Kar98k

“Anyone know where you can buy Chaplin figures?”

It shouldn’t be hard to scratch build one using an officer or other figure. You just need to find a suitable figure. Be sure to add the chaplain’s stole and maybe have the figure hold a bible or carry a communion kit. However, I think a chaplain’s purple stole would be the most distinctive item,…[Read more]

“Just wondering what you do to disguise the metal base of metal figures.”

First it depends on the base of the metal figure. If its big, I tend to trim them down a bit using cutters. After that, I scratching up the base and bottom of the figure. I then use CA to glue the figures to the plastic bases. When the glue is set I use milliput to fill in…[Read more]

Video on YouTube – What is Games Workshop’s “Heroic” Scale

“what do you take as your “datum”… actual(s) – and lets face it there are a few dodgy actual figures out there? warlord sizes? Blitgrieg sizes? Rubicon? and then you find out its a different version your measuring LOL”

What I find funny (as well as fustrating) is that the figures you mentioned above are all about the same height. It is just th…[Read more]

I am a little torn too, because I am also attracted to the neatness of removing figures as they die, so I would be interested in any neat ways you do that.

The best way would be to have the figures separate. See Steeljackal’s examples above, and I will try to take and post pictures of some other examples if I get a chance. But if you do not want…[Read more]

The German Army book and some of the Campaign books list horse draw carts or something as transports, which is historical really, but one of the reasons I think that not a lot of players use them is that they are not easy to find. Good news is that Rubicon Models will be releasing a cart and horse kit in 28mm (1:56 scale) with options to build it…[Read more]

@Jim Ripley – are these the poses that you think that are “rather blah”? (please see attached picture). I also agree, having bases molded onto the figures is odd now (especially for plastic figs). However, it turns out that it is pretty easy to remove the bases by careful cutting and trimming. Sadly, I didn’t think of that before I painted and…[Read more]

Here is an examples of the new US Infantry from Perry Miniatures. Just beautiful… but beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Yes, Perry Miniatures are sometimes known to have some dreadful cast metal figures, but I’m focusing on only the plastics. That said, the Perry Miniatures 28mm plastic US Infantry set (2019) is absolutely outstanding! T…[Read more]

The only problem is precisely if the axis of the cannon barrel is on the separation line of two arcs of fire.

Good question, but seriously, how often (if ever) does this really happen? I have never seen this come up in our club’s games.

But I agree, their earlier plastics and modern plastics do vary a little – they should not!!

SteveT, and I guess that is my biggest complaint. Not only do the newer plastics look beefier and bulkier than the older plastics, but you can’t use your extra bits (arms and heads for example) between the two to mix things up a bit. With the older sets, y…[Read more]

Nat, I concur. Warlord Games is definitely going more towards the gaming side than the modelling side of the hobby. Even more so with their latest releases.

When talking gaming figures, there are two things to note: 1) Looks are in the eye of the beholder. 2) Plastic model companies like to make figures with more anatomically correct proportions…[Read more]

I made the board first. Assembling the models. And I got to start on terrain.

Looks good. Did you make the board in 2×2 sections?

@Jim Ripley – Well said. And just for the record, I also like the earlier sets with the separate weapons and arms.

@ Greg S – None are particularly bad. Just noticing that the newer sets have more poses limits, and the figs have even more girth compared to their earlier sets. Or maybe its just me.

Some examples would be good.

Hi Nigel, I’m going to take a wild guess and say you haven’t assembled any of the older and newer Bolt Action plastic figure sets.

It would seem that the Bolt Action community is all over the tabletop on this one.

As long as opposing players agree on something, it will work.

I’m curious how those that host official games and even how the designer play this aspect of the rules.