Surpised there hasn't been a mention of Tehnolog. It's a russian game company that hasn't been shy about ripping off certain popular IPs including the scale. They are also a great source of 288 scale terrain if you don't mind the long wait for shipping from Russia
Stormonu wrote: That tank looks like a perfect Predator. Do you have any info on who makes it?
It says made in China, and looks like it was bought by a canadian distibutor to sell to dollar stores. Toy Galaxy out of Richmond hill, but their website is down.
I have some of those Russian figures, the Mechs. They make great IG vehicles/custom Mechs/BT mechs at 28mm. A bit plain on the detail side, but easy enough to spruce up.
I'm a big fan of Tehnolog. Recently ordered the "Iron Curtain" terrain set, which somehow reminds me of X-com: Terror From the Deep alien architecture.
Next time it'll be their 10mm tank line to be used for Gaslands weapons and tracked car conversions.
This is not a request thread, I know, but so far I just couldn't find cheap wheels to turn a Taurox into an Ork dragster of sorts. Front wheels are easy, the deffkilla wartrike back wheels. But for the Taurox backside everything is either to small and narrow to give it a hunched look with a raised rear or wayyy too big. Coz the stupid thing is tiny and won't even work as an enclosed trukk for a 5 man Kommandoz kill team :/
A toy monster truck of some kind? Try amd do a trawl of local.charity shops and see if you can find a suitably sized random plastic thing of.about the right size. Should only be a few euros.
My local Big Box retailer does not seem to have them anymore, so I wonder if they are no longer being produced?
Great work on those! Really elevates them.
They are definitely still being produced. My local Walmart got a new batch in recently and some Superhero (DC I think) examples showed up at Dollar Tree.
Of interest to wargamers will be that there are two new 5-packs of Walking Dead figs and 2 new 5 packs of Harry Potter. Also Minecraft and some new superhero figs I think.
Do you have plenty of 1/43 and 1/48 die cast for your heroes to battle over and around? Menards and Wal-Mart have quite a few in the 3-5 buck range right now. Also I'm about to downsize my collection. PM if interested.
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ChargerIIC wrote: Surpised there hasn't been a mention of Tehnolog. It's a russian game company that hasn't been shy about ripping off certain popular IPs including the scale. They are also a great source of 288 scale terrain if you don't mind the long wait for shipping from Russia
It has been mentioned, but always a good reminder. I've got a review of their tanks and some size comparison with some of the more common Robogear/Tehnolog mechs here: https://www.chicagoskirmishwargames.com/blog/?s=robogear
I shared this a long time ago, but I used Tehnolog tracks for my post-apoc TukTuk.
The tank seems to be pretty popular, but how does the rest of the tehnolog robogear line hold up? I'm seriously considering buying an assortment as a christmas gift to myself, but if some are better than others then the "one of each!" approach I had in my cart the other day might not be the best .
P.S. I'm not necessarily planning to build them as-is, but rather use them as bits-bin fodder for putting together a mechanized ork army.
Coh Magnussen wrote: The tank seems to be pretty popular, but how does the rest of the tehnolog robogear line hold up? I'm seriously considering buying an assortment as a christmas gift to myself, but if some are better than others then the "one of each!" approach I had in my cart the other day might not be the best .
P.S. I'm not necessarily planning to build them as-is, but rather use them as bits-bin fodder for putting together a mechanized ork army.
They're all good. For orks I'd focus on the buggy and the thing with triangular tracks (Varan I think). For imperials, the walker and flyer with the angular cabin (Trex and Hornet IIRC)
Coh Magnussen wrote: The tank seems to be pretty popular, but how does the rest of the tehnolog robogear line hold up? I'm seriously considering buying an assortment as a christmas gift to myself, but if some are better than others then the "one of each!" approach I had in my cart the other day might not be the best .
P.S. I'm not necessarily planning to build them as-is, but rather use them as bits-bin fodder for putting together a mechanized ork army.
Tanks and aircraft are the best, especially newer ones like the Condor or Bronekorpus variants. The walkers can be improved with a lot of work, but the main bodies are pretty much potatoes.
The ambulance is a perfect size for a 40k van/truck/utility vehicle holding 6 people or so.
The APC is a bit small but could pass for a low-end Rhino/Chimera equivalent.
It's about the length of a Chimera but a bit thinner and shorter.
And certainly both will look fine buried in rubble, tipped on their sides or otherwise turned into scatter terrain. Even parked they'd work fine, blocking LOS to models and shielding tanks.
Silly question, but does anyone know of a place to get blank Weebles, or not-Weebles that are cheap enough to paint over?
I just saw a dungeon PDF that someone had printed out as a PVC banner, and suddenly I had a mental image of Weeble adventurers on a Weeble dungeon crawl, fighting Weeble monsters to gain Weeble treasures....
And, considering that we picked up a Weeble Haunted House for our little girl as 'her first dungeon crawl', it seems a natural progression.
We are molding her little mind - the world needs more moldy little minds!
quote=Kid_Kyoto 689888 10243760 7ae0ff2a206fa2883a262d674b169137.jpg]I got my Chinese trucks and APCs in.
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The ambulance is a perfect size for a 40k van/truck/utility vehicle holding 6 people or so.
The APC is a bit small but could pass for a low-end Rhino/Chimera equivalent.
It's about the length of a Chimera but a bit thinner and shorter.
And certainly both will look fine buried in rubble, tipped on their sides or otherwise turned into scatter terrain. Even parked they'd work fine, blocking LOS to models and shielding tanks.
