Sneak Peek: What's Behind the Curtain?


  • The large cannon,(support for th Ohh -Rars).  The bin lid, (the back top of the power armour). Middle (Halfling Coldstream guards), "I`m dreaming and in heaven". Last a really cool looking, totally new, suprise product, that frankly, looks dam interesting, and would get my money, Fantasy or Si/Fi it`s a winner for me.

    It`s not Iron Core unless it`s real new. 


  • @Geoff Maybury 

    Reference Halfling Cold Stream Guards: Halfling Grognards would be fun.  Nothing more adorable than furry feet and bearskins.  The kit might actually sell as long as there's enough sniper rifles on the sprue for everyone. 

    Reference the heavy weapon being OohRah:

    Could well be. 

    It's not a terrible looking autocannon... it just looks a little archaic for the snatched from the future OohRahs.   

    Maybe it's for the Raumjager?  It would be good for for them.  And it looks worlds better than the other Raumjager heavy weapons sneak peak.

    I think a blend between current semi-automated, tracked heavy weapons systems and the Aliens Sentry Gun would be awesome for OorRah heavy weapons.

    A bit of this:

    Mixed with this:

    For the win.

     

     


  • The sneak peek alien might be not-Predator, but I'm guessing not-Kroot will sell more boxes. That thigh looks very much like a Kroot drumstick, with the vestigal quills...

    They can't fly TOO close to GW IP (well, no closer than most of the other Death Fields kits anyway), but nothing says they can't do their own take on avian descended aliens with guns, right?

    Might be useful for Green Martian conversions, regardless:

    Just sayin'.

    In any event, cheap plastic aliens of any design are a welcome addition!


  • As someone else suggested, perhaps some sort of Feral Shadowkesh kind of thing?


  • So today's sneak peek seems to be a bunch of heads wearing Tam o'Shanters that are far too big for them?  They should be about 3/4 the size to look right, coming to the top of the right ear not the bottom..


  • @AJ Saunders I am not a especialist, but I agree that they look rather big.


  • Said sneak peak:

    Could it be something Renaissance?  They appear to be wearing berets or similar on top of skull cap helmets.


  • @JTam it is probably the hem of the beret, in my opinion. 


  • @Vitor Soares 

    Isn't a beret with a hem a chef's hat?

     


  • Hold on......

    Versus ..

    Coincidence?

     


  • @JTam Finally, the infamous Swedish Chefs Assault Unit for Death Fields 😂


  • At first I thought the hats may be Irish Caubeens but the pompom on top would not be on there. I think they are just large Tam-o-Shanters for the British WW 1 set.


  • WHen do you think these would be released Modern military


  • @Grumpy Gnome Kind of waste for WW1 British when they could have them in dedicated WW1 Scottish set with kilts:


  • The Tams as a WW1 British kit head option does make the most sense. It's roughly the same as the Senegalese heads in the French one in terms of kit versatility, and wearing of the kilt in action was not universal and varied by unit.


  • Gordon Highlander's Tam O'Shanter – Tales from the Supply Depot

     


  • @JTam Got to be the opperators set the hinted at surly,


  • Female French partisian and weapons for WWII.


  • Comrade Dewis, the photo of these Scottish troopers, with Tams and pants, is very interesting for me.

    I suspect that these uniforms, with full marks, are only worn at home but... can someone tell me what kind of metal badges are worn on the collars and shoulder pads here ? Numbers ? Regimental badges ?

    Are they Guard or line Scottish troopers ? Lowlanders ? Scots from Scotland or Canadian ones ? 


  • Sneak Peak for 21 OCT 22:

    All kinds of cool stuff.  Terrain on the left?  Saurus warrior in the right???  That's intriguing.

     


  • The cuff detail and the long coat make me think Grognards Cavalry.  Although I thought they were supposed to be on Raptors.... And this looks more like a horse?  Looks like the rider has a bionic leg.... A reminder to "Never get off the horse!"

     


  • @JTam not only the long coat and the cuffs suggest it is a Grognard. Notice the pouch on the belt and the knee protection. Although they all (including the cuffs) look slightly different but that could just be the render showing the details more clearly than the painted miniature or just the difficulty of making exact copies.

