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Offline oabee

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28mm Martians in the H. G. Wells style
« on: 03 May 2015, 07:57:43 PM »
So, over in the In Her Majesty's Name board Mr. Cartmell has revealed his (skirmish-level) rules supplement for the Martian Invasion of 1899, which is based on the H. G. Wells War of the Worlds genre.

As far as the tripods go, the various stylings from All Quiet on the Martian Front will do quite nicely, serving as scaled-down versions for 28mm skirmishes.

But that brings us to what I like to call the Cartmell Cunundrum, which is: where do I find suitable figures/miniatures for this lot?!?   o_o

I appeal to all the fine gentlemen and ladies of the VSF Adventures Board: which minis would you recommend for 28mm H. G. Wellsian Martian leaders, soldiers, slavers, drone controllers, and/or steersmen?

Mr. Cartmell's creation can be found in Wargames, Soldiers & Strategy Magazine, issue 76, and at the bottom of this page:

https://inhermajestysname.wordpress.com/additional-material/

Thanks in advance for your help!  :D
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Offline DLIinVSF

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Re: 28mm Martians in the H. G. Wells style
« Reply #1 on: 03 May 2015, 09:36:03 PM »
Interesting reading of Well's Martian tactics............no sure I read them the same but hay ho.

Ironclad carry some 28mm Martian Cephalpods

http://www.ironcladminiatures.co.uk/ourshop/cat_919184-Martian-Cephalopods.html

or Parroom

http://www.parroom.net/Catalog%20pages/Cat_MaM_Ceph.html

or maybe some 18mm from Black Hat?

http://www.blackhat.co.uk/online_shop/index.php?cPath=107_110_117&osCsid=032783c5451190badc03408a11ff217c







Offline The_Beast

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Re: 28mm Martians in the H. G. Wells style
« Reply #2 on: 04 May 2015, 02:56:02 PM »
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or Parroom

http://www.parroom.net/Catalog%20pages/Cat_MaM_Ceph.html


The link to the store for the Parroom Station stuff seems broken. Try The-Cephalid-Menace.

Apparently, Black Hat won't let you simply hot link to a page; I get the 'Login or Register' screen, which I find a bit annoying. Still a) stalwart fellows otherwise, b) you're at the site, go have a bit of a search.

Doug
« Last Edit: 04 May 2015, 08:10:00 PM by The_Beast »

Offline The Dozing Dragon

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Re: 28mm Martians in the H. G. Wells style
« Reply #3 on: 04 May 2015, 11:34:44 PM »
I love the newish ones from Minifigs;

http://www.miniaturefigurines.co.uk/Catalogue.aspx?ScaleID=15&CategoryID=57





There are a bunch of pics on my blog somewhere (check the side tags for Minifigs...I tried writing a background piece for each release...) but I can't link at work  >:(

Offline Eisenfaust

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Re: 28mm Martians in the H. G. Wells style
« Reply #4 on: 05 May 2015, 09:31:48 AM »
The Edofleini from Bombshell Miniature's Counterblast might do the trick.
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Offline black hat miniatures

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Re: 28mm Martians in the H. G. Wells style
« Reply #5 on: 05 May 2015, 10:16:58 AM »

Apparently, Black Hat won't let you simply hot link to a page; I get the 'Login or Register' screen, which I find a bit annoying. Still a) stalwart fellows otherwise, b) you're at the site, go have a bit of a search.

Doug

It is a side effect of our site not using cookies.

Drop the end of the link from &oscid onwards and it will work fine

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Offline The_Beast

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Re: 28mm Martians in the H. G. Wells style
« Reply #6 on: 21 May 2015, 02:55:50 PM »
It is a side effect of our site not using cookies.

Drop the end of the link from &oscid onwards and it will work fine

Mike


Next, you'll be blaming EU conventions...  lol

Properly chastised, of course; I should have said 'The Black Hat site...'

Doug

 

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