Other People's Blogs - An Immense SF City & using Warhammer Models for 54mm games.

Below is a Warhammer sacrificial shrine with a HK copy of Britains Detail Saracen. (Some giants made from Hulk figures are in the background). This is one of several Games Workshop kits I use in my scenarios.

 If you check out my reading list, you will know I read a large number of other people's blogs. I get a lot of enjoyment from this sharing of ideas, models and toys. I like to comment on the blogs but occasionally some technical hitch stops me. I just read a fascinating blog post about assembling a huge 'Red City' from Warhammer buildings. I was unable to comment on the blog, so I am mentioning it here.

  Tales From The Toy Room recently posted photos a description of a 54mm Doctor Who game with his city. The walkways were traversed by the doctor (Tom Baker version) and his assistant. They had to get a powerful object before the Daleks and Cybermen could get it. An Earth force, consisting of very retro spacemen (Ajax?) were to delay the evil blokes to allow the Doc to fulfil his mission. Most of the figures appear to be Corgi ones.

  The city looks superb and the good guy space men with rosy cheeks are a nice foil to Daleks and Cybermen. I don't know if the evil guys also fought each other, but it seems to me that this game would be a good scenario for a three-sided game with three players.

  I regularly played Warhammer 40K until several years ago when the local GW shop stopped hosting games. My 54mm figures were still my primary love but I had a lot of fun with the 28mm Warhammer ones too. My armies were Space Orks and later, Dark Eldar. I made a lot of ork models from Mac Donalds toys and various toy tanks and models. One of the great spinoffs was having a lot of Warhammer spare parts, some which were transferable to 54mm figures. Anyway, the 'heroic' scale of Warhammer meant weapons often looked overly big for their bearers anyway. And monsters could be adapted to both scale; they just became smaller monsters. I also have adapted Bones Miniatures with ogres etc. becoming orcs.

  I especially like the gothic look of Warhammer 40K, notably manifested in vehicles and especially in buildings, many which look like ruined cathedrals, as these kinds of buildings are naturally large, anyway, it is possible to place 54mm figures comfortably in buildings. Temu also has similar looking and scale ruins available.

  Here is the link to the Toy Room blog: Tales From The Toy Room:  

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