    And it definitely looks like an Eques. I would have hoped that the raptor Grogs would fit the horses. That said, I just thought of a sci-fi upgrade sprue for the horse kit


  • Well we have a flat bed "Vehicle" it might go with those tracks.

    The Rider is a Grognard but yep it does look like a horse.

    Now I think thats the Raptor with its saddle blanket their even appears to be scythe claws.

    If not it`s a Kung -Fu  "Horse stance" monster. Both are kind of exiting eh guys.


  • Love the flatbed


  • @Geoff Maybury 

    You could well be right on the left side peek being a flatbed and stowage of some sort.


  • That is a loincloth, not a saddle blanket. And we've already had medium-sized infantry. Kroxigors proxygors? Hope they don't waste any sprue space on non-fantasy nonsense, I want some gear variety in my D&D blackscales (kroxes are essentially locked in with greatweapons).

    The rider might just be shown on the generic horse, with the raptors being a later release. Who knows if they'll even have preselected mounts in the box at all.


  • It would greatly surprise me if the Grognard cavalry riders were NOT designed to fit both Raptors and horses. It probably makes more sense to size them in CAD on the horse models first, then design the raptors to fit the riders.


  • @Mark Dewis good thinking. 


  • Sneak Peak for 28 OCT 22:

    Left is a strange mix of archaic and modern...  Deathfields set?

    Right - Vivandieres?  Female French Resistance?  Certainly not smuggling documents...just got my baguettes.


  • Des baguettes ? There is only one problem... and a big one (if it's WW2 stuff).

    In Occupied France as in Zone libre, the majority of the production of good flour was requisitioned for the German Army and for the Reich. The rest was for the "Service de Rationnement" of Vichy. France was occupied, and plundered !

    Throughout the War, civilians were forced to eat what they called "pain gris" (grey bread), obtained with ration tickets. No white bread or baguettes during the War (up to 46-49)... except in the rural areas (home cooked) and in the black market (small loaves, easy to cut and hide).


  • @Pierre Lerdou-Udoy 

    Well, I finally understand why the French organized a resistance.

     


  • Maybe that's a belt (etc.) pouch with cigars, not bread. Note the fastening and lack of shoulder straps. Plenty of military sterotypes with cigars out there.


  • My good JTam, you put it on the bullseye !

    If I base myself on what the elders used to say at home, two things led to desobedience first, then to active resistance : lack of food (requisitions : farm animals, wheat and apples) and the STO (compulsory labor service). They said something like : "not only the Vichy government does not feed us, but it also wants to send our sons to work, by force, to Germany : EZ ! NO WAY !" In 1942-43, two of my father's brothers joined the Maquis...

    As for the lack of wheat - and bread - it contributed to harden the French Revolution in 1789 : that's a fact. Marie-Antoinette, queen of France, would have said : "Le peuple manque de pain ? Qu'il mange de la brioche..." Just stupid and insulting.

    Personally, eating without real bread is impossible for me. In France, Germany, Austria, Northern Italy and Northern Spain or Poland, it's OK. Bakers know their job. In Anglo-Saxon countries, I am sad : brioches and sandwich bread (pain de mie) are not bread !


  • @JTam Long Low boxes ammo?,  Tall item power generator?. Small round frezer box (beers).


  • @JTam @Pierre Lerdou-Udoy Don`t know about you two but Allo, Allo is sudenlly much more exiting I must be having a nostalgia blast. So looking forward to these female resistance, much more than I ever was with the male set. 


  • @JTam The photo on the left I think is something for the Ooh-Rahs, at first i was thinking along the lines of the "Power Armor " front, now I wonder if its a"Medic cradle" like on "Iron Cores" mule but better finished there looks like an Eagle crest. 


  • @Pierre Lerdou-Udoy You're right, in human history a LOT of revolts started more for lack of food than for lack of civil rights.


  • @Alessio De Carolis 

    Well the pyramid of needs is real.


  • @Geoff Maybury 

    Reference:

    Could be.  Could be.