Thanks for posting those. The APC looks a bit small next to 40k figs, but I bet it's near spot-on for historical 28mm. APC's are usually shockingly cramped and much smaller than one would suspect.
However, in a recent move the shippers lost my big tin of Green Army Men so I need to replace them. I am loathe to buy them online blind since so many of them are just really cheap. I want a slightly better quality.
Do any of you guys have the name of a decent manufacturer I can order from online that makes a decent quality Green Army Man, preferable the Vietnam or WWII ones.
Easy E wrote: Some of you may know that I had a large (and pretty awesome) collection of Green Army Men. I use them to play some games from time to time:
However, in a recent move the shippers lost my big tin of Green Army Men so I need to replace them. I am loathe to buy them online blind since so many of them are just really cheap. I want a slightly better quality.
Do any of you guys have the name of a decent manufacturer I can order from online that makes a decent quality Green Army Man, preferable the Vietnam or WWII ones.
Sorry to hear about that. Here's a few options.
-The original and best manufacturer of the Vietnam army men, M48 tanks, and other classics is probably "Tim Mee Toys". You can find them on Amazon. They cost a bit more but they're made in the USA and almost all of the vietnam figs that aren't Tim Mee are knock-offs and likely lower quality.
-If you're interested in WW2, there's a bucket of 4 types of WW2 troops that's also fairly common on Amazon. The quality of the figs isn't quite what it was back in the day, but you get US, British, German and Japanese troops in one pack.
-If you have any interest in Sci-fi figures, Walmart has the "The Corps" army men pack/bucket back in stock. The figs and accessories are in a Starship Troopers (movie) style, quite good and the price is certainly right. I reviewed them here: https://www.chicagoskirmishwargames.com/blog/2017/11/01/cheap-28mm-suitable-terrain-from-the-corps-elite/ -If you need some cheapies to tide you over, Dollar Tree just got in a WW2'ish pack. I think it's worth it for the knock-off M-48 it includes which is worth the buck itself.
If you're interested in the Green army men from Toy Story which were quite well done I may have a bag of them. Also got some tanks and other Plastic Army men in my to-sell bin, shoot me a PM if you're interested. I don't have a ton of figures but I've got ALOT of the army man accessories that I had at one time intended for wargame use.
Easy E wrote: Some of you may know that I had a large (and pretty awesome) collection of Green Army Men. I use them to play some games from time to time:
However, in a recent move the shippers lost my big tin of Green Army Men so I need to replace them. I am loathe to buy them online blind since so many of them are just really cheap. I want a slightly better quality.
Do any of you guys have the name of a decent manufacturer I can order from online that makes a decent quality Green Army Man, preferable the Vietnam or WWII ones.
Sorry to hear about that. Here's a few options.
-The original and best manufacturer of the Vietnam army men, M48 tanks, and other classics is probably "Tim Mee Toys". You can find them on Amazon. They cost a bit more but they're made in the USA and almost all of the vietnam figs that aren't Tim Mee are knock-offs and likely lower quality.
-If you're interested in WW2, there's a bucket of 4 types of WW2 troops that's also fairly common on Amazon. The quality of the figs isn't quite what it was back in the day, but you get US, British, German and Japanese troops in one pack.
Those were the two I was looking for specifically. Thank you.
Thanks - those are great toys KK, but a little big for 40k (about 1/18th scale)
I’ve bought quite a collection of them for my boy. At about $2 USD per mini (fully articulated, painted and assembled) and $15-$30 for most vehicles, the pricing comparison to GW is stark.
Lads, I need some help and your the best lot to ask.
I need 1:56/28mm civilian vehicles that are cheap, and maybe a couple of military ones if you know any good ones.
Any ideas?
UK based, so UK shops would help.
master of ordinance wrote: Lads, I need some help and your the best lot to ask.
I need 1:56/28mm civilian vehicles that are cheap, and maybe a couple of military ones if you know any good ones.
Any ideas?
UK based, so UK shops would help.
This set has the ambulances and APCs I showed up there, the truck and tank should also work.
master of ordinance wrote: Lads, I need some help and your the best lot to ask.
I need 1:56/28mm civilian vehicles that are cheap, and maybe a couple of military ones if you know any good ones.
Any ideas?
UK based, so UK shops would help.
Alternatively for civilian, I just buy 1/48 and 1/43 die cast cars at resale shops and sometimes in whatever retail outlet they appear in. That may sound big since those scales are closer to 35mm'ish but with most "28mm" figs being 30mm+ these days, heroic in proportion, and sitting on a 3mm base, 1/48 and 1/43 vehicles generally end up looking quite good. They have formed backdrop, terrain, and even drivable vehicles for numerous post-apoc, zombie, Superhero and even sci-fi games over the years.
I haven't gone through the whole thread so apologies if it's already been mentioned.
The Thomas & Friends Super Station
Kids got this from a generous & overzealous Aunt & Uncle and it looked so cool I picked up a used one for $40 a few weeks later for the sole purpose of stealing parts for Necromunda/40k. Amazon also apparently has them on sale and you can sell off the trains and any extra tacks you don't need to offset the price.
Lots of little details to paint - rubble, pipes, cables lying around the tracks - just pop the face off the crane, paint everything Grimdark and you have a really cool base. You can build it up on the girders for height or lay it flat and encircle it with track.
