The Latest News In Ultramodern Gaming

  • The News Stand: 12/06/2026

    The News Stand: 12/06/2026

    The week has ticked over, so it’s time to cover all the latest in the world of Ultramodern Wargaming. New releases from Spectre, previews from Combat Octopus and many others, and even a sign of life from Haywire. Read on for more!

  • The News Stand: ESS Announces INCOUNTRY: RECON Launch Date

    The News Stand: ESS Announces INCOUNTRY: RECON Launch Date

    Right on schedule, Friday saw another update from the guys at ESS on their next stage for INCOUNTRY. We now have a release date! August 1st 2023 will see INCOUNTRY: RECON release, along with a pre-order event for a few new releases that are ideal for this smaller figure count version of the INCOUNTRY mechanics. The actual rules themselves will be available for free and available from the INCOUNTRY website, in the same way as the SKULLCORE rules for KillWager were released. You may also notice above we have another new squad that’s coming as part of RECON. These guys…

  • SITREP: Improving My Drybrushing

    SITREP: Improving My Drybrushing

    Since moving house, I’ve decided to move away from my purely black undercoat to roughly dry brushing layers of increasingly lighter grey and white to allow me to use contrast and other similar tools on my models while still retaining a similar feel to the older models I’ve painted and are still in my collection. The problem with this for me is that I’ve been absolutely chewing through my supply of kitchen paper due to all this drybrushing, which is a problem when I already need it for 3D printing and actual kitchen tasks. However, while browsing my Facebook feed,…

  • The News Stand: Gunslinger Previews It’s First Release Coming July 15th

    The News Stand: Gunslinger Previews It’s First Release Coming July 15th

    Flytrap Factory has today shown off some visuals of their upcoming ultramodern figures they are releasing later this month via Patreon. This first video shows off the first two elements that are coming out on July 15th for Black Sector. The Assault Element and Breacher Element are reasonably modern PMC operators (although not quite tip of the spear). The Assault Element is 5 figures with suppressed ARs, while the Breacher Element adds the specialists for the assault – two figures with MP7s and shotguns, two MP7 users with breaching gear and a Marksman to cover the final approach. The figures…

  • The News Stand: Enemy Spotted Studios Deploys Shade Company To The Tribe

    The News Stand: Enemy Spotted Studios Deploys Shade Company To The Tribe

    It’s the start of a new month which means (like clockwork), Enemy Spotted Studios has a new release up on its tribes page at My Mini Factory. And these guys are something I’ve been looking for since basically 2009. Yep-Yep. I previewed Shade Company a few weeks ago when they were first shown off but now they should be in your hands. I haven’t been sent them yet (MMF is showing me an empty slot) but when they are done hopefully I’ll be getting them painted off and ready to talk about alongside the figures I bought from ESS and…

  • The News Stand: Spectre Releases a Crime Wave… and Shows Off The Future

    The News Stand: Spectre Releases a Crime Wave… and Shows Off The Future

    The day is here – Spectre has released the figures they have been teasing and previewing for the last few weeks. So we have the SWAT Team, we have the Criminal Element Gang and we have the Heist Crew. We also have a resin Bearcat for your SWAT team to ride around in, making this one of the largest releases Spectre has done for a while. There are a few interesting things to point out with this release. The first is that these figures are not being released in metal – instead, each set includes the line “These Miniatures are…

  • The News Stand: Austin Miniatures and Battle Tribe Team Up In New STL Release

    The News Stand: Austin Miniatures and Battle Tribe Team Up In New STL Release

    Austin Miniatures, makers of modular Ultramodern figures, earlier this week released a brand new set of PMC Operators, available now on Gumroad as STL files. As you can see form the pictures above, these are all geared up with the latest and greatest in terms of kit. High spec M4s complete with a Hyrdra seque optic/laser mount, the new FN EVOLYS, the Raider pistol kit and AR10s for the DMRs. It even has a shotgun figure. It obvious these designs are coming from the same place as some of the BPRE figures, although there are a few interesting differences when…

  • The News Stand: Black Powder Red Earth, Coming Soon To A Display Case Near You!

    The News Stand: Black Powder Red Earth, Coming Soon To A Display Case Near You!

    Yesterday Echelon Software, the makers of Black Powder Red Earth and BPRE28mm, dropped something brand new and larger than life to their preview feed. Having already released some rather fantastic figures for their 28mm game, they are now looking to bring All Kill No Capture to a slightly different figure market – that of the 1/35 scale collector. We’ve been given a set of five preview images (one for each of the figures in the box), showing off the variety you’ll be able to play with once they are released. They are expertly painted by Komarev Projekts, someone who has…

  • The News Stand: Spectre Gets Hacked and InCountry Reveals More

    The News Stand: Spectre Gets Hacked and InCountry Reveals More

    Yesterday was Friday which means it’s news time! With two lots of smaller bits of news (and the fact I’m hammering out these News Stand posts and doing barely any of my own stuff) we’re going to combine them all together. First up Spectre. They have been having a little bit of a cyber issue with their main website, having to fall back to a temporary domain for a while. However, good news is that it has all been fixed! To help celebrate, Spectre has released a Hacker figure in STL format for the low price of £1. In addition,…

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