WW2 Miniatures We Think Are Beyond Epic & A Great Range For The D-Day Anniversary! #OTTWeekender
June 7, 2024 by lloyd
It's OTTWeekender time! With this week and weekend being the 80th Anniversary of D-Day, we look at some well known and some unsung heroes and personalities from World War 2 that you could add to your 28mm Historical wargames. We found a fantastic resource of character miniatures from both Hollywood History and real life that you could use in games of Bolt Action, Chain Of Command or V For Victory.
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Update - Catch Up On UK Games Expo!
We're back from UK Games Expo and we have seventy-plus videos for you to catch up on from the show alongside three big livestreams that we ran over the course of the weekend.
Catch Up On UK Games Expo Here
Did you have a favourite video from the ones we did over the course of UK Games Expo? Did you pick up something fun?
Indie Of The Week - Stoessi's Heroes
We return to an old favourite for this week's Indie Of The Week and explore the range of iconic miniatures from Stoessi's Heroes.
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You can get these miniatures for dioramas and of course as leaders to add into your Bolt Action (and beyond) armies. Have you been inspired by some of the stories that you've read?
Tabletop Gaming News
Here is some of the wargaming, tabletop and miniatures news this week that caught our eye and made us go "ooooh!"
- Steamforged Games Acquire Warmachine - Some BIG news from the community this week as Steamforged Games picked up Warmachine and the Iron Kingdoms
- Nightstalkers Coming To Mantic's Firefight - Terrifying Nightstalkers are slinking into the Sci-Fi world of Firefight from Mantic Games
- AntiMatter Games Working On New DeepWars Starter Set - Could you be tempted to try DeepWars with this new Starter Set which will be produced soon?
- Joseph McCullough's New Game, Deathship One - Take soldiers from across history and throw them into a horror-filled survival miniatures game
- New Frostgrave Cultists Plastic Set - Are you going to be picking up this new plastic set to do some kitbashing?
- New Asgardian Character Pack For Marvel: Crisis Protocol - Do you like the idea of or Asgardian showdown that we talked about during the show?
- John Blanche's Morderin Kickstarter Coming Soon - See the art of John Blanche made physical with this upcoming Kickstarter campaign
Let us know if something from this week made you "oooh!" and if we missed anything!
3D Printing Is The S**t!
We return to the collection from Eskice Miniatures to have a look at their impressive World War II miniatures collection. These would be perfect for playing out your D-Day battles and exploring the corners of this period of warfare often untouched.
Eskice Miniatures' World War II Miniatures Collection
Have a look through the collection from Eskice Miniatures and let us know if you have some favourites in the comments below.
Tabletop Gaming Kickstarters
We have two awesome Kickstarter projects for you to consider for this week. Perhaps you could be tempted by a new entry for Mythic Battles or some pirate skirmishes from Firelock Games.
- Mythic Battles: Isfet by Monolith Edition - Join a battle alongside the Egyptian gods!
- Port Royal by Firelock Games - Play out some pirate skirmishes with Port Royal from the makers of Blood & Plunder
Do you want to battle alongside the Egyptian gods or would you prefer to get down and dirty with some pirate skirmishes in Port Royal?
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I love Eskice’s stuff. They print well, and you get such a great little variety. Another good WW2 is Battlecat Minis (or Warbear Historical), they are going through a name change. Splitting off into two companies. They are a great line too, of the less represented countries. They have a line of Polish, that is great.
We shall have to look at that in a future show
Stoessi’s heroes are pretty awesome!
Yay it’s weekender time folk’s ?
Angry Bubo ?
The general with the map could be that one in the (eagle has landed) played by whats,his,face J.R. In Dallas ?
larry hagman lol
I think it was representing Ernest Hemmingway
The weekenders back….Yippeeeeee!
Warpath’s 15 city’s ?
Normal service is resumed
so … first Lloyd build Rome, then Gerry does the rigging … and then the world ends ?
I did the rigging a year ago and Lloyd hasn’t built Rome yet, you’re freaking out son stay off the disco biscuits!
The should make a stingray ship for the Deepwars game ??
it has begun, weekender time!!
Good book recommendation for someone looking for something a little different
Second Front the allied invasion of France – June 1942 to 1943
By Alexander M Grace SR.
First hand accounts, day by day, of the allied 1942 assault on Southern France from both sides of the line.
Written in max hastings, Antony Beevor style a great bit of historical fiction
Will keep an eye out for that – sounds fascinating
It’s a good read and flows quite nicely. I won’t put any spoilers up but I got the dates wrong, D day is not June but December 1942/43 ?
Bolt action one of those games I’ve always wanted to play but haven’t yet!
I am getting a demo next week from a friend. Hope i can start play soon. wink, wink
Good one guy’s ?
