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Offline Keith

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Re: Empress - Hue 1968 - First Glimpse of the New Range
« Reply #225 on: April 11, 2019, 11:16:08 AM »
Love it! Great work on him  :-*
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Offline Mick_in_Switzerland

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Re: Empress - Hue 1968 - First Glimpse of the New Range
« Reply #226 on: April 11, 2019, 11:21:50 AM »
Great work Andy. :-*

Are you going to do a painting guide with colour references?

Offline traveller

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Re: Empress - Hue 1968 - First Glimpse of the New Range
« Reply #227 on: April 11, 2019, 11:27:00 AM »
Great work Andy. :-*

Are you going to do a painting guide with colour references?

second that, I would really like to have the recipe. He look like the real thing  :-*

Offline Paul Hicks

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Re: Empress - Hue 1968 - First Glimpse of the New Range
« Reply #228 on: April 11, 2019, 11:37:07 AM »
Great work Andy! Love to see the sculpts brought to life.

Offline Suetonius Paullinus

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Re: Empress - Hue 1968 - First Glimpse of the New Range
« Reply #229 on: April 11, 2019, 12:13:00 PM »
Thanks all!
Love the sculpts, they really paint themselves.
I’ll do a little tutorial for them later. It is fairly simple to get them look this way.

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Cheers

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Offline Paul @ Empress Miniatures

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Re: Empress - Hue 1968 - First Glimpse of the New Range
« Reply #230 on: April 11, 2019, 02:53:26 PM »
Lovely work  :-*

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Re: Empress - Hue 1968 - First Glimpse of the New Range
« Reply #231 on: April 11, 2019, 03:36:24 PM »
Really liking those paint jobs. A tutorial would be much appreciated, even though I'm not going to be able to match your quality!

Offline Cypher226

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Re: Empress - Hue 1968 - First Glimpse of the New Range
« Reply #232 on: April 11, 2019, 05:08:44 PM »
Fantastic paintwork. I said it on fb and I'll say it again here   :D

Can't wait to start painting my first squad tomorrow night!

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Re: Empress - Hue 1968 - First Glimpse of the New Range
« Reply #233 on: April 11, 2019, 05:23:35 PM »
Nice figures again.

Nice paint job SP, I look forward to your thread.

Interesting about the choppers.

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Re: Empress - Hue 1968 - First Glimpse of the New Range
« Reply #234 on: April 11, 2019, 05:27:09 PM »
Are you going to do a painting guide with colour references?
That would be helpful.

Offline Paul @ Empress Miniatures

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Re: Empress - Hue 1968 - First Glimpse of the New Range
« Reply #235 on: April 12, 2019, 07:54:32 AM »
Time for another sculpt preview.  ;)


Offline .:Gunslinger:.

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Re: Empress - Hue 1968 - First Glimpse of the New Range
« Reply #236 on: April 12, 2019, 08:03:23 AM »
Excellent again! The details like the ripped cloth cover on the helmet are so good!

I must say also that I really love the daily picture of a new mini! Really gets the excitement going  :-* :-*

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Re: Empress - Hue 1968 - First Glimpse of the New Range
« Reply #237 on: April 12, 2019, 08:23:46 AM »
The only thing that I don't like about this range is the way that the packs are put together.

From the scenarios in Force on Force book "Ambush Valley", it looks like a typical unit is a lot of men with M16, plus one M60 GPMG and one with M79.

However, NAM 3 has 3 x M60 and NAM 4 is 4 x M79 grenade launchers.
I only need one or two of each. A mixed weapons pack would be more convenient.

Offline Paul @ Empress Miniatures

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Re: Empress - Hue 1968 - First Glimpse of the New Range
« Reply #238 on: April 12, 2019, 09:10:23 AM »
The only thing that I don't like about this range is the way that the packs are put together.

From the scenarios in Force on Force book "Ambush Valley", it looks like a typical unit is a lot of men with M16, plus one M60 GPMG and one with M79.

However, NAM 3 has 3 x M60 and NAM 4 is 4 x M79 grenade launchers.
I only need one or two of each. A mixed weapons pack would be more convenient.

With WW2 and Nam we looked at the conflict and decided that doing the packs by weapon instead of fire teams enabled gamers to pick what they want. Few rules systems seem to adopt the same stats for units and we have had issues in other ranges, eg moderns, and SCW where rules sets demand huge numbers of a certain weapons, way above any historic evidence. This way the gamer just buys what he wants. He can discard a few of the figures but to be honest if you look at actual battle pictures its very common to see blooper teams or multiple M60's in action. Especially in Hue.

Also some gamers like to use certain weapons such as MG's set up in action and separate figures moving.

Currently under production will be another 16 M16 sculpts plus 4 more bloopers and 4 more M60 's.

There will then be officers, RTO, specialist weapons, LAWS, personalities etc. When the Marines are finished it will balance pretty well.

Empress's aim has always to give gamers as much choice as we can so that their units look realistic we believe that this way of doing things achieves that. Plus we had a few customers on here especially ask us to do it so we had no option  lol

 

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Re: Empress - Hue 1968 - First Glimpse of the New Range
« Reply #239 on: April 12, 2019, 09:15:24 AM »
Totally agree with that! I also like to have many different poses on.special weapons to avoid duplicates if I build a larger group.

Also these poses are often varied and it is nice to have a variety of poses to build little scenes (for LPL entries or blog posts).