And here is some photo shop based on the pic of teh new cloud giant vs the old, with my pic of my old cloud giant vs the Mantic one... and my Imperial giant (3D print) next to the Mantic Gia...
And here is some photo shop based on the pic of teh new cloud giant vs the old, with my pic of my old cloud giant vs the Mantic one... and my Imperial giant (3D print) next to the Mantic Gia...
Definitely not 2/3's though... but even 2/3rds would look small
@Mithril2098 Yeah the pictures I showed were kind of blurry... but I actually own all the reaper bones giants except the new cloud giantess. Her height is listed at 4.2 inches or 106.68 mm....
Another info drop, this time on Beasts of War... https://www.beastsofwar.com/modern-warfare/grey-for-now-show-02-hundred-hours-sas-plastics/
@Brian Van De Walker That black powder Elf looks great, except maybe for the bayonet. I seem to recall WGA showed an elf preview sculpt awhile back but it never went into production bec...
I think it might be smarter to do a spellcaster sprue/kit with options for druids, they are not exactly a box onto themselves subject. That'd work too. The current warrior boxes don't have...
@Yronimos Whateley Solomon-Kane style 17th Century fantasy is an excellent idea, that's something that still hasn't been covered much in wargaming but has a lot of potential, and would definitely b...
Sounds like I missed an elf preview! Weirdly, D&D style lawful evil hobgoblin armies always seemed like a natural enough subject for a wargaming army to me, but one that always seemed to take ...
@Yronimos Whateley They actually have plans to do an elf set so a head sprue isn't needed, though it looked really LOTR generic, so maybe some parts to do something like this out of the box would b...
@Mumbleford Waits They look great! I'm excited to see this project progress. Are you going to do explosive vest "demo charges"? That's a great source of inspiration: Remember that...
I'd forgotten all about the snow speeder - seems like it would absolutely make a generic space-army's attack or fighter-bomber, scout craft, escape pod, target for sabotage/theft, etc.! I keep won...
@William Redford you did notice that i said that their newer stuff is bigger? and provided an example of their new cloud giantess vs the old one? from your picture, your collection is mostly their ...
I'm afraid I can't help much from first-hand experience with that kit. That said, the Einherjar - as "space dwarfs" - seem to be a little shorter, so that might be a "small" problem (forgive me!),...
@Erebos Hammerhand Thanks! I was definitely inspired by some of the older GW books and minis. I'm especially thinking of the 3rd Edition City Fight cover art by Kopinski.
52 kits a year would be amazing - for that to be a goal, suggests that Wargames Atlantic forsees having plenty of ideas to work with over the course of at least one year, which is really exciting! ...
@Yronimos Whateley Utterly my mind, O Fire of Unknown Origin.. Those model sets are fairly way economical than ones you could download from Genet -excepted the landspeeder or any othe...
Kitbashing for me, too. Like someone else said above: that's part of the fun of a multi-part wargame kit like those that Wargames Atlantic makes. I'm surprised there doesn't se...
Glad you liked the ideas! I think that if there were to be any fantasy upgrade sprue to do first, it would probably best start with some Elf and Hobgoblin heads: not a very exciting foundati...
Papercraft seems to me an economical and sadly under-appreciated option. That AT-AT and AT-ST sound like they're in a perfect scale for use alongside 28mm minis, and would be far cheaper in a pape...
If you can get both options from the same set - and I think it can probably be done: the costumes aren't very different, aside from different headgear optons, and the distinctive cloaks over ...
@William Redford I would actually like stuff to make up the uniformed sets from the WW1 and Imperal conquest for industrail fantasy. So I am thinking: Head swaps with goggle (human a...
Hello folks, how compatible are Einherjar arms/weapons with the other DF sets? I plan on building a Guard army utilizing all the other kits but not sure if the space dwarves wil...
@Grumpy Gnome Not the Tomorrow War my dear Gnome but the Forever War.. 😉 Mmm comparing Euroland tastes for Realism (so cynicism and pessissism) over US Positivism/Optimism is like comparing...
@Caratacus Well, that is why I did suggest making both of the sets more usable for black powder/industrial fantasy at the start of my comments as well as making most of the bare head options human ...
@Blutze Ok, that is a cool weapon... so yeah I am with you. I had googled A926... and all i was getting was what looked like a car stereo... :)
A specific pollaxe. THE pollaxe, really. This one. Though I think I'd be fine with anything that is axe+hammer+topspike. Its just that I want this character to be wearing late 14th century transit...
I've always seen the bleakness in GW's settings as a sales thing, lowering the hurdles of entry: In the grimdark of the distant past, it doesn't matter what army your buddy is collecting because ev...
Flails, of varying sizes and chain lengths. Lefthanded pistols (especially wheellock and other early stuff), both for dualwielding with a handweapon and for going akimbo. Skulls and zombified hea...
I have at least one friend who has written professionally for GW... I think writers sometimes go “off script” and insert their own brand of 40k into the lore. So there are contradiction...
@Grumpy Gnome Vivid and sound post my friend, with IRL examples, so a vibrant post. The Lamenters' do cherish every single imperial citizen, they are willing to sacrifice themselves in orde...
So, Reading @Brian Van De Walker and @Yronimos Whateley thoughts on Fantasy rangers, it sounds like an upgrade sprue similar to the scifi one would be a great addition to change the rom...
I guess a lot depends on what the people who were polled had in mind with their answers - seems like a lot of times, the popular poll results are for an inexpensive and very specific alternative to...
@Brian Van De Walker I'd personally rather WA focused more on other fantasy races than humans right now, we're not exactly short of fantasy human kits from other manufacturers. However, some of th...
Good work! Nice Color scheme for your imperial guard overseers. Black and red is a really decent Classic.
@Steven StGeorges When you said my earlier post was vibrant, what exactly did you mean? I think you are making the same mistake I made in my youth and the same mistake@Caratacus &nb...
Hello all! Long time lurker, first time poster. My pandemic project was getting back into painting minis, and my latest task has been putting together a penal legion using the excellent Cannon Fod...
Heck yeah.
@Grumpy Gnome I don't tend to like using extant non-gaming settings for gaming. The factions are usually limited and the setting often has a completed arc that makes the game either feel poi...
As to the rangers, I have several thoughts on how they could be done: A. WA just does the elves and adds some human or hooded heads(simple). B. WA just makes a ranger themed customization sprue f...
So awhile back on FB group WA posted yet another “what fantasy subject should we cover next” poll and the top two where knights/men at arms in first and rangers second which means 2 or ...
@JTam Thanks for sharing these!
As a matter of facts, there are Good guys within W40K -at least according to Codex and side-stories.. (who just say Iliyan, Illie for friends, Nastase, former chief psyker astropath??) "FOR THOSE...
Kitbashing is the reason that sprue-minis are so fun! It's hard to look at a bin of left over heads and limbs and not think of what you could do with them. Especially with WA not having a game yet ...
That is another problem for me with 40K, the whole promotion of the “ends justify the means” morality. Same problem I have with the TV show 24 hours to be honest. WWJBD seems to be some...
On Grimdark, I feel like it works when the story is committed to it, such as the Vaults of Terra or Inquisition War series. It also works when used as satire, such as in the Ciaphas Cain book...
@Brian Van De Walker Kim Newman's Jack Yeovil's Road 666 series (Comeback Tour is still ma favourite one) is quite a classic -for an OOP but so promising game and setting, the very past of W...
I like kit-bash... I have created one scout-troop (more to come) from Raumjaeger (body), rifels (cannon fodder) and heads with caps from original Iron-Core box for my "V. Kaiserjaeger RKG"... thes...
@William Redford Loving it mate!