After re-reading your OP, in my opinion you should veer away from trying to make your armies/squads "game agnostic." Instead, figure out what kind of gamer you are, because that's going to determi...
After re-reading your OP, in my opinion you should veer away from trying to make your armies/squads "game agnostic." Instead, figure out what kind of gamer you are, because that's going to determi...
This early in the build it looks like two things smashed together. Some greebles will add detail, interesting textures, and bits and will help the back half match the front better. It's...
Won't let me edit for some reason...anyhoo, capes are another simple way to denote rank, too, as is a simple raised weapon; little things that are also low-profile enought that they can be ignored ...
I'm pretty much a strictly minis-agnostic player at this point, and like you, I'm trying to make some "generic" fighting forces that can be used multiple different ways. I'm playing the games "Fiv...
@Brian Van De Walker oh, for sure, upgrade sprues aren't the answer for everything, but they can be good enough for quite a few applications. In a perfect world, there would be a miniature fo...
The problem with text-only communication is that tone, inflection, body language and other audio-visual cues that are huge parts of how we read context in a conversation are absent, and so the pers...
@Eric Howanietz Yeah, the more I think about it, the more I see upgrade/accessory sprues solving a lot of "Wouldn't it be great if we had [X]?" problems. Want robot/cyborg/possessed/alien/beastmen...
Dang, their detail is really great! That elephant is dynamite!
@BS Kitbasher 1) if you think the "outrage crowd/culture" is fictional, I don't know what to tell you. It's utterly pervasive and it's wrecking pop culture, and culture in general. 2) My po...
@Yronimos Whateley I don't think anyone should base creative decisions on who might be outraged by what. Given your example about making dwarves, instead of hobgoblins, samurai-esque, the out...
Those are pretty sweet. My search-fu is rusty; I couldn't find them for sale anywhere else (I don't think I'd need a whole unit). Maybe one or two if the wife liked the look of them for...
@William Redford Seek help. 😝 Also, I dig the Patlabor models!
Dig it! I like the "not-the-crew-of-the-Serenity" gang. I see Captain Mal, Jayne, Dr. Tam, Kaylee, and Shepard Book; just need Zoe, Wash, River, and Inara.
@Steven StGeorges Dadgum, Bob Naismith's stuff is no joke! Really dig that stuff! I'm kinda glad I don't have a 3D printer. My house would be absolutely ROTTEN with tiny gray plastic p...
@William Redford I hate you! 😝 I've been trying to find those mechs and crawler monsters and none of the Dollar Trees in my area have been getting them in stock!
Drones would also be a great addition to these kits. Both flying and ground varieties would be very much welcome!
I personally wouldn't mind civilians, but I don't know how well an entire box would sell. For me, they'd be objectives: captives that need rescuing, or I could run missions akin to the "terror" mis...
@Arrigo Velicogna Right on. I checked off my choices, but I don't have much of of an opinion on the accurate stuff; a lot of the stuff JTam, GG, and others discuss here in the forum flies str...
I don't know what the market is like for accurate moderns; is there high demand? low demand? I don't know. I based my answers on what I would actually purchase, and it's all pretty much "gene...
Never thought to look up agitators specifically; I just used lead fishing weights (maybe don't lick your minis after painting them if you go this route, tempting though it may be...).
I'll be snagging a box when they drop, for sure. I dig their look
@JTam: G.I. Joe: Retaliation was actually pretty dang fun. It had some great action, it was silly, the plot was ridiculous - in other words, it was a pitch-perfect adaptation of the cartoon!&...
I'll have to take a look at some of the movies you mentioned. The original Cowboy Bebop is fantastic; well worth it if you have the time. I tried the live one, but...oof. It did not wo...
I'm going to say resistance fighter. Guy's having a ciggy and a cup of coffee, but they're more for the nerves at this point than the enjoyment. He's got that "at ease, but never 'at ea...
