"Modern Warfare - 3D prints" Topic

Today some thoughts about wargaming modern scenarios and 3d prints for ultramodern settings.
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Yes, certainly everyone has to decide for themselves where their interests lie and where the line is for their own particular concerns but, from my perspective, gaming the Ultramodern period is no different than gaming any other period of human history.

We're blessed these days with fantastic figures, vehicles, and scenery, and 3D printing is quickly broadening our horizons. I have some minis from Patrick Miniatures myself, they're very well done and reasonably priced.

I love playing modern skirmish games, as do my sons (it's killing me because it's gotten too where WWII, my favorite era, is boring to them). I'll be posting some Ultramodern 28mm forces from Black Powder Red Earth this week.

V/R,
Jack

Same thoughts here Jack. I've ordered a good amount of minis and buildings from Patrick Miniatures and have had no issues. I'd like to see other manufacturers come out with figures other than US SOF groups, current Russians and now Ukranians. Personally I'd like to see more 1960-70s brushfire war minis and areas like SE Asia post Vietnam and more militia types.

Striker

Maybe not the scale you prefer but the 15mm AK range from Peter Pig is quite varied. For some it may be too generic but I do like the feel they give. They also do a Viet Nam range and I have mixed in a few other ranges to give me suitable figures for different needs (like sword armed pirates painted like African militia armed with hand to hand only weapons).

Patrick Minis are really great quality prints! I use them in my modern games as well, though my games tend towards fantastical SCP type scenarios rather than realism.

I'm with ya, Striker!

Stephen is right, lots of good stuff for modern skirmish in 15mm out there, and Peter Pig is among the best (their OIF Marines in particular!).

SBMinis, those look great! I was just on your blog actually, looking at some of your old Nuts! batreps, excellent stuff.

V/R,
Jack

We are in something of a golden age for high quality miniatures in a variety of scales and genres.

I'm at an age when I can mostly afford to indulge my craving for that gold, too.

Just Jack – thanks!

Personally I'd like to see more 1960-70s brushfire war minis and areas like SE Asia post Vietnam and more militia types

I hear ya -- I'm interested in the 1966-1969 "DMZ War" in South Korea. From 1966 to 1969, the so-called "Second Korean War" raged in the shadows of the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone. Though the Korean War had ended in 1953, tensions simmered just beneath the surface. North Korean leader Kim Il-sung launched an aggressive campaign to destabilize the South, increase Communist revolutionary pressure, and provoke a U.S. overreaction that could ignite full-scale war or political collapse.

North Korean infiltration units crossed the DMZ in small, highly trained cells. They carried out ambushes, sabotage, and assassinations. Some posed as civilians. Others used extensive underground tunnels to cross beneath minefields and wire. U.S. and ROK forces patrolled the DMZ and its outskirts constantly, enduring frigid winters, monsoon rains, and the ever-present possibility of sudden ambush.

But -- nobody makes Cold War North Korean soldiers, only Korean War and a small line of current/moderns. And you can get US troops with M-14s from TAG, but that's about it.

I gave up on 15mm years ago, sold off a good size ak47 army. Kept the rules though for my Africa imagination. 28mm afrcan gov't troops would be good. Empreess make some generic ones but the gear is a bit more modern than what I'm looking for.