@JTam pretty much. yes the different AK generations have distinctive features IRL. but by the time you shrink them down to 28mm semi-heroic scale, most of those differences vanish or become minor s...
@JTam pretty much. yes the different AK generations have distinctive features IRL. but by the time you shrink them down to 28mm semi-heroic scale, most of those differences vanish or become minor s...
the previews look to be made from the same image just chopped. they spliced together super easy. whatever they end up being, the mix of worn out clothes and russian style weapons means they'll...
would make a good laketown, if you use wood platforms instead of stone foundations.
@Caratacus based on those minis, i'd describe their equiment as "Protoss meets Vorlon"
i don't really have a quar project in mind, though making a Xenos Rampant army might be fun. but for me, the choice would be less about the lore (which is on those webpages), and more about v...
would make a good 40K "not cadian" with just the shoulder pads, the gasmask helmet head just makes it more interesting.
i suspect that lore wise, they'd range across a spectrum of sizes. from small squad sized skirmishes to full onregimental or even divisional sized battles. that said, i suspect that the teams aren...
T-26's would also be super useful for Finnish troop kits.. they were the main tank the soviets used in the winter war, and finland captured a fair number of them over the course of it. and during t...
@Grumpy Gnome the key thing with nazi's and their ilk is to get across how wrong their ideas are and to make them look bad. Brooks's method works well for comedy and less serious works. i per...
@Grumpy Gnome but to me the least interesting was the German Nazi Officer. I have seen plenty of interesting German Nazi Officer villains and was not one of them. He was goofily cart...
they look like grenades of some kind. shape is right for smoke grenades, but they could be scifi explosive or 'energy' grenades.
i think that regardless of the lore they use, i'll probably get at least a box of these. they should make good star wars like Rebellion trooper figures, if you mix in some alien heads from stargrave
i liek the use of the use of the scifi spats. given the style of hat i'm going to second the impression that these guys can be used for doing an American civil war soldiers army for Death fields. t...
with the Xenos Rampant, Stargrave, and other minis agnostic rules, there is no reason why you couldn't make use of these minis if you like their look. though to be honest, i suspect we won...
honestly early Imperial Romans wouldm't be a bad revist as well. the warlord ones are comically small (they could pass as halflings!) and whiel the Victrix ones are reasonable size (if a bit tall),...
i will say that for this sort of product, WGA may want to create a new customization sprue to use, one with a couple types of backpacks, holsters and belt pouches, grenades, scopes, various gadgets...
eh.. ideally you'd want to get as close to 1/2 the size of a normal box as possible. i would argue 11 figures is viable, especially when you consider the added customization sprue. 5 men and 6 wo...
@Brian Van De Walker that is actually why i say the closer you can get to $15 the better. resellers always mark up their sprues, and if you want the product to be more attractive than just buying f...
mantic ogres are more classic fantasy barbarians. Asymetrical scraps of metal plate over leather harnesses, exposed arms to show off muscles, etc.
@Brian Van De Walker honestly, it pretty much has to if you want to avoid doing retreads of largely the same units. the differences between Romano-british, Saxon, Franks, etc is pretty small, due t...
@Brian Van De Walker pretty much what i had in mind. lower price point, while getting enough figures and customization bits to put together an interesting skirmish team or squad. ideally you'd wan...
doing a third box might be tricky sales wise, since it takes sales away from the two dedicated boxes. (and i suspect the male only box will be the most popular anyway, given the general mindset of ...
was about to mention Flintloque https://www.alternative-armies.com/collections/elves-of-armorica https://www.alternative-armies.com/collections/dark-elves-of-catalucia personall i like t...
having some sort of 'high fantasy Men at Arms" would be neat, and if they are designed so they could be used as numenoreans, great. but make them general enough so they could be Atlanteans, or Valy...
i've not watches the series yet (its on my list) but IMO most of the non-GW Numenorean/Gondorian/Arnorian figure needs can be done using the WGA late Roman figures and giving them different heads a...
@JTam it isworth noting that a lot of the Warlord Boltaction terrain kits were originally created for 20mm/1:72 scale diaramas by Italeri, and as a result end up way too small for the 28mm figures....
it is worth notingthat the Optio's knobbed staff did originate as a club, one of their main jobs was enforcing discipline both on and off the field, and ensuring that troops stay in formation and n...
the recently announced unarmored late roman legionarres would be ideal for roman-british troops. generally only the nobility and their retainers would have access to metal armor, most of the infant...
It is worth noting that in Mantic's Ogre lore, their society is matriarchal, and both male and female ogres enage in warfare. One reason so many male ogres go into mercenary work is to get away fro...
Defiance games folded before the Power Armor figures got much further than a WIP early 3D art file. and the original artwork was by flyingdebris, so you may want to direct inqueries about that to h...
reading the description of the smaller ampsuit toy, it appears that the human figures in the smaller line are 1.25 inches tall, which makes them pretty close to the 28mm-32mm gaming scale. so that ...
to be honest, i'd love dinosaur kits. but the question would be how to do them. what dinosaurs, how customizable could you make them, what size of dinos could you fit on a single sprue and how man...
@JTam i am aware of the origins of starcraft, and the lore of 40K. My point was that the specific shot angles and format is too similar to the SC vid to not be intentional, especially given that th...
@JTam Then there's the more complex and ritualized armor fitting here: https://youtu.be/y3DsHGDRQ5M pretty sure that GW decided to this video because of the starcraft II trailer with a Terran ...
you could easily do a whole sprue of animal head swaps.. felines, canines, birds..
it seems ot me that you could get a fair degree of customizability between trooper, recon, command, support, etc style suits by using a system similar to the warhammer 40K Tau battlesuits. have mos...
technically the live action film wasn't based on the book at all.. the film had originally been shot under the name "bug hunt" when one of the assistant directors brought up the heinlein book and c...
i'm just trying to figure out why the rifles have a featureless rectangular bar at the end instead of say, barrels for the rifle and grenade launcher?
@Yronimos Whateley Mobile Suit Gundam: Most figures looked more like "Shogun Warriors" or Neon Genesis "EVA" suits, but this model is very close to what I had always pictured the MI ...
when it comes to Starship Tropers depictions, the version i prefer that actually depicted something akin to the book's suits is the anime, Uchū no Senshi. its one of the few attempts to depic...
@Estoc Narrative Game: Story is the focus. this is how i always understood this term, but if you look at the major minis companies like games workshop, they use "narrative game" as cod...
Do we know if WGA got the rights to make any of these "in progress" designs? While i doubt they'd do the vehicles any time soom (especially the titans), but these shadowkesh aliens would be interes...
worth noting that part of the reason that japanese, chinese, and mongolian armor and weapons have so much visual simularities is because the japanese and mongolian gear is largely influenced by old...
had the issue again today.. short term solution, if you hit the problem, clear your history and cookies. that resolved it for me.
@Eric Howanietz The relibility of lasguns makes sence for sci-fi desert nomads why? laser weapons would be the least relaible of weapon types, since you have lots of high precision lens...
@Estoc i've had the same issues off and on since the forum was created.
i mostly picked the 'third world' forces, with a few near future things i thought would sell well. pretty much every moderns ruleset i've heard of in 28mm has focused on peacekeeping ops, anti-ter...
in the book, LOTR orcs/goblins seemed to use cloth banners like everyone else. just with their own iconography. (the red eye for Sauron/mordor, the white hand for Saruman/isengard, etc. the witchki...