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After seeing the Most Expensive Table Ever (TM) with all the dead Titans I wondered how it could be done on a sane budget.
the chance is high that this table was not very expensive at all, in my old club we had a similar 6x4 table but with Thunderhawks
1 guy in the club ordered a single one and all the miscasts and wrongly shipped items (like 2 left wings) were enough to get a table full
No, it was. It was made by TabletopTime, a sister channel of Jazza.
How big are the Lightyear Zyclops that come with the pods compared to 28mm/15mm?
Thanks!
.Only a fool believes there is such a thing as price gouging. Things have value determined by the creator or merchant. If you don't agree with that value, you are free not to purchase.
How big are the Lightyear Zyclops that come with the pods compared to 28mm/15mm?
Thanks!
They're 41mm sole to eyeline.
Thanks!
The Reaper holyknight/paladin looks great btw. I could never figure how I wanted to paint mine.
.Only a fool believes there is such a thing as price gouging. Things have value determined by the creator or merchant. If you don't agree with that value, you are free not to purchase.
How big are the Lightyear Zyclops that come with the pods compared to 28mm/15mm?
Thanks!
They're 41mm sole to eyeline.
Thanks!
The Reaper holyknight/paladin looks great btw. I could never figure how I wanted to paint mine.
Ha! Thanks, I'll tell my buddy who painted it. He was getting rid of a bunch of figs and I thought,
"I'll have that!"
IIRC, I also had one and couldn't ever quite decide how to paint it.
As for the Zyclopses, I think they're basic, but nice enough to be worth painting up, maybe even adding some weapons. Who doesn't need a squad of retro futuristic killer robots?
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So all of these are very starwars, so limited value if you aren't looking for that... But if you need a starwars ship close to 28mm/32mm scale. these are pretty good... Star Wars Mission Fleet.
And if you have a local Ollie's... they are $5 each currently.
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I don't know if these are 'from' something or not, but they are impressive. Two 12" long dragon lizard dinosaur things for $21. Perfect for my upcoming City of Bad Hydras compaign.
Smokestack wrote: So all of these are very starwars, so limited value if you aren't looking for that... But if you need a starwars ship close to 28mm/32mm scale. these are pretty good... Star Wars Mission Fleet.
And if you have a local Ollie's... they are $5 each currently.
Dang, I wish I had an Ollie's. That Mandalorian fighter is great!
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Kid_Kyoto wrote: I don't see this in the US but it is around a few countries. It would make for a great large transport or shuttle.
Robozuna Transporter
That is amazing. Been looking for something like that for a while.
Purchased!
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Hot Wheels and Matchbox bikes have long been known to often be around 28mm, but here's a new Matchbox vehicle that scales well.
A Polaris Ranger. Picked this one up at dollar tree. Figure is a Warlord British with head swap.
Based on the actual pic below, I'd say it's darn near perfectly scaled, perhaps a bit big in a way that benefits heroic minis. And is often the case with toy die cast, the wheels are oversized.
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Eilif wrote: Hot Wheels and Matchbox bikes have long been known to often be around 28mm, but here's a new Matchbox vehicle that scales well.
A Polaris Ranger. Picked this one up at dollar tree. Figure is a Warlord British with head swap.
Based on the actual pic below, I'd say it's darn near perfectly scaled, perhaps a bit big in a way that benefits heroic minis. And is often the case with toy die cast, the wheels are oversized.
So I found a motorized train at the dollar store of all places, it runs on 2 AA batteries. Dollarama if you're in Canada, Now the speed is sorta nuts, it keep flying off the track, but in truth its ability to move is really just a novelty, I mostly got it for the track, which it came with quite a bit of. The downside is it's only corner angles, but there are 10 and enough to make a circle. I'm going to grab a second set because it should be enough to cover a 5x4.
The train itself is obviously too big scale wise, but the plan is to make it look the size by making it seem like an armoured troop train. The upside of this is the troop car has enough space on the roof to hold 4-5 bases of infantry, and the plan in game terms is to have it function a bit like a structure and be able to be occupied by infantry detachments. A lot of commuter trains are two level so I want it to just appear to be a big two level troop train. I added a bunch of malika's little bits blitz design dudes and klaus tescher's dark arts miniatures dudes. The top railing bits and the shield generator parts are from grimdark terrain. I also like that the track will work with the grimdak terrain set as well. The monorails are cool but the train cars sit precariously on them, these tracks they fit snug and still look like they make enough contact that its not too distracting.
That looks cool. I would recommend tying the turret into the engine a bit more. It still looks a bit stuck-on. The windows are maybe a bit too big as well. Maybe do them half that height, and have 2 layers of windows in the carriage?
The rest of the gribbly bits look great.
Please excuse any spelling errors. I use a tablet frequently and software keyboards are a pain!
Jenkins: You don't have jurisdiction here!
Smith Jamison: We aren't here, which means when we open up on you and shred your bodies with automatic fire then this will never have happened.
About the Clans: "Those brief outbursts of sense can't hold back the wave of sibko bred, over hormoned sociopaths that they crank out though."