The green army men china oil drums I bought for $3 for 10 look great... better than my GF recasted barrels and cheaper honestly since I only have a small single barrel two part mold.
Thanks for the tip on those barrels. I picked some up, and the same ebay seller had these watch-tower things (with a REALLY wierd name, 'Pavilion Whistle' -- presumably a bad translation) that I picked up as well. Not sure what the scale is going to be but I'm guessing if it works for army men it will work for us. I'll post a pic with an ork boy for scale when they arrive next month (slow boat from China!)
If you have an airbrush and base the space set it'll honestly look great.
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ChargerIIC wrote: Speaking of jumping toy lines. Remember Mage Knight? That Collectible game aimed at teenagers?
Turns out a Dwarven Steam Behemoth is under $20 on eBay and exactly everything a battlewagon should be:
I've used mine from back in the day for a Dwarf Kings of War Steam Behemoth and sold them for around $20+ each after I ditched the army. Solid toy - but really hard to chop up and convert
Not real impressed with the "pavilion whistle" watchtowers. Really thin plastic and quite alot of flashing. Comes in 2 pieces, shown with a couple boyz and a grot for scale. Forgive the awful photo, my phone has a terrible camera.
Cryptek of Awesome wrote: I haven't gone through the whole thread so apologies if it's already been mentioned.
The Thomas & Friends Super Station
Kids got this from a generous & overzealous Aunt & Uncle and it looked so cool I picked up a used one for $40 a few weeks later for the sole purpose of stealing parts for Necromunda/40k. Amazon also apparently has them on sale and you can sell off the trains and any extra tacks you don't need to offset the price.
Lots of little details to paint - rubble, pipes, cables lying around the tracks - just pop the face off the crane, paint everything Grimdark and you have a really cool base. You can build it up on the girders for height or lay it flat and encircle it with track.
Any chance you have pictures of the super station after its been repainted/converted?
I noticed Tech Deck park terrain for those fingerboards and BMX toys and thought the stairs looked a good size for 25mm based models to stand on. Just have to shorten or replace the rails. The ramps were pretty steep looking tho.
There's probably a whole bunch of stairs available for fingerboards and bmx out there. Some of the stairs would look right at home on urban or city tables.
I picked up 2 Hex Bugs fuel trucks at 5 Below (so $10 for both)
They're big but on the crude and under detailed side. They're also more Lego-like than expected, held together by clips sort of like the old Lego Technic sets. So there's room for converting and bashing them.
You could make some interesting "spooky cursed rock" props from those swirly looking boulders with not much effort. The big rock lends itself neatly to some kind of chaotic shrine.
H.B.M.C. wrote: I do love the continued inclusion of the Dimetrodon, something that very specifically wasn't a Dinosaur.
Given how many people believe humans and dinosaurs coexisted, that the average person can't tell an early synapsid (the clade that eventually evolved into mammals) from dinosaurs (which eventually evolved into birds) doesn't surprise me in the least.
H.B.M.C. wrote: I do love the continued inclusion of the Dimetrodon, something that very specifically wasn't a Dinosaur.
Given how many people believe humans and dinosaurs coexisted, that the average person can't tell an early synapsid (the clade that eventually evolved into mammals) from dinosaurs (which eventually evolved into birds) doesn't surprise me in the least.
Well they did and still do. I eat dinosaurs once or twice a week. Mmmm...dinosaur...er chicken!
Easy E wrote: What is scarier than fighting dinosaurs in the Lost World?
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Fighting skeletal Dinosaurs in the Lost World!
When you think about how powerful a lich is after being dead only a few centuries, surely undead dino liches must be some of the most powerful creatures on Earth!
If you are looking for a cheap "clutter" to decorate your gaming table, 1920-1950 cars in between 1:43 and 1:60 scales are ideal. Give them some weathering or maybe hit them with a hammer a couple of times before putting them into a fireplace to create a realistically-looking wreck and you are good to go.
Hawky wrote: If you are looking for a cheap "clutter" to decorate your gaming table, 1920-1950 cars in between 1:43 and 1:60 scales are ideal. Give them some weathering or maybe hit them with a hammer a couple of times before putting them into a fireplace to create a realistically-looking wreck and you are good to go.
Something of interest to ship and starship builders...
47 modern ships, planes and choppers. Cut em up and glue em to a Space Hulk, paint them up as transports and escorts, heck write your own South China Sea wargame! For $15 why not?
I'll be sure to post pics when I get mine. It looks like you get at least 2 of everything (black team and grey team) so some things like stacking the subs hull to hull to make a 3d ship are easy.
Lots of turrets and wings to clip off too.
Fingers crossed it's styrene and not PVC. Even though I know in my heart it's PVC.
Years ago I used WW1'ish toy army men cannons to make flavorful mounts for my IG heavy weapons.
Now clearly they are way too big to truly be man-portable, but 40k isn't about logic and I think that Lascannons that look like light artillery is just cool. I just pulled the guns off, put the lascannon bodies in and attached the power packs with a piece of bass guitar wire.
Using the original mount for the Autocannon, putting Lascannons on these mounts and making the missile launcher's standing-shoulder mounted, you can easily get 3 HW teams out of 1 HW sprue.
They were unavailable for quite a while, but they're back and cheap as chips.
Interestingly, the spindly wheels have been replaced with larger wheels that look even more 40k.
If it doesn't make sense, when I was growing up almost all the army men were these exact poses in this glossy green plastic (the tan army didn't appear till Desert Storm in 1991).
Any of our resident 3d sculptors interested in the idea?