@JTam Yeah, some of G-Dub's prices on special models is downright obscene. Their detail is nice, but so is everyone else's these days. I'll still pick up some GW stuff here and there o...
$20 for a single mini? Pass. She's cool looking, just way overpriced. The detail is decent, but nothing amazing. I guess they're banking on the D&D brand name to justif...
Was just about to chime in about Reaper's kobolds. My brother just bought a bunch and they look pretty great. That said, if WGA put out a mutli-part kit for kobolds, they could put them, the gobli...
To be fair, I love the Frostgrave kits, but most of their heads - male and female - are kinda fugly. That's true of pretty much all the North Star stuff: awesome kits chock-full of sweet...
Would Mr. Mondragon himself be able to help? Any way of getting a hold of him?
Was his blog the only place that it was posted? I went looking around on the Wayback Machine and couldn't seem to find anything lore-wise. Anywhere else to try digging?
Sprues with different generic Sci-Fi and Fantasy/Historical shoulder pads. I'd buy 'em! I got some shoulder pads from Anvil Industries and I've used them to not only add a little extra ...
The little buildings come in pieces, so you can build them as pictured, or kitbash with them:
Hello there! This stuff isn't trash, but I didn't want to start a whole new topic on Dollar/thrift store finds. I picked these bad boys up at Dollar Tree here in the US (Tau for size referen...
The balancing act is that the dwarves would need to be unique enough that it would give people a reason to buy them over whatever is already available, and be something that people would ...
@JTam AHAHAHAHA!!! Solid GOLD! 🤣🤣🤣
Sounds right-on! Trader's Galaxy has its Not Wars game, which is basically "Saturday Morning Cartoon Royal Rumble" -- Transformers, GI Joe, DinoRiders, M.A.S.K., etc., but I believe it's 6mm ...
I snagged one each of the Stargrave kits; I dig them, and I'm interested in the new females, but female Cannon Fodder is top priority, for sure! They have a good Star Wars/Firefly aesthetic and lo...
It looks good. The director's done some of my favorite recent movies, so I'm looking forward to it.
It varies from person to person, but for me, personally, it's all about the mechanics, narrative, and the setting. I've moved into minis-agnostic solo/co-op games; competitive games I tried a...
I never heard much about this one. There was a podcast I listened to a few years back that mentioned playing it, which is how I found out about it, but that was all. I like some of the minis...
In my experience, papercraft isn't as cost-effective as I thought it would be, and it's because of one thing: INK. There's a video on YouTube that lays out how nefarious printer manufact...
@JTam That tomahawk... North American fur-trappers and Native Americans I hope! There are too few minis of those guys, and if WA puts out a box of either or both, that's an insta-buy for me.
@Javier Del Villar I'd kill -- KILL -- for plastic Privateer Press Rhulics. Those dwarves and their Warjacks are some of my favorite miniatures ever. I just don't think Warmachine ...
I wonder if hooking up with a popular rules set might also work, as a lot of people did with the "Friends of Gaslands" thing. The creators of Gaslands never put out their own line of cars, we...
Love it! I save all my sprues for the all the potential bits you can make from them!
@JTam Hey, there! I really dig Five Parsecs from Home a lot! It's become my favorite solo wargame, but "wargame" doesn't quite cover it; it's part-wargame, part RPG. Now that Fiv...
Personally, not for me, although I could see using them in a scenario where my crew is on a ship traversing dangerous waters and is attacked by hostile sea-dwellers. I'd want mean, scary merm...
@Yronimos Whateley Holy smokes, that Forest of Doom is GLORIOUS.
Definitely hyped. I want to use both Cannon Fodder sets to make/fill out enemy gangs for Five Parsecs from Home. They're both so dang versatile!
That's tho route I've gone with all my wargaming, whether it takes place in the past, present, future, reality, fantasy, or sci-fi. Basing minis looks good for display purposes, but my OCD kicks i...