I wonder if this could be made to work commercially with a stronger visual identity. Fallout Wasteland Warfare seems to sell, so there seems to be a market for that kind of 1950's American retro-fu...
I wonder if this could be made to work commercially with a stronger visual identity. Fallout Wasteland Warfare seems to sell, so there seems to be a market for that kind of 1950's American retro-fu...
It doesn't seem like the kind of thing that will sell in large numbers, which a hard plastic kit needs to do. Definitely a more niche product, better suited to 3d prints or potentially metal. Off o...
NPFL rebels from the Liberian civil war. :P
I think the Scrapheap Challenge stuff would look out of place with the original models. Their equipment was cheap, but not hastily improvised from things they found in the rubbish. They should prob...
@Red Bee Seems like this may be related.
@Yronimos Whateley I'd like a power armour miniature to look good alongside human minis at the same scale, so I want at least some consideration given to anatomy and ergonomics. I'm absolutely down...
Take a look over here: https://wargamesatlantic.com/community/xenforum/topic/77051/powered-armoured-mobile-infantry WGA are already working on their own power armour design, which I must say I fin...
"when I said blow the doors off, I meant the building, not the planet, but that'll do."
@Brian Van De Walker This. R1 = Right arm 1, L1 = Left arm 1, both ones go together. Some left arms have multple right arms that must be chosen between for each sprue. (actually I think it's just one)
I would like something that looks like something that links to their Viking heritage. I think that's going to be something of a challenge because the DF range, so far, is based around fairly mod...
@Charles Tottington I think the wearer has their elbows in the shoulders of the suit and their wrists/hands in the elbows. It looks a little awkward, and it prevents wrist articulation on the suits...
@Battle Specter Yeah, looking at that, there's no way a standard human would fit their limbs into the limbs of the armour, that's a mini-mech at that scale. there looks to be about enough space to ...
I've been considering the renders a little more, and the elbows-in-shoulders and wrists-in-elbows style arms are growing on me. If the armour is doing all the work, then the only real concern is th...
This could be a good idea for an upgrade sprue, since it translates reasonably well across the range. Perhaps the teams sometimes run out of reinforcements mid-match and must improvise with crude c...
@Chris Guy I would have thought they weren't as effective as their alien overlords real militaries, otherwise they probably wouldn't be participating in a sport in the first place.
@Steven StGeorges I imagine accessory sprues must be something that's difficult to design. A full kit has a marketing identity and a target demographic, but an accessory sprue has to be something t...
I definitely like the look of this more than I did the render; to my eye the cloth below the hip-straps looks much more like part of a single contiguous garment that it did in super-high resolution...
@Mithril2098 Yeah, if the barrier to entry were lower I could see a tabletop fallout game gaining a much larger following.
Awesome, it's a good time to be into this stuff.
I think the proportions are intentional. They're "bulldogs", so naturally they lean into the large head and shoulders typical of heroic scale models a bit more than others, to a degree that it beco...
The new sneak-peek looks to be the power armour with the front attached. I must say it cuts a very intimidating profile from what's on-show here. It's hard to tell, but it looks like there will be ...
Maybe it's a semi and that's just the grip?
@JTam Yeah, the armour in Anthem looks like it was designed to fit around a mesh of a human character in a videgame, making it overly sleek, rather than factoring in any practical design considerat...
@GreenScorpion It sounds to me like you prefer the chunkier, more heroic scale of the Raumjager, which I can understand. What you're looking for sounds like an almost entirely new kit though, with ...
I think Fallout 4's armour does a good job of accomodating a human frame, while selling the "power" part of the armour. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyDVkHuX9Ok It adds noticable bulk an...
Forgive me if I'm missing something, but what you describe there already seems to exist in the form of the Iron Core range: https://wargamesatlantic.com/collections/iron-core/products/eisenker...
@JTam I think I could live with something like that. I know they had something similar in one of the XCOM videogames. If we're going down that route, I imagine a spinal connection would work too, t...
Ok, the Friday email seems to show a render of a possible Power Armour design. I'm happy with the three-fingered Waldos, I think they should be sufficient for whatever mobile infantry might need. I...
I think a cool opportunity for a robot sprue would be to kitbash them with an existing sprue to create cyborgs. I think I saw some cyborg parts on the female Cannon Fodder; if that's a popular opti...
@Mithril2098 Mantic's Forge Guard already have a similar system, in hard plastic, so it's definitely doable to have separate wrist and shoulder mounts for weapons.
@Alex Core I don't want Colonial Marine knockoffs. I want modern not Cadians sci fi infantry. Ok, but I think that's mutually exclusive with the harder sci-fi/nearer future look that WGA are goi...
@William Ings I'd say that strays too far into mini-mech territory, it's very clearly piloted rather than worn.
@John Wilson I'm not sure that I would agree that it falls into the vehicle category. It is a single object that closes around the wearer, but I don't think that disqualifies it from the category o...
@Mithril2098 They're a work in progress, I'm pretty sure. (or who knows, perhaps they'll be modelled that way and have a choice of different muzzles on the sprue?)
Given how much interest this thread has generated in a short amount of time, I think it's worth trying to get a consensus for a specification for this [potential] kit. Size/dimensions: There...
@John Wilson I'm pretty sure the company no longer exists, and they only licensed the design, so someone else could probably make one if they paid whoever designed it.
I believe Defiance Games had licensed that design before they went under, they didn't even have the decency to release the STL they had, to the people who already paid for the physical release. I'm...
I wouldn't call them active, exactly, but for some reason they still exist. It's crazy to think it has been 13 years since that thread started and there's still nothing on the market that really fi...
I wonder if anyone else here is a veteran of this thread: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/wargamesfactory/generic-power-armoured-suit-and-weapons-t964139.html
It looks like the bottom barrel is fixed to the cylinder beneath it, which turns upwards at the tip, and there seems to be a cylindrical protrusion from the bottom. I think it looks like a flamethr...
@William Ings I would definitely hope for differing rules for different scales. I'm thinking that an elegant system would be to have a skirmish level game requiring one box of infantry, a platoon l...
@William Ings I definitely see how DF lends itself to making not-Imperial Guard armies, but I was thinking more along the lines of how a potential DF game might handle force composition. I think an...
@Mithril2098 I'm interested to know what people think about unit composition. Should we be building a more true to life army with mixed weapons in generalist units (multiple rifles with a s...
I think if you stray too far away from traditional viking-style dwarves then they're not really dwarves any longer, and they become "what if X-but short?", which is gimmicky and likely to appeal to...
@Dalton McCormick Perhaps the heads could include an undead-robot style in among the animal-heads. They might make for some nice not-crons.
@Chris Pryme The other miniature company already services the market for high-tech death metal elves pretty well; did you have anything in mind that would help to differentiate the two?
@Berggeit I like the idea of the alien race exterminated by their own robots, maybe it could even be one kit. I'm imagining that they've created their own Skynet, which developed infiltrators to s...
@Yronimos Whateley That's precisely what he's talking about. @Jonovious Looking at the rest of the DF range, it seems like WGA are going for designs that are not obviously a "totally-not-copy...
I think the obvious suggestions would be WW2 Russians in full winter gear, Mongolians (particularly with horses on the way), something in dress uniform and something in the style of the US in Vietn...