Hello there! a few days ago I stumbled upon an old anime called konpeki no kantai (deep blue fleet) its a uchronia. And although it struck me a bit to much on the nationalistic side, and amore than a few of blunders, like Germany having next to no military prowess what so ever. it did however gave a an appetite for all things WWII 1946, like panzer of the sort of e-79, e-100, t44-85, aircraft like me 509, ar234, p 1099, kikka, shinden, fugaku.
Any chance you're, or will be working o something like it???
We are working on a range like this, with a load of walkers, infantry and post-war vehicles. It's coming on slower than we hoped, but we'll hopefully have something ready by the end of the year I'd think.
8)
Does this mean we're likely to see useful real stuff, like a Comet, M4A3E8, M24, M26/46, M47 or M40 GMC1 as well as the made-up stuff?
Cheers, Martyn
1 Apologies if any of these now exist - I've been out of the loop for a while.
Or a Conqueror... 8)
Quote from: Wulf on 26 May 2014, 03:25:55 PM
Or a Conqueror... 8)
Don't start, or you can go and sit on the naughty step with FSN
Quote from: Last Hussar on 26 May 2014, 03:37:17 PM
Don't start, or you can go and sit on the naughty step with FSN
Why - Conqueror, NOW.......
IanS
I have fizzy pop hidden by the naughty step, and some Commando comics. It's not so bad.
Comet on the Table so is the Conqueror, Comet will be finished soon The M24 has been delivered
martin
It's been asked before, but any chance of a M4A3E8? If anything, it will do quite well in mid fifties U.S. Army vs giant dinosaur stomping on a citiy games. They also make good targets for aliens in flying saucers using heatrays. They might even have some other uses.
Quote from: mart678 on 26 May 2014, 08:52:04 PM
Comet on the Table so is the Conqueror...
Strong table...
Turret for the easy 8 exists, just need the hull, or hulls. Then have another vehicle for Arab/Israeli, and Korea.
Walkers - don't bother. The US army tested these, less mobile than 2wd vehicles, more complex than tracked, ie they didn't work .
IanS
Walkers.
As they tend to be taller than conventional vehicles they make easy targets...
'Sabot, dot one, walker on!"
'Dot one on!'
"FIRE!'
'Firing NOW!'
'Next target left, FIRE!'
Also when the Conqueror hull is finished add a Centurion Turret you have a Caernarvon?
Martin
Quote from: fsn on 26 May 2014, 07:10:17 PM
I have fizzy pop hidden by the naughty step, and some Commando comics. It's not so bad.
Happy memories. Our Latin teacher rewarded us with fizzy pops if we got full marks in the weekly vocab test. :)
Get 'im sacked now.........
IanS
Conqueror - that's the one that needed refueling every 40 miles......
Probably worse than that, it also had 2 loaders and an automatic case ejector which chucked the 10 lb brass case 30' to left of the tank. And it's huge.
IanS
Quote from: OldenBUA on 26 May 2014, 09:16:08 PM
It's been asked before, but any chance of a M4A3E8? If anything, it will do quite well in mid fifties U.S. Army vs giant dinosaur stomping on a citiy games. They also make good targets for aliens in flying saucers using heatrays. They might even have some other uses.
This. Exactly this.
Cheers, Martyn
Quote from: OldenBUA on 26 May 2014, 09:16:08 PM
It's been asked before, but any chance of a M4A3E8? If anything, it will do quite well in mid fifties U.S. Army vs giant dinosaur stomping on a citiy games. They also make good targets for aliens in flying saucers using heatrays. They might even have some other uses.
And you also get the wheels for an M40 howitzer - another classic vehicle from 50's monster movies!
Cheers, Martyn
I forsee a much more interesting use for WW2.5 stuff there, and sales of some o those nice new plastic tripods... Or even some more of the rather funky Pendraken tripods, going up...
I can't stop looking for luft46 or heer46 related stuff, the germans where getting incredibly inventive (and desperate) by the end of the war :P
A Conqueror or M-103 slugging it away with a Type 5 Chiri or a Lowe with be one heck of sight!!!!!
