"Les Défenseurs de Berlin 20mm" Topic
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Tango01 | 18 Mar 2020 10:25 p.m. PST |
Very nice!
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Amicalement Armand
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deadhead | 19 Mar 2020 8:08 a.m. PST |
The modelling and painting is superb. Some great detail on armbands for ancillary units like Volksturmm, Polizei and HJ for example. But the photography lets them down. Needs more lighting and oblique illumination too. Depth of focus needs increasing. Longer exposure, steady mounting, couple more lights, highest f number you can get, maybe raise the ASA/ISO a bit. These are great work and superbly based. Need to show that better. |
Tango01 | 19 Mar 2020 12:48 p.m. PST |
Happy you like them my good friend!. (smile) Agree about the bad photos…. Amicalement Armand |
Mark 1 | 20 Mar 2020 4:19 p.m. PST |
Very nice modelling. Agree that the photography could be better, but then I also am highly vulnerable to such criticism (without so much about the nice modelling as a preamble, perhaps). All of that said, as nice as these figures are as eye candy, I do wonder about how many of them would be used in wargaming. The site claims to be about wargaming miniatures. But how does one wargame with a figure that is only chest-and-above out of a foxhole? Or how does one wargame with miniatures on bases crouching behind the remains of collapsed brick walls or sandbags? Do these figures never move during the dame? Or do they take their sandbags with them as they shift to another location? Or do I simply ignore what is on the base in terms of gaming impact, and just enjoy it's presence for visual effects only. How would I distinguish, in the game, between an HMG behind cover, and an HMG in the open, when both are based with sandbags on their stand? Do I put one of the sandbagged HMGs behind another wall of sandbags? I just recently based up some infantry support units. I really debated with myself whether I should put some sandbags around my 81mm mortars. In the end I didn't, because I can so easily envision having to move them during a game. My AAHMGs, on the other hand, I did put in sandbagged emplacements. This is because I anticipate the AA guns being sort of fixed in place, their deployment at all being an indication of a semi-permanent presence. The crews may leave the guns, but the guns are not likely to be going anywhere. How do other gamers see this? Inquiring minds want to know … -Mark (aka: Mk 1) |
deadhead | 21 Mar 2020 7:22 a.m. PST |
As one who has never thrown dice (or at least gave up in the mid 70s after trying Airborne Assaults in 6mm scale and WWI in 20 mm, both of which resulted in slaughter) I would be interested too. I have recently shown nothing but Vietnam dioramas in 28mm, having spent years in Napoleonics. None of my exhibits have any wargames potential, but I think you are right in your comments. The above do seem intended for such however. I am always conscious that I am entering a wargamers forum (but do find the expertise and contributions quite fascinating). One thing I have finally and only recently learnt is to keep the basing simpler, even in dioramas. |
Tango01 | 21 Mar 2020 12:43 p.m. PST |
Imho … those are for gaming Berlin 1945 or another besieged city … therefore … they can be easily transported with the addition of sandbags or ruins … they do not serve for a classic combat in open terrain… Amicalement Armand |
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