Can I just call out the total appropriation of the most iconic combat scene in sci fi history without even a hint of trying to have Ripley involved? I mean if they actually wanted to make it a proper combat mech, they could at least have attempted to change the colour scheme from industrial loader yellow...
I'm not saying we're going to buy a $100 Playmobile City Action Police Headquarters with Prison Set to convert into an Adeptus Arbites Fortress Precinct.
I'm just saying no one can say we won't buy a $100 Playmobile City Action Police Headquarters with Prison Set to convert into an Adeptus Arbites Fortress Precinct.
In case anyone wants to think about things like "How much work will it be to repaint that?", the Playmobil site has the instructions for it online, and there's also an extension kit available if you want to extend the walls.
I went in on the KS, so I have plenty of them (and I paid a lot more for them to boot), but for anyone who enjoys spaceship minis I recommend them.
Automatically Appended Next Post: On closer inspection, the bag appears to contain the fleet carriers for both factions as well as the versatile logistics ship. Maybe I do need to buy one.
So I got my Maxx Action Navy and Air Force! Amazon review below.
When I was a kid I loved the old Helen of Toy games with their toy tanks, battleships and aircraft carriers and spent hours staging massive land, sea and air wars. And later space once I discovered Space Battleship Yamato/Star Blazers. So this set is a perfect update to them.
You get 40+ ships and planes and even two islands to fight over in one 7"x8" tub that makes cleaning up and storage easy.
The pieces are big, the aircraft carrier is over 7" and even the small planes are 2" each. You get at least two of each ship, in black and grey, and four of some of the smaller items like the planes.
The ships themselves are a montage from World War II battleships to modern nuclear subs and littoral combat ships. The planes are mostly modern and mostly US/NATO. In addition there's a transport plane and two sub-hunting helicopters for more elaborate scenarios.
I'd say, unless you object to war toys on principle (which as a parent I completely understand), this is a fine gift for kids who are into that sort of thing. Cheap, durable, useful and easy to store.
As for me, these days I'm into more elaborate space games and I'm not sure how useful they would be for something like that. Needless to say the pieces are not in scale to one another and are too big for most uses. I may cut them up to make wrecks and kitbashes but that's about the only use. Though the two islands might make for a nice asteroid base/space hulk...
I'd add, a BFG cuirser is like 3.5", a battleship 5" so these will dwarf anything on the table as well as obviously being navy ships. So unless you have a very clever plan space hulks and wrecks is about it for them. The Red Alert bags above are better if you want cheap filler ships.
That being said, I'll be doing a pretty snazzy new Space Hulk soon I think...
Yeah, they have TONS of awesome stuff. I won't be using it for gaming purposes, though. You see, my 7 year old daughter is absolutely in LOVE with Playmobil, and if she catches a set like that coming in the door? Out come the "Dad's a freaking pushover" eyes and I cave. So I'll save myself the effort.
Llamahead wrote:Posted this before but it's really useful and widely available in the UK so.....
£6 in Poundstretcher currently available and looks the part straight of the bat.
Okay, I need to know what that's called and how to get at least four of them because good GOD does that need to be on my Lustria table...
Llamahead wrote:Posted this before but it's really useful and widely available in the UK so.....
£6 in Poundstretcher currently available and looks the part straight of the bat.
Okay, I need to know what that's called and how to get at least four of them because good GOD does that need to be on my Lustria table...
I don't have a clue what it's called I'm afraid it was brought from a cheap bargain shop it's aquarium stuff if that helps.....
It regularly bounces around between £14-20, I got it for 13.93 yesterday - tempted while digging up the previous link - and not disappointed in the flesh, it’s 11 3/4” high and virtually table ready. Just need to add some plank floors to let figures get further inside - away from the dinosaurs!
Looking up Epoch Capsule Collection finds this product as well as a series of robot minis, including an Ultron-looking robot sitting at a gothic writing desk. There also appear to be a set of religious statues that could prove useful.
Still no idea what Dokuro means, but I’m more sure than ever that it’s made up of transliterated English words or word parts.
ドクロ is 髑髏 in kanji, and apparently refers to a clean, bare human skull, at least according to Wikipedia. Google ドクロby itself and you get all sorts of spooky stuff, including charcoal.
JoshInJapan wrote: ドクロ is 髑髏 in kanji, and apparently refers to a clean, bare human skull, at least according to Wikipedia. Google ドクロby itself and you get all sorts of spooky stuff, including charcoal.
Huh. I stand corrected. So, why use katakana if the word can be written in kanji?
JoshInJapan wrote: ドクロ is 髑髏 in kanji, and apparently refers to a clean, bare human skull, at least according to Wikipedia. Google ドクロby itself and you get all sorts of spooky stuff, including charcoal.
Huh. I stand corrected. So, why use katakana if the word can be written in kanji?
Style.
It's like italics or a fancy font or misspelling the name of your product on purpose.
JoshInJapan wrote: ドクロ is 髑髏 in kanji, and apparently refers to a clean, bare human skull, at least according to Wikipedia. Google ドクロby itself and you get all sorts of spooky stuff, including charcoal.
Huh. I stand corrected. So, why use katakana if the word can be written in kanji?
Style.
It's like italics or a fancy font or misspelling the name of your product on purpose.
This is quite likely. Also, there are a lot of words that people just don't use the kanji for, either because they are so difficult to write or because they are used so rarely that no one can read them. Like 薔薇, or the kanji for all but the most common fish.
