Fight:Wepon Future Year! -“15”mm Scale

[Mr. Average]

Enamored as I am of the classic 40k from circa 1989 I had a friend to send me some 15mm scale Classic Era Space Marines (actually more like 12mm scale – these are technically “misprints”). And what’s more classic than space marines in beaky armor painted in camouflage? Nothing as far as I can see. That combined with my introduction to and immediate love for the Planet 28 rule set, and the rest is history. So this is the beginning of a 12mm scale Badab War TTRPG project that, if it’s like anything else I do, will be on a very long and very slow burn. But that’s okay.

Howling Griffons are my first on deck:

I actually found some old magazine articles about making urban terrain from corrugated cardboard, too, so away we go! I’m raiding some old games for coins to allow the accumulation of campaign points to “spend.” The game is to start with one or at most a small handful of Marines, defeated in battle but unbowed, going to ground and slowly accumulating their power in preparation for taking their revenge against their enemies. It all feels properly late 80s to me, yet at a much smaller and more pleasant scale. Cheers to my friends around the way for supplying me with fun things even after my budgets hit the wall.

[ian pillay]

Cool!!!!

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[Darkest Star Games]

That’s a great looking mini.  I loved the camo on the SM back in the day, even copied the camo from the “Medusa IV Campaign” that was shown on some figures in the original “Chapter Approved” booklet.  It’s amazing how much the same yet how different the 40k background is from the old RT book era.

I really look forwards to seeing what kind of a force these SM end up recruiting, and how they go about it.

"I saw this in a cartoon once, but I'm pretty sure I can do it..."

[ian pillay]

More skulls in the bone RT background ….. the older background is my favourite for 40k background. I mean even in the RT book there was a scenario about a Christmas Pudding…!!!

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[Mike]

RT for life.

[Darkest Star Games]

ian pillay wrote:

the older background is my favourite for 40k background

There was a charming vagueness to a lot of it.  Now it’s more than a bit too fleshed out and ponderous IMO.  It was bound to happen over time due to the longevity of the setting, but it feels a bit more restricting than liberating.

Say, how many SM are you starting with?

"I saw this in a cartoon once, but I'm pretty sure I can do it..."

[Mr. Average]

For starters I’m doing five men: four with bolters and one with an as-yet undetermined special weapon (I have a few but don’t know which to pick first).

[Andrew Beasley]

Mr. Average wrote:

…one with an as-yet undetermined special weapon…

Burn the Xenos scum in the Emperor’s Name and His Holy Flame  🙂

(ex Salamander player here)

Lovely paint and base job – not read the Planet 28 rules but will look forward to some 15mm SM action reports from you.

[Darkest Star Games]

Can you by chance gather up a link for the STL files your friend used to print the beakies, please?

"I saw this in a cartoon once, but I'm pretty sure I can do it..."

[Jim Webster]

Darkest Star Games wrote:

ian pillay wrote:

the older background is my favourite for 40k background

There was a charming vagueness to a lot of it. Now it’s more than a bit too fleshed out and ponderous IMO. It was bound to happen over time due to the longevity of the setting, but it feels a bit more restricting than liberating. Say, how many SM are you starting with?

Just to second the comment about the charming vagueness. Detail can be nice, but less detail can be liberating and gives you elbow room for your own flights of fancy 🙂

 

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[Mr. Average]

Definitely agree. To name a thing is to limit it, in a certain way. The charm of the Rogue Trader era was how open it was to people taking it in their own direction – more like an RPG than a true tabletop game. It’s what I like about the feel of a game like Planet 28. It’s walking a razor’s edge between being crunchy enough and overloading with pointless detail, without going the other direction and being a rule set that just says “make it all up, none of it matters anyway, it’s all just numbers, so what?”

[Mike]

Old GW invited you to play. New GW tells you the way you must play.

[ian pillay]

Mike wrote:

Old GW invited you to play. New GW tells you the way you must play.

Never thought about it line that before, but it does make sense.

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[Mr. Average]

Mike wrote:

Old GW invited you to play. New GW tells you the way you must play.

Thats probably the most succinct way I’ve ever seen that phrased, and you’re quite right!

[Mr. Average]

Gotta have ruins. I’ve never been afraid of a little papercraft either.

[Andrew Beasley]

Neat paper crafting.

I run a grey Sharpie over the edges of the card – just helps tone down the white lines and seems to work no matter what the colour of the card side is 🙂

 

[Mr. Average]

Very good call on the grey sharpie. A little more modeling and some propaganda posters seal the deal.

 

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