Austrlian Horror Miniatures (Link)

[Hat Guy]

A piece I spun recently regarding my thoughts on Oz-horror in miniature gaming.

http://nwa.org.au/index.php/category-general/473-jw170624

Trigger warning: Academic language and MLA referencing.

[von Lucky]

Interesting thoughts. I think the real question is one of potential market - how many Australian wargamers are there compared to North American/European ones? I think a game would really need to accompany this to make it work (unlike what you state), and I that's a pretty big effort. Maybe a Malifaux type game with your "weirdoes"?

As a side point - notice we're only starting to get female superheros start to make their presence felt as main characters in superhero movies, so a lack of Australian presence doesn't surprise me.

[Patrice]

I don't know much the cultural background and I dont' know what the potential market would be in Australia, but there probably is a market worldwide for such ..."exotic" things as razorbacks, mutant kangaroos,  Aboriginal magic, pulp matilda swagmen, and a zombie-fighting Crocodile Dundee that could be used in post-apo worlds or whatever.

When Copplestone made his famous Back of Beyond range he certainly knew that there was almost no potential market for it in Mongolia.

[FierceKitty]

Not to mention Mad Mark, or some such hero.

[dinohunterpoa]

Elle Macpherson! 

[Vampifan]

Elle Macpherson! 

Especially Elle MacPherson as she appeared in the film Sirens! 

[dinohunterpoa]

Especially Elle MacPherson as she appeared in the film Sirens! 

EXACTLY! 

Vampifan, you're spot on as always! 

[Vampifan]

Google sunnyvale and hear an australian girl speak. Should cure you of any lingering love for McPherson or any other australian girl.

I've heard worse and besides which, I like Elle's accent and that of most Australians.

[dinohunterpoa]

I've heard worse and besides which, I like Elle's accent and that of most Australians.

 

She could even be a mute person as far as I am concerned... What I really love is her... SMILE!!! 

[dinohunterpoa]

I liked kate fisher in that movie. She is not the girl she once was though.

anyways back on track. I would like a bunyip/yowie type of monster in miniature.

Yowie - Khurasan Miniatures



Bunyip - the Pathfinder version:

[tomcat51]

In Australian horror movies, for me, the worst element is usually the humans. If we are to believe Oz horror then the Outback is full of monsters and crazy rednecks. The bad guys in Razorback were worse than the monster itself, then there's Wolf Creek, the Loved Ones and so many more. You want Australian horror, then any old modern mini with a blade and a vest will do. In The Long Weekend the humans were the villains and nature itself fought back, so fall back on that wargamer staple terrain, trees!

[dinohunterpoa]

In Australian horror movies, for me, the worst element is usually the humans. If we are to believe Oz horror then the Outback is full of monsters and crazy rednecks. The bad guys in Razorback were worse than the monster itself, then there's Wolf Creek, the Loved Ones and so many more. You want Australian horror, then any old modern mini with a blade and a vest will do. In The Long Weekend the humans were the villains and nature itself fought back, so fall back on that wargamer staple terrain, trees!

Man is always the ultimate monster. 

[FierceKitty]

Google sunnyvale and hear an australian girl speak. Should cure you of any lingering love for McPherson or any other australian girl.

Hearing Nicole Kidman's real speaking voice is like finding an anchovy in your strawberry sorbet!

[von Lucky]

And yet it's what comes out of me only when I travel

[Patrice]

Even though we were both ostensibly speaking the english neither could barely understand the other.

That's a consolation for all of us who have an another language as first language and sometimes strive to be understood in English.
My favourite is talking about "Allied sheep firing on the bitch".

OOoops sorry, out of topic again...