I really like the Brigade PA troops.
So much in fact it has stalled me bringing out my own as I don't want to release something that is not as cool.

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I got the second base of Heavy Infantry and a Special Forces CHQ base done:

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Photo is a bit rubbish because one of my daylight bulbs went pop yesterday and I didn't have a spare handy. Should have a new one in the post next week.

This is a useful illustration of how you build a force in BattleGroup, btw, because you couldn't do one that looked like this! You have to buy a minimum amount of elements that are the same as that of your CHQ (so a heavy cavalry CHQ must come with some hvy cav elements, for example, before you can buy anything else).

By the way, someone on Warseer asked how I do the basing with the Brigade minis. I keep the integral bases, glue them to a coin and then put Milliput around the bases and smooth it off. By the time the sand goes on, you almost can't see the bumps:

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R.

These are really really nice. So much so I have checked out EM4s store- they have some fantastic value stuff! Im thinking of grabbing 3 or 4 sets of the ships and sharing them out between the misses and myself to use for our chaos armies.

Nice to see yet another person miss use 2p coins as well! At least we will all be in good company when the government finally crack down on this and throw us all in the tower of London!

I had not seen much of the Brigade stuff before- Now I'm glad I have a fair bit of hobby money saved over from my birthday, as I may add to my LotD with some of their tracks!

Thanks for sharing some awesome looking minis!

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I am delighted to inspire. I'd be even more delighted to inspire you to buy my rules, but as my website is still down for a few days yet, that will just have to wait.

The EM4 stuff won't set the world on fire for quality, but any time you find yourself grumbling over the rather soft plastic our tricksy mould lines, you look back at the price and think, "yeah, but twelve for less than the price of a pint of beer?" and you forgive all ills.

R.

Those em4 kits are great. I have a ton of the mechs and ships from back when they were made by Iron Crown for Silent Death and a robot game they were testing, but never released, called Explosive Decompression.

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Another contributing manufacturer to the HorizonWars project is 15mm.co.uk.

Despite their name, they carry several different scales of miniatures. This image actually illustrates two of them:



The base on the left is Brigade Models light infantry for comparative purposes. The one in the middle holds "fleet scale" mechs from 15mm.co.uk. Fleet scale describes a very vague scale intended to represent vast spaceship miniatures, like those of BFG or FS:A. However, I thought they'd make a good alternate heavy infantry set, and this more or less proves that they work nicely as heavy infantry.

Meanwhile, the guys on the right are from 15mm.co.uk's 6mm SF range. As you can see, they are quite a lot taller than Brigade's minis. I would place them at more like 10mm. But they are still nicely cast and well sculpted with some cool designs. I did this base (with its choreographed pointing soldiers) first as a test, and am looking forward to painting the light infantry versions which have pretty cool helmets and rifles.

R.

EDIT - BTW, here's a shot of the first finished BattleGroup force:

absolute badasses

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Yes very nice indeed!

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Those mechs look awesome, just googled them and the are pretty good value as well. Please stop making everything you paint so awesome- my wallet is going hurt if you keep show casing such awesome minis!

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On the plus side, you could buy ten boxes of EM4 miniatures (120 ships or 50 mechs) for less than a single 28mm 40k Rhino APC. So really I'm saving your wallet from a far more intense pain. That whole army pictures, plus the mechs and airframes that go with it, cost less, total including postage, than a single Land Raider.

EDIT - By the way, @RexHavoc, the website at http://precinctomega.co.uk is back up again, so you can buy AirFrame and MechaWar and... sneak preview for TacComd members, because the official notice doesn't go out to my newsletter subscribers for a whole five minutes!... you can now download the BattleGroup open beta rules for absolutely FREE! Find them in the downloads section, RIGHT NOW!

R.

This is brilliant.

I'm going to record this post and play it again and again and again to my misses why she sleeps. Then after a few weeks tell her I'm going to order a couple 28mm land raiders as I'm bored of 6mm. Hopefully the recording will have stuck and I'll be on my way to ordering 200 EM4 ships. This will be a great victory against all spouses of us wargaming heroes!

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unless you have a spouse who games!

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Then sir, you've already won...

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Double win, she gave me some money to fund the junker insurgents for the Junker range out of her own salary!


Anyway, back to topic..

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I have a new daylight bulb which is giving me a much less saturated, yellow-balanced colour on my photos.

Here is the large OKI building from Angel Barracks, all painted up in exactly the same colours as the small building, but looking a lot more grey.



This one wasn't quite as good a cast as the first. I honestly didn't notice when it was bare or primed. It wasn't until I started applying the basecoat that the teeny-tiny bubbles on the surface started appearing, which was unfortunate. However, I decided to turn them to my advantage and painted on fire/blast damage that both conceals the worst of the bubbling, and also provides some explanation for it (it's shrapnel/bullet holes!).

R.