Generic stowage?

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  Duncan Sargent

  6/21/25, 6:39 AM

  Just wondering if perhaps WA could produce a kit with generic packs, pouches, bottles, grenades, etc as well as stowage for various vehicles. It could have stowage generic enough to be from medieval times up to modern and even future periods. Just things to hang on everything from a Roman donkeys and carts to Quar tractors and WW1 / 2 tanks and vehicles. 

  It always seems that in many photos of armoured vehicles from all eras, they are covered in all manner of kit from sandbags to tools, ammo boxes, infantry style backpacks and weapons of all sorts. 

  You never seem to get enough of this type of thing no matter who the manufacturers of the original model are. I know if they hit the mark I'd probably buy several for my numerous armies.

  Thanks, just a general idea or suggestion for something useful I hope.

   

   

   

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  Mithril2098

  6/22/25, 1:24 AM

  i'm not sure you could do as wide a range of timeframes as your post suggests, the appearance of packs, bottles, and so on change a lot over time. but with vehicle kits coming for Deathfields and Quar, and no doubt more vehicle kits coming eventually for other lines as well, having some setting appropriate customization bits like stowage might be useful. especially if you can make the kit pull double duty, such as being objective markers or scatter terrain. for example, the barons war scenery sprues, which are coming in their own box before long, have the option of the various bags, boxes, and pots being attached to a base for use as scatter terrain, or to be used on their own as part as bits for decorating buildings, use as objetive markers, etc. doing something of the sort with more of a WW1 through end of the 20th century theme (so wood crates, rucksacks, etc) would work well to cover the needs of the Great War, world ablaze, pulp adventure, Quar, and Last War lines. and you could easily do a scifi themed kit for the deathfields, ironcore, and reptile overlords lines.

   

  another related kit option that might be nice.. a baggage train set. some horses sprues along with a sprue of cargo bundles and boxes tied over the horses backs, so you can create a baggage train. useful for time periods from the first empires up to modern day, even the scifi and fantasy lines. and since most of the time the cargo is going to be covered in tarps or other protective cloth, you can get away with making it rather more generic looking.

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  Stephen Sutton

  6/22/25, 8:26 AM

  As Mithril said, I think it would be rather difficult to make one kit that services everyone's wants, plus I'm dubious of the breadth of the appeal. Definitely something worth considering for AD, I'm sure there's a few bob to be made from STLs. Alternatively crates are among the easiest things you can craft at home from thin card or blocks of polystyrene foam. Consider also epoxy-putty/Milliput and Instamold or equivalent to create press-moulds to replicate parts you already have, but of numbers insufficient. Mostly you'd be gluing them onto flat panels/beds so a single piece mould should work fine, and if you wanted the piece to conform to a more complex texture or shape you could press the receiving surface into the mould to key your new part to its destination. 

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  Brian Van De Walker

  7/1/25, 1:52 AM

  Hmm, well that has been suggested a few times, but....😆

  So what is wrong with the stowage options already out there, I mean you can go on to ebay right now and get stowage for everything  from the Bronze age to last year plus all the fantasy and Sci-Fi you could want. 

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  Yronimos Whateley

  7/5/25, 1:55 PM

  Nothing wrong with scratch-building that sort of stuff - I do it all the time - and I could even recommend some 1/48 kits that were probably aimed at WWII modelers that supply a great variety of tools, barrels, boxes, bottles, and other assorted bitz that make excellent stowage or diorama details, which could probably be used just as well for most of the 19th and 20th century and general pulp, post-apocalyptic, steampunk, and Quar/Death Fields purposes, as well as fantasy gaming, and still find a foothold in a lot of other historical and sci-fi settings as well.

  But, if there's a market for it - and there certainly seems to be a niche market for generic stowage - why not a WA "Death Fields" stowage and vehicle modification kit with a frame of that sort of stuff, now that we're starting to see vehicles in the Quar and Death Fields lines, and in the Digital catalogue?  

  There's a limit to the appeal for things like generic jerry-cans, spare tires, bolt-on armor, or weapon mounts, but they're useful enough and you can get a little more mileage from including assortments of ammo crates, rolled tarps, tools (shovels, axes, sledges, etc.), and random vague shapes under tarps.  Fill remaining space with spikes, skulls, and other gothic grimdark greeblies, and you probably won't be historically accurate for a Bronze Age tank or truck, but you do have stuff that would work fine for spiffing up a fantasy wagon/cart/scatter-terrain, and a little something for almost any vehicle you would want to modify from the Quar, Death Fields, Last War, pulp, steampunk, post-apocalypse, and broad-strokes general-purpose historical gaming (especially world war, Victorian, Napoleonic, and similar settings.)

  That said, it looks/sounds like the upcoming terrain sets for the Baron's War and Death Fields might be prepared to cover a lot of this sort of territory.  For example, with perhaps a little modification, those Baron's War scatter terrain bits - barrels, crates, and so on - could surely be mounted to the flat-bed version of the Damned vehicle, and would look perfect there as supplies or plunder. 

   

   

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