Hooded Executioners are not that bad - I mean any kid doing history of someone like Henry VIII is going to see at least two of them in the story with artwork/depictions of someone with a sword/axe wearing a hood.
It's about as scary/bad/dark as a knight with a sword
Overread wrote: Hooded Executioners are not that bad - I mean any kid doing history of someone like Henry VIII is going to see at least two of them in the story with artwork/depictions of someone with a sword/axe wearing a hood.
It's about as scary/bad/dark as a knight with a sword
But underneath the hood is a big smiley face! The horror!
Playmobil is amazing in the sheer scope it encompasses. From historical to fantasy to medieval to sci fi there's literally EVERYTHING in there. I wish they could get the license to do Marvel and DC sets, I'd love to have those characters finally in a shared scale that doesn't involve expensive snap together bricks I don't give a gak about.
Just Tony wrote: Playmobil is amazing in the sheer scope it encompasses. From historical to fantasy to medieval to sci fi there's literally EVERYTHING in there. I wish they could get the license to do Marvel and DC sets, I'd love to have those characters finally in a shared scale that doesn't involve expensive snap together bricks I don't give a gak about.
I dunno, never really like Playmobile, it had the abstraction of Legos but without the custom ability. Might just be an acquired taste if you didn't grow up with them.
Playmobil excels in quality for cost - the toys are just really beautifully made - even from simple plastics. They're robust and long-lasting. Had plenty growing up, and have a bunch stashed for the kids later in life.
I played many a WW2 battle as a kid - using large beautiful european houses and castles from Playmobil, etc.
I preferred Lego growing up, but me and my brother had plenty of both, and thanks to it's longevity all of it is now being played with by my Niece who is carrying on expanding them both
OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote: I preferred Lego growing up, but me and my brother had plenty of both, and thanks to it's longevity all of it is now being played with by my Niece who is carrying on expanding them both
My favoured revision aid through GCSEs and A levels.
45 minutes head in book, 15 minutes trying to use as much of my Space LEGO bits as I could to make a massive cruiser before it collapsed under its own weight.
OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote: I preferred Lego growing up, but me and my brother had plenty of both, and thanks to it's longevity all of it is now being played with by my Niece who is carrying on expanding them both
My favoured revision aid through GCSEs and A levels.
45 minutes head in book, 15 minutes trying to use as much of my Space LEGO bits as I could to make a massive cruiser before it collapsed under its own weight.
In my neighborhood the goal was to make a ship that could withstand reentry, by which I mean tossing it off a flight of stairs.
While we're on the topic of Playmobil...their pirate ships which come in/out of production often (frequently with changed sails or crew) are superb robust bases for 28-32mm style ships. They're dirt cheap, and really solid.
In fact, I just remembered I have one of these damn Playmobils ships sitting in a box somewhere...maybe a hobby project!
OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote: I preferred Lego growing up, but me and my brother had plenty of both, and thanks to it's longevity all of it is now being played with by my Niece who is carrying on expanding them both
My favoured revision aid through GCSEs and A levels.
45 minutes head in book, 15 minutes trying to use as much of my Space LEGO bits as I could to make a massive cruiser before it collapsed under its own weight.
In my neighborhood the goal was to make a ship that could withstand reentry, by which I mean tossing it off a flight of stairs.
Adventure Force 40 and 50 count tubs of figures have surprisingly good terrain included. The farm set has two amazing trees, and after a search I found a safari set that has three of those trees along with a ton of molded plastic rocks. All for about $6 to $15 depending on the piece count.
Found something that takes minimal work to get to decent at my dollar store for $5:
Spoiler:
The lids fit on snugly and the clear parts assemble separately from the opaque plastic parts. You can make plasma generators etc and a cheap LED tealight easily hides out of view for dramatic lighting. The palace heads on the concrete base are pretty nice too.
The sets are slanted towards the bigger ships, 4", with some medium 3" and a few small at 2".
For reference in BFG cruisers are about 3.5", battleships 5", escorts 1.5"
The style of the ship is kind of 'generically futurey' which may not be a bad thing since they will look and feel equally at home in the Final Frontier, a Galaxy Far, Far Away and the Grim Darkness of the Far Future.
There a red pencily ones and green boxy ones with a few grey wide bodies in there.
Like the dime store ships I picked a while back I see them mainly as filler like transports or wrecks are the makings of another Space Hulk.
These will definitely join the transport armada as Rogue Trader Supply Barges.
These 3 can be the makings of a quick and dirty Marine Fleet, Battle Barge, Strike Cruisers and an oversized escort.
They feel like PVC plastic but I have no real plans to convert them, I like the idea of taking them out of the bag and painting. Still have to see how well they take primer and paint.
So not a great buy but certainly a fine one with lots of uses if/when I return to ship painting.
I’ve painted* a few of them, but I don’t remember if I primed them or just painted them directly like Bones minis. So far, the paint has held...but I’m not exactly using them every week.
DominayTrix wrote: Found something that takes minimal work to get to decent at my dollar store for $5:
Spoiler:
The lids fit on snugly and the clear parts assemble separately from the opaque plastic parts. You can make plasma generators etc and a cheap LED tealight easily hides out of view for dramatic lighting. The palace heads on the concrete base are pretty nice too.
Which dollar store? If I can sell my wife on giving my daughter the slime mix, I can probably add that baby to my 40K terrain.
