@Blutze Yeah... I think that head was from the empire militia set. But I am likely gonna change it out... As far as the arms... looking at my Empire Greatswords, they have matching arms, so I thin...

@Frank Reischmann Yes my friend that is one big wish of mine, Eileen and myself missed the kickstarter, and started when we were traders. We both fell in love with the Lieviathans, alien creatures ...

If chins could kill. Do the original GW parts have one puffy and one armored arm?

@Grumpy Gnome I was not fond of the Mantic Halflings when they came out, their Victorian dress and equipment looked too modern and militarised for Hobbits, and the English Setters look beyond silly...

And the Warcraft gnomes are pretty cool, though maybe that should be done for the dwarves. This one. I think in most settings, gnomes end up encroaching on either dwarven or halfling topics and ...

Depends. If it is really just crossbows and halberds, it may indeed not be worth the effort. But even just swords tend to be rare in historical kits (WGA conqs are a welcome exception here), and mo...

Perhaps as SOCOM weapons rather than general issue? 29,000 weapons is a small fraction of force wide replacement. "In its proposed 2023 budget, the force is requesting 29,046 new weapons. But that...

As for folks using miniatures for D&D, no... not everyone does but Dwarven Forge for example is very successful in providing premium terrain for those that do. So it is a big market. I am const...

I will use my Gnomes for skirmish games such as Frostgrave but some folks will use them for bigger battle games like Oathmark, Saga Fantasy, Kings of War, 9th Age, and Dragon Rampant.  Mantic...

@JTam Depends on the edition, D&D 4e and 5e should be played with minis cause rule wise it is less of a headache (to be honest 3.5e player/GMs should probably use minis too) and a lot of peop...

Really fascinating podcast on chariot warfare.  The subject matter expert (SME) has actually driven a chariot on the plains of Troy!  All types of chariot warfare is discussed.  The ...

Hmm. The only real flaw I see with a fantasy upgrade sprue is that you can get the same effect simply by kitbashing spares from different historicals, plus the existing plastic fantasy kits with lo...

@Mark Dewis  Reference: Can they be festooned with mutant space wolf furs and skulls?  

So I gave this some thought.... What are people going to use a 28mm plastic Gnome kit for? D&D?  I know very little about that.  How many Gnomes would one need?  (Don't most pl...

Just to show what it could look like without changing feet, my Persian Headed Halflings that I plan to use as Gnomes  

@William Redford 

The little buildings come in pieces, so you can build them as pictured, or kitbash with them:

https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2022/04/19/army-chooses-sig-sauer-to-build-its-next-generation-squad-weapon/

@Benjamin Hayward Oooh. Looks like a Dollar Tree run is in order. Though the Dollar store is now more like teh $1.19 store.... 

@JTam Yeah... 35mm... But not exactly sure what they mean when they say 35mm... as it looks like board game minis (Conan, Zombicide, etc) that are 35mm are really more closely matching 32mm...&nbs...

I am actually debating dropping my Bones 6 pledge to back this... Or forget about the Fireforge Samurai... The only thing that makes me hesitant is its 35mm... Which, if it matches Zombicide (which...

The miniatures and game looks really good. Do they say what scale the minis are? I love Parente's work:

Hello there!  This stuff isn't trash, but I didn't want to start a whole new topic on Dollar/thrift store finds. I picked these bad boys up at Dollar Tree here in the US (Tau for size referen...

The US Army has finally (supposedly) adopted a new rifle and squad automatic weapon. New Rifle and SAW The rifle seems to offer no real capability increases over the M4 other than the new round...

@JTam A blackpowder RPG, you mean like the ones in Disney’s Animated movie Mulan?  Actually for gnomes I would be okay with a bunch of 15mm high static pose minis armed with gardening...

@Yronimos Whateley  The Trigonists are actually just one of several training simulation enemies and while we are at it nations the US military has created (they even fought zombies once😉). @...

Its wednesday... decided to play with some GW greatsword bits on a conquistador body. Not a bad fit, though I dont really like the head... may replace it. 

@Slow Painter  Using a Skaven Warlock Bombardier to depict some Cawdor Redemptionnist model is quite a brilliant idea.. 

No, sorry... 😢 Unfortunately, I am a latecomer to the Iron Core Universe and only became aware of it after the Kickstarter.I hope Mark starts his project again... it would be nice if there were bo...

saw these on Etsy Etsy link

@Grumpy Gnome  A sincere Well Done!  Convincing conversions. @Caratacus   I prefer the traditional Gnome: If they were going to have a twist.....   Well I can't thi...

Pedicures are what sets us apart from creepy weird squibbly things that crawl out of drains. Thank you! There was a lot of back and forth before I hit it with the yellow. I'm terrible at getting r...

@Slow Painter  Nice conversions! I never knew the reason for pedicures till now: The hazard stripe chain sword looks GREAT on the second model.

I love kitbashing. I am very, very, very limited in my sculpting skills, so the more bits I have, the better.   I like putting things together and ending up with something completely diffe...

It should come as no surprise that I have spent a lot of time thinking about Gnomes. I am inspired by a lot of different Gnomish influences, including World of Warcraft. So steampunk tinkering is s...

This is a request to all you Iron Core Fans and I trully belive their are a lot of us out there. Mark Moondragon had a dream to creat a Universe of models and fiction for those. He was one person w...

You are excused my friend, god they were a trail. have you any more of Marks Info files, from the old blog?. Not all of mine made it to this computer, the old site although still up, but is missing...

@Caratacus the Hittites actually look really good for gnomes.  So i will give my vote for that... but...   if i were to suggest I would either go with a French, 3-musketeer theme. Kind...

@William Redford  https://wargamesatlantic.com/community/xenforum/topic/67272/gnomes @Grumpy Gnome I think you'll like this too

As the result of discussion on this thread https://wargamesatlantic.com/community/xenforum/topics/index/44361/dwarf-ideas with @William Redford, I have developed this separate thread to discuss the...

With North Star, Fireforge and others, there's a serious glut of inexpensive plastic humans, dwarves and elves out there. And as others have said, most historical pre-modern kits are good for human...

Right now, Space Westerns are pretty well catered for, and you have an easy mashup with parts from the Dead Man's Hand kits. Robots or would be top of my list, though Space Kitties or Space Dogs w...

Anyone using CAD to sculpt can move to hard plastic relatively easily. The sculptors that still do it by hand may not be able to convert as easily - my guess is that Hasslefree, Copplestone and Fou...

@Geoff Maybury  Added some Stryker and MRAP photos here: https://wargamesatlantic.com/community/xenforum/topic/53697/museumhistoric-sites-displays-photo-thread Though honestly I think they ...

More Germany..... Strykers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stryker Stryker VS MRAP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_MaxxPro  

That's true - I think I just trend towards the conservative in thought about smaller games companies, and what they can invest in. But WA now having thier own means of production should help that a...

Some more stuff: Frostgrave barbarians, Stargrave gun arms, WGA Lizardmen heads for some tough looking alien goons: Heads from the Frostrgrave Barbarian sprue on Stargrave Crew. In my Traveller...

Thank you. Cannon Fodder bodies, Stargrave Crew heads and arms. Shoulder pads are from the Panzerjagers, the star badge is from the Dead Man's Hand Gunfighters. Barely visible on their rear left be...

@Mark Dewis those are awesome. 

The Space Cops I made up last week: