Florian's SciFi Forces: 23 April 2024: Orks! Orks! Orks!

[DivisMal]

Hello.

  The idea for ~40K with ~20mm minis and Hotwheels is nice, I try something like that too.  Dark Alliance have 4 sets of plastic figures, 1/72, that I like. Stalker 1 & 2, Survivers & Rednecks.   Hotwheels give me the"Tanknator" and Maisto the pink "Leadslinger".
  Your minis and their vehicles look very good. Do you think, bigger trucks could be part off the game ?

Hello Hermann,

it started very similar for me. One day I saw one of those Hotwheels and decided to paint it. That was the start. You can play 40k in whatever scale and with whatever models you like. Never let anyone tell you anything else. You bought the rules. Even paper blups work!

I play 40k using 15mm models; I haven’t really decided what to do with the larger 20mm models, but I’ll definitely use them for wargaming. 15mm became the choice because that was the scale where my genestealers (mase from old familiars) were made from! Nowadays with 3d printing you could choose any scale you like.

The sets you are talking about are really nice. They give you quite a lot model dor your buck. I would say start doing it - and see, how much you enjoy painting 20mm! The cars/trucks become proxies for Tanks or armored vehicles, of course.

Maybe you should also have a look around in the indie game scene to start playing once you got the first few models ready!

[DivisMal]

The last V8.
A legend known to everyone who saw the Mad Max movies during a certain time of their life. The name was also used for an old C64 game with a cool soundtrack.

The great thing is that a lot about the legend behind the V8, actually most, is left in the dark. What is so special about these cars, how does the rubber band turbo boost work? Why are they called Interceptors?

There is (was?) a very good model of a V8 Interceptor produced by World Forge Games which I acquired via one of their very good Kickstarter campaigns for the Route 666 game.
 
It’s probably the best you could get until the 3d scene discovers that PostApoc is a cool genre…

[Cacique Caribe]

I love it!

Dan

[Grumpy Gnome]

Brilliant! 👍

[zrunelord]

Love how the blue glass came out on that model.

Z

[DivisMal]

Brilliant! 👍

I love it!

Dan

Thank you guys!

Love how the blue glass came out on that model.

Z

Thanks. I’m still working on this. There are some good tutorials in the internet and some painters achieve an amazing anime level of painting light reflexes on glass, I went rather for contrast and gaming level.

[DivisMal]

Another excellent model from World Forge Games that sadly seems to be oop now : it’s an hommage to no-one else than Tankgirl !!! A lovely if somewhat fragile sculpt, very nice to have and a good partner for Max!

[zrunelord]

Now that's a unique & Great model... never saw it before.
Again thanks for sharing
Good job
Z

[Mason]

Great additions, but that Car/Tank is bonkers!
 

[shadowbeast]

It’s probably the best you could get until the 3d scene discovers that PostApoc is a cool genre…

What makes yer think they ain't?
https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-cyber-forge-november-release-140387

[DivisMal]

Now that's a unique & Great model... never saw it before.
Again thanks for sharing
Good job
Z

Thank you Z. The model was part if the 2nd (?) Kickstarter for the Route 666 game. The game had some of the best 20mm models I’ve ever seen, but the fulfillment of the 2nd was a real mess and I am not sure if I got everything I paid for, yet - or will ever get it… If they had better orgaisation and marketing this could have been THE great thing. Now the Fury Road and Gaslands hype is mostly over and when I checked the HP I didn’t see a single model any more. Really a pity.

Great additions, but that Car/Tank is bonkers!
 

Thanks, Mason. It’s a pretty clever sculpt, too, and while the girl is a little fragile she just looks rightly sized between the GW and Northstar stuff. I now regret not getting more…

What makes yer think they ain't?
https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-cyber-forge-november-release-140387

Oh my, didn’t know about these. Maybe this is a bit naive, but from my pov, a person not owning a 3d printer, the price seems pretty hefty…I still have to invest a lot to get those models…and they rather look 32mm to me and the cars are definitely inferior to the ones I got from World Forge Games.

Anyway, thanks for the link, and maybe I find a shop that sells some of the characters.

[DivisMal]

Anothet car model for today, again from Worldforge Miniatures, but this time pimped with some of the excellent stuff you can buy from Curtis Ramshackle Games. I love how they fit together! Witness me! 

[Mason]

Excellent!!*
 


*Although I do wish you would stop this as it makes me want to convert cars and I have no use for that idea.
 

[NotifyGrout]

If you can track one down, Demonblade Miniatures made a Fat Elvis model that might work for you. He's in this lot on sale from Noble Knight right now, but I don't know if you'd have a use for the rest of it, nor if shipping would be prohibitive.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/364041087819

[DivisMal]

If you can track one down, Demonblade Miniatures made a Fat Elvis model that might work for you. He's in this lot on sale from Noble Knight right now, but I don't know if you'd have a use for the rest of it, nor if shipping would be prohibitive.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/364041087819

Oh wow! That is spot on! The lot is a bit pricy, though…I have a new project: find Elvis! 

Excellent!!*
 


*Although I do wish you would stop this as it makes me want to convert cars and I have no use for that idea.
 

I just received some new 3d printed models…so I hope I can rather accelerate, pal! Sorry.