aside from the retro-scifi weapons, you could get fairly close by putting cannonfodder spacesuit heads onto the Eisenkern armors.
aside from the retro-scifi weapons, you could get fairly close by putting cannonfodder spacesuit heads onto the Eisenkern armors.
honestly lore rewrite would be easiest i think. perhaps have the portals not be tied to specific systems, but rather be more general purpose FTL hubs? then if you want to invade another country's c...
i'll have to remember that kit. those kettenrad-drones look a bit like the early MALP drones from Stargate, and the two types of jeep look like they could be made into version of the later MALP (th...
what was the third kit that got unlocked? it started with the basic american infantry, and then unlocked the robot-suits (which i can see a lot of 40K and OPR players grabbing to use as Ogryn) &nb...
you might be able to use the chassis as more robots, cutting down some of the more noticeable parts and using plasticard to make some superstructure. perhaps some cargo bots like this: (which could...
yeah, i never expect realism from alt-history projects like this. especially when weird science is invovled. and i'm willing to stretch verismilitude a fair bit. (the WW2 aesthetics as you say are ...
with the unlocking of the power armor plastic set i find myself wishing i had budget for this. sadly i won't get a paycheck for another month and probably won't have any free budget until at least ...
with resin, you always want to wash the miniatures. just dish soap and water, with a bit of a light scrub with a toothbrush will suffice really. if it is cast resin, it'll have mould release agent ...
@Steffen Seitter in the same vein, the sasanid persians could double as 'easterlings'
@Brian Van De Walker pretty much. the foot Serjeants would easily cover the ones that were soldiers before, while the Levy is pretty much what civilian bandits and outlaws would be dressed and equi...
Spanish American war and boxer rebellion wouldn't use WW1 figures anyway, most of the US troops in them were using variations on civil war and plains war uniforms. the ww1 Doughboy uniforms weren't...
on FB they recently asked for suggestions in what the change/improve with the digital american Doughboy kit as it went to plastic. my suggestions were:some heads with campaign hats instead of helm...
@Brian Van De Walker brotherhood of the wolf probably isn't completely historical, but it was close enough (based on my own studfies of the period and when i watched the film), and honestly did the...
honestly, a lot of people have been asking for more deathfields upgrade sprues. the one we have mostly is more guns, with a few extra heads. it would be nice to have one with backpacks, pouches, an...
for those looking to make Quar specific gaming boards, the Burrows and Badgers MDF terrain from Sarissa might work well. reasonably affordable, has that classic european look, but also has a lot of...
honestly, i think a mix of "Brotherhood of the wolf" style with fantasy elements ala the Van Helsing and WHFB/AoS stuff would sell best.Brotherhood of the Wolf: Van helsing: another one i fou...
towed guns just don't feel right to me. and there is no reason why every faction has to have every possible unit type. perhaps a Zamburak type cavalry unit might be classed more as a heavy cav set,...
fair enough. i'm not sure i can agree on the idea of them being part of some higher tech empire, i can see how someone might choose to run it that way. to me it seems clear that the intent was to p...
perhaps, but i'm just having trouble squaring the almost stone age style of the WGA lizardmen (with rough chipped stone spearheads and loincloths) with the level of society that would be able to pr...
Partly due to the bulldogs getting them, partly due to them being a common trope.. but also because GW already has lizardmen riding raptors, in two flavors, so doing something else seems like a goo...
so while reading the lizardmen thread over in the grand battles section, i started thinking about where the Lizardmen of the fantasy range could go in future expansion sets. an obvious one would b...
@Brian Van De Walker i agree. if they were going to do lizardmen, they should do their own lizardmen style, not GW's space-mesoamerican. heck, if the line does well they could do a sub-theme of the...
@Brian Van De Walker just don't have the money. once out oin the market i can grab a box at a time, but i'm afraid my budget gets to be be fairly tight. especfially this time of year.
i wasn't in the KS, but i'll probably pick up a few. not sure if i'll ever run an army that needs them, but they'll make good terrain and objectives for skirmish games. hopefully there wil...
