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Post by dafrca on Sept 18, 2019 7:03:13 GMT -9
My first try at paper miniatures came from a great site called Junior General. I used their method to create some 15mm figures to use with Star Grunt. While the rules seemed to shift (Star Grunt, 5150, Striker II, Tomorrow's War), I found I liked my paper figures as they allowed me to print more if need be or do color changes to make extra forces. So I figured while I know they are not up to the quality of this site, I would share a set I did back then. By the way, if you do not scale they come out closer to 1/72 than 15mm. I was printing at 80% to get them closer to the 15mm stuff I had.
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Post by dafrca on Sept 18, 2019 10:09:51 GMT -9
Here is a second sample. Often these were developed together as a squad or platoon. With a skirmish level game in mind you would not want too many but, I did do a couple battles that were larger.
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Post by squirmydad on Sept 18, 2019 15:53:09 GMT -9
Nice dropship, I'd love to see something like that as a 3d model. Thanks for sharing.
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Post by dafrca on Sept 18, 2019 18:00:38 GMT -9
Nice dropship, I'd love to see something like that as a 3d model. Thanks for sharing. Sadly I am just handling 72 dpi flats, I think that unless someone else does it, a 3D model is a ways off in the future. However here is another of my factions I made.
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Post by dafrca on Sept 19, 2019 9:22:09 GMT -9
So here is another for the second force to help balance the two out for anyone who does want to play around with some low res figures. I really liked how the smile turned out on this one.
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Post by dafrca on Sept 20, 2019 9:44:32 GMT -9
Here is an Alien faction I made for a particular campaign setting we were running. This is the Lo'Kai. One is the standard troops and the other is some power armor.
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Post by senkosmos on Sept 20, 2019 19:24:44 GMT -9
I love Junior General figures. For smaller scales (15 to 6 mm) they are ideal. I've made many a Warhammer Ancients' armies out of their figures. Plus, they are very easy to mod
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Post by dafrca on Sept 21, 2019 10:35:53 GMT -9
I love Junior General figures. For smaller scales (15 to 6 mm) they are ideal. I've made many a Warhammer Ancients' armies out of their figures. Plus, they are very easy to mod When I found that site, the ability to make my own at the common quality level at that time was one of the things that attracted me to it. One need not be an "artist" to make acceptable 15mm figures. I had a blast making my own figures as well as joining in their creative "games" for a while. I also loved the site allowed you to borrow elements from others as long as you credited them. So when I made some sets I borrowed a camo pattern or weapon or wheel design and it made my stuff better as well. For example in the page below I used someone else's weapons and rail road track base.
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Post by dafrca on Sept 22, 2019 17:00:17 GMT -9
Just realized I should share something about these figures. I made them fold at the top of the figure because I taped the base to US pennies. More then one for the larger vehicles. I didn't treat them like I wanted them to last.
I noticed the 28mm figures I have purchased all fold at the base, makes more sense when the plan is to glue the two halves together and make them thicker so they last.
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Post by Vermin King on Sept 22, 2019 17:44:28 GMT -9
I beg to differ. Top fold does not eliminate the possibility of gluing the base tabs together, if you choose to build that way, but it also makes things much easier for flat-basing. I prefer flat bases, as do several others here. Top folds make it much easier to provide that option
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Post by dafrca on Sept 22, 2019 18:06:11 GMT -9
I beg to differ. Top fold does not eliminate the possibility of gluing the base tabs together, if you choose to build that way, but it also makes things much easier for flat-basing. I prefer flat bases, as do several others here. Top folds make it much easier to provide that option I bow to your wisdom Sir. I just noticed many of the figures seem to be linked at the base is all. So I wanted to explain why I did thee as top folders. In any case, I am the newbie so I accept all input.
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Post by Vermin King on Sept 22, 2019 18:44:55 GMT -9
To me it is easier to line the figures up with top-folds also. But I doubt we will change very many folks' preferences
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Post by Punkrabbitt on Sept 23, 2019 6:22:18 GMT -9
I do bottom folds because most of the stuff I have done is bottom folds. When there are things that top fold or side fold, I compulsively re-work them to bottom folds for consistency. Yes, I suffer an anxiety disorder o.0
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Post by Vermin King on Sept 23, 2019 6:52:59 GMT -9
I do bottom folds because most of the stuff I have done is bottom folds. When there are things that top fold or side fold, I compulsively re-work them to bottom folds for consistency. Yes, I suffer an anxiety disorder o.0 And I compulsively change bottom folds to top folds...
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Post by dafrca on Sept 23, 2019 10:10:02 GMT -9
One day I was speaking to a friend who was into historical wargames. He was working on some mounted infantry. He told me that unlike those who fought from horseback, this unit he was working on used the horses just to move around the country faster. They would dismount to fight. For some reason the idea of that caught my imagination. So I made this set: My SciFi Mounted Infantry. Don't know how realistic or practical they would be, but I loved how they turned out.
