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some info on what minis can be used on the WGA horses from a reviewer that they shared on Facebook for those that don't indulge
Very useful information, but good heavens, all the info in this 26-minute video could have been a 5-minutes-to-read blog post with good-or-better resolution pictures.
some info on what minis can be used on the WGA horses from a reviewer that they shared on Facebook for those that don't indulge
Very useful information, but good heavens, all the info in this 26-minute video could have been a 5-minutes-to-read blog post with good-or-better resolution pictures.
Eilif wrote: Very useful information, but good heavens, all the info in this 26-minute video could have been a 5-minutes-to-read blog post with good-or-better resolution pictures.
On the flipside, people won't watch it when it's that short either (and quite often subsequently tell you it should be longer, much longer) .
I feel like we need a generic dark age cavalry body or something to take advantage of those horses. We've all got plenty of spare arms and heads- it's the bodies we need!
Maybe there's some 3D printing stop gaps we could use to put our extra bits to use?
Poorly lit photos of my ever- growing collection of completely unrelated models!
Eilif wrote: Very useful information, but good heavens, all the info in this 26-minute video could have been a 5-minutes-to-read blog post with good-or-better resolution pictures.
On the flipside, people won't watch it when it's that short either (and quite often subsequently tell you it should be longer, much longer) .
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Maybe? Tabletop Minions seems to do well and half his videos are half the length of that.
At 5 minutes I might actually watch it, but I'd still rather skim through a blog post in 3 with actual pictures I can zoom if they interest me. I'm not the target demographic though, so I'm sure the author knows his audience.
All that said, nice to see them painted though. As far as my quick click through showed, he's got skills.
The leg straps don't look as goofy as I thought on some of the pictures.
But.....the heads look out of proportion with the bodies. Dunno....maybe they need shoulder pads?
.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.
Eilif wrote: Very useful information, but good heavens, all the info in this 26-minute video could have been a 5-minutes-to-read blog post with good-or-better resolution pictures.
On the flipside, people won't watch it when it's that short either (and quite often subsequently tell you it should be longer, much longer) .
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Maybe? Tabletop Minions seems to do well and half his videos are half the length of that.
At 5 minutes I might actually watch it, but I'd still rather skim through a blog post in 3 with actual pictures I can zoom if they interest me. I'm not the target demographic though, so I'm sure the author knows his audience.
All that said, nice to see them painted though. As far as my quick click through showed, he's got skills.
If anyone would know what kind of mini review videos get watched and what gets skipped, it would be Highlord Tamburlaine. Plus it's not like you need to watch the last 15 minutes of the guy test fitting different manufacturers to the models. I didn't, but I'm really glad that info is there for if I had some riders sitting around
Can't wait for the Oo Rah to release, need those helmets for the Bulldogs based IG I'm currently working on.
Preview pics from twitter:
Spoiler:
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On Facebook, @Hudson Adams said these are for death fields but also for something else TBA... So its sounds like there is a game these are being made for. So these and the alien bugs may be for a specific thing...
from Facebook
"They seem differently proportioned than the other DF kits."
"Jason A. Martin they are part of DF but also part of something else TBA. A bit more natural proportions compared to the heroic 28s. But they’ll still fit in"
Wow, those look great. Will be looking forward to seeing the sprue shots. I agree that the boonie hat head looks comically large, but that's about the only nit I can pick with these.
At this point, I think we've got our sci-fi troopers well covered, but if these had been available last year I'm pretty sure my son and I would have bought them instead of the Stargrave plastic troopers. Not to say the Stargrave troops are bad at all, but these have a more hard-edge that my son (a Halo Fan) would really like.
Of course they're both swimming in "Aliens" waters but these figures very much seem like the spiritual successors to the Copplestone-sculpted Future Warriors Troopers, now sold by EM4 as "Future Skirmish" Troopers.
Agreed. One is spoiled for choice, and with many 3rd party manufacturers making bits for 40k, kit-bashing has never been easier! And both Northstar and WGA kits leave you lots of leftover bits so getting some extra torsos and legs from say, Victoria Miniatures or Anvil Industries gives you even more options.
lasgunpacker wrote: Some sort of vehicle or a base? This looks like it is intended to interface with other pieces, which leads one to imagine a set of sci-fi walls
Grumpy Gnome pointed this out.
One of the preview pics seems to show a OOH Ra vehicle.
New Set Announced: Unarmored Late Roman Infantry!
Following up on the first two sets in this range: Late Roman Legionaries (1): Lorica Hamata and Goth Warriors we have been working on a set of unarmored Roman infantry for this later period!
This set will allow you to build a variety of troop types armed with spear, spatha, or plumbata including options for full command. Additional light troops are being readied for release as well.
There is also a new shield sprue as part of this set so that we can fit more useful parts on the frames of this and future Decline and Fall sets!
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lasgunpacker wrote: Some sort of vehicle or a base? This looks like it is intended to interface with other pieces, which leads one to imagine a set of sci-fi walls
Grumpy Gnome pointed this out.
One of the preview pics seems to show a OOH Ra vehicle.
That's an old modular resin Heavy Tractor kit from Ratgard. Looks like Ratgard isn't around anymore, but unless WGA bought the files and copyright (which is possible), then it's just an old kit for set dressing. That said, I'd love a plastic Heavy Tractor kit!
Kalamadea wrote: The head in the doonie hat looks comically massive, the others look fine.
I think the helmet heads look like 1 step too large, but maybe with shoulder pads or something....( I feel the same about the stargrave guys)
The baseball cap guy looks perfect.
.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.
Those unarmored guys have such a universal style that they're pretty much a blank slate for whatever sort of project you want them to be.
I've turned some of the new Goths into chaos cultists, mutants, other ancient armies with just a simple head swap, farmers, and peasants. There's lots of fun potential there.
Poorly lit photos of my ever- growing collection of completely unrelated models!
That looks like terrain and reminds me of Whiskey Outpost from the ST film. Although looking at stills from the film, the actual set was even more shoddy than I remember, while this thing looks fairly nice.
Vermonter wrote: Anyone know if the very large shields are historically accurate? That's not a veiled criticism; I honestly have no idea.
Yes. Scutum ranges in size based on manufacture, and these may be slightly larger than normal for detail purposes and thickness, but the oval scutum are accurate to the period.
This looks like an overreliance on Vegetius' statement that Roman soldiers of his day were weak and did not want to wear armor. Vegetius was not a professional military man, but an armchair general and according to the wikipedia article, had probably misinterpreted a special case as overall practice. In wikipedia, they state that the pictorial record shows late Roman soldiers wearing armor (usually mail), and the archaeological evidence supports this as well.
Tried to get more detail from my Encyclopedia of Military History, but it only covers strategic and organizational changes in the late Roman army, not tactical details such as use of armor and what type like the wikipedia article.