Steffan @ FlankMarch

Very cool!

Coming soon: Courage in Contact: US Marine Platoon 28mm Ultramodern tabletop miniatures designed for gaming — Physical and STL

Courage in Contact launches tomorrow, Thursday July 31, on Kickstarter. Sign up for a launch notification when as soon as it goes live:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/wdm...

On top of that there’s KS Exclusive Figures as well as Stretch Goals for heavier kit and unique figures such as MGs, Stingers, Javelins, Snipers and marines with Shotguns and LAWs.

To cap it all off every figure has 3 head options – an ECH with goggles, lightweight ECH High Cut, and a Soft Hat.

All the figures are available as digital STLs or as physical figures printed on Alan’s incredibly high-quality industrial 3D-printer.

You’ll get a full platoon of marines – that’s 52 men including an HQ, Radioman, Corpsman, NCOs, Drone Operators, MAAWS, Marksmen, Grenadiers and Automatic Riflemen.

Really excited to see Courage in Contact launching on Kickstarter tomorrow!

Alan at White Dragon has created a really well-researched Ultramodern USMC range with everything you could want on your tabletop and it’s been incredibly fun to work on.

Beautiful!

4/ The value of art is also in the practice, the time spent honing a skill, the pleasure of the art itself. It's arguable that AI can tick those boxes but it's a pale imitation of traditional art for me.

3/ In that sense I think the products of AI aren’t too dissimilar to the products of tools like pens or paintbrushes. If they're wielded by someone with imagination they can have artistic value. If they're wielded by someone without vision they might not.

2/ AI is ultimately just a tool. Your manifesto has value as satire because it uses the AI tool but injects human imagination, without your minimal input it would have been just more slop.

1/ I think this sums up what's right and wrong with AI perfectly. The products of AI have no value or meaning to me simply and only because they did not involve a human. Any value they from time to time is generally due to co-opting (stealing) human content.

Beautiful stuff!

Have you had your eye on REFORGER but not backed yet?

With only three days to go it's a great time to make the jump. Join the 160 wargamers who've made the project a huge success, back REFORGER on Kickstarter today:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/fla...

You can download the pdf from the Download section of my website here:
www.flankmarch.com/downloads-1

If it inspires you to want to create your own US Army force, REFORGER and Airland Battle are both live on Kickstarter until Monday 21st July:
battlegroundhd.com/coldwarzone/

Hot on the heels of the US Army Wargaming Guide, I've just released Paint for Excellence - a Cold War US Army Painting Guide.

Intimidated by painting camouflage?

Don't be! This guide breaks it down into 5 easy steps using just 6 paints (plus a wash) for the uniform, kit and weapons.

Definitely - I might have some more minions next year to possibly give me a five minute break at some point during the day

Best of luck for the new job Richard - you've been unbelievably helpful over the last year, thanks for all the assistance!

Army of Excellence covers Ranks, Weapons, Squad/Platoon/Company structure and Support options - eveything you'll need to help you create US Army infantry forces for wargaming.

You can download the pdf here:
www.flankmarch.com/downloads-1

A new Cold War Kickstarter means a new Wargaming Guide!

Originally intended for this one to focus on V/VII Corps' Mechanized Infantry companies but a bit of scope creep means its ended up also touching on Light/Airborne/Airmobile/Ranger/Mountain/Motorized infantry as well.

Big fan of the muted greens he's gone for while painting it as well, really nice

REFORGER and BobMack3D's AirLand Battle are both launching simultaneously on Kickstarter this Friday 4th of July. If you want to be the first to know, sign up for a launch notification today:
battlegroundhd.com/coldwarzone/

Fear not! I'm working on another Painting Guide for REFORGER that will break the process down into some incredibly simple and achievable steps so that you too can field some Cold War infantry looking just as incredible as Andy's (expect to see that some time next week).

One of the most common messages I've had about both REFORGER and LIONHEART has been some variant of "I'd love to collect that but I can't face painting the camo".

The very (annoyingly!) talented Andrew McNab has very kindly been working his magic on a REFORGER squad over the last few weeks and has just sent me some photos - they're looking incredible!

We all survived the great Kickstarter releases of July 4th? Good, let's take a look at the current news, previews and releases grabbed from across the Ultramodern (and Modern) space. Wait, how did that set of historical rules get in here? Read on for more, only on ChargeBlog!

1985 and the Cold War has gone hot ( same as last week😂😂). FFT in 3mm in the #shedowar. Gaming afternoon with @iainf.bsky.social @flankmarch.bsky.social and @badsocialism.bsky.social

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US Divisions in germany — flankmarch.com WWII wargaming has the great benefit of involving renowned units remembered from legendary actions which we can use to add some character and historical authenticity to our tabletop units. With a litt...

New to Cold War gaming? Starting out with your first US Army force but unsure how to give it the character and history you're used to from collecting WWII?

Today's blog post has you covered - here's everything you need to know about the US Army in West Germany:

www.flankmarch.com/blog-2-1/us-...

AirLand Battle, Reforger and Fulda Firestorm Come join the artists, creators and authors of these three projects in a livestream event where we will be talking everything US Army in the 1980s. 🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check o...

What makes the US Army such a fun wargaming force?

What units did they field?

And just what are the best tactics to get the best out of them?

I'll be live on YouTube on Monday at 2pm (BST) with Bob and Brad from Bobmack3d to answer all those questions and more:
www.youtube.com/live/ahmOLXL...

YouTube video by Flank March Miniatures REFORGER is now live! Cold War US Army STLs on Kickstarter

It's nearly the weekend! And, more importantly - REFORGER is now live until Monday 21st July!

Have a great weekend everybody and a massive thanks for your support and for spreading the word.

It's been the best pre-launch yet and really appreciated.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=we6v...

Do you smell that?

It's a Cold War Kickstarter, son! Nothing else in the world smells like that.

battlegroundhd.com/coldwarzone/

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That looks awesome!