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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: Schogun on November 24, 2024, 07:04:36 PM
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Amazing table!
What rules? Where are structures and figs from?
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54160876632_cfebc7862c_k.jpg)
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Wow - that is an amazing table!
In the Cold War section there’s a game called “Lunar”. Might be that?
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I just noticed the placard in the upper left: Dark Side of the Moon / GZG Ground Zero Games.
No mention on the GZG site though.
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Lunar boi here... :D
That looks really interesting. A lot larger than a regular Lunar game (2×2), and might be a cool escalation after a series of Lunar games 8)
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There were (I think all the infantry were) GZG moon grunt infantry and a couple of the original GZG USA/Chinese rovers (USA just in top right with blue canopy, Chinese sadly on fire in the middle - now rereleased in metal I believe) plus what looked like old plastic kits for some of the other rovers. I can’t remember what rules they said they were using, sorry (it wasn’t using lunar). I stared lovingly at that table for a good number of minutes.
Andrew
BeneathALeadMountain
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Lovely looking table! Perhaps Star Grunt rules.
That's a U.F.O. Moonbase, so either an old plastic model kit or a newer 3D print.
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I think a lot of it is from UFO TV show.
I found this STL package of the moonbase:
https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-print-models/miniatures/sci-fi/ufo-moonbase
Here are the hoppers:
https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/art/ufo-moon-mobile-thebridge
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Some of the grey buildings are from the Kryomek game, now sold by Scotia Grendel
https://www.shop.scotiagrendel.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=227_220&sort=20a&page=5
Does look good though
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It does look good. The only vehicles I can find on the GZG site are 15mm (I think, going by the MG15 codes and 15mm in the URL) - https://shop.groundzerogames.co.uk/15mm-stargrunt/infantry/moongrunt.html Are there any 25/28mm ones available?
The Grendel scenery is 28mm, although I guess it would work with 15mm as well, so now I'm even more confused o_o
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It does look good. The only vehicles I can find on the GZG site are 15mm (I think, going by the MG15 codes and 15mm in the URL) - https://shop.groundzerogames.co.uk/15mm-stargrunt/infantry/moongrunt.html Are there any 25/28mm ones available?
The Grendel scenery is 28mm, although I guess it would work with 15mm as well, so now I'm even more confused o_o
The Grendel scenery is actually closer to old 25mm than to 28mm, I have used it alongside 6mm without too many issues as long as you can ignore the gigantic doors ;) :D
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Zemjw - whilst GZG does hold a range of scales (some 25/28mm and the awesome 1/300 dirt side range - ooh and the excellent full thrust ships) the majority of their awesome miniatures are in 15mm (sorry, great for me not so helpful for you :? ). 28mm is usually well provided for so there must be some scale suitable equivalents out there - maybe search for lunar threads here to see if anyone playing it have some suggestions
Cat - I don’t think it was Star Grunt (I hope I would have recognised it as I’ve spent many hours playing it - but no guarantees :D) and I seem to remember seeing a QRS note discussing different coloured dice………
Going to search my phone and hope I have some more informative pictures - had a look but unfortunately no.
Andrew
BeneathALeadMountain
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So very tempting... ;D
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This may help????
http://www.werelords.com/ufo/dsotm_shows.htm
Rules were by Jon Tuffley of Star Grunt fame but not Star Grunt itself.
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Storm Wolf for the win!
Thanks
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The Grendel scenery is actually closer to old 25mm than to 28mm, I have used it alongside 6mm without too many issues as long as you can ignore the gigantic doors ;) :D
Yeah, that stuff was kind of small even by 25mm standards, and works fine with 15mm these days. The table as awhole is definitely 15mm scale, with a slew of GZG Moongrunt figs and a some converted Brigade Models 15mm Moonbase building components as well - see here:
https://brigademodels.co.uk/product-category/15mm-sf/buildings-and-scenery/moonbase-15mm-sf/
Brigade makes a much wider array of moon-scults in 6mm, but the 15mm range hasn't grown to match yet. Hopefully this spurs some sales for it so the process gets accelerated. Lot of the smaller-scale stuff that would be great (albeit pricey) to have in 15mm.
https://brigademodels.co.uk/product-category/6mm-sf/6mm-buildings-and-scenery/moonbase-6mm-sf/
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Zemjw - whilst GZG does hold a range of scales (some 25/28mm and the awesome 1/300 dirt side range - ooh and the excellent full thrust ships) the majority of their awesome miniatures are in 15mm (sorry, great for me not so helpful for you :? ). 28mm is usually well provided for so there must be some scale suitable equivalents out there - maybe search for lunar threads here to see if anyone playing it have some suggestions
Thanks, I was afraid of that :(
To be honest, I'm not short of suitable vehicles, but I'm always on the lookout for more. I have some Matchbox Mega Rig kits to keep me entertained for a while yet, but that Chinese one in particular looked very nice.
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Now that I can see the pictures at a decent size (I was replying on my phone before), I can see the UFO theme there :-* I love UFO, and that moonbase is most likely a pretty rare Japanese plastic model kit. From what I hear (and see), it's of a suitable size for 15mm, though a bit small at 1/144. I'd love to build one of these at 28mm!
I'm liking the interceptor launchpads as well; quite similar to how they were depicted in the series :)
The moonbuggies are also really interesting; I was only aware of (an even rarer) garage resin kit at a much larger scale. Would these be 3D prints perhaps?
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Yes, the old Aoshima kit is more like 10mm, but comes packed with little vehicles:
https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10020263
EBay prices these days tend to ask ~$160–$200. But as with any Japanese models, Yahoo Auction Japan tends to work out better, even with high shipping these days. I've used a couple of different proxy bidding/buying services and generally prefer Buyee. Saved searches are of course always handy if you want to wait out for items and/or better prices to come along.
YAJ works best searching in Japanese. The 1999, aka Hobby Search, database is brilliant for searching in English, then flip the item page to Japanese to find keywords to use for YAJ searches. Google Translate is your friend for confirming what all you've grabbed for keywords.
There's one kit up now at a great price, 7,000¥:
https://buyee.jp/item/search/query/%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%99%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%20UFO/category/25464?sort=cbids&order=a&translationType=98
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Storm Wolf for the win!
Thanks
Thank you :D
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Oh that's interesting - if it's the same 'Dark side of the Moon' game that was at Salute 2019 then the rules used were published in MW#440. Does this help any?
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Rick - you legend, I think it does. Couldn’t find any photos from Warfare but have found this from 2019. Looks like the same game sans the stilt based walker things…
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/64/15852-281124195544.jpeg)
Andrew
BeneathALeadMountain
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the stilt based walker things…
They are SHADO Moon Hoppers.
https://fantastic-plastic.com/shado-moon-hopper.html (https://fantastic-plastic.com/shado-moon-hopper.html)
They move in shallow hops.