Frostgrave, Halo Ground Command and other tabletop minis

[Hahma]

I've seen more and more cool files available for people to use with their 3D printers, I think it is going to be fun for you Trex.

I finished my 3rd Corregidor Alguaciles Nomad from the Infinity Icestorm 2 player starter set. These troops are pretty basic soldier types and not expensive points wise. What they do though, is give you orders to use for any model. Basically, in Infinity, except for certain mechanical units/bots, each model in your army gives you an order marker. So on your turn, if you have a total of 10 models that each give you an order marker, you can activate a model with as many of those markers as you want. They aren't tied to that model (except in certain cases), so by having some cheap units like these Alguaciles, you get orders to use to activate better models, as well as fodder or units that can get objectives.






Varnished and ready to party. These crazy punk rock soldiers are set for action.







I did manage to get my 7 Snowtroopers assembled, based and primed today, in between a ton of work around house and yard. I'm going to go with the color scheme on the box, with the armor on the chest, forearms, knees, elbows and helmet being white, with the pants, sleeves, lower facemask and cloak being a beige type color.


Last week, I got the templates, skid dice and assorted tokens for the game Gaslands. I had gotten the rulebook a little while ago and have also been picking up some vehicles (Though, one of the cars is one I've had and used for the Parked Car DO for C3G ). I may start out learning the game with the cars as is and just keep track of their weapons and other add-ons on their individual vehicle dashboard card. Perhaps sometime down the road when I get somewhat caught up with other projects, I may do like a lot of people do (a ton of people on the Gaslands facebook page), and modify the cars to have weapons, armor etc and paint them up to look post apocalyptic. The neat thing about this game, is that you can use regular Matchbox or Hotwheels cars that are cheap and easy to find anywhere. Heck, you can print off the templates and glue them onto thin cardboard, use normal dice and consult a chart, and find whatever for tokens if you want. So it's a very low entry cost for those that want to keep it as inexpensive as possible.

[TREX]

Cool paint jobs hahma. I was just telling a brother in law of mine about gaslands since he has some kids of his obsessed with modding and painting hotwheels cars. It looks a little bit like xwing and I have quite the spread of that but it doesnt usually make it to the table. I primed and based the handful of 3d print models I made today. They are so cool. Ill paint them up and post some pics of them. Cant believe how much fun it is to just pick out a character and make a mini of them. Now that I have the hang of it somewhat Ill get back to painting my minis while it churns out some new fun toys. Ive still got to figure out some slicing techniques to put multiple items on my printbed. Then Ill be all set. I might do another batch of jersey barriers for fun.

[TREX]

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Been 3d printing miniatures. This one is a Protoss Hero named Artanis from the computer game starcraft. I modded it with some translucent blades and painted and based it after removing the supports. So much fun. Maybe I'll make this guy my Heritor and make some other guys for his minions. So fun.

[Hahma]

Very cool! Between you and my buddy Chris with his 3D printer, I'm getting envious of the possibilities with those things

[TREX]

Originally Posted by Hahma

Very cool! Between you and my buddy Chris with his 3D printer, I'm getting envious of the possibilities with those things

I just finished making a 28mm groot. Its pretty cool. I need to stop making stuff with it so Ill get back to painting my other stuff. I think I will make some more jersey barriers and I have some files for trash cans and tire pile barriers I should print for walking dead.

[Hahma]

Yeah, I can see you being able to make a bunch of cool scatter terrain for TWD and other games. Fun for sure!

FFG just announced even more units for Legion, coming out in 3rd quarter I believe. I'm sure I'll get one of each of these, at least

I should be getting Leia and 1 Fleet Trooper expansion soon, then Han and 2 rebel commandos expansions, then Bobafet and 2 Imperial Scouts expansions, and now these heavy weapons. Oye! Lots of painting on the docket for sure, as if there wasn't enough already.

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[TREX]

Oh no @Hahma . Another game system to slave over. Your efforts arent wasted. The car looks great and the magnet idea here is top notch. 3D printing guns for those tiny cars would super easy.

[Hahma]

Originally Posted by TREX

Oh no @Hahma . Another game system to slave over. Your efforts arent wasted. The car looks great and the magnet idea here is top notch. 3D printing guns for those tiny cars would super easy.

Thanks Trex!

