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GrimheartParticipant
I have followed your painting updates with great interest
Those games look and sound great
<p style=”text-align: left;”>Now if only I didn’t have a lifetime of stuff still to paint and use I would be sorely tempted!</p>Interest include 6mm WW2, 6mm SciFi, 30mm Old West, DropFleet, Warlords Exterminate and others!
GrimheartParticipantYeah…..but but but what do I buy next! 🤔
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GrimheartParticipantYour painting really is excellent.
If I wasn’t so swamped with a painting backlog of years I would be really tempted to get these Oz ranges. The Harvest army you are doing in particular is weird and absolutely wonderful!
Interest include 6mm WW2, 6mm SciFi, 30mm Old West, DropFleet, Warlords Exterminate and others!
GrimheartParticipantSuperb…..if only I had the time to start another project!
Oddly when this range first started I wasn’t very keen but the more I see of it the more I like it!
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GrimheartParticipantFor playable purposes you would have to decrease the effectiveness of the native plant life a tad!
An interesting set of games could be had DnD style with simple missions to get from one side of the board to the other to more complex rescue misssions.
I would have the vegetation on a random generated, non player type system as it generally needs to just be very very aggressive once activated.
Possible a sound activated system like in Zombicide attracting more plant life would be “fun”!
Cheers
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GrimheartParticipantA great idea, should work well!
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GrimheartParticipantScotia grendel 6mm neutral equipment have a variety of motor bikes, rider less, with panniers, etc. No pics but description is OK.
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GrimheartParticipantThe baccus stuff is very nice but not 6mm, more like 8mm, somewhere I vaguely remember Peter posting about it.
Scotia grendel does all sorts of odds and ends like that.
Interest include 6mm WW2, 6mm SciFi, 30mm Old West, DropFleet, Warlords Exterminate and others!
GrimheartParticipantI have backed 7 kickstarters over the last 4 years and have got very good value from them.
Only one had a few issues with delays and a few minor items never delivered but as I got serious value for money for what i did get I still count it as a success. However it did highlight the dangers of some of these KS over promising and not doing their sums correctly so the old adage “if it sounds too good to be true….” still applies!
I have not directly come across the type of KS that is effectively just a shop front for stuff already made but like Mike H it probably wouldn’t bother me that much as its a fine line imo.
It could be someone has invested a pile of their own money to get the stuff actually made and needs a bunch of initial sales to recoup that investment quickly, which a KS could do. I don’t see how that’s worse than a normal KS asking you for money up front….if any thing its a lot safer!
Cheers
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GrimheartParticipantMany thanks.
I think it was Crooked Dice as the Heroes and Villains tags ring very strong bells! Alas and not surprisingly no longer available.
Cheers
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GrimheartParticipantThere is Scotias Ship to Shore 1/300 range but a quick look through doesn’t find anything Greek…
https://www.shop.scotiagrendel.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=224_225_70&sort=20a&page=7
Regards
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GrimheartParticipantCaptain Steven Hiller:
Oops.David Levinson:
W-what do you mean, oops?Captain Steven Hiller:
Some jerk put this…David Levinson:
Don’t say “oops”.Captain Steven Hiller:
What do you say we try that again?David Levinson:
Yes, yes. Yes. Without the “oops”. Thataway.Interest include 6mm WW2, 6mm SciFi, 30mm Old West, DropFleet, Warlords Exterminate and others!
GrimheartParticipanthmm.
Am I right in thinking those are 10cm-12cm square?
UK postage I assume?
Regards
Stephen
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GrimheartParticipantEDIT: Comments removed by Admin due to nature.
Please refrain from politics.
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GrimheartParticipantSuch a retarded scheme…….. It basically forces non uk small sellers into 3 choices:
- stop selling to the UK as registering and maintaining a UK Vat account is stupid.
- Only sell using an online market place as the burden then passes to them.
- Sell to the UK but insist on minimum order value of £135 as then normal import vat applies that the customer has to deal with (like previously)
Not sure why the hell this had to change, are our Customs so incapable of collecting Vat on small parcels under £135?
Sure I understand there was probably a fair bit of under-declaration fraud going on with these small items but in gov money terms that would be absolutely insignificant otherwise they would simply employ more customs officers to check parcels.
Good luck to any non UK businesses out there, going to miss some of you!
Regards
Stephen
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GrimheartParticipantThats very very cool!
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GrimheartParticipantOn purpose as I wasn’t sure if it would lead to my own Facebook log in on ks!
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GrimheartParticipant1. win a million quid on the premium bonds.
2. send all my unpainted stuff off to get pro painted.
3. build a proper games room in the garden
4. retire and enjoy playing with it all 🙂
Regards!
Interest include 6mm WW2, 6mm SciFi, 30mm Old West, DropFleet, Warlords Exterminate and others!
GrimheartParticipantThe above is very interesting, however I wonder how the motor infantry and Air landing sections managed when they only started with 7 men total per section. Any one on leave, injured or whatever would mean the section immediately dropped below the recommended minimum.
