Free Such as Dune Buggy from Genet Sand Geko and from sirrob01 I've made up 3 of the former, XR stats of soft, T5, slow, unarmed SMU gives you a 5 man squad transport element useful ...
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[resource] Sourcing affordable vehicle kits for Deathfields army buildingposted in Death Fields: The Greatest Sport is War!
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[resource] Sourcing affordable vehicle kits for Deathfields army buildingposted in Death Fields: The Greatest Sport is War!
Aside from Plastic kits. (1/48 too large, perhaps look at 1/56 scale ?) Look at other materials (mosy of these trade on EBay/Etsy) Mdf kits : Warbases Sarrissa Bespoke Resin: Pa...
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Only-Games Order Recieved (Missing Parts)posted in Atlantic Digital
Those 'undefined' posts are still there.
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Model-Agnostic Rules Systems - SciFi Rulesposted in General Chatter
@Greaver Blade Drill into their armpits & hold the swappabe arm pairs with old school Blu-tak?
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Model-Agnostic Rules Systems - SciFi Rulesposted in General Chatter
@Greaver Blade Being based in the UK, I am unlikely to be able to turn up. ;) You can field a 24 point, 30 figure XR Army out of one WA Cannon fodder box : 1* Command RCN Inf (2pts ) , Green (-...
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Model-Agnostic Rules Systems - SciFi Rulesposted in General Chatter
@Brian Van De Walker Yep, I scoped out 3 different armies. Each can be done on a 3 box deal plus a few stargrave sprues from a sprue reseller. If you have a tame dealer, you may even get the...
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Model-Agnostic Rules Systems - SciFi Rulesposted in General Chatter
The 3 box WA deals should make fielding a sub $100 Xenos army easy. I did it with 3 boxes of Lizards, 3 box CF1 and 2 boxes of OhRah!. Mixing CF1 torsos with OhRah arms and heads gets...
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Model-Agnostic Rules Systems - SciFi Rulesposted in General Chatter
I've highlighted XenosRampant on several occasions, it's the ruleset I use for the scifi skirmish stuff. It has a chapter for C20 'wierd war' which could be extended as a supplemement to cov...
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Artillery and Heavy Weaponsposted in Death Fields: The Greatest Sport is War!
@Red Bee Look at Xenos Rampant. Those cannon come in as Support Inf, Artillery, poss Indirect @ ~8 points for a 24 point force. 10 point s if you add HW option.
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Only-Games Order Recieved (Missing Parts)posted in Atlantic Digital
It seems that all of _*my*_ posts of the last week have disappeared, rather than the 3 unidentified ones on this thread :(
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Napoleonic French Infantry in greatcoatsposted in Atlantic Digital
@Lord Marcus For their 'official' 1808 uniform, true. By a couple of years into la guerra de l'independencia the Spanish were using a lot of captured French gear, they had little manufacturi...
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Only-Games Order Recieved (Missing Parts)posted in Atlantic Digital
@Lord Marcus Those 3 'undefined' user posts are still an issue? They show up as a notification on this thread, yet don't appear on this thread to clear.
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Napoleonic French Infantry in greatcoatsposted in Atlantic Digital
@Brian Van De Walker Head swap them with others e.g. those proposed WA Spanish Heads. Mix 'em with standard French heads for greatcoated flank companies, those heads from the WA resin skirmishers m...
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I have a problemposted in General Chatter
It's the nature of plastic sprues. a mass of head options, most of my WA CF figures (XRamp company battle group) have been done with helmets & backpacks. I have a surplus of hats/bald prisione...
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Napoleonic French Infantry in greatcoatsposted in Atlantic Digital
Look at the Victrix Old/Young Guard figures ?
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I have a problemposted in General Chatter
I managed to resist the hype on the Damned front, still got loads of spares/bits in the spares box. Is there some scope on this forum for a swap/trade thread? I've got several CF1 weapons frames ...
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Spanish Guerrillas for plastic?posted in Napoleon's Wars: From Revolution to Abdication 1796-1815
Perhaps look at the way the Perry ACW Union Inf box has been organised? A mix of 3 sprues : Marching Inf Skirmishing Inf Command Frame The bulk of the figures are of the first type, a coup...
