The Scale Models/War gaming discussion and pictures thread.

[JamesAirsofterAgent]

All new to me lol....

[AirsoftTed]

Aye, that's Bolt Action James. I like the rules and game itself, just not the miniatures. I can't help but find them somewhat cartoony and unrealistic, maybe its just me being awkward. I'd also prefer to use a more commonly available scale like 1/35 or 1/72 as opposed to 28mm so I can customize my army more easily (and cheaper!)

[JamesAirsofterAgent]

It seems like quite about of fun! Might help me pass these next 2 years of chairsofting lol.

[AirsoftTed]

 

Never realised how long the video was when I watched it lol. I was totally engrossed.

[JamesAirsofterAgent]

Aside from the bolt action stuff, right now I'm planning a Battle of Mogadishu (Black Hawk down and locally known as "Day of the rangers") diorama. Joined a modelling forum a while back and they have helped quite a bit.

How am I supposed to do my English homework now you've shown me that video!! lol.

[JamesAirsofterAgent]

Crikey, theres a part 2!

[JamesAirsofterAgent]

Looks great fun! Cheers!

[AirsoftTed]

Trouble is finding someone to play with if you're only a secret/part time geek like myself

[JamesAirsofterAgent]

Trouble is finding someone to play with if you're only a secret/part time geek like myself

That's very true. These days the only social things are consoles and sports. Board games and such.....hmmmm lol.

[JamesAirsofterAgent]

The Normandy set they are using looks great.....yeahhh my wallet hates me....

[BBrotherwood]

There will almost certainly be a war-gaming club nearby and WW2 is almost always one of the periods played Do a quick Google search and find one you like the look of and pop along for a look.

Beware though, sixes on a dice will become both your best friend and your worst enemy...

[JamesAirsofterAgent]

The nearest one is Bristol for me, I'm gonna stick with trying it with a friend who may do it, he's undecided.

[AirsoftTed]

I've looked up any near me and they're a bit too far to be traveling. (not technically speaking, but it takes hours to get anywhere in London) So going to wait till I move back to Glasgow

[JamesAirsofterAgent]

On to part 2 of that video lol. It looks great fun, relatively simple just painful money wise...

[BBrotherwood]

28mm war-gaming tends to be expensive by standard. Warlord Games are one of the cheapest 28mm brands on the market though. Its an easy game to convert though to other scales. If you want to game for much less then take a look at plastic soldier company's 15mm range. You can get an entire company for about £15-20s.

[JamesAirsofterAgent]

After D-Day diorama, Iz'm attempting a Battle of Mogadishu diorama, the crash sight of Super 64 and the Humvee scene from Black hawk down.

[JamesAirsofterAgent]

Almost finished the Somme diorama! Just need to spray paint and then take away figure bases and glue on.

As well as barbed wire, trees, dead live stock, bunker, sandbags....

 

 

 

 

Bugger. Looks like I'm almost, almost finished.

[AirsoftTed]

Got any pictures James?

[JamesAirsofterAgent]

Sorry been away, yes hopefully be on when I get back from the orthodontist peeps.

[JamesAirsofterAgent]

I feel this thread definately deserves to be revived. Especially after all my airfix birthday presents have arrived . At the weekend I will be posting pictures of my (still work in progress ) diorama as well as a few of the kits I got

[ImTriggerHappy]

Jesus

 

I do wonder sometimes if I am geeky enough for airsoft.

[MrMcG]

Wow this brings back memories

 

Last time I played this was many years ago I had a collection of space wolves and blood marines

[Colonel Kurtz]

I was like a Warhammer 40k bad-boy as a kid, most my Dark Angel and Space Ork army was shop-lifted and I got banned from the Golden Demon Awards for underage drinking.

 

Still got a set of original grey-knight terminators somewhere (the ones that were emperor's bodyguards or something), kept them as they were supposedly super-old/rare in the 90's, rest got an overnight dip in meth, paint pealed off and flogged.

 

I think i can count on my hands the number of battles that I actually played and finished, play-time was usually over long before a clear victor was decided.

[b1n0gHo5t]

Sigh warhammer..my one true love..but i ******* hate painting/modelling haha so i can never really get back into it..well unless i save up and pay a moronic ammount on a god-like painted army

+ dwarves always getting shat on in lore & rules bugs the crap outta me

[BBrotherwood]

So, this model I made at the start of the summer is now on its way to the Air Cadet Corp modelling championships much to my complete surprise:

 

I also got the chance to lay out my collection of evil for the Lord of the Rings:

 

What has everyone else been up to?