DominayTrix wrote: Found something that takes minimal work to get to decent at my dollar store for $5:
Spoiler:
The lids fit on snugly and the clear parts assemble separately from the opaque plastic parts. You can make plasma generators etc and a cheap LED tealight easily hides out of view for dramatic lighting. The palace heads on the concrete base are pretty nice too.
Which dollar store? If I can sell my wife on giving my daughter the slime mix, I can probably add that baby to my 40K terrain.
Those ships look great Kid! I could see those being the basis for a great spaceship game and would work well in the upcoming A Billion Suns or Full Thrust too.
So... once again I had the thought of "why not buy the old Guns of Navarone mountain playset on ebay and turn it into 2' tall 40k terrain" but managed to fight it down barely.
Damn that was a cool toy.
In the process I found some interesting bunkers and toy soldier type sets for 40k, Titanitucs or whatever.
What continues to amuse me is that...as a kid, my father was a big toy nut (he's a military gamer/modeler himself) so I've owned almost everything posted on this page - all of the old plastic toy soldier stuff. I had the later pictured mountain set, the plastic Marx trays, the chintzy castle, etc. I wish I'd held onto some of that stuff - but I moved a lot later in life.
Elbows wrote: What continues to amuse me is that...as a kid, my father was a big toy nut (he's a military gamer/modeler himself) so I've owned almost everything posted on this page - all of the old plastic toy soldier stuff. I had the later pictured mountain set, the plastic Marx trays, the chintzy castle, etc. I wish I'd held onto some of that stuff - but I moved a lot later in life.
Any thoughts on the Marx trays? Of all the things I found that tempted me the most, seems an easy way to make a cool battlefield on any table. Also seems good for storage which has to be a priority.
I haven't had them for 20+ years, but I remember them being pretty damn sturdy. Not terribly detailed (but you can fix that). What's important though is that the stuff like the Marx trays have been re-cast or re-manufactured by heaps of companies. So the ones I had may have been from a different manufacturer, etc.
Cost wise they're competitive, they are hollow-plastic like realm of battle boards (hence I'd HATE rolling dice on them). Not much in the way of variety, so your whole table would be the same 4 styles or whatever is available.
I'd probably suggest them for skirmish games before I would a full 40K table.
I will just point out the official Tim Mee toy website for all your plastic army men needs. There was stuff on there that I had forgotten about or never even saw!
Easy E wrote: I will just point out the official Tim Mee toy website for all your plastic army men needs. There was stuff on there that I had forgotten about or never even saw!
Easy E wrote: I will just point out the official Tim Mee toy website for all your plastic army men needs. There was stuff on there that I had forgotten about or never even saw!
Welcome to the future…where humanity is under constant attack from a brutal alien threat. The Komplex spreads through the galaxy and growing stronger with each species they defeat and assimilate. To fight them, humanity relies on an elite team, the Forge, who pilots their own armada of spacecraft known as Snap Ships.
Now YOU can Build to Battle! Snap Ships is a versatile building system for creating multiple crafts with action play, and all sets and pieces are interchangeable, so kids can build however they want. The Snap Ships set for Gladius includes instruction for two builds (ship and attack rover) that you assemble yourself and then engage in battle with real shooting weapon play! Gladius AC-75 Drop Ship is large and heavily armed so that it can clear landing zones and deploy a fast attack rover for ground missions. Gladius is piloted by Commander Dex and the spunky Dee La, two of the Forge’s best pilots. Battle gets really interesting when you add the mysterious UJU tech piece that’s included!
Download the free Snap Ships app for more action play and more ship build ideas! All Snap Ships sets are modular and designed to be combined to build whatever you can imagine!
lord_blackfang wrote: That doesn't look great for scale model type wargames, but neat as its own thing, maybe like Brik Wars
Imagine them with tank treads glued over the gaps and battleship light cannon on the planes, then sprayed black, painted blue, grey and yellow, then dry rushed white to within an inch of their lives.
Automatically Appended Next Post: For more fighter-scale ships, replace treads with 1/48 fuel tank halves and battleship guns with 1/72 air-to-air ordnance.
The description says its dimensions are 14x19x4". Which should be plenty big. But it’s an Amera Plastic Mouldings model and is listed as a 28mm scale model...
cygnnus wrote: The description says its dimensions are 14x19x4". Which should be plenty big. But it’s an Amera Plastic Mouldings model and is listed as a 28mm scale model...
I think it was Kid_Kyoto who mentioned the Aliens APC above? Unfortunately, it is far too big to be used as a Chimera/Taurox tier APC for 28mm Imperial Guardsmen. It could see use as a Battlewagon equivalent, which is what I intend to do with the two I bought.
Welcome to the future…where humanity is under constant attack from a brutal alien threat. The Komplex spreads through the galaxy and growing stronger with each species they defeat and assimilate. To fight them, humanity relies on an elite team, the Forge, who pilots their own armada of spacecraft known as Snap Ships.
Now YOU can Build to Battle! Snap Ships is a versatile building system for creating multiple crafts with action play, and all sets and pieces are interchangeable, so kids can build however they want. The Snap Ships set for Gladius includes instruction for two builds (ship and attack rover) that you assemble yourself and then engage in battle with real shooting weapon play! Gladius AC-75 Drop Ship is large and heavily armed so that it can clear landing zones and deploy a fast attack rover for ground missions. Gladius is piloted by Commander Dex and the spunky Dee La, two of the Forge’s best pilots. Battle gets really interesting when you add the mysterious UJU tech piece that’s included!
