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Walking drone, crawler drone and turbine drone could make some interesting Medge conversions... and that tank! Depending on its size, that could be quite useful.
My son will be glad to see more but I'm bit at all impressed by the prominence of comparatively huge launcher sections. Takes away from "realistic" look of many of the earlier ships.
Some great new pieces and certainly a nice price point though.
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Matt Swain wrote: On FB some guy took playskool garage apart and made some necromunda terrain.
I heartily encourage you guys to get the Fisher Price Garage. The size is great, it's all polystyrene so it's easy to mod and glue, and it's equally work able based or unbased. Also, it can be kept in sections and the tower makes a good building all it's own. I built mine for a friend, but have considered picking up another.
The airport is even cooler, but seems alot more rare. I looked for years at resale shops before finding one. They're all over ebay, but shipping is the dealbreaker.
Grimtuff wrote: DMs Craft put out a video a couple of days ago going over this new toy line from Dollar Tree.
No idea if they are available anywhere else, but this could only be useful for Americans.
Cool to see folks reviewing and discussing these. AFAIK, Dollar Tree are only in the states and part of Canada, but I put a link in the last page where you can order the whole set online.
Haven't done much with my Final Faction mech yet, but I did cut off a bunch of the nubs around the mounting holes to make the holes flush and easier to cover. I'm going to give it a quick paintjob and display it alongside a couple of Gundam models I've built recently. My kid loves the figures though.
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Bit beyond the price range I am looking for. I am more interested in quantity not quality. Somewhere around 200-400 barrels total. The plan is to make modular LOS blocking terrain using pallets and barrels. Magnets on the top and bottom so it fits secure. It will look something like this:
Probably going to have to just stalk ebay until a listing from china pops up.
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Have you looked at Wargames Atlantic’s giant spiders? There’s a trading group, and you might be able to get a sprue or two or some spare legs for not too much.
Bit beyond the price range I am looking for. I am more interested in quantity not quality. Somewhere around 200-400 barrels total. The plan is to make modular LOS blocking terrain using pallets and barrels. Magnets on the top and bottom so it fits secure. It will look something like this:
Probably going to have to just stalk ebay until a listing from china pops up.
If you're planning on doing pallets, then have you thought about buying some plastic tubing and cutting it to length? If you stick pallets top.amd.bottom and stack it all up then you dont really need individual barrels.
Please excuse any spelling errors. I use a tablet frequently and software keyboards are a pain!
Bit beyond the price range I am looking for. I am more interested in quantity not quality. Somewhere around 200-400 barrels total. The plan is to make modular LOS blocking terrain using pallets and barrels. Magnets on the top and bottom so it fits secure. It will look something like this:
Probably going to have to just stalk ebay until a listing from china pops up.
If you're planning on doing pallets, then have you thought about buying some plastic tubing and cutting it to length? If you stick pallets top.amd.bottom and stack it all up then you dont really need individual barrels.
I did not. I would need to come up with something to cover the top of the tubes for the upper most pallet/squares, but some kind of tarp would work. Adding wire for the hoops would probably be the biggest time eater for the whole project. Thanks!
Less good but kinda promising? Space Union have a distributor in the UK, but it's trade only. Talk to your local toy shop and give them the link, maybe.
BobtheInquisitor wrote: Have you looked at Wargames Atlantic’s giant spiders? There’s a trading group, and you might be able to get a sprue or two or some spare legs for not too much.
- which you could probably do a lot with as a single massive industrial building in a multi level game or else break up for parts of collapsed ruins scattered across the landscape. I notice it mentions the roadway out of it is compatible with other products in the range so you could bisect your terrain with a whole ruined highway that led up to it.
Out of stock atm due to lockdown, but I have Argos vouchers somewhere I need to use anyway. I seem to remember somebody saying the plastic in Chad Valley stuff lends itself well to painting and texturing.
I have a post on my blog for how to use the Timmee Toy Space Set for dexterity games using the High Noon rules, which are all ready designed for toys. Gives you the ability to do some Cowboys vs. Aliens games.
It has some good pictures of the plastic space guys themselves too.
I also picked up and received a set of these "Mecha" as well.
Spoiler:
** Spoilered for size.
I want to chop them up, reposition some of them, and add some weapons to make space mechs for a game I am working on. I will keep everyone posted for how it goes. All 144 cost the same as about 1 and a half metal ones I was looking at.
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To be clear, the ugly mechs I got were about 10 cents per figure......
I dig it. I think I've got a couple of those not-gundam bubble dispenser guys somewhere.
I just can't think of any mech games where I wouldn't rather spend a $0.80-per-mech for better figs.
Wait, just thought of one. A large scope Gundam game... That ugly Zaku is kind of adorable.
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To be clear, the ugly mechs I got were about 10 cents per figure......
I dig it. I think I've got a couple of those not-gundam bubble dispenser guys somewhere.
I just can't think of any mech games where I wouldn't rather spend a $0.80-per-mech for better figs.
Wait, just thought of one. A large scope Gundam game... That ugly Zaku is kind of adorable.
Gotcha. Yeah the EM-4 are good deals for sure. They are great for Horizon Wars and Mechattack and other Battletech style games.
The game I have in mind is a bit of a cross between With the Lightnings/Jovian Chronicles, Gundam, and Aeronautica Imperialis. I.e. it is "Mechs in Space" so a different feel and style than those EM-4 ones.
I might pick up a set of those EM-4 Starfighters while I am at it too!
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Bit beyond the price range I am looking for. I am more interested in quantity not quality. Somewhere around 200-400 barrels total. The plan is to make modular LOS blocking terrain using pallets and barrels. Magnets on the top and bottom so it fits secure. It will look something like this:
Probably going to have to just stalk ebay until a listing from china pops up.
If you're planning on doing pallets, then have you thought about buying some plastic tubing and cutting it to length? If you stick pallets top.amd.bottom and stack it all up then you dont really need individual barrels.
So the cheapest barrels I have is the china/ebay ones that are the armymen ones mentioned here
They come to $4.50 per 10~ or so when I bought them
Bit beyond the price range I am looking for. I am more interested in quantity not quality. Somewhere around 200-400 barrels total. The plan is to make modular LOS blocking terrain using pallets and barrels. Magnets on the top and bottom so it fits secure. It will look something like this:
Probably going to have to just stalk ebay until a listing from china pops up.
If you're planning on doing pallets, then have you thought about buying some plastic tubing and cutting it to length? If you stick pallets top.amd.bottom and stack it all up then you dont really need individual barrels.
So the cheapest barrels I have is the china/ebay ones that are the armymen ones mentioned here
They come to $4.50 per 10~ or so when I bought them
That would be perfect if you have any live listings. I have ~70 of those to start so they would even match.
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