#Miniatures Wargaming

[yodawgiheardyoulikemecha]

Marshal II by Ruh Ruh

[bryanharryrombough]

One of the first wargames I played, back in... '84? '85? Still love it.

Still have a bunch of metal Ogre minis in storage, but backing this anyway and will end up with a rather large collection of Ogre minis when my pledge arrives...

[thehiddenelephant]

Picture dump time! These are fan-sketches I made of Dystopian Wars, my latest miniatures wargaming obsession. Turns out, I like boats and I cannot lie. Dystopian Wars (DW) is a steampunk/dieselpunk/atompunk alternate history wargame taking place in the year 187X, where great powers have great technology and lack great responsibility. The pictures are not in chronological order; I started with the Korean crafts, did the Polynesian ships and then the Union Atomic ship, then the Greek page, then the Persian Airships. Koreans and Greeks are going to be in the game, so they're baseless speculation on my part. Polynesians were a fan-thing for the Enlightened faction, and I wanted to include a bit of Solarpunk in the designs. Verdict is still out on that. Persian Airships are ludicrous fantasy on my part, based out of the idea of using an archetypical oil lamp as the hull for an airship. In addition, DW has a strong modularity component to it. Each plastic kit can build one thing out of several options, leading to great flexibility in the kits. The Prussians are the best example; if you don't glue down the bridge and primary weapons, you can just have any ship you could build with that kit. I tried duplicating that effect in sketch form, but with the Persians I got fed up and assembled full images of each variation.

[the-god-of-hellfire]

Ever since seeing this meme...

...I haven't been able to get the idea out of my head.

So with much ado, behold:

My magnum opus of wargaming terrain.

[sympyl]

Warhammer fandom elsewhere on the internet: *nerd bros with memes from 2011 and vaguely weird vibes talking about which primarchs could beat up which*

Warhammer fans on Tumblr: Omg. my guy. My dude. My little humfus blumfus. My skroinky paloinky. My blorbo. Littlest of meow meows. *points towards Deathkiller Skullscream the Vile, Lord of the infamous warband the Boneflayers from Planet Murder, whose least significant warcrimes involve torturing civilians to distill hard drugs out of their neural tissue (its more potent if they die screaming) and owning an entire planet as his own personal torture chamber which he goes to to unwind after a hard day of orphan murdering and slave trading*

[oldschoolfrp]

Bryan Ansell has passed away at age 68 (11 October 1955 -- 30th December 2023).

Bryan Ansell founded Citadel Miniatures in 1978 in partnership with Games Workshop, and co-wrote the original 1983 Warhammer Fantasy Battles first edition rules with Richard Halliwell and Rick Priestley. He became managing director of Games Workshop in the mid-1980s, and was primary owner of GW until selling his shares in 1991. He also founded Wargames Foundry / Foundry Miniatures, which continues to produce many older Citadel figures among many other ranges.

(Top: Bryan Ansell from Warhammer Armies, 1988; Bottom: Bryan Ansell (Left) with artist Tony Ackland at the 2017 Bring Out Your Lead oldhammer event at Wargames Foundry)

[maniakminis]

Mol, my malevolence ❤️

Alice and Mol for my Turnip28 regiment are finally done and I'm incredibly happy with how these two came out! This project was a ton of fun and I can't thank everyone enough for the support as they followed it along with me these past few weeks! Now I just need to work on the rest of my army!

[canopiancatboy]

A fun project I took on after I realized I didn't have the shelf space for all the gunpla I would like. I'll just make em battletech scale instead. Here's my 6 standard Zaku ii I printed n painted

[porblegames]

"what ho, knife wizard. might you cast us a spell?"

[yodawgiheardyoulikemecha]

[bryanharryrombough]

Dream Pod 9 is releasing new high-quality PDFs of 22 1st edition Heavy Gear books, generated from the original electronic files.  All 22 books are available in a half-price bundle.

These are great rpg & wargaming products.  I have hardcopies of all of these titles, and this bundle is a great deal.  Highly recommend getting them if you’re into tabletop mecha gaming.

From Dream Pod 9′s press release:

Until now the older Heavy Gear ebooks available on DriveThruRPG have been scanned copies of the original printed books. Dream Pod 9 is happy to announce the release of high-quality electronic format ebooks for the Heavy Gear Classic Roleplaying & Tactical Game publications. The first 22 Revitalized titles are now live on DriveThruRPG for purchase and include the following.

The Heavy Gear Revitalized titles are made possible by the team of Michael Butt (Project Manager) and Brad Fischer (Roaring Mouse Graphics) who managed to converted the old Macintosh Pager Maker layout files and relay them out in modern Adobe format. A big thank you to Michael and Brad for taking on the months of work required to revitalize all the old Dream Pod 9 Heavy Gear products.

[thehiddenelephant]

I've finished painting my Dystopian Wars Egyptian Ships. It took a while, but here they all are!

[trollbite]

Here's my entry for the Miniature Painting Open 2023 by Cult of Paint. It's a slightly converted Bonekutta from Ironskull's Boyz.

[zilentis]

While I much prefer to make brighter minis, I’ve always wanted a go at trying todo a Turnip28 mini. While it’s still brighter than most lol, I’m really happy with it’s style and basing.

Turnip28 is a grimdark setting where root-vegetable people fight each other in muddy lands, he’s a carrot man!

[sympyl]

The new rules for Emperor's Children in the new Horus Heresy book are overall pretty bad imo, but the new Fulgrim having a special rule where he can just leave the battlefield on a whim because he isn't having fun anymore and deny the opponent any victory points for killing him is *chefs kiss*

[oldschoolfrp]

'Eavy Metal (White Dwarf 123, March 1990): "Personal heraldry for Space Marine officers and some variants of the traditional Marine colour schemes." This includes the original Death Eagle chapter in purple, white, and gold, and a rare sighting of a Grey Knight chapter member in regular Mk VI beaky armor. The "Night Lords Renegade Captain in Terminator Armour" is one of Jes Goodwin's "Traitor Terminators" from 1989.