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Miniatures Adventure => Weird Wars => Topic started by: slobberblood on 21 August 2008, 07:35:49 PM
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From my buddy Brian's new company whattheminiatures!
Check it out!
http://whattheminiatures.com/forum/index.php?topic=6.0
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Nice to see some non-German zombies for a change
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I'm not big on zombies (love the Resident Evil movies, though) but I think even I may be tempted by these!
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We're going to do an extensive Weird WWII zombie range that will incorporate just about all the belligerents on all fronts. Next set will be late war German grenadiers. We are also doing rare weapons and at the end of the year. We got a couple M18 recoilless rifle teams as well as another German Luftfaust B and a NCO w/Artillery Luger. We are a small biz and we are growing slow but we hope to offer stuff that the big guys don't with their catalogs or that is until they do but hopefully we make our expenses back before then. :D
Brian
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Looking good.
Are these are 34mm?
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The scale is around the 32mm-34mm range. Below is a comparison shot with several other companies minis on slot bases to help buyers decide if it's within the range they play. We are actually shadowing Jim's Victory Force scale as we think these fit the best with the expanding 1/48 scale model kits hitting the hobby and fits nicely with the CMGs out there so you have allot of options to use the minis with your gaming.
(http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc178/kampfgruppecottrell/sizecomplrg-1.jpg)
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These look great
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I'm not a fan of zombies, but ya gotta love the guy entwined in his parachute. What a great idea!
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:-*love them cant wait to get some and put some paint on them.I am already a big what the? fan those minis rock.and am not a paid actor.
john
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Great miniatures.
What a novel idea of the german forces.
Recycleing the used enemy lol
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Zombies ARE COOL! 8)
Excellent looking minis.
PM
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We're going to do an extensive Weird WWII zombie range that will incorporate just about all the belligerents on all fronts. Next set will be late war German grenadiers. We are also doing rare weapons and at the end of the year. We got a couple M18 recoilless rifle teams as well as another German Luftfaust B and a NCO w/Artillery Luger. We are a small biz and we are growing slow but we hope to offer stuff that the big guys don't with their catalogs or that is until they do but hopefully we make our expenses back before then. :D
Brian
British, canadian, australian, partizan zombies as well please, quite a few dashed jerry zeds out there don't you know!
;)
The Commander
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And Japanese, but make them 28-30mm to reflect their shorter stature. ;)
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We will probably do Brits after the grenadiers since my sculptor, Darren Greenaway, is British. Probably won't do civilians as there as just to many minis out there that can pass for them already. Gotta think cost effective because I am a poor bastard :'( and we gotta find stuff that hasn't already been cover to much.
Swing over to this link and give us your suggestions for zombies or anything else that is missing in your WWII or Weird WWII gaming. Never know, you may get exactly what you want. ;)
http://whattheminiatures.com/forum/index.php
Brian
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I got some great twisted ideas for undead Japanese and yes they will be a bit smaller. :D
Brian
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Noticed on the larger pics that the parachute twisty guys hand looks a little poorly sculpted, be worth that getting a little make over before casting I reckon....looks a bit clubfooty?
Nice though...but as I've said a little worried about size compared with my other wierd war offerings.
The Commander.
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Darren saw your post and it has been fixed. He also scaled down the officer's smg magazine pouch to a more realistic size. He is sending them to me today and I'll send them off to the caster this weekend so we should have them in a week or so.
Brian
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That is genius !!!
I like the idea for other ww2 zombis then germans .
figures are a must have !!
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They all look great. But the Guy who is shot in the head, if he is a Zombie and shot in the head wouldn’t he be not just Zombie dead but dead, dead?
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They all look great. But the Guy who is shot in the head, if he is a Zombie and shot in the head wouldn’t he be not just Zombie dead but dead, dead?
I've raised that on Frother's too! The things we come up as discussion points eh! lol
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They all look great. But the Guy who is shot in the head, if he is a Zombie and shot in the head wouldn’t he be not just Zombie dead but dead, dead?
Does sort of go against canon, doesn't it! Oh, well, it's too nice a figure to ignore. I'll just fill in the hole and let somebody else worry about how he died! After all, if you're being chased by something that wants to eat you, the last thing you'll be worried about is why he's still moving! lol
(Not to hijack the thread, but, isn't it about time zombie fighters in the movies realize that a head shot is going to stop almost anything? Aren't Special Forces trained to give their targets a 'double-tap' to the head? No brain, no problem! Unless you're a politician!)
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Who says zombies have to follow some accepted nerd wisdom rules about how they work? Where does this knowledge come from, encounters with real zombies?
I remember headless zombies in one computer game, though I forget which one. They were pretty cool. Take that, zombie nerds!
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In our gaming you cant kill a zombie, ever! :o The only way to stop the undead is to cause so much damage to them that they just cant move or even have a head to eat you with. This truly make the undead frightning in our games and it you don;t have some heavy weapons then you better come up with a new plan. quick!
Brian
PS
Here are the rules we use for zeds so check them out. There based on the BGWWII rules but you can get an idea of how tough and bad they are.
http://battlegroundweirdwarii.com/Zombies.pdf
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Ver nice to see some other WW2 zombies other than German.Great sculpts too.Ouch...there goes my wallet again.
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Who says zombies have to follow some accepted nerd wisdom rules about how they work? Where does this knowledge come from, encounters with real zombies?...
Shame on you, Sir! Obviously, you have not read 'The Zombie Survival Guide' by Max Brooks! It's Government coverup, as usual. Zombies have been with us for at least 5000 years and, during that period, it has been conclusively proven that the only effective way to kill a zombie is to destroy the brain. (Of course, fire works, too, provided you can keep them in the fire. Otherwise, you've got flamin' zeds setting fire to your town as they shamble about until their brains cook!)
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If in doubt consult
http://www.fvza.org/
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If in doubt consult
http://www.fvza.org/
Anyway... ;)
A pic of them next to a Westwind zed would be useful as I worry that, colourful as they are...they will not be inscale and not for me.
I know you've said Brian that this is the scale that you and your buds use and that it's becoming more popular...but 28mm is really still the modern standard...maybe you could put them in a hot wash, shrink em down a bit? ;)
The Commander
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You know, given that the final castings are always smaller than the greens through mould shrinkage, I wonder if through successive remouldings (4 or 5 for instance), each time of the castings from the last batch, you could get close to 28mm withouth too much distortion or loss of detail? Maybe I should ask Pete Brown.
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And a while back Tom Meier (Thunderbolt Mountain) posted he had developped a processus to shrink or enlarge minis to any given size without loss of detail or distortion.
Maybe he is willing to offer this as a paid service to other company's? This way scalecreep would no longer be an issue and manufacturers could offer the same mini in different scales.
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This way scalecreep would no longer be an issue and manufacturers could offer the same mini in different scales.
Now, THAT would be a brave new world of miniature gaming.
Some manufacturers of plastic model soldiers (like HaT) do something similar, making some of their 1:72 minis into 1:35, too....
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I am looving the look of these!
DOes anybody know the release date?
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They are at the casters as we speak so it should be a week or so. I'll be sure to post when they are ready.
Brian