More Flames Of War Special Weapon Teams For April!
April 3, 2014 by brennon
Flames of War have shown off some more of their new models for April. This time they have been looking at the Goum Mortar Platoon, Tirailleurs Platoon, HG Artillery Group and P40 Turret...
First up we have these groups of men that will be fighting alongside your French forces when you take the Road to Rome and start fighting in the South of Europe. I think both of these sets actually look very nice indeed and haven't got the strange 'bobble head' look that a lot of Flames of War infantry seem to have.
If you fancy bringing down some more artillery then there is a group of them too. This is one of their special order packages so you'll have to contact them directly for this one.
Rounding things off is this hastily assembled P40 Turret which was the Germans response to not having a lot of time to make proper defences. I think these are an awesome idea and I remember using them in Company of Heroes to great effect!
Will you add this to your Flames of War collection?
15mm shouldn’t be an excuse to turn out figures that look like they’re made from play dough, especially with readily available 3D printer technology.
3D printer technology isn’t quite there yet for things like miniatures, although it’s definitely coming.
It would be nice to have more details about these sets though. Are the figures metal, resin, or plastic? One issue in the T-34 turret bunker reviewed at my blog is that the hole in the base is too big for the turret (because it is sized for a panther turret, I believe). How does this one fit?
In any case, it is nice to know that this stuff is out there. Thanks for the heads-up.
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A number of companies already use it.
Its good to see more nice additions to FoW line. I didn’t expect that P40 Turret but it does represent how offensive orientated germans were and defense was not they strong point.
The problem with 3D printers is that the sculpts ate too expensive for games that are figure intensive. If you have a look on shapeways at the prices of 6mm tanks then I dont think there is anyway that somebody needing 100-200 figures is going to fork out for them
I give this as an average example
No body in their right mind is going to pay $32 for a KV chassis
http://www.shapeways.com/model/1090080/1-100-kv-chassis.html?li=related-items-ext&materialId=6
There seems to be some confusion here. I wasn’t talking about production. I was talking about CAD designed figures that are then printed, cleaned up, and turned into masters for large scale production by conventional methods.
Ah ok
A lot of companies do use CAD, though talking to some 10mm and 15mm designers they find it easier to work with putty. Also they say its easier to make different figures using the same dolly rather than having to redesign from scratch , and its a lot cheaper
And thus you end up with the play dough models like the ones pictured above. There are exceptions out there, of course. Wargames Factory, who used to make real stinkers, even in 28mm, make excellent 15mm WWII models. But the last time I checked they only had Germans and Americans.
Although they arent the best 15mm I have ever seen they are certainly not the worst