I’m very interested in winning that bundle! I’ve just started with Chain of command with some of my university friends. Good shout about Stoessi’s heroes as well, I backed one of the lower tiers of the Arnhem heroes kickstarter, so I did not get access to the characters, like Frost and Urquhart, the Stoessi’s heroes models of them however are jolly nice
The new FrostGrave Cultists look cool. John Blanche’s minis look great too!
Weekender time!
That’s a great prize. I had a great time at games expo and met and had chat with Lloyd. Roll on next year.
Vynestra looks interesting. Knew nothing of it.
Great episode!
I’d never heard of it but Friday night I wandered hall one and met the ladies, it sounded fascinating and looked fantastic
Great minis from Stoessi. I never realy liked the flush around fantasy. But a realy like the real back storys.
Wow,you’ve finally got me to register. And as for Mantic’s rebels, it’s about time but I got so fed up of waiting I raided GW/WA/OP/Etsy and MMF for characters and races to proxy in. Looks like I won’t be funding Ronnie’s trips to support MUFC.
he’s a City fan, but you shouldn’t fund that either
Love the Stoessi’s figures, but man the shipping costs are crazy . Over double the price of the figure I want. I know I live roughly 7000 km fron the UK store but about $25 to ship half an ounce of resin . I’ll spend my money at US mail order shops instead
think how we feel, there’s a lot of great US minis and the shipping is insane
I understand your pain . Its just the wide variable in shipping costs that I don’t get. I’ve got 5 pounds weight of books from Poland and shipping was $20 and they arrived in a week , other times its 3 times cost of the product and it takes 3 months . I have found the figures I want, listed on a small online seller but as of now they are out of stock , hopefully they’ll get restocked and let me know .
I guess it’s the price we pay for being in a niche hobby , everything has an extra cost
Weekend viewing for the family. To look at all the stuff we might want
Thank you guys for your UKGE coverage, very good as always.
Weeeekend!!!
Didn’t the people that created stemforged games leave privateer press originally? And now they’ve bought it all up
Newer around here, but Weekender has become a mandatory Friday watch.
Have fun!
Favorite part of con footage. 1) Gerry immediately evacuating when the cake is about to be smashed. Great charity though. 2) Ben sitting at the table with Star Wars Unlimited guy and gal. He was so obviously nervous because she was so obviously ahh, umm..”well painted”. Don’t blame him at all. I’d be worse off for certain.
Wasn’t able to get to UKGE this year so your coverage was great.
WWII stuff is always great to see and your recommendations are wonderful.
I am struggling to think of a value-adding comment this morning, so this is a shameless prize comment ?
i picked up all the US airborne characters from Stoessis a few years ago, lovely miniatures
@avernos, glad to see you’re all safely back, t’was I that came down with the post UKGE CONVID. Bloody delightful, still it was well worth it for all the laughs and sideways glances ?
STUG up for grabs? Don’t mind if I do!
When I don’t look directly at that Tribes logo it looks like the Greggs logo out of the corner of my eyes
Good thing you guys didn’t put the Puma in the bundle because I’ve heard its overpowered…not that I have trauma or anything
Stoessi’s Heroes are great. Waiting for an Italian hero. The MCP Asgard pack looks ace too.
weekender time ! now that the wife and kids have went shopping and left me in peace to do “housework” lol
Intrigued by Deathship One, will have to search out a playthough of it.
The Port Royal looks great, it just requires a lot of terrain, which I don’t have.
Isfet looks good, and loved the EXPO coverage
I’ll be watching what steamforged do with Warmachine as I liked the game and lore up to 3rd edition.
Great episode as usual
Nice one 🙂
Hello Everybody
I was trying to cut down on kickstarters but now comes along Port Royal, oh well.
I very much enjoyed exploring Normandy last year. The shop of the overlord museum near Omaha had a quite extensive range of bolt action stuff.
The D–Day coverage on the news was great and I have been enthralled with D-Day from the time I first saw The Longest Day. It was one of the things sent me down the history path and the love of everything WWII. Keep up the great coverage of these types of events!
The greatest line from Band of Brothers
Malarkey? Isn’t that Irish for Bullsh*t?
Been meaning ot grab some of those Stoessi’s Heroes. Might have to get on that…..
Interesting hearing about the Steamforged games acquisition. Hard plastic starter too! Interesting ?
I love the character models, they would definitely add something special to my Bolt Action army. I always find new ways to spend money on this show.
is this how to get free d day warlord games?
only if your comment is chosen.
Nice to see some Canadian representation among the Stoessi’s Heroes. No Italians for what I’m building, though.
Really like the Stoessi’s heroes, got some myself, what a shame he stopped doing them. He is now a DJ and is mixing music on twitch every now and then. I also like the eskice stuff and hop on patreon every other month. They are some great models but I think the faces are a bit off and there is not much variety in the facial expressions but from a gaming distance it doesn’t really matter. Another great weekender as always!
Coffee Pot was played by Gert Fröbe – the one and only Goldfinger