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I realize I should also add some replies and feedback:

Bonus question: What classic game is due for a reskin/reissue? 

Panzer Leader (surprise, surprise).  This game is so in need of it, I’m currently doing it myself. 😀

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@rayzryr – great work on the elves!  And I also like the artwork for Kingdom Death, especially the pinups. 😀  I’d still be afraid to try and paint one, though.  I can do tanks and vehicles passably well but figures still give me issues.

@sundancer – Star Wars Pocket Models gets a re-do?  Wee sort of did that a few years ago here on the site:

Make The Game Your Own! Star Wars Ground Minis Part 4

@robert – Gripping Beast Arabs look great.  Are those for a certain game?  Maybe a middle-east expansion of Saga?  – Oops, never mind, you answered the question later –  Lion Rampant and KoW as either a fantasy human army or for Kow Historical.

What’s up with KoW Historical?  I only saw some lets plays with original KoW, where many of the rules regarding formations locked in combat (bounce back an inch) and movement (free pivoting as opposed to realistic wheels) looked a little absurd.  I shrugged my shoulders and said, “Eh.  It’s fantasy.”  But bringing those kinds of mechanics into a historical ancients or  medieval setting is a different story.  But I also heard the rules have had a slight realism adjustment?

@tuffyears – holy crap look at those guns!  How do those guys stand up straight –  or if they’re flying, not  get hurled back by the recoil of those weapons?

And I hope you like Team Yankee and you explorations into Moderns – or alternate historicals if nothing else.  The scaling looks about right.  Both tanks are massive IRL, 24’7″ for the the hull of the Chieftain and 27″ for the Abrams, the Chieftain is actually a little longer, though, if you include the gun length (I see you’ve used the Rh-120 / M256 gun on the Abrams).  Both tanks are technically  the same width at 12′, but many Abrams “look” bigger on the news lately because they have the new TUSK armor on them, which was not present in Team Yankee time.  So this might account slightly for the Abrams seeming “smaller” than you’d imagine?

@blinky465 – damn you had that Castle Greyskull 3D printed?  That must have taken forever!  Have you seen the Netflix show They Toys that ade Us?  There’s an episode on that for Masters of the Universe and how re-imagined upscale reimaginings of the original figures are making a comeback in the collector’s market.  And I like your work on the figures too!  (always had a crush on the Sorceress when I was a kid).

Great works, @evilstu – I don’t care about all this jabber about skirmish wargaming – nothing beats a big ranked-up army.  Ever.  And great effect on the pelts for those Middenheim figures.

@mage – excellent metallic effect on the gold / bronze armor.  That’s tough to pull off without making it looks too shiny.  Wash it too much and it comes out looking dirty.  looks like you avoided both pitfalls. – As far as basing those DAK 20mm Airfix … the round “Woodsie” discs from the craft store haven’t let me down yet.  I also have some Halo toys I’m trying to bring to basic tabletop miniature standard, using larger versions of the same discs.

@woldenspoons – Awesome Walking Dead table!