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Post by scottwashburn on May 13, 2021 11:49:50 GMT
I put 4 on a base.
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Post by scottwashburn on May 10, 2021 14:56:39 GMT
Glad to hear that since I rebased everything to that size already!
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Post by scottwashburn on Mar 12, 2021 15:27:38 GMT
Now if someone would just make a movie (series) from my Great Martian War novels... I'm thinking Netflix series, and with you as executive producer so they can't screw it up! That would be great! Now we just need to figure out how to make that happen. Sure wish I could get an agent!
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Post by scottwashburn on Mar 11, 2021 14:20:43 GMT
Now if someone would just make a movie (series) from my Great Martian War novels...
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Post by scottwashburn on Mar 1, 2021 13:43:00 GMT
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Post by scottwashburn on Feb 23, 2021 17:38:23 GMT
I only have a bare outline. My publisher drafted me into writing a novel set in Mantic Games' Kings of War setting and I recently finished it. I hope to get back to the Great Martian War in the near future.
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Post by scottwashburn on Feb 23, 2021 17:35:03 GMT
Expansion is difficult while remaining within the realm of known science. Mars is a barren desolate place today, but evidence suggests it was more hospitable in the distant past. The Martians evolved in those better times and have managed to adapt both in their physical bodies and by technology to the deteriorating environment on Mars and so their invasion of Earth is not too far outside the realm of possibility. But from what we know about Venus and Mercury, the chances of there being any life there at all is very slim. A few of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn might hold life, but that's about as far as it goes.
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Post by scottwashburn on Feb 23, 2021 17:30:05 GMT
As I recall, he got there basically by wishing himself there I don't remember the exact process, but there was no vessel or ship of any kind involved.
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Post by scottwashburn on Jan 26, 2021 19:37:38 GMT
Thanks! Well, I take a break from one thing by doing another thing and vice-versa
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Post by scottwashburn on Jan 24, 2021 14:25:48 GMT
As some of you know, the latest book in my Great Martian War Series featured a battalion of Australian troops, the 15th New Castle. So I decided to add that battalion to my All Quiet on the Martian Front game armies. And here it is: It consists of four companies. Each company has four platoons of riflemen, each platoon has an attached Lewis Light Machine Gun and one of the crazy Australian inventions, a crossbow Mills Bomb thrower. There is also an attached weapons section with eight machine guns and four 3” Mortars. They are led by their colonel and his headquarters section. The figures are almost entirely Battlefront World War I British. Really nice figures for the most part, although I had some quibbles with the mix of figures that come in a pack: lots and lots of guys with slung rifles waving other men forward and only a couple of men actually firing their weapons. Still, on the bases they look nice. Of course, I wanted my troops to be Australian rather than British, so I have about one man in four wearing the distinctive Australian bush hat. At first I did this by mixing in some Australian figures I found on Ebay, but I wasn’t really happy with them. They were too small, many were wearing shorts, and despite the claim of the seller, they were WWII figures rather than WWI. So after doing one company with them, I decided to replace the headgear of the other ones I wanted. This involved carefully grinding off the helmets and then making the bush hats to replace them. This proved easier than I feared. I just made a single master out of green stuff and then used this to make about a hundred impressions in a slab of modelling clay and then I poured in casting resin and I had my hats. A lot of clean-up was needed, but the results turned out very well. So now I have all the infantry I need, but I will be adding a lot of artillery, tanks, and other vehicles.
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Post by scottwashburn on Jan 19, 2021 19:39:33 GMT
Reverse engineering of Martian tech will not be easy (as I mention in The Gathering Storm) but at the very least you have to HAVE some Martian tech to reverse engineer before you can even try. And since the Martians (so far) don't have any flying machines, the humans can hardly steal their technology to do so.
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Post by scottwashburn on Jan 19, 2021 12:54:56 GMT
Kefty,
I'm building my own Aussie force at the moment. Nearly finished with the 15th New Castle Battalion (which figures prominently in the book). I'm using Flames of War World War I British infantry for the base figures and then adding the iconic slouch hat to some of the figures. It's working out really well. I will post some pictures soon.
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Post by scottwashburn on Jan 18, 2021 16:46:21 GMT
Intriguing idea! We just need someway to rationalize how they stay airborne
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Post by scottwashburn on Dec 17, 2020 15:19:20 GMT
I completed A Company of the 15th Newcastle Battalion from my latest novel “The Gathering Storm”. It consists of a command stand and four rifle platoons. Each platoon has three rifle stands and an LMG stand. There is also a marker showing that each platoon has one of the crossbow bomb launchers that a man in the battalion invented. For those figures, I took a standard rifleman figure, cut off the end of the rifle and attached a scratchbuilt crossbow. The figures I used are Battlefront Flames of War World War I British infantry. They are really nice figures. Because the 15th are Australians I wanted to have a few of them wearing the distinctive bush hats. Finding such figures wasn’t too easy. I finally found some on Ebay and although the price was good, the figures aren’t nearly as detailed as the Battlefront ones. For future companies I may do head swaps or scratch build the hats. The statistics for the unit are: Australian Infantry Squad: 3 elements armed with rifles. 1 element armed with a Lewis Light Machine Gun. Points per unit: 45 Add Crossbow Bomb Launcher +5 points Weaponry Range Power Special Rifles 15” - - LMG 15” - Rapid Fire 2 Grenades Assault +2 Bomb Launcher 10” +2 Note that the crossbow marker is just a marker. It is not an element in its own right and cannot be targeted or destroyed. It simply notes that the unit has the crossbow bomb launcher and the unit retains that capability until it is destroyed.
So, I have three more companies to paint and then a machine gun section with eight machine gun stands and a mortar section with four mortars.
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Post by scottwashburn on Dec 17, 2020 2:39:15 GMT
hardlec, I've seriously thought about trying a paper land ironclad, especially the navy version as described in my book. Not sure I could pull it off, but maybe someday.
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