Download the free Snap Ships app for more action play and more ship build ideas! All Snap Ships sets are modular and designed to be combined to build whatever you can imagine!
DAMN YOU KID!!!!!!!!!! These look so awesome I was up on my puter and screamed "SO BLOODY AWESOME COOL" and came running down stairs to our bed room and the GF just looked at me and was like "How much?"....
Damn she knows me to well. Going to have to pick these up.
"This just in people: Spider-Man is not just a menace, but an airborne menace! The scared people of this great city are used to seeing the chaotic crawler swinging his way through the city, but now he has his own unauthorised attack craft! People of New York, listen to me clearly, the webbed terror is capable of flying anywhere and destroying anything in the city at a whim. Duck and cover people! Duck and cover!" - J Jonah Jameson
TBF it's an improvement over Leopardon anyway right ?
Takuya's Spider-Man costume. Unlike his Marvel counterpart, Takuya keeps his outfit stored inside his Spider Bracelet and wears it only when changing identities. When Takuya releases it from his bracelet, it instantly wraps onto his body, allowing Takuya to change into it easily.
daft idea , a quick change costume system would never.... umm...
reds8n wrote: TBF it's an improvement over Leopardon anyway right ?
Takuya's Spider-Man costume. Unlike his Marvel counterpart, Takuya keeps his outfit stored inside his Spider Bracelet and wears it only when changing identities. When Takuya releases it from his bracelet, it instantly wraps onto his body, allowing Takuya to change into it easily.
daft idea , a quick change costume system would never.... umm...
I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised that he can call a mecha.
reds8n wrote: TBF it's an improvement over Leopardon anyway right ?
Takuya's Spider-Man costume. Unlike his Marvel counterpart, Takuya keeps his outfit stored inside his Spider Bracelet and wears it only when changing identities. When Takuya releases it from his bracelet, it instantly wraps onto his body, allowing Takuya to change into it easily.
daft idea , a quick change costume system would never.... umm...
I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised that he can call a mecha.
Excuse me! Excuse me! That is not just some personalized VTOL attack craft it is in fact Spider-Man's personal JETQUARTERS
Well it must be the 21st Century. In the early 80s, Spidey had to make do with this Corgi van, which is 1/48 scale or thereabout if you wanted to throw one into one of the Marvel Games (tenuous attempt to keep on wargaming topic).
Superman had one as well but he also had a dildo looking car with two extending fists on the sides!
I am not putting that into a search engine for a photo.
Well it must be the 21st Century. In the early 80s, Spidey had to make do with this Corgi van, which is 1/48 scale or thereabout if you wanted to throw one into one of the Marvel Games (tenuous attempt to keep on wargaming topic).
Superman had one as well but he also had a dildo looking car with two extending fists on the sides!
I am not putting that into a search engine for a photo.
OMG I just noticed the logo, it's literally Spider Man with the vertical lines in the M erased to make Spider 'V'an. That's both awesome and incredibly lazy. Yet it works.
I'm happy to add Peter Parker's awesome airbrushed van with a waterbed to my head canon.
The first wave includes three figures — Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow, and the Baroness — and two vehicles. The Cobra H.I.S.S. comes with a Driver while the G.I. Joe A.W.E. Striker includes a Crankcase action figure.
The G.I. Joe Retro Collection is available this October, exclusively at Walmart.
Those artillery pieces look pretty good, might get some of those. On topic, I'm a big proponent of using legos for builds, individual pieces are easy to come by on places like brick link and are just a few cents per piece mostly. Here's one example I cam up with by digging throw my old lego toy box and my spare bits box. I think legos have a lot of untapped potential when it comes to use for conversions or scenery.
The first wave includes three figures — Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow, and the Baroness — and two vehicles. The Cobra H.I.S.S. comes with a Driver while the G.I. Joe A.W.E. Striker includes a Crankcase action figure.
The G.I. Joe Retro Collection is available this October, exclusively at Walmart.
Thanks for the heads up..... that's Xmas gift requests sorted!
I hope the GI Joe retro collection sees more vehicles and options - I've been trying to rebuild my old Joe collection and need an affordable Rattler
(BTW, those three figures appear to be from the Rise of Cobra movie - I've got that Baroness figure.
And thanks for posting the toy soldiers/tanks too - that lead me to discover reproductions of an old Marx WW2 playset I had when I was like 8 years old, and will now be in my grasp on Friday!!! Tabletop gaming the old fashion way - with marbles, bang-bang noises and finger-tossing booms!
I imagine the GI Joe reissues is driven by what molds are available and in good shape. They get the cost savings AND get to sell nostalgia to fans who are now parents themselves (or still kids at heart).
While the HISS is cool and iconic the AWE Striker, not so much. Certainly not when compared to the VAMP.
They did the limited Decepticon Sky Striker a while back so maybe that mold is still usable. Can't remember the last time they reissued the Rattler though.
oh boy, i still have a bunch of my gen1 GIjoe stuff, would love to get a rattler or a snow cat.
Walmart did something similar with gen 1/2 transformers, allowed me to get hotrod so now i have the entire move collection set-kup, arcee, hotrod, blurr, springer good stuff.
I'm seriously considering getting some of those Snap Ships. I don't even see much use for them in any wargaming I do, they're just way too cool! I might get some and see what kind of crazy spaceships I can come up with, reawaken the 10-year-old inside me. Might even find some inspiration for the sci-fi novel I've been wanting to write for years.
