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Have been dallying in sci-fi war of the 'near future' variety recently, through discovering Deadzone and Firefight by Mantic Games and absolutely loving the rulesets for both. Being less keen on the models for both, I've been repurposing some old Anvil Industry Afterlife miniatures for a take on near-future warfare on and around Earth.
Without further ado, introducing 'Journeyman 2-2', the first unit in the New Visegrad Battlegroup. Taking a considerable amount of inspiration from existing real-world units (including the real-life Visegrad Battlegroup, which has recently been reassembled for 2019-2021), I figured most of the soldiers in Journeyman would be comprised of Central/Eastern European recruits, with a couple embedded observers from Western European nations.
More to come - in this pic we have line infantry (Enforcers), commando units in urban camo (Enforcer Pathfinders) and a support platform (D.O.G. drone/sentry gun).
(https://i.imgur.com/2KZvFLz.jpg)
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YES!!! First response on a Knight Captain Tyr thread!! :D
The painting is spot on, you might need to share some how tos eventually Im afraid! Lovely and gritty.
Would welcome your thoughts on those rulesets later on too.
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Looking good :-*
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Superb work. Looking forward to watching this one develop 🙂
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Looking good :-*
Cheers!
Superb work. Looking forward to watching this one develop 🙂
Thanks - should have a big update pretty soon.
YES!!! First response on a Knight Captain Tyr thread!! :D
The painting is spot on, you might need to share some how tos eventually Im afraid! Lovely and gritty.
Would welcome your thoughts on those rulesets later on too.
Cheers mate! I'd love to do a how-to. It's very easy. Sponge weathering is your friend :) I'm due to get my first game of Deadzone next week!
Quick snap of some extra units (Pathfinders and sentry minigun already painted):
(https://i.imgur.com/2v8aF5I.jpg)
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Very nice basing work there. You've also reminded me I need some more of those gun platforms lol
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Your stuff is always top notch ,great stuff :-*
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Nice.
I really must dig those figures out (especially Sergeant Blunt -aka FMB).
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Two years on, I've sort of returned to this project...
In between (finally) discovering the TV show The Expanse, I've been inspired to return to my near-future stuff. Namely, Dropfleet Commander and possibly the Deadzone stuff above.
In the interests of keeping things tied together, I figured it'd be super cool to tie Journeyman 2-2 into a Dropfleet force. With that in mind, I figured the New Visegrad Battlegroup needed its first carrier - here's the San Francisco class troop carrier Coriolanus:
(https://i.imgur.com/o91Ae9C.jpg)
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Knight-Captain Tyr kills again... in space!
They look amazing! Are You familiar with the Maelstormīs Edge miniature line (I love their broken infantry)? I think it would fit Your style:
https://www.maelstromsedge.com/medge/store.jsp
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Very nice looking minis.
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Like that color scheme. I tried for a similarly grungy look on my UCM way back when but the lighter base hull color on yours works better than my blue-grey did. Really makes the crud and scorching stand out well.
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T71kVcu1Lwk/XaTu6v49LcI/AAAAAAAAFWc/li2_8N2pi-AUQk49Xhr-CTW-ReDqD3iewCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/100_2258.jpg)
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Thanks a bunch!
Knight-Captain Tyr kills again... in space!
They look amazing! Are You familiar with the Maelstormīs Edge miniature line (I love their broken infantry)? I think it would fit Your style:
https://www.maelstromsedge.com/medge/store.jsp
I wasn't, but am looking now! Very interesting...
Finished 500pts in the meantime - the first time I've ever painted an entire (playable) force in a weekend!
(https://i.imgur.com/MMlfmbf.jpg)
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Excellent 8)
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Lovely work.
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Great work as usual mate! Really loving the Dropfleet ships.
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Thanks guys!
The latest addition - UCMF Myrmidon, ready to outflank should I draw the command card which grants me a free Rio class cruiser... lol
(https://i.imgur.com/N5Zm0Pa.jpg)
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Glad to know I'm not the only one who went of his way to paint something extra for that card.
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Lovely work! I do always love space-combat, but it's the early 28s from this thread that I really love. It's such a shame that Anvil scrapped that range, there was so much in it that I thought was lovely and unique :-[
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Nice to see you doing SF Tyr! Ships are lovely but I look forward to your ground Ops.
Agreed about Anvil Splod. I was really tempted to get Anvils SF range but was too knee deep in other projects. Soon as I decided to get some they'd virtually scrapped the entire range for alternatives to Imp guard which just I just don't fancy at all mostly.
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Thanks a bunch guys!
Lovely work! I do always love space-combat, but it's the early 28s from this thread that I really love. It's such a shame that Anvil scrapped that range, there was so much in it that I thought was lovely and unique :-[
So in theory they're going to bring the Afterlife range back - just depends on 'when'. Joel from Anvil posted something about it in the dedicated Anvil thread over on Dakka.
The fleet's been growing just a bit since the last update...
(https://i.imgur.com/CabC4D7.jpg)
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Looking great.
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Stellar work!
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Don't forget to use your leftover bits for kitbashing more ships. UCM kits are particularly good for that:
https://brokenstarsburningships.blogspot.com/2019/10/dropfleet-commander-kitbashing-using-up.html
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(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mqBfrrKaMeE/XadMqJsUH8I/AAAAAAAAFZw/OhpdOhOdQfQyhChWIphhkFtjWwUbYd82wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/101_8267.jpg)
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(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DnPifcS2nZw/XadMR7wQy9I/AAAAAAAAFZY/H0EKWZkxQbU6WIrqOe7dz3nRMuo1-6a6wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/101_8260.jpg)
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ea4aAyVAZFI/XbS474iWBfI/AAAAAAAAFgo/BwP2GmdT2hs5rHC2CuyhyAD_NvTV1O2wwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/101_8339.jpg)
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y-s8fTgcBM8/XP5vTKFlhKI/AAAAAAAAEJg/G2qhN-TDg3ANqY4wrFhVg1s-EAG4PDoKgCLcBGAs/s1600/101_7688.jpg)
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_B6PvijnAl0/XP5vd7TkLCI/AAAAAAAAEJw/GQrTNTS54sYpk_LXALKdbWfCJorbjZrdwCLcBGAs/s1600/101_7692.jpg)
https://brokenstarsburningships.blogspot.com/2019/10/full-thrust-zedoss-monarchy-kitbashed.html