Flinty wrote: That looks cool. I would recommend tying the turret into the engine a bit more. It still looks a bit stuck-on. The windows are maybe a bit too big as well. Maybe do them half that height, and have 2 layers of windows in the carriage?
The rest of the gribbly bits look great.
It's likely to function in game like a structure infantry can occupy. The windows are blast shields, they'll all be painted the same as the armour.
Now as one commentator on Facebook pointed out these are not, strictly speaking, historically accurate. Dinosaurs should have leather armor reinforced by wood since iron smelting would not be developed until several years after the age of the dinosaurs, but a repaint should take care of that.
This has potential as some sort of sci-fi truck, but is a bit too unrealistic. The boxy lines and the lack of a radiator grill show it was designed by someone with no idea how cars actually work.
While this 1/50 jeep/truck/tank thing already looks like it was designed by 40k players.
Jenkins: You don't have jurisdiction here!
Smith Jamison: We aren't here, which means when we open up on you and shred your bodies with automatic fire then this will never have happened.
About the Clans: "Those brief outbursts of sense can't hold back the wave of sibko bred, over hormoned sociopaths that they crank out though."
This has potential as some sort of sci-fi truck, but is a bit too unrealistic. The boxy lines and the lack of a radiator grill show it was designed by someone with no idea how cars actually work.
While this 1/50 jeep/truck/tank thing already looks like it was designed by 40k players.
I'd have to see how it'd look compared to 40K minis, but most of those military vehicles might be good Ork Trukks if the price is right, with the 8 wheeler being a Battle Wagon.
That saucer, though? Scatter 6 or 8 of those around a table and you have an instant power complext to fight around.
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Good finds! I don't think that unrealistic design should be any limitation on the cybertruck. Most sci-fi vehicles have little in the way of practicality. I'm particularly intersted in the fact that it is all flast surfaces so conversions (maybe to a hover vehicle) would be particularly easy.
Those MRAP's look good too. I was just at my local hobby shop and they had several varieties of a similar vehicle in their toy die cast section for about 9 bucks each. I'll try and find an online version.
Those MRAP's look good too. I was just at my local hobby shop and they had several varieties of a similar vehicle in their toy die cast section for about 9 bucks each. I'll try and find an online version.
28mm is about O scale or 1/48 with similar scales being fudgable. I would not go bigger than 1/32.
Toy cars are around 1/64, S scale or 20mm.
6mm/8mm/Epic is ZZ or 1/287, there's more room to fudge there with Z (1/220) or even N scale (1/160) working for buildings.
Unfortunately the most common, HO scale is 1/87 and doesn't really work for either unless something is really scale free.
Spoiler:
Z scale (12/220) works very well for 6/8mm stuff and HO (1/87) can work very well for 15mm (1/100) Cheap too.
This is very timely as I've been doing alot of N scale scenery these last couple weeks.
I've bought a fair number of Outland buildings in N Scale for my 10mm mech games. I use rebased Mechwarrior clix, but CAV, Heavy Gear and some other options are in 10mm/N (1/160) scale as well. They're pretty nice. It's worth checking between Ebay, Amazon and Ali to find the best prices.
Bought and built a few more just a couple weeks ago as seen in the first picture below In the back row you can see the two I built in the blog post. Oneone with new orange panels, one with a new rooftop cafe n-scale model railroad building. The red and white/green/grey buildings are Outland buildings I just bought. The two in front are made from toy buildings (2 story buildings pulled apart and stacked) that were in the Target dollar section many years ago. Should have bought alot more of those!
For cheap N-scale buildings though, the best thing to do is go to a model train show and look for deals. Below that you can see two pictures of Walthers N-scale kits I've been working on: New River Mining and North Island Refinery. Not cheap new, but you never know what you'll find at your local train show,e especially if you're willing to purchase bulidings that are already assembled and those that have missing pieces.
I've also found alot of deals at train sales on O/S scale Plasticville buildings (great for 28mm) and as you point out there are some HO scale buildings that can be adapted fairly easily for other scales. I've scaled a walthers diesel engine house up for 28mm and scaled some Bachmann factories down to 10mm.
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When I have to go to the airport I drive next to a huge petrochemical complex. I'd build one for 28mm gaming if my wife were not to kill me after seeing how much space I'd need.
M.
Jenkins: You don't have jurisdiction here!
Smith Jamison: We aren't here, which means when we open up on you and shred your bodies with automatic fire then this will never have happened.
About the Clans: "Those brief outbursts of sense can't hold back the wave of sibko bred, over hormoned sociopaths that they crank out though."
Miguelsan wrote: When I have to go to the airport I drive next to a huge petrochemical complex. I'd build one for 28mm gaming if my wife were not to kill me after seeing how much space I'd need.
M.
I dream of similar massive complexes. There's a massive one down by Joliet Illinois. I used to pass it at night after gigs and it would be all lit up looking like a dystopian sci Fi city. Perversely inspiring.
However there are allot of smaller ones in and around Chicago that aren't much bigger than the kit I've got.
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