Re:  being a gun-guy - guilty!  I'm a terrible shot, and wouldn't want lives to depend on my being able to hit a target, but I did get hooked on the flood of inexpensive surplus weapons t...

I remember hearing the bayonet charge a couple decades ago, and it impressed me - both for the surreal image of an old-fashioned bayonet charge at the end of the 20th Century, and for the kind of g...

This might actually be a bit of a game changer: https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2022/01/19/get-ready-for-computer-assisted-shooting-with-the-armys-new-optic/ But again, you could bolt ...

@Yronimos Whateley  Ref: I can tell from this and some of your other posts that your a gun guy.  I fully agree with you in the above.  There has been no significant firearms adva...

@Steven StGeorges  Ah, of course.  Thank You!

@JTam   FG stands for FrostGrave mon cher ami... the Cultist set is one of the most used for kitbashing over the community.

@Eric Howanietz  Well timed idea.  Lots of exciting things afoot for wastelands nomads types. And if nothing else they are good for ambushing starship landing crews and sticking spa...

@Steven StGeorges  What are "FG" cultists?

@Yronimos Whateley  Great post and ideas as always Brother. Reference: The British Army conducted successful and well documented bayonet charges in both Iraq and Afghanistan.  Britis...

@Grumpy Gnome  I don't really like Monday morning quarterbacking these kinds of clips.  They lack context.  What kind of troops are these?  When was the last time they slept?&n...

@Red Bee  LOL.  Battlefield success guaranteed by their "Git ere done" mind set.

I don't know, looks like Fishing hats, Beer Helmets (the beer bits aren't glued on yet) and truckee hats to me. My guess is that we're going to get a redneck Death Fields army.

I don't know if it was just propaganda or not, but I seem to remember hearing that it wasn't that long ago that a British unit in, I think, Iraq ran out of ammo, and ran one of the most recent bayo...

@Yronimos Whateley  Boonies (top row) remain popular with military forces today.  The sunglasses/eye protection being worn make the heads a better fit for the modern era than Vietnam.&...

@Caratacus - I think Wargames Atlantic was the company who started the halfling bandwagon:  I'm pretty sure WGA's halfling set was released long before Mantic's.  The previews I've seen ...

  A prosaic suggestion : a sprue (if not a set) of arms with open hands for customisation and other nefarious purposes. 

I am still quite a devoted fan of Perrys' 80s/90s Citadel dwarves. Liked the style, the mix of various stereotypes (Dwarves with Norse or Normand helms, and more Renaissance ones for example) and t...

@Grumpy Gnome  ..Internet is our best friend -and External HDs- and wife's, I am not going to argue about. But I am still pleased to browse old issues of WD for instance not looking for somet...

I used to read White Dwarf back in the day. That and Dragon Magazine. More recently Wargames Illustrated. But really the internet usually scratches that itch for me.

I was thinking that optics are an advancement on individual issue small arms... but this video I just watched reminded me that even if you have fancy optics you need to know where to point your wea...

Karl also mentioned the Conquistador kit was a big surprise hit for them.  He seemed to recognize this was due to cross over appeal as Empire troops for Warhammer.   This gives me h...

@Red Bee  GW and Warlord have hundreds if not thousands of products.  I think WGA can juggle 75ish.

@Berggeit "A pile of shame does not exist. All I see is a pile of potential!"

We got 320 grenade launchers (which are sh*tier than the 203s they replaced, but that's different rant) Now that is a rant I do wanna hear. I was under the impression that for basic usage they a...

52 kits?! That sounds like an inventory nightmare! Don't get me wrong, I'd love it, but I hope for everyone's sanity they are counting reprints in there.

@JTam The 'Handbrake Turn' was my favourite part 🙃

A pile of shame does not exist. All I see is a pile of potential! I am looking forward to getting my hands on the Conquistadors for a Rogue Trader project, once I get some other projects out of the...

@Grumpy Gnome  And reassuring to know there are others who have similarly large (or larger in your case) piles of shame as me 😉

Well, we are talking about crustamen instead of just giant crabs. That means these are monstrous humanoids with above-animal intelligence and not mindless vermin, and the one on Ethan's image is ev...

@Blutze Would Crabmen have or need gear? I mean they are already armored and don't they generally have claws for hands?

@Geoff Maybury  Check out this film Vexille from about 7:00 to 12:00 for some near future high tech warfare.   https://www.funimation.com/shows/vexille/vexille/Uncut/?lang=English ...

@Grumpy Gnome  "Shelves of future potential."  I like that.  A lot  I now have a closet of potential. Your spouse sounds like a true blessing.  Some wives would forbid a...

@JTam  As an old timer myself, I enjoyed Battleship. It is interesting how some aspects of infantry combat has not changed, ie give me a Ma Duece .50 cal and a M1911a1 any day of the week but...

The interesting thing to me is how little advantage a modern Infantryman has over his WW2 equivalent. Let me elaborate.  A single F22 (supplied with a s*it ton of fuel, munitions, spare parts...

@JTam  Some would call them “shelves of shame” but I prefer to think of them as “shelves of future potential”. Roughly 500 unfinished minis there, from various manufact...

@D34dly K  But why would we want to fight one of our oldest allies?  We couldn't have won in the Pacific without the efforts of the Austrians.   I kid of course. We TRY and kee...

@Grumpy Gnome  Arguably a Battleship (As a host for ADA and ship to shore missiles, as well as providing coastal artillery support) could a least take a couple hypersonic missile hits and p...

WGA posted this news piece 18 MAR 22: https://wargamesatlantic.com/blogs/news/karl-joins-the-spellstorm-miniatures-podcast I listened to the podcast yesterday while commuting back and forth.&nb...

@Ethan Gilbert honestly Cossacks vs Ottoman Jannisaries would make for a really good pairing of sets. especially since they were regular enemies historically. though i'd say that the Jannisaries ne...

@Grumpy Gnome  Nice Brother!  Thanks for posting this. The tapestries and art give it certain jein ne seis quoi. Like the shelves of minis looking down as you paint.

Working on multi bases at the moment   

@JTam   Thanks a lot, totally forgot about the Hardcore Minis' models. Now I have to convince wife I do really need them.  But I think I saw another mini of Malcom Reynolds somewhere wh...

And I just totally forgot talking about the price, mea cupla. A set is about 28$CAN (without taxes) on Costco canadian website (don't know about its US counterpart), quite a good price-quality...

@Steven StGeorges  That would be really cool. The Firefly crew may have infiltrated another game as well: (She looks like she would fit right in with the Eldar Corairs in the new Ki...

@Ethan Gilbert I don't disagree. I'm not expecting a generic European renaissance infantry set to be released for a good while for just the reason you mentioned - there is some overlap with th...

Another impressive website dedicated to (scifi) paper model kits: http://www.genetmodels.com/free-stuff/ Have fun while looking at its vast free download section. 

Its actually more like... ten or so kits by now. Because I keep bashing more of them into the pile, as you do. Portions of this list were my Druchii army ~15 years ago, but most of the assembly and...

Reaper actually makes a crustaman very similar to that image (44110), but as usual with RPG minis it is only a single one and you can't really run a varied group (poses, gear, abilities, sizes, etc...

wastland diversity is the key. Are they Nomads, Shanty Dwellers, Space Elf Scouts, or Star Fey?

@Forrest Wentworth  Quite a good idea, I will be quite pleased to take a look at some... especially about vehicles. I found out a blog https://papermau.blogspot.com/ with litteraly tons of st...