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Spanish Guerrillas for plastic?posted in Napoleon's Wars: From Revolution to Abdication 1796-1815
(These Guerillas can also form a basis for 18th/19th century colonists/militia/brigands/pirates/liberatadores in and around the Southern states/Carribean/South America). Agree on the Shotgun...
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Einherjar Command and Heavy Supportposted in Vox Populi
@Brian Van De Walker Picture tells a thousand words ;). Those 2 were thrown together during the England/Australia game (nothing much better to do ...). Trust me, they'll be broken down into bits ...
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Einherjar Command and Heavy Supportposted in Vox Populi
@Brian Van De Walker As it happens, I had a a couple of WA space dwarves lurking on a spare sprue : A space dwarf (or indeed any Dwarf?) command group for those who like fielding sniper f...
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Einherjar Command and Heavy Supportposted in Vox Populi
@Brian Van De Walker A sprue of WA (or Perry) Afghans from the usual sprue resellers has plenty of Arab swords to kitbash with. Look at a sprue of Oathmark Dwarf Light Infantry from those sprue se...
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Scavenger Variationsposted in Painting & Modeling
Two views of Olaf vs a WIP space dwarf with resized wire legs filled by putty. Growing the basic torso legs and adding 28mm arms does the job, this guy has a CF2 prosthetic arm with scaveng...
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Scavenger Variationsposted in Painting & Modeling
A second attempt at those Dwarves, not sure it's much better. This is a group of insurgents. Stargrave Scavenger heads, Perry Afghan and WA CF1 torsos WA and Scavanger arms. This group ...
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Scavenger Variationsposted in Painting & Modeling
Here are Olaf & his mates painted up : ... and a group of his vertically challenged distant relatives : They are all slated for use as Xenos Rampant Mercenary squads or may form S...
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Einherjar Command and Heavy Supportposted in Vox Populi
@Hudson Adams The forum notification doesn't seem to work on this Vox Populi sub forum, I didn't get a notification of Drangir's post above. I'm also still seeing those 3 ghost notifications I rep...
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Einherjar Command and Heavy Supportposted in Vox Populi
@Drangir All of the crew have separate arms/heads in that damned set, here they are shown as being fixed. Dunno if that is just a simplified WIP render or the final layout intention. The separate a...
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Einherjar Command and Heavy Supportposted in Vox Populi
Are the heavy weapons the same scale as the Damned or downsized to be compatible with the dwarves? There is aleady a radio pack available on the normal sprue - add a 'medic' or generic pack in its...
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Napoleonic Spanish Infantryposted in Vox Populi
I too have been anticipating these for the 4 years or so since they were mooted, Adopting the upper/lower torso schema of the Rifles box. Two Grenadarios heads, separate rear of bareskins Can'...
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Little Big Hornposted in Imperial Conquests: Battles in the Age of Empires 1815-1914
@Alessio De Carolis The US plains Cavalry idea would be an addition to those ~20 year old Perry US Cav plastics. If sculpted with the dishevelled look of the above prints, the two would would comp...
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Little Big Hornposted in Imperial Conquests: Battles in the Age of Empires 1815-1914
@Travis Gibson AFAIK no one does plastic plains Indians. (Once apon a time, in a previous millenia, Airfix did 20mm ones [1] - a lot of which ended up being converted to Ancient Brit or Hyborean&nb...
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Sprue sellersposted in General Chatter
@Alessio De Carolis Wargames Emporium in the UK also do sprues https://www.wargamesemporium.co.uk/search?type=product&q=sprue . Brexit was not the cause of idiotic Brussels imposed customs ta...
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Only-Games Order Recieved (Missing Parts)posted in Atlantic Digital
@Lord Marcus The issue is still happening. I get 3 phantom notifications on this thread from that 'undefined' user. They don't clear when I access this thread. Be a shame to have to delete the thr...
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Scavenger Variationsposted in Painting & Modeling
@Bill Thomas I've mixed the non Olaf torsos with some Stargrave Crew and a few CF 1 torsos to create a formidable Xenos Rampant OPFOR detatchment. The made up Olaf torso has been mixed in with some...