That must have caused problems and the only real solution would have been to drop down to two sections I assume.
Cheers
Stephen
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GrimheartParticipantThanks for posting that info.
I assume the late war memorandums dont change any thing significantly?
Cheers
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GrimheartParticipantNot really sure how cost and time could ever be equal so my answer is always going to be both.
If money was unlimited I would buy every thing I need, ready finished, simply because there are much more talented people than me making and selling pretty much anything.
If time was unlimited I would certainly make more myself as the satisfaction of doing so is warming to the old cockles.
Cheers
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GrimheartParticipantHi,
Good to see a new UK painting service!
Any pictures and rates?
Do you have preferred scales and period’s ?
Cheers
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10/07/2020 at 15:34 in reply to: Am I the only hobbyist who simply doesn’t believe in undercoat colours? #140092GrimheartParticipantWith my relatively amateur painting skills I have over the years tried black, white and gray undercoats/primers. Not sure if they really impacted the final colours enough to notice but they certainly made a difference to the actual painting.
I found black positively horrible to paint over, hard to see details and hard for many colours to cover. Using a white dry brush highlight didn’t really help me. With white I found too much generally showed through, and it made a heavy wash necessary to get in the recesses..
Then I saw a video on using gray for its neutral balance and have not looked back since. I have used a gray basecoat for some years now, sometimes its an actual primer, sometimes its just what ever gray paint I have. It hasn’t seemed to make much different either way as the important thing to me is that I start with a neutral consistent base colour.
Cheers
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GrimheartParticipantThanks for all the comments so far.
Looks like I will try them out.
Cheers
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GrimheartParticipantI think some kind of op fire is needed, but ideally not over complicated.
Units shouldn’t be able to waltz around in view and close range of unsuppressed enemy without risk.
Also depends on how you manage ambush type situations how much it may be required. Ie if I have my atg sitting at a corner all ready and your tank comes round on your move, I still expect to get first shot!
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GrimheartParticipantThanks both, and yes it’s the 2nd ed I was looking at on Amazon.
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GrimheartParticipantNo idea where or how i will use them but just going to have to buy those Pumpkins!
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GrimheartParticipantThey’ve turned the Excel centre into a hospital. I can’t work out whether I find that news comforting or terrifying.
Both. That place is huge…….
Hope you all manage to stay safe.
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GrimheartParticipantSad but not unexpected.
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GrimheartParticipantThanks Mike,
I had come across those sites in my googling, was just hoping someone had come across cheaper alternatives.
Oh well.
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GrimheartParticipantSome warlord daleks to finish off.
Some 6mm scifi vehicles and drones
Some late ww2 6mm jeeps for my British paras
After that….whatever gets pulled out of the various unpainted stock piles!
Cheers
Stephen
Interest include 6mm WW2, 6mm SciFi, 30mm Old West, DropFleet, Warlords Exterminate and others!
GrimheartParticipantDespite the overblown title a decent compilation:
The best military science fiction of the 20th century – edited by Harry Turtledove, published 2001, ISBN 0-345-43989-9
A random selection:
War in Heaven – Gavin Smith
various books by Neil Asher or Iain M Banks, they vary but many are heavily war centered
Man-Kzin wars series – Larry Niven and others
Janissaries – Jerry Pournelle
pretty much any thing by David Drake
The High Crusade by Poul Anderson
Crusade by David Weber/Steve White
Space Soldiers – short stories ISBN0-441-00824-0
and seconded from above posts:
Old Mans War series by John Scalzi
Dorsai series by Gordon R Dickson
The Forever War and others by Joe Haldeman
Hopefully a few of the above are of interest.
Regards
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GrimheartParticipantLeven miniatures do various huts, including some mud/grass type ones.
They are also almost as nice as Michael to deal with!
Regards
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GrimheartParticipantThat sounds like a fun game, thanks for sharing.
Now if only I could find the time for yet another project…..
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GrimheartParticipantLess than 2 days to go.
Excellent value imo.
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GrimheartParticipantYep, me and my (grown up) daughter played this for some months.
Enjoyable but does get repetitive eventually though.
We are both likely to try out IV when it hits.
Cheers
Stephen
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GrimheartParticipantI thought it was ok but as others have pointed out if you had no knowledge of the books or previous film various aspects would have been very confusing.
And what was with the helicopter in the first scene!
Did any one else think Lyra looked like Millie Bobby Brown from stranger things though……
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GrimheartParticipantOoh!
Just glad to hear they are still in the works. If there was any talk about when they might be released that would be good.
Although I have the PG rules my collection is currently organised for Fire & Furys Battlefront WW2 rules so I was hoping for some sample TOE’s to see how much different they might be. At the moment I am guessing its mostly the platoon level commands I will be short of.
Cheers
Stephen
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GrimheartParticipantThank you.
That’s exactly the info I needed.
Cheers
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GrimheartParticipantVery cool
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