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2019/04/26 19:47:52
Subject: Re:Toys with war gaming or terrain uses
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Otiose in a Niche
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2019/04/30 01:41:51
Subject: Re:Toys with war gaming or terrain uses
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2019/05/22 22:56:14
Subject: Re:Toys with war gaming or terrain uses
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$14 for three tanks, each one bigger than a Land Raider.
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07GJJZW2J/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_4?smid=A2X4OP81CX82CN&psc=1
- Size: Approx 20 x 10.8 x 8.8cm/7.87 x 4.25 x 3.46inch
Good for wrecks or Ork battle wagons if nothing else.
And a possibility for my on-hold landing craft project. Replace the command tower, add some engines...
It COULD work.
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07F7NDQRG/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_1?smid=A356B9SKXB6KHX&psc=1
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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2019/05/22 23:00:22
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2019/06/04 21:12:07
Subject: Re:Toys with war gaming or terrain uses
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2019/06/09 15:01:30
Subject: Re:Toys with war gaming or terrain uses
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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2019/06/10 02:31:43
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2020/01/15 17:30:52
Subject: Re:Toys with war gaming or terrain uses
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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?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07SP536JV
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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2020/01/15 19:09:59
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2020/01/15 20:17:57
Subject: Toys with war gaming or terrain uses
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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.
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2020/01/16 14:15:51
Subject: Re:Toys with war gaming or terrain uses
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2020/01/16 18:00:44
Subject: Re:Toys with war gaming or terrain uses
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One of the sillier ideas floating in my head is to reproduce these guys using IG figures.
https://smile.amazon.com/Kicko-Plastic-Army-Men-Figures/dp/B0734GBJV9/ref=pd_ybh_a_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=F3N6M6WN62SNDE4S1ESK
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?
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2020/01/31 11:52:56
Subject: Re:Toys with war gaming or terrain uses
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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2020/01/31 11:54:36
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2020/02/01 07:15:16
Subject: Re:Toys with war gaming or terrain uses
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Look.
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.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Playmobil-City-Action-Police-Headquarters-with-Prison-Set-9131/174155268034?fbclid=IwAR3hExuykPH7KT91n3IFrhYF07povrFQ8lHWi8c4l_MfS33tbk6GdLsosoo
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.
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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2020/02/01 18:39:01
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2020/02/03 14:26:21
Subject: Re:Toys with war gaming or terrain uses
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This message was edited 2 times. Last update was at 2020/02/03 14:31:11
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2020/02/03 17:58:28
Subject: Toys with war gaming or terrain uses
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3d printers don't tempt me either. Hardly at all.
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2020/02/12 20:42:05
Subject: Re:Toys with war gaming or terrain uses
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Nicked from the Anime model thread.
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2020/02/19 20:25:24
Subject: Re:Toys with war gaming or terrain uses
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I ain't saying this is a good idea OK? But I always liked Higgins boats and 4 for $15 (1/72 scale apparently) is hard to beat.
Add tracks and make mini Gorgons (count as Chimeras)?
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07YNBYVXH/ref=sspa_dk_detail_4
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2020/02/20 15:27:17
Subject: Re:Toys with war gaming or terrain uses
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Just for reference here, measurents of 40k vehicles.
https://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Scale_Model_Kits_for_40K
Can someone help update this?
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2020/02/23 14:18:39
Subject: Re:Toys with war gaming or terrain uses
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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2020/02/23 15:24:16
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2020/02/24 10:35:38
Subject: Re:Toys with war gaming or terrain uses
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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...
Link:
US$15
https://www.amazon.com/Sunny-Days-Entertainment-Action-Force/dp/B07SP536JV/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
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2020/03/05 19:33:28
Subject: Toys with war gaming or terrain uses
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 Llamahead wrote:Those Plastic Soldier Company ships are great for the price got my order today!
Can you post pictures, mine are probably weeks away.
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2020/03/09 15:07:26
Subject: Re:Toys with war gaming or terrain uses
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2020/03/09 16:01:37
Subject: Toys with war gaming or terrain uses
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Yeah my google-fu is failing me, apparently there's a few things called Dokuro Head.
I'd recommend flying to Japan and wandering around till you find some
https://www.taghobby.com/archives/406896
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2020/03/09 16:19:23
Subject: Toys with war gaming or terrain uses
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It's Dokuro Gata for that's worth.
ドクロ型
an image search tells me that's the right track.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=%E3%83%89%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AD%E5%9E%8B
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2020/03/09 20:14:18
Subject: Toys with war gaming or terrain uses
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Conversion ideas and a language lesson, I love Dakka.
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2020/03/09 21:23:46
Subject: Re:Toys with war gaming or terrain uses
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 BobtheInquisitor wrote: 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.
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2020/03/14 19:53:06
Subject: Re:Toys with war gaming or terrain uses
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2020/03/25 09:28:27
Subject: Toys with war gaming or terrain uses
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They also have a prison (above) and some pretty facist looking SWAT teams. All with big smiles on their faces like the guys in Brazil.
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2020/03/26 10:28:57
Subject: Toys with war gaming or terrain uses
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 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.
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2020/03/30 09:35:16
Subject: Toys with war gaming or terrain uses
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alphaecho wrote: 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.
I eventually got it to work.
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2020/04/10 13:40:00
Subject: Toys with war gaming or terrain uses
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 Easy E wrote:I found some of these locally, and wanted to share. However, I am not sure how useful they will be considering the lack of weaponry.....
I remember those, I saw them up on Amazon a white back, I imagine they're still there.
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2020/04/19 17:03:49
Subject: Re:Toys with war gaming or terrain uses
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My order of Red Alert ships made it from England to Egypt in about 6 weeks and I'm happy with what I got.
https://www.theplasticsoldiercompany.co.uk/product/34-x-assorted-psc-games-space-ships-grab-bag/
I ordered 2 bags for 10 GBP each, 34 ships a bag.
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.
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