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Offline Bullshott

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Prussian Reinforcements
« on: August 30, 2008, 05:57:56 PM »
My Prussian army has just received some new reinforcements:

Panzer Grenadiers:


Vehicle repair crew (can also be used as automaton controllers):


Assault gun:


Krieghund light walkers:


Walkure class dirigible:



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Offline commissarmoody

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Re: Prussian Reinforcements
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2008, 06:26:36 PM »
Vary nice! I like them all from your mechanics to your wardogs and Airship! great all around
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Re: Prussian Reinforcements
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2008, 07:26:14 PM »
Great figures and machines! A job well done!

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Re: Prussian Reinforcements
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2008, 07:45:28 PM »
Fantastic. With one notable exception. My hatred of Sci-Fi Walkers in WWWII is now extended to VSF. Can nobody else see that they just don't fit in? I dearly love LAF, but I wish it wouldn't keep throwing walkers at me. I hate walkers!!!!

Okay, I feel better now, sorry.


Wotan is fantastic. But the "Assault Gun" story doesn't fool me. It is almost exactly how I imagined the Panzerfeldtoilette when I dreamed it up for the FFFFF. I knew I should have built a model of it. The so-called gun is actually an outlet pipe for the sewage.  :)

Great stuff. Ignore my grumbling about walkers. It's not you, it's me.
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Offline revford

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Re: Prussian Reinforcements
« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2008, 08:13:30 PM »
The little airship is wonderful.  :)
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Re: Prussian Reinforcements
« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2008, 08:41:19 PM »
Wotan[/b] is fantastic. But the "Assault Gun" story doesn't fool me. It is almost exactly how I imagined the Panzerfeldtoilette when I dreamed it up for the FFFFF. I knew I should have built a model of it. The so-called gun is actually an outlet pipe for the sewage.  :)

The name Panzerfeldtoilette was actually conceived to disguise the true nature of the project before the Franco-Prussian War. The Prussians let the French think that they needed to armour their mobile toilets to withstand the stresses that would be caused by soldiers fed on a diet of sausage, sauerkraut and Bavarian beer lol

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Re: Prussian Reinforcements
« Reply #6 on: August 30, 2008, 08:55:10 PM »
 :)

I half-recognize those vehicle repair crew figures. Are they conversions? Something from the West Wind Gothic horror range with tools shoved into their hands? Or am I mistaken?

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Re: Prussian Reinforcements
« Reply #7 on: August 30, 2008, 09:03:22 PM »
:)

I half-recognize those vehicle repair crew figures. Are they conversions? Something from the West Wind Gothic horror range with tools shoved into their hands? Or am I mistaken?

They are the East European Politzi pack from Westwind's Gothic Horror range. Tools are 1/43 and 1/32 scale packs from S&D Models:

http://www.sanddmodels.co.uk/products_43.htm

I am also painting Westwind's Zendarian Troopers with pistols to use as crews for abandoned vehicles.


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Re: Prussian Reinforcements
« Reply #8 on: August 30, 2008, 09:04:35 PM »
Fantastic. With one notable exception. My hatred of Sci-Fi Walkers in WWWII is now extended to VSF. Can nobody else see that they just don't fit in? I dearly love LAF, but I wish it wouldn't keep throwing walkers at me. I hate walkers!!!

But what about Martian War Machines? Surely those are exempt? ;)

On topic, nice stuff. I´m not that fond of the walkers either, mainly because the components are still too recognisable and not really VSF, particularly those Starquest Dreadnought (if I´m not mistaken) legs. The Assault Gun is brilliant. Not sure about the Bauhaus Ducal Militia - those guns just don´t say VSF either, but the paint scheme is inspired, particularly on the Panzerfeldwebel. The vehicle repair crew and the Zepp are just lovely.

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Re: Prussian Reinforcements
« Reply #9 on: August 30, 2008, 09:08:53 PM »
But what about Martian War Machines? Surely those are exempt? ;)

Absolutely. Those are "Fighting Machines" or perhaps Tripods, but definitely not Walkers.   ;)

Offline Gluteus Maximus

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Re: Prussian Reinforcements
« Reply #10 on: August 31, 2008, 11:09:36 AM »
But what about Martian War Machines? Surely those are exempt? ;)

Absolutely. Those are "Fighting Machines" or perhaps Tripods, but definitely not Walkers.   ;)

Whilst I love to suspend belief, walkers are really a bit much for me too. I like the idea of spidery/scorpion-like things, but the two-legged variety just look ready to fall over all the time  :(

I do love the Star Wars At-At, though.

Two legs bad, four [or more] legs good?  ;)

That's not to say that I dislike the models Sir Henry and others have produced, splendid things that they are!

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Re: Prussian Reinforcements
« Reply #11 on: August 31, 2008, 11:25:41 AM »
That airship is awesome, what's it made from? And what have you used for the base?

I rather like the walkers myself, but I can see why some people may not. They do indeed look like they're about to fall over though...
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Re: Prussian Reinforcements
« Reply #12 on: August 31, 2008, 11:55:13 AM »
absolutely marvellous mein Herr!!!!

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Re: Prussian Reinforcements
« Reply #13 on: August 31, 2008, 12:09:22 PM »
That airship is awesome, what's it made from? And what have you used for the base?

A few years ago my wife bought a Swatch watch that came in a zep-shaped case made of thin aluminium. I liberated the case and finally got round to making up the zep from it. The ridges on the hull are half-round plastic rod. The cabin is a foam-core former over which I glued thin card and then thin plastcard (sheet styrene) over that (the same method as I mke my Prussian armoured vehicles). Guns are from Warzone plastic Bauhaus militia. The propeller was from a free download on the Fiddlers Green website for their paper aircraft models.

The base is a plastic cocktail glass that I found in a supermarket (idea stolen from contributors to the GASLIGHT Yahoo group.

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Re: Prussian Reinforcements
« Reply #14 on: August 31, 2008, 12:14:57 PM »
Damnit, I was about to ask where those guns are from. Don't have any of those spare though  :'(

I'll just have to scratchbuild some Hotchkiss to mount on my 'Nef. It will then feel that much more satisfying when it shoots you down  :D
So many projects..... so little time.......

 

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