ZergSmasher wrote: I'm seriously considering getting some of those Snap Ships. I don't even see much use for them in any wargaming I do, they're just way too cool! I might get some and see what kind of crazy spaceships I can come up with, reawaken the 10-year-old inside me. Might even find some inspiration for the sci-fi novel I've been wanting to write for years.
I bought the interceptor for my son. Its an interesting idea. The body is built out of these cube-blocks and they you just add all the spaceship bits on. He enjoys it a lot since it can get 'battle-damaged'
If those snap ships were around 20odd years ago I would have loved them. Heck I there was some pushfit ground army space toy that was similarly modular that I loved playing with
I actually picked up a couple of the Snap Ships earlier today (they are now available at Target in the US at least). I put them together, and I have to say I'm pretty impressed! They must be popular too, as there weren't very many left on the shelf when I bought them. Younger me would have been blown away to have something like this, especially if I had a bunch of them to combine into one huge mega-ship or something. However, I'm not sure they really have any wargaming uses except maybe as an objective (like, defend the dropship or something).
ZergSmasher wrote: I actually picked up a couple of the Snap Ships earlier today (they are now available at Target in the US at least). I put them together, and I have to say I'm pretty impressed! They must be popular too, as there weren't very many left on the shelf when I bought them. Younger me would have been blown away to have something like this, especially if I had a bunch of them to combine into one huge mega-ship or something. However, I'm not sure they really have any wargaming uses except maybe as an objective (like, defend the dropship or something).
Can you post a picture of them next to some minis, I still don't know how they look alongside 28mm figures.
ZergSmasher wrote: I actually picked up a couple of the Snap Ships earlier today (they are now available at Target in the US at least). I put them together, and I have to say I'm pretty impressed! They must be popular too, as there weren't very many left on the shelf when I bought them. Younger me would have been blown away to have something like this, especially if I had a bunch of them to combine into one huge mega-ship or something. However, I'm not sure they really have any wargaming uses except maybe as an objective (like, defend the dropship or something).
Can you post a picture of them next to some minis, I still don't know how they look alongside 28mm figures.
I'll see if I can get a pic. They are at about 1/100 scale, which makes them just slightly smaller than the existing GW kits. The interceptor is about six and half inches long, compared to my Dark Talon, that come in around eight inches. The cockipts are noticably smaller - you won't be sticking a mini in an open cockpit.
I bought a scythe for myself so I can use the wheels on my next MegaTrakk Skrappjet.
Small fleet of Snap Ships on their way, let's see what we get. If nothing else the kids will... actually they'll scowl and say they hate Star Wars and probably throw them.
Kids suck.
Sorry, where was I? Oh yes.
$4 plastic pipe toy. Thinking gunmetal spray paint then grey then brown ink.
I just found some on AliExpress - search for 'Puzzle Block Pipes' and you'll get a bunch of variations and pack sizes. Just picked up a pack with a bunch of pipes and some nice looking cog wheels.
That's a really great job with that train! Did think there was no way to make that work from the stock photo, but it fits right in with those modifications and paint job.
We can go back and forth all day about who ordered what and when. Let's just agree that mistakes might have been made and we'll just have to do our best.
We can go back and forth all day about who ordered what and when. Let's just agree that mistakes might have been made and we'll just have to do our best.
Ooh, have fun with those! They really are fun to put together! I wish my local Target had the big dropship one, but alas if I want it I'll probably have to order it.
So I built my first Snap Ship today. Literally 5 minutes from box to done.
Bottom line, too small for 40k but great for 15mm or smaller and lots of potentially useful bits for conversions and scratch builds.
They use a core of blocks that clip together and then you attach various wings, cockpits, engines and other accessories. The parts are pre-painted so within minutes you have a nice looking fighter about 5" long. And if you don't like that design you can pull it apart and have a different ship in minutes.
I'll be trying the big dropship soon and then see if they can be bashed into something suitable for 40k.
I've used real world 1/32 weapons before and, despite being for a bigger scale, they still looked puny on a GW figure. I wonder it these thicker guns might look better.
i think i need to take a scale shot... my son has quite a stash of these... build D- day diorama last year in lego... but i doubt they would fit... perhaps ogryn sized...
Yeah, I have a bunch of these that I have no idea where they came from... but they're far too large for minis. I hadn't even realised they were for lego, and had put them aside for the girls to use with their Star Wars figures.
12" long and almost as wide with a Primaris level of guns tacked on.
There's even a little dune buggy that drops out of it at the touch of a button!
Unlike the others I can see this kit working with 28mm figures with just some minimal work. I'm thinking of canibilizing the dune buggy to make landing gear, removing some of the superfluous guns and making the center bay look more like a troop bay.
Though looking at it with a Taurox it might be big enough to hold a Rhino or Chimera...
There's some bits I don't like, the front engine pods are a bit too big and the attachement point not quite strong enough but that's easy to fix. I mean rebuilding the things is the whole point!
So for under $40, yeah, this is a good buy.
Automatically Appended Next Post: I dunno how interesting this would be to anyone who's not working on a space port table and in Egypt but...
A not~Helicarrier about a foot long (I estimate) big enough to carry some cargo crates or a tank or two on its deck and infantry in its hull.
And its companion, which is apparently also called the Parking Lot.
Available for $17 from Mysilkway.com (which I've never used and appears to be based in Ukraine and Azerbaijan) but also available from Souq.com if you happen to be in Egypt. If anyone sees a more accessible supplier let me know.
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