Cult Of Games XLBS: Steaming Through Dead Man’s Hand To Flames Of War With Trains!
February 5, 2023 by lloyd
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Happy Sunday!
It’s the XLBS Show……….Happy Sunday Fellow CoGs!
I came for the cowboy shoot’em up and stayed too long to end up with far too much knowledge of model trains. Hopefully Sherlock Holmes was wrong and I haven’t lost anything important. I see now why you don’t paint anything @lloyd.
Great show as always.
Love the idea of playing a campaign series over one layout using different parts for different scenarios.
Some of the model train enthusiast do incredible terrain. Big fan of Jason Jenson Trains on you tube purely for just for the terrain tips.
The 15mm Americans are certainly incredible, great work and lovely to see
Speaking of Dead Man’s Hand / wild west minies, don’ forgot the Black Scorpion resins. IMO the best range for the era. I’ve bunch painted in my Project
I’ve not been able to see how they compare which is why I don’t own any. I am thinking about them for undead though
They match in proportions but are a little bit taller.All Black Scorpion miniatures have really long legs. I’ll see if I have some photos next to other ranges.
Found one
The desperados pointing guns are my Black Scorpion guys, the bar folk is Knuckleduster (I think) from my friend’s collection.
Poor old Shay – couldn’t get a word in edgeways for the second day in a row!
@lloyd I think the reason that most model rail (and particularly steam) enthusiasts focus on the 60s is because that’s the era that they were young and trains were wondrous things to their childlike eyes. It’s what I always come back to about adult brains not being able to recreate those childlike feelings from new things, but you can get the same feelings from the same things. It’s the only reason I can’t quit GW ?
Happy XLBS show guy’s.
Lol the 3.10 to Coleraine.
The Pinkertons should be off looking for Smith and Jones.?
Have you got any of Warren’s dice Gerry.?
? The Good The Gooder an The Goodest. ?
I’ve been looking at toy train scenery for awhile and contemplating doing some 20mm war gaming. After seeing Lloyd’s stuff I wasn’t put off and I’m still looking at that scale.
I think Lloyd needs to treat his long suffering wife to a weekend break to Hamburg…
https://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/
I have been there – its amazing…
Oh believe me it’s on my radar but there’s no direct flights, maybe I can get there by train lol
A Shrubery.??
Damn you Lloyd! You’ve sent me down a bloody expensive rabbit hole a month before my annual bonus is due…
lol @bigdave
I’m still experimenting as TT120 is 1/120 isn’t quite right as FOW is 1/100 – it’s out by 20.
Peeps online say HO at 1/87 is a better match – it’s out by 13.
So it’s a fudge in either direction so I’m still thinking about it. The difference in size between TT 120 trains and HO trains is MASSIVE.
I got my 1/100 Atlas loco model today and even it looks BIG but is the correct scale.
As for HO buildings I don’t have any to have a look at so I don’t know about door heights etc.
Check this out this guy has used HO: https://www.flamesofwar.com/Portals/0/Documents/Scenarios/Raiding/Train-Raid-Scenario.pdf
Cheers @lloyd ! Must admit, that machine gun wagon looks the business, one of them (with a German crew) and a flat-bed carrying some stugs would be the stuff of dreams… I hope we get some more train related coverage Lloyd, the thought of combining a train layout with aa practical gaming board has really set a fire in me recently. Make sure you keep us updated!
If it was beer it would be in the tank an safe.?
Lol Lloyd has more rolling stock than the British rail companies.
Just stick swastikas on them an you’ll be fine Lloyd.?
Lol a great show guy’s.
Surely there would be an advantage to having detachable roofs on buildings for a train layout. Where else would you store your cheesy wotsits or cheese puffs for your guests?
“cheesy wotsits or cheese puffs for your guests?”
The stuff of nightmares right there lol
Guten Tag, es ist Sonntag meine Damen und Herren.
