the books, but from the sound of it The Ajax Mech from Anvil's Digital Forge might hit the spot. Not to sure about the jump part tho. They are only in STL for now, but there is...

I don't think the Eisenkern sets currently available from Wargames Atlantic are very much taller than the Cannon Fodder - I've mixed-and-matched pieces between these sets with no trouble at all, an...

Fair enough!  I had no idea there was even a concept sketch out there, so I pretty much took it for granted until now that WGA's giant spiders - with the biomechanical bits - would be the prox...

https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.230/616.6fe.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Eisenkern-Scale-Comparison-Image.jpg Slightly taller than the Death Field Raumjagers and Grognards. The...

Nice looking stuff!   I might end up having to downsize my gaming habit and I'll sit this Kickstarter out, but if I were in the market for big terrain, this looks like it would be perfect...

@Estoc It's got good variety, which is the only reason I didnt jump on the Sci-Fi set.  They mentioned more variety for Sci-Fi in future printings, so I'll keep my eye out for that. This...

I've seen similar kickstarters but this is the first with interiors.

@John Wilson They appear (kind of hard to tell without comparision shots) to be taller than average, which I interpreted as power armor, but maybe not.

@Mark Dewis That's with a filter, unfortunately. I'm unsure what a macro mode is. I used A white piece of paper, but I don't think I have a lamp of that kind.

@Hudson Adams  Thank you for providing this forum... I refuse to use Facebook and would hate to miss out on this information. It would be neat if WGA looked into the various castes of bugs u...

@Viking Cowboy actually, not that they shouldn't be done, but for Fantasy the Nappy cannons, Spanish Succsion cannons, ACW, etc. all work, Perry and WGA are about neck and neck price wise, and Slud...

@JTam  There where none really beyond this and its clearly a 2D concept sketch of a bug being compared to an Ooh-Rah render, it was possibly done last week.

@Estoc The Eisenkern are wearing pretty much Star Wars style stormtrooper/clonetrooper style armour. It could also be armour like in the Roughnecks tv series. I'd usually not class it as powered ar...

@Mark Dewis  Fair point.  You can train anything except intestinal fortitude and motivation.  

I'm mostly lazy and just try to get as good a shot as I can with my phone camera, using available light. If I want a GOOD shot, a neutral coloured paper background plus a desk lamp, exactly as Ber...

Hey, all! I wanted to share this with folks who might not be aware of it: This is the pre-launch page for Acid House Terrain's latest Kickstarter for quick-assembling fold-flat terrain. This is th...

@Arrigo Velicogna WGF/Warlord tried and failed on the multiple option Modern Military, but the civilian Apocalypse Survivor kits were resounding successes.  For my money the best bet would be...

@William Redford That Victrix kit is nice, I just wish it wasn't napoleonic. I really dig the early modern/late medieval period and find the battlefields of of the napoleonic period comparatively b...

I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.   But yeah, I'll take any and all of that. Having just bought a box of WSS artillery... a Wargames atlantic kit would have been very nice. V...

Perhaps one of the rarest sort of models is plastic artillery, I only know of two, that being Warlord's Wars of the Sun King's kit and Perry's Civil War Artillery. The exotic nature is furher compo...

The Eisenkern look heavy enough to use for both, but I don't own a kit so don't know.

@John Wilson I thought the animated movies were better than the live action movies but that the animated tV show “Roughnecks” was better than the animated movies. All of these bein...

@Grumpy Gnome I did like the change of the Fallout power armour in to a piloted exo-skeleton rather than a suit.  I just watched Invasion and I'm going to watch traitor of mars since I never ...