@Eduard Garfella the irony of you saying the reaper figure isn't suitable because it's monopose, then posting GW's monopose 3d puzzle figures as the alternative.. seriously, look at these sprues. ...
ah crud. i must have read the date wrong. (and my own sense of time been a little wonky since summer started, so it sure felt like a long time) now i feel like an idiot
myself i rather like the design, with one big exception. i feel the flamethrower in the bow casemate is far too long, and the way it projects out makes the design feel 'off' to me. i figure if the...
so about two weeks ago WGA posted a teaser of the Damned vehicle kit on the dakkadakka forums News and updates area, in the WGA thread. as it was stated to be a dakka exclusive sneak peak, i didn't...
what size bases do they need? i've assembled a sprue of them but i'm terrible at trying to figure out how big of a footprint stuff needs, evern once assembled. and i'd prefer them not to be hanging...
@Brian Van De Walker heads by Minigames Miniatures (obtained off ebay), tails by ResinMunitorum on etsy. Resinmunitorum sells a full conversion kit with 24 catgirl heads and 24 tails in a distinct ...
So awhile ago i'd picked up some catgirl heads for a project. sadly it didn't work out due to some scale issues with the base minis i was using, but i realized that since they looked like they'd fi...
there is actually a game currently that is Napoleonic era monster hunting. that might be a good choice of focus. The Silver Bayonet. Northstar makes metal figures for it, but plastics would probabl...
@Hudson Adams i feel the two on the right are close enough to the late Romans set that you could probably just do a head and shield swap. though getting a proper byzantine kit could be interesting.
It's a cool one, yep. Not sure if you can find kits for it at affordable prices though. Man i really wish Old Crow Models hadn't shut down, they had some awesome resin SciFi vehicles that would ha...
Or you could label them cuirassiers, since those had the sort of heavier plate these figures have, during the 16th and 17th century.
looks like you can build both the Demi-lancers and the Reiters from that kit. but i'd go with Reiter, since that was the term used closer to the age of the conquistidors.
i don't know about handgunners.. those tend to be from later than the periods the baron's war ruleset focuses on. (which is the game those sets were designed around) but i agree that we'll probably...
it's the right period, so could see it as a Digital release, i suspect it's too niche to see much plastic sales. looking around the italian states largely used gear similar tothe Normans that have...
you mean a Carroccio?
so i'm starting this thread as a catch-all for suggestions for future sets (plastic or digital) within this new theme. to start things off, this would be an excellent place to put the Empire of Ma...
@Eduard Garfella yeah.. i actually couldn't find any examples or mentions of matchlock pistols, for that era or any other. i'm sure they existed, but probably not as military items. the pistol conc...
speaking as a history teacher and history buff, Wheelocks seem most appropriate, since those were the preferred choice for cavalry, and were what made pistol armed cavalry viable. matchlocks requir...
@Drangir @Brian Van De Walker could always replace the box magazine with a short section of linked belt feed so you can see the grenades.
those might be a bit small and easy forp players to misunderstand? they'd end up looking more like silenced pistols. how about this contraption? https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016/10/18/im-...
they seem to be a mix of ww2, soviet russia, and post-apoc bandits. arguably, their closest inspirations (in so much that fan suggestions steered it that way) is the Blood Pact and Sons of Sek fro...
i liek the updated one better from a design standpoint. the mantlet design looks like it would allow for better elevation of the howitzer. it would have some issues with crossing trenches, but sinc...
a couple thoughts: while in the past the dendra panoply was thought to be a charioteer armor, current archeological thought is that it was in fact used by heavy infantry. it was a myceanian armor,...
the the 'classic fantasy' gnome i assuem you mean the stereotypical D&D version? tiny, pointy hats, penchant for illusions? those were derived from a mix of two main sources.. celtic 'little p...
@Jonathan Levine you can only carry so much weight on a pony or horse though, if you expect it to be able to travel any useful distance, and a halfling in armor is going to take up most of that wei...