00:00 Traaaains.
00:15 that sounded very drained and exhausted XD
03:00 Choooo chooooo
05:40 I just imagine Pauls minis just being small pink toes….
10:40 tipsy? He’s just exhausted and leaning against the wall
12:30 BLAMM BLAMM BLAMM…. all just blanks.
19:50 The heist became a lowest XD
31:31 Ben just wants to play Cowboys and Indians
33:00 It’s a live buy… liiive buy
35:15 AI…. ARGH
36:25 I feel like Lloyd is venting for not being on for so long XD
37:40 Where’s the cook?
40:20 The dead guy is just pretending! No blood anywhere!
43:00 It’s all about the sex baaaby….
46:40 Tales from the Ben
48:00 Grass killed Tolkien!
49:00 tiny tiny tonks
55:00 Shocking Shopping break
58:10 Tea Tea Train Track…. most British thing ever
59:40 What to Warren is AI is trains to Lloyd… brace yourselves!
1:06:00 you could also play TANKS
1:15:00 Lloyd managed to order from Germany that one rare time where our postal service went on strike too XD
1:18:00 lost in trains lation
1:20:00 Is Shay even still alive or just sitting there?
1:24:00 Lloyd taking the “expansive” in our hobby to new heights…
1:36:00 more trains!
1:42:10 1:100.6 ? oO
1:44:00 STOP HIM!
Nice show… I think… I feel like I was hit by a train..
“Lloyd managed to order from Germany that one rare time where our postal service went on strike too XD”
Well shit, my delivery has been a shit show thanks to FedEx.
Happy Sunday…..
@lloyd your table topper should be perspecs, so you can keep it on to keep everything dust free when your not using it, your going to put a mat ontop anyway when you play a game on the topper
Oh a perspecs top would be cool 🙂
Great show as always and thanks for the GB it means alot to me ?
You forgot about the sad world of 28mm gaming. S scale is too small and O scale is too big. The one layout I have for Don’t Look Back that has trains uses an S scale box car. In 28mm I suggest using S scale if you want to play around the trains and O scale if you want to play in the trains. Also keep the trains away from the other features if it is out of scale, because it looks less out of place.
I also do not get the hatred of the wargamers and the train modelers. I want to know how to build a piece of terrain or weather something, I am so going to the model railroad youtube channels. I mean people like Mel are great, but I can find hundreds of videos on scratch building terrain, buildings, industrial sites, etc. of any era that trains exist in.
Good dive down the rabbit hole of model trains, I remember from a few years ago getting some DCC loco’s with sound. I recommend a few of those if you can run to it, also you might want to look at this if you want the PC to run the trains:
https://www.z21.eu/en
Sweet @hairybrains
Check this out: https://uk.hornby.com/hm7000
New type of DCC using bluetooth. All you need is to provide power to the track and download a free app to your phone/tablet and it will connect to the new hm7000 controllers to control all your trains.
That is very cool, what inspired me a back then was some videos of this guy who had converted the whole upstairs of his house into a track layout and he had made tunnels through the walls and it was all controlled via a PC which had the entire layout spread across 4 screens. This guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50Hj2MZuCqY
Do you need to have a DCC chip in each of the points to control them or are you going to leave them manual?
Manual to begin with, I don’t know yet if you need dcc chips or something like a command box for points.
Never had enough space for a complicated layout before, but this scale should help with that.
Eventually I’d like to lean how to have the trains self running, stopping at stations and leaving agian automatically via computer control 🙂
Having just finished 100 miles across the southdowns I had to watch this today. Great show chaps and Brother Llyod made trains more interesting than I ever thought possible. More importantly posed a question that will haunt generals for the rest of history… smaller tanks or bigger trains?
lol I’ve spent months thinking about is that to small or that too big.
In the end I may just need to compromise.
Now back to thinking about big vs small 😉
Took a week to catch up but well worth it. Just for trains.