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Sci Fi Entries - 100 file sets celebratory painting contestposted in Painting & Modeling
@Troy Cook Non European troops - nice. Do a 2nd run, re arm them with Rensissance torsos & weaponry rather than Bulldog and you have a crew for use with the Frostgrave Ghost Archipeligo rules ...
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Only-Games Order Recieved (Missing Parts)posted in Atlantic Digital
Cheers. It is still there- here's a screenshot of the notifications box for your people : Methinks someone tried to register & comment but didn't fully get through, leaving a broken user re...
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Only-Games Order Recieved (Missing Parts)posted in Atlantic Digital
@Lord Marcus I'm getting notifications of an 'undefined' user commenting on this thread, 3 times 2 days ago. They don't show up on this thread so won't clear. Looks like something got chewed up, ca...
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Scavenger Variationsposted in Painting & Modeling
WA were not the only manufacturer doing a crowd funded plastic launch this year. Northstar launched their Stargrave Scavenger box -mine turned up today. This is the 1st shot of a sprue made up wit...
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Spacenam Compatibilityposted in Reptilian Overlords
Here is a mixed squad based around a box of Oh Rah showing the mixes I managed. Far left and far right use Stargrave Merc 2 female torsos with Oh Rah heads and arms. The Knife Wielder with...
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What did happen to the Spanish set?posted in Napoleon's Wars: From Revolution to Abdication 1796-1815
@Pierre Lerdou-Udoy I read somewhere that the Damned were being distributed via a route involving the ROI (who are still in the EU). There was so much hype around those figures that I can't remembe...
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What did happen to the Spanish set?posted in Napoleon's Wars: From Revolution to Abdication 1796-1815
@Charles Tottington As you correctly stated, none of those offerings look like reaching a 1000 votes in the forseeable future. Unless the threshold is dropped to say 300 votes, I doubt any will ha...
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What did happen to the Spanish set?posted in Napoleon's Wars: From Revolution to Abdication 1796-1815
@Hudson Adams As they have not been tooled and need a layout rework, here are 2 suggestions: split them into 2 frames, heads & torsos (as was done on the Grognard command box), slip in a 'ha...
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What did happen to the Spanish set?posted in Napoleon's Wars: From Revolution to Abdication 1796-1815
@Hudson Adams Has anything ever been released via the Vox Populi route ? Somewhere else it was written that WA has the ability to release about a new dozen plastic boxes per year. Given the ...
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Spacenam Compatibilityposted in Reptilian Overlords
@Estoc It's all rather subjective. 28mm 'heroic' scale ( 30-32mm ) is notorious for variations in scale, both in height and width. Heads, weapons etc may also be exagerated from 'true' form factor...
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Buggies/IFVs - Compare & contrast ......posted in General Chatter
IDF? Captured gear ? A lot of 40's/50's/60's's era found its way to Cairo, Jordan & and Damacus in the late C20's. Still think it's closer to that Hussar, the BTRxxx series had way too much ...
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Lizard Troopersposted in Painting & Modeling
@Drangir I typically base up the minis apply any base texture needed to cover up blob bases etc then undercoat with a generic undercoat spray (I normally use Wilko's - A UK based hardware store). Y...
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How u guys feel about American Revolution models in Death Field?posted in Death Fields: The Greatest Sport is War!
There is no 'official lore', neither any mandatory lexicons, paint schemes nor stats cards. Other expensive, scale insensitive, bloated manufacturers are out there for those things. ;) Those 'new ...
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Lizard Troopersposted in Painting & Modeling
The basic paint scheme is a spray can of Humbrol Grass green later touch ups with a pot of the same colour paint. The army was based on a 3 box WA deal meaning over 60 figures to paint. ( 15 box ba...
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My plans for the Damnedposted in Painting & Modeling
@Charles Tottington There are other heads out there, including stuff from a scale insenstitve, highly litagative source that must never be mentioned by name. But Beware! Until you get plastic on ...
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Lizard Troopersposted in Painting & Modeling
@Drangir I just can't do pan shots properly :(. The best I can do with my cheap camera, mind you, my non-professional paint jobs wouldn't like higher detail ,). All of this is just to show w...
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