The sad thing is, that I still look longingly at Blood and Plunder and now the new Fallout Wasteland Warfare minis game. I have a problem and I'm not embarrassed to admit it I just love this hobby and honestly haven't even looked to buy a regular board game for awhile. The ones I have are hard to get into the rotation with my gaming group because there are a bazillion games amongst us, and some of the guys are out buying/kickstarting just about everything, so they always show up with the new shiny stuff. Now that my daughters don't want to play games anymore, that makes it extra tough to get my board games played. So I've been selling some stuff off to clear up shelf space, as well as raise more money for minis games. I actually just sold my Gloomhaven game, with the 6 starting figures painted. My daughters and I only played like 5 scenarios and did put some stickers on the map, so the buyer knew that, but there are a ton of scenarios and to keep him busy forever. I let it go for $75.

At least with minis games, I get the joy of painting and modding them, that has become a real enjoyable thing for me. Then when I do take them places to play, people are really digging it because while they can easily buy a board game, they can't or don't want to do the minis game hobby time or money commitment. So I show up with neat toys and people want to play. So that's fun for me.

Yeah, I'm sure there are tons of 3D files available for machineguns, rocket launchers, armor plating, engines, and all kinds of stuff for Gaslands. It's amazing how popular this game has become in such a short amount of time. There are over 6,000 people on the Gaslands FB page, and the rulebook has been reprinted several times because it keeps selling out. In fact, I just saw it for the first time at Miniature Market, and it's already sold out. A lot of people are using bits from Games Workshop kits, weapons from some WWII games, cannibalizing other cars to get parts from etc. Matchbox and Hot Wheels have seen a huge increase in sales in the past 6 months I can tell you, as people keep posting their hauls of new cars to work on, and it's a lot of them

[TREX]

I hear you. Modding, creating, and painting are my favorite things as well. Most of the time I dont get to play but always make more.

[Hahma]

In between taking the dogs to the groomer, vacuuming throughout, cleaning the wood floors, hanging a cool new panoramic painting of the heroes from Avengers Infinity War, and taking my twin daughters for an hour and a half first time with permit driving, I managed to get some hobby stuff done.

I got most of vehicle closest in the picture done last night, as far as modding. The second one in, I did a little bit of modding to it this morning, but the other 2 performance cars I didn't mod. I just got them all primed. These will be for Gaslands at some point.



This morning, I assembled and based the AT-ST from Star Wars Legion. I primed the top and mortar separate from chassis, but used sticky tack to put them together for the picture, though the mortar is still off for now.

I put some Greenstuff under its left foot, as I wanted to have it walking over some uneven ground, so the foot is angled up as it steps on a little Greenstuff bump, which is also what is holding that foot down. There are a few rocks I made out of pink foamboard. This model is pretty darn big, and nicely detailed. The neat thing when assembling it, is that you can pose it in many different ways. At least it's assembled and primed now, so I can paint it whenever, between the other projects.

[TREX]

Ooh, that At-St is going to be sweet. I like the cars as well @Hahma . I'll probably pass on that game just because it looks so similar to X wing with the movement templates, but mainly cause my x wing never makes it to the table. I've been slaving away in the shop today. Had multiple computers running my Cricut and another running my laser engraver. While I craft.

[Hahma]

Originally Posted by TREX

Ooh, that At-St is going to be sweet. I like the cars as well @Hahma . I'll probably pass on that game just because it looks so similar to X wing with the movement templates, but mainly cause my x wing never makes it to the table. I've been slaving away in the shop today. Had multiple computers running my Cricut and another running my laser engraver. While I craft.

You are going to have a ton of neat stuff. Has to be exciting playing with the new toys

I do look forward to doing the AT-ST, but will have to be in the right mood to tackle it and figure out how much I want to put into it. As it was, it took me a while to get in the mood to even assemble, base and prime it. But now that part is done, I can paint it whenever. Still have my 3rd squad of Rebels, and my one squad of Snowtroopers primed and ready to go whenever.

Totally understand about not wanting to get into Gaslands. I don't have X-Wing anymore and see the comparisons, but the movement templates are pretty much the only similar thing other than attacking. You can only use certain templates based on what gear you are in, and then depending on what gear you are in, you may get a good or bad affect from a template. There is a push your luck element to it in some ways, and crashes, ramming, exploding etc. Also, it's generally a racing game, where you have to maneuver through different gates on the board. But yeah, I don't need another game either, but the rulebook was cheap, the cars are only like $1 each, and I did spurge on the dice, templates and tokens, but even then, it was like $38. Some people I know in the Chicago group that I have gamed with on occasion have been playing this and it has been growing like weeds across the country, so I figured that I will at least get some stuff prepared for when I do get a chance to play. It can also be played solo, where you have gun turrets throughout the track and you have to get through all of that. It also seems like an easy one to teach, in case I feel like demoing it somewhere.

It's funny how we both have gotten more into the hobby aspect lately and not as much playing. You with your new fancy machines, and me with my painting and such.