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Always with the gasmasks..

Well its because they're the baddies of course. The Allies are bare faced...

Practically speaking I'd explain away the gas masks as being a counter measure against chemical weapons. Its perhaps not well known, but Churchill - against the views of his advisers - was an advocate for using chemical weapons. It didn't come to that, but gas was stockpiled (in not insubstantial amounts) for Operation Sealion, with proposals for dropping it on the beaches (and cities) if it came to it. In worlds where the war goes badly for whatever reason there's the potential that one side or the other takes the respective nuclear option. ...Ah, though perhaps a better term might be better in a WWII context.

Or people just really like the Gas Masked Gestapo look. ...Personally I don't model them often with my own alt-history stuff to avoid the trope too much.

 Compel wrote:
11 is ok. River is ok-ish.

Honestly though? I'd expect as much likeness from, I dunno, 15 mm models? Nevermind 35mm. These are horrendous for 35mm.

They are bad, especially when you compare them to the Crooked Dice ones (RIP in Peace). But just because they've got the Dr Who licence doesn't mean they have a licence to make models based on the likeness of the actors, that can be a different thing altogether (and certainly seems to be in most of these cases)

 Pete Melvin wrote:

 Compel wrote:
11 is ok. River is ok-ish.

Honestly though? I'd expect as much likeness from, I dunno, 15 mm models? Nevermind 35mm. These are horrendous for 35mm.

They are bad, especially when you compare them to the Crooked Dice ones (RIP in Peace). But just because they've got the Dr Who licence doesn't mean they have a licence to make models based on the likeness of the actors, that can be a different thing altogether (and certainly seems to be in most of these cases)

Haha, You know it's bad when people start doubting you're even trying to get the likenesses right!

On likenesses, I wonder if there isn't a rights issue, like Pete said, it's possible to have rights to a character but not an actor. IIRC BSG had that issue with the comics.

On the SS, yeah I hadn't thought of it but the implication is the Allies use chemical weapons but the Axis do not! Maybe the Axis are just paranoid?

I think they pretty obviously have the rights to likenesses. They just aren't good sculpts

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
On likenesses, I wonder if there isn't a rights issue, like Pete said, it's possible to have rights to a character but not an actor. IIRC BSG had that issue with the comics.

On the SS, yeah I hadn't thought of it but the implication is the Allies use chemical weapons but the Axis do not! Maybe the Axis are just paranoid?

Hitler was dead set against the use of chemical weapons (though it wasn't universal within the Nazi high command). The Germans were aware that if they used them that the Allies, with their powerful air force, would have gone ahead and outmatched them on that front. Meanwhile in the Far East the Japanese made extensive use of them - however they expressively chose not to use it against "Westerners". Though the Allies tipped their had a bit in the use of gas, besides Churchill's fiasco (he signed off on training British suicide bombers as well...), when a US ship blew up in Australia ...online to spew tonnes of gas out of its hold.

Ah, but that's maybe a bit too serious for a game of toy soldiers (Warlord's stance seems to be a "no comment" when it comes to including chemical weapons rules in their games).

For those interested but a lot of people are asking for more cards for existing miniatures, from the FB page:



They are coming, hopefully sooner than later. I think what may have taken them so long isn't just the existing miniatures but also future releases they have to make sure and announce at the same time.

Hitler was a survivor of gas attacks during the first world war. From correspondence it seemed like some of that stemmed to not using it, or what you had said Wyrm. Maybe a little of both. Things aside, I do like them models, got the Marines and painted them p and loved them.