    Yes.  Looks a lot like an ammo crate, power cores, and a water cooler or similar.  Possibly folded stretchers stored to the left.

    You probably already know this (did you have any for your jeep?) but the circled items in this picture:

    Are mermites.  They are used for transporting hot food up to units.  The Army still uses them today.


  • @Geoff Maybury 

    Reference:

    Interesting.  Maybe.  That would be great because the Eisenkern mule is an amazing kit.

    Looking at the picture:

    Yellow - He is definitely holding a weapon.  Looks a lot like a bazooka trigger actually.  

    Blue - Is that what you interpreted as an eagle crest?  I interpreted it as strapped on crappy scrap armor.

    Sidenote: Not chaos cultists / not traitor guard / not ash waste nomads would all be welcome and well timed now.


  • @Pierre Lerdou-Udoy 

    Fascinating stuff.  Thanks for sharing a unique perspective, and the family history!


  • To JTam... That's nothing, because many men and women refused to be enslaved, especially in the Southwest of France (military hidden units, like the Corps-Franc Pommiès, and Spanish Republicans resistance movements). For example, The area of Toulouse was the most dangerous zone for the members of the Gestapo (individual executions)...

    I'm just very proud that the young men of my family (both sides) made these risky but fair choices ! They were "upright and honest", we say "zuzen" in euskara.

    To Geoff... Being a WW2 "enthousiast", I am absolutely interested in a line of Resistance fighters and Partisans (Communists), men and women, covering all Europe. With interchangeability and the possibility to add military elements (Warsaw Uprising), that would be great !


  • @JTam Magazine behind the pistol grip, most likley a bullpup rifle. 

    That chest plate may have a mountain atop an eagle (a very MAYBE Eagle. It could be a lot of things). That doesn't easily match up with anyone I can think of. And whatever that design is, none of the existing DF factions use it. It's the wrong scale proportions to  be Iron Core.  

    I agree the thing that looks like a cargo tray is probably a cargo tray. That could be DF or Iron Core - impossible to tell.


  • I'd rather that the lad on the right is a Monstrous Infantry-sized Dragonborn as per my thread but it could also be a Kobold if WGA decided on a Draconic aesthetic rather than a mini Goblinoid or Undead Skaven (though I hope not because I'd rather that my suggestion was considered):

    Also some cavalry, but unfortunately it looks like sci-fi rather than Ancients or Dark Ages


  • @JTamI`d thought that the round rods were hinges the trigger a catch that  lifts the medi scaner. The eagle still a symbol, the arm hanging limp. If ,it`s a weapon like a bazooka or missile Launcher, and you could well be right, whats the rods an how the ech is he holding it at rest . 


  • @JTam Yes I was lucky enough to have two one very different 1943 and a 1954 the year I was born very like those shown.  Brock my heart when I sold off all my Military Items, along with the damaged jeep. In a few stuppid minutes, one drunk driver not only wipped out the jeep, but 14 years of re-enactment and military fun. It was very hard for me to let go,if it had been Eileen and me, we would have still been doing it now and we would have rebuilt the jeep and way of life. To think I parted with with the "Jeep" then my ex parts with me. as Eileen says I got rid of the wrong one. 


  • @Geoff Maybury 

    Reference:

    All possible.

    So I think the "hinge' circled in blue is either a closed ejection port cover like so:

    Or a collapsing stock.  Like so:

    There might be a little nub of the shoulder plate sticking out of his hand (circled in green.)

    I think the red circled item could well be a magazine as Mark Dewis said.

    The combatant appears to be holding the weapon at shoulder arms (or March Attack for ye old Napoleonic guys):


  • @JTam Your idea I think is the most likely, I really enjoy these sneek peeps and every ones ideas like solving a mystery. 


  • Well thats a rum do acording to the "Facebook" page no ones right yet on our pics, wish they`d have the decency to give us a look in, the reason we all had so much problems, is they are Quars, at least the bread is, the gun I suspect too.


  • @Geoff Maybury  Yeah, the bread bag is Quar and I would guess the shouldered firearm is a Royalist Quar. 


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