Hello soheitb
Quote from: soheitb on 29 May 2014, 01:58:23 AM
I can't stop looking for luft46 or heer46 related stuff, the germans where getting incredibly inventive (and desperate) by the end of the war :P
A Conqueror or M-103 slugging it away with a Type 5 Chiri or a Lowe with be one heck of sight!!!!!
Have a look at Shapeways https://www.shapeways.com/search?q=luft+46 (https://www.shapeways.com/search?q=luft+46), remember that they can rescale if necessary.
http://www.kampfgruppe144.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=2589&p=11947&hilit=luft46#p11947 (http://www.kampfgruppe144.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=2589&p=11947&hilit=luft46#p11947)
Also a good place to look is at some of the Japanese retailers.
Cheers
GrumpyOldMan
Once again while I've no wish to rain on anyone's parade I have to point out that the Conqueror and the M103 were both tanks of the 1960's and not particularly good ones. I had a friend who was a loader on a Conqueror and he said it was a bit of a lash up.
20pdr Cents could deal with just about anything in the '46 period...I'm guessing that the 20pdr would have become available a lot quicker if WWII had dragged on after '45, plus of course you have the upgraded US 90mm.
Everyone seems to be fascinated by what the Germans would have and not what the Allies were developing.
Oh yes and we had the 'ultimate secret weapon' just ask the Japanese!
Although I like this sort of Sci-Fi period I do feel some people have an unhealthy attitude towards the Nazis and what they were planning to build.
D.
I already know the answer to this, but.... Would I be asking for a @ss whooping if I asked for a sneak preview?? :-[
There are some pics of the walkers in this thread: http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,3232.0.html (http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,3232.0.html)
After years of trying to make AFV's as low as possible so they're hard to see and hit, someone has the bright idea of putting them on legs so EVERYONE can see them!
Not a dig at you Leon, just a general poke at whoever thought up combat walkers...I blame the Japanese!
Quote from: Steeleye on 10 June 2014, 06:15:41 AM
After years of trying to make AFV's as low as possible so they're hard to see and hit, someone has the bright idea of putting them on legs so EVERYONE can see them!
It's a cavalry thing. "Look at me! Look at me!" You just know walkers are manned by Hussar regiments. Also, it keeps them above the smell of the common infantry.
Did the Germans have hussars after 1918? And anyway, where would they stow their sabretasches?
It's been a while, but I haven't abandoned the ww1946 vibe, and things took a turn when a got a 3D printer. So i started tinkering with sketchup and later wih Fusion360.
I generally suck at designing but i have improved a bit.
Some months ago a friend "commissioned" me a series of "first jets", including a couple paper planes and projects.
This is something of what turned up.
(http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g61/soheitb/3d/20181018_195858_zpsdblfovml.jpg)
(http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g61/soheitb/3d/20181018_195852_zpsxl7cy37m.jpg)
(http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g61/soheitb/3d/20181020_213532_zpskn5icjta.jpg)
(http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g61/soheitb/3d/20181020_155755_zpskcn74rse.jpg)
The vehicles are (left to right) kaetzchen APC, panzer E79 (fictional fromPSone Panzerfront), P43Bis carro pesante, and a Chi-ri (not mine, available on thingiverse).
The jets are (left to right, top to bottom)
- MiG9 fargo, Reggiane Re2007, F80 shooting star, Gloster meteor.
- Nakajima J9Y, He 1078A, Ki-201 karyu, Me-262.
I've had better prints, still need to fix some calibration issues (later I found a belt tensioner broken), and probably at 1/144 scale I should have used a better quality setup, but this are in general test prints. Also had troubles with rudder and stabilizers and the engines, and would like to separate the tracks of the chi-ri, the print better flat on the side.
And I think I didn't completely nailed the rescaling, i think the kaetzchen and the e-79 should be a little bigger.
Infantry is tougher though.
I was thinking the stg44 and mp44 figures for Germany (but not many poses), soviets with ak47 (like the ones that minifigs has), japanese shouldn't need modification, they were developing the type 4 rifle from the garand, but I don't think the difference would noticeable. the italians could use the breda m1935 pg, or the stg 44. The americans the garand t25 (again not might notice the difference)
Very cool stuff.
Indeed ! The dream wargame is obviously very much alive. And the 3D printer has produced hard copy models. Meanwhile Pendraken's Korean range and Arrowhead late WW2 have fielded the poor bloody infantry.