21st century moderns

[slinky]

Would love to see some modern stuff from pendraken even if it was only infantry to start with as mini figs infantry  just dont compare with the mighty pendraken!!!!

[Leon]

Modern is one of the area we get asked for quite regularly, but with the sheer number of codes you'd need, it would be a huge undertaking.  Maybe somewhere down the line we'll dive in, but it's not something we've got any plans for unfortunately.

[nikharwood]

...not forgetting that you do Indo-China & Vietnam already - and with a bit of creative imagination existing PD figures are useable across a good number of modern theatres...sometime by accompanying other manufacturers [the horror, the horror!]

If you want to see how I've used PD figures in my moderns,  have a look at some of my CWC battlegroups - linked from here: http://nikharwood.pbworks.com/CWC+battlegroups

[pompey_rich]

any chance of moderns (uk/usa/rus/etc)?

so we can play cwc in the exact same (pendraken) scale as bkc?

[slinky]

I'll second that!

[17-21l]

yes me too what about 1980's Brits and red hoards , chieftains challanger1, abbots, 109s, 432, cvrt, t72/64, brdm etc cor never thought of that before - i could relive my youth!! oh yea and modern kit- ie chally 2 and warrior , AS90 etc -could make for some fab what if? games

[Ben Waterhouse]

Fourthed - Third World War, Crusader '80, Lionheart '85 and all that...

[jchaos79]

Yess, will be great

[Leon]

The Modern question comes up quite regularly, but the sheer scale of the ranges needed for that is something we couldn't commit to at any point in the foreseeable future.

[Frantic]

You could just do the infantry to start with, pretty plz 

[kustenjaeger]

Greetings

I imagine the only way to be economically viable would be to select a popular small subset of 'modern' and make that more or less complete.  Not sure what that would be though, even leaving artillery etc out of it as off table.

Regards

Edward

[Leon]

Greetings

I imagine the only way to be economically viable would be to select a popular small subset of 'modern' and make that more or less complete.  Not sure what that would be though, even leaving artillery etc out of it as off table.

Regards

Edward

It's tricky to do, because once we start we're going to have a whole new pile of requests for it.  There was a lot of interest for a Falklands War range, so we might start with that at some point in the future, and see where we go from there.

[nikharwood]

I think that, realistically, in 10mm it's the Falklands that is the 'missing' range across the piece - most other stuff you can either use generic proxies / Minifigs etc and most others are covered by 6mm which are OK for most people; the issue is that the range & scope of 'needed' models is enormous...and for skirmish, there are superb figures in the larger scales...

Falklands lends itself to 10mm IMHO...and I hope that we'll see these 

[Bravo Six]

I didn't see a moderns forum here, so I thought maybe this post would fit here.

I know Dave does French-Indo China and Vietnam, but I'm wondering if he's ever considered moderns in 10mm? Anyone know? I'm thinking Afghanistan, Middle East sorta stuff. I know there's a few companies out there doing this already in this scale, but the Pendraken figures are IMHO the best sculpted stuff out there. I have a whack of their Nam stuff and I LOVE it.

Anyway... food for thought perhaps. 

-B6

[Leon]

It's something we get a few requests for, I think there are a couple on the Forum somewhere.  The problem with getting into the Moderns, is the sheer scale of it, and we just don't have the time or designers at the moment to do it properly.  Maybe in the future, when we've finished off a lot more of the Historical gaps, we'd look at doing something.

[Bravo Six]

Fair enough Leon. Thanks for the reply and finding a home for this topic. 

-B6

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Chechens? 

[Sunray]

I take the point that 'moderns' is a megga range to enter - party because of the periodization and the sheer number of wars and conflicts.  However, in 15mm this dilemma was cracked by Peter Pig with two innovations; -

(1)  heads -  would it be possible to cast a range of 'heads' in 10mm ?  For example, a range of beret heads  mated to the Vietman Aussies, and you have Brits circa 1960-late 1980s

(2) generic figures - 'professional, SLR beret' or 'regular, AK47, Walker cap'  and with a paint job, the figure can join a wide range of modern forces.

[Paint it Pink]

Necrothreadomancy:

The dead shall live again I say!

Moderns...

Falklands, it has been said would be ideal, but so are some other eras too.

Soviet Afghanistan. Hinds, BMPs, and infantry. Taliban can be used for later insurgents for a more modern version with Humvees and USMC.

Panama can use the USMC and opposition would be Cuban's etc, which would then be transferable to African campaigns.

No need to go large, just think around the core items for each period and opposition that can serve more than one faction.

[howayman]

A modern range would be great. T55s,T62s, M60s and Centurions a few M113s and BTR 50s would cover a huge time period. The more specialised, up to date stuff could come much slower. Infantry could be more generic, soviet helmets(ww2 inf ?) US helmets(also ww2 ?). I am sure the mountain of requests that would follow will simply target future releases more directly. Go for it you never know it might become popular