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Post by squirmydad on Sept 24, 2019 17:20:50 GMT -9
Are you a Hammer's Slammers fan? The infantry in that series all ride around on hover-sleds just like you've drawn and described. They consider APC's to be death-traps.
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Post by dafrca on Sept 25, 2019 18:57:41 GMT -9
Are you a Hammer's Slammers fan? The infantry in that series all ride around on hover-sleds just like you've drawn and described. They consider APC's to be death-traps. I have read all of the books, a friend loaned me the "The Complete Hammer's Slammers Vol 1-3" to read. Lots of interesting stories. I thought the combat cars and the tanks were wonderful I also thought it was interesting to find out what the author based the combat cars on. The past and the Sci Fi rolled into one. To be honest, I hadn't remembered the infantry on bikes, but I could have been influenced subconsciously. The bikes were influenced for sure by Traveller Grav Bikes. Just adapted for military use.
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Post by squirmydad on Sept 26, 2019 6:32:04 GMT -9
I've seen a couple of model versions of them; The first reminds me of the Traveller bikes, the second feels closer to the book description and is more of a jet-ski. "Dragoons originally were a class of mounted infantry, who used horses for mobility, but dismounted to fight on foot."I like that yours have both mounted and unmounted versions of the troops.
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Post by dafrca on Sept 26, 2019 7:18:45 GMT -9
Oh I like them. Nice. I think the bottom one looks more like a "sled" to me. But either are nice.
I made both mounted and unmounted so that they could be "switched" on the table as needed. I thought it made more sense that way.
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Post by dafrca on Sept 27, 2019 17:14:47 GMT -9
One of the things we used to do over on Junior General was play alternate Earth history/timelines. One faction I made was the People's Republic of Red Tears. I tried to give the PRRT a 1960's USSR vibe. Here are a couple sheets of what I made for the PRRT.
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Post by dafrca on Oct 4, 2019 17:38:43 GMT -9
Here is another squad I made for our 15mm wars. My version of a infantry walker. We tried to make our infantry walkers in the spirit of Votoms. Not large lumbering Mechs, but more like walking armored cars.
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Post by dafrca on Oct 4, 2019 17:43:49 GMT -9
Here is another dropship I made for the Cornell forces. I did one sheet with this landed and an Officer and his personal crew. The other sheet was the same ship but flying.
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Post by dafrca on Oct 8, 2019 20:41:17 GMT -9
This was my Aliens along the lines of Star Trek, humans with rubber stuff on their faces. I used them a few times as both allies and enemies.
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Post by dafrca on Oct 30, 2019 16:31:15 GMT -9
On another forum a person named Blastwave posted a dropship as part of a scene he was designing that I really liked. I wanted to use it on my table. I asked if he had made a back side by any chance. He said he had not, but upon finding out why I was asking he went and located the original file and flipped the numbers for me and made me a back side. Very cool of him. As I printed it out, I realized it needed a special trooper to go with it. I present here the Blastwave Suit. Larger then the normal trooper, smaller than a Walker Mech. The suit uses an lengthened 10mm caseless general purpose machinegun as an assault rifle (300 round box attached), an additional 10mm caseless general purpose machinegun modified with a heavy barrel and a 1000 round drum is used as the squad support weapons. The officer is issued a cutdown 6mm caseless assault rifle they use as a handgun. The Blastwaves operate in squads of six suits, accompanied by three of the ground effect drones. One drone is outfitted with a four tube AT missile launcher. The other two are logistic support drones. One carries additional missiles for the AT drone and the other carries additional supplies for the squad. Pictured on the sheet is a heavy assault team that includes a squad of the armored troopers as well. Just to be clear, this dropship is not my work, it is Blastwaves.
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Post by Vermin King on Oct 30, 2019 16:37:52 GMT -9
Reminds me of the AH64D conversion I started ages ago. I was on a sci fi kick and thought the body of that helicopter could be the body of a walker or a dropship. I was a real novice back then and the project died
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Post by dafrca on Oct 30, 2019 16:51:43 GMT -9
Reminds me of the AH64D conversion I started ages ago. I was on a sci fi kick and thought the body of that helicopter could be the body of a walker or a dropship. I was a real novice back then and the project died Vermin King Maybe it is time for you to go back and revisit the old project. <evil temptation music playing in the background>
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Post by dafrca on Nov 3, 2019 18:28:45 GMT -9
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Post by dafrca on Nov 7, 2019 23:25:20 GMT -9
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Post by dafrca on Nov 13, 2019 0:05:46 GMT -9
Minefields can be hard to play in a tabletop wargame. So introduce the unknown and make it more fun.
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Post by squirmydad on Nov 13, 2019 9:07:41 GMT -9
I modelled something like that for a WW2 Russian Front game; Minefields were denoted by markers like yours but it was a d6 roll that determined whether it was real or a dummy.
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