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Post by gilius on Mar 23, 2014 10:13:03 GMT -9
Hello everybody I have been playing around with miniatures printed at reduced scale, to use measurements in centimeters instead of inches. I started with just T-frames given the smallish size but as time passes I am starting to fiddle with more complex models. Today I tried building some Armor Grid models at 50% size (approximately; I just printed 4 pages per sheet from Acrobat.) The result seems to fit the 6mm scale. Apart from the need to use tweezers, this was a relatively easy build. If I decide to build a lot of them, though, I might kitbash the shapes to make them a bit simpler, as some details are lost at this size. A few more pictures may be found on my blog: fantalonia.blogspot.com.br/2014/03/armor-grid-in-6mm.html
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Post by WackyAnne on Mar 23, 2014 19:31:35 GMT -9
I am trying to resist.... *awww, that's so cute!* but didn't succeed That would make paper soldiers for dollhouse miniatures like I made & collected in my youth...
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Post by squirmydad on Mar 24, 2014 10:41:43 GMT -9
That's pretty cool, makes me want to make a tiny version of WWG's "Maiden" sailing ship.
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Post by dungeonmistress on Mar 24, 2014 17:26:14 GMT -9
And my husband says I'm crazy! ---Please don't take that the wrong way.
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Post by colonelshofer on Mar 25, 2014 0:07:43 GMT -9
Teeny as tiny, now try the missile pods, small weapon fixes CS
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Post by gilius on May 1, 2014 15:21:42 GMT -9
Today I built a bunch of LVMENES Romans and Celts at reduced scale, to play some games of Brink of Battle: 1cm square bases, the figures are around 12mm tall.
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Post by Mike H "Chugosh" on May 7, 2014 18:06:33 GMT -9
Those look great, and so compact! Do you use a lighter paper? Are gentle breezes as hurricanes among the men?
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Post by gilius on May 8, 2014 2:46:21 GMT -9
Hi Chugosh Indeed, a breeze can cause a massive rout of the forces in the battlefield, and a sneeze can provoke a realistic scattering effect as though a bomb had been detonated Currently, I want to experiment with bits of magnetic paper glued to the bases... inspired by Aleksandar Sharanac's work with playing in reduced scale with 6mm minis: battreps.blogspot.com.br/2014/02/wargaming-on-budget-space.html
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Post by Mike H "Chugosh" on May 8, 2014 5:30:00 GMT -9
That was super neat to see! I bet that would work fantastically with paper miniatures, though I think I would like to do it in 10mm scale or so instead. Paper miniatures are easy to move with tweezers if you had a dense cityscape to hide them in for a mid town skirmish thing.
Also, one of those magnetic whiteboards would work well for that kind of thing, too, and you could draw whatever you needed to on there from surface terrain to dungeon tunnels to starship deckplans, or just have any of these pinned over the surface with magnetic pins.
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Post by gilius on Jul 26, 2014 17:13:48 GMT -9
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Post by wildagreenbough on Jul 26, 2014 22:48:15 GMT -9
Really interesting gilius. Some time ago I decided to clearout and sell all my 15mm and 20mm minis, keeping only my 25/28/30mm minis as with this illness I have it means that working on small models is likely to do little except frustrate me. I still think about the smaller scales though and I sometimes almost get tempted to give it a go again.
What interested me about your blog is all the links and posts about solo wargaming and gaming which is of course what I do as I don't get out and about much these days. On BoardGameGeek there is a forum thread entitled, 'Games for the Poor and Lonely', which made me pause for a moment or two while I thought about the implications of that (sigh).
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Post by gilius on Jul 27, 2014 3:58:03 GMT -9
Hey wildagreenbough, thanks. In my case, I am limited by space constraints so going to smaller scales was the solution. Also, my gaming group gets together only a few times a year and we mostly play RPGs and boardgames, so I play miniature games mostly solo -- and I find it more convenient to have a smaller board to set up.
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Post by josedominguez on Jul 27, 2014 10:47:24 GMT -9
15mm is the way forward!
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Post by cowboyleland on Jul 27, 2014 19:01:36 GMT -9
How do you 15mm guys move figures around in close combat without knocking everything around them over?
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Post by gilius on Jul 27, 2014 19:09:25 GMT -9
How do you 15mm guys move figures around in close combat without knocking everything around them over? Well, that actually is an issue when I play in a board with lots of terrain, like a urban scenario. However, as I play mostly solo there is little discussion if I have to lift a building to be able to move a mini or if I nudge a terrain piece while making a move
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Post by WackyAnne on Jul 27, 2014 19:47:49 GMT -9
15mm is the way forward! That reminds me - you have only one set for sale on OBS, but you've others mentioned on your website. Any chance those will be for sale in the future (soonish, even?) Oh, and thanks for doing at the high resolution - your green guys are easy enough to print out at 28-30mm scale and still look great!
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Post by josedominguez on Jul 28, 2014 13:13:17 GMT -9
I've got all sorts that just need layouts day job gets in the way. Maybe this summer? I base my 15mm stuff on laser cut mdf 3mm by 15mm bases. Warbases do them for me, then I texture them, nice and heavy, no issues with knockabout I need to get the highland cattle kilt wearing, claymore wielding orc cavalry done...... Like my avatar. Only without the bolter
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Post by wildagreenbough on Jul 29, 2014 4:09:56 GMT -9
I thought about this a wee bit more and then I remembered that when I sold off all my 20mm stuff I kept all the minis and models that I used to loosely put into the Steampunk/Vic Sci-Fi category. These add up to about a million soft plastic British Colonial and Sikh troops from the Colonial era (mostly Khaki, but some redcoats), some experimental bicycle and unicycle troop conversions, a couple of Renault FT-17s (I like FT-17s) and a Russian Austin armored car with twin turrets. Then I discovered this...... www.juniorgeneral.org/index.php/figure/view/BritishAjaxGunboat ..... which really made me sit up and take notice. Now I don't actually hold much with playing modern era warfare games. My grandad was at the Somme and Passchendaele and he survived getting 'blown-up' by a shell as well as getting gassed, - and my Dad was in the RNZAF in the Islands during WW2, - so I don't do modern wars. BUT I will play alternative history/Vic Sci-Fi & etc. Which leads me back to playing alien invasion type games, - mostly Mars, but other planets and galaxies are strong possibilities. 15mm is too small, but I could cope with 20mm ok and if I stick pretty much to using troops and vehicles from the Junior General website, keeping it nice and simple with flat or maybe the odd 2.5D card minis it should be a lot of fun. There's some fascinating models in the Non-Historical section of the Junior General website and some of the actual for-real military creations from the early 20th Century are strange enough to be dropped right into a Vic Sci-Fi/Steampunk universe with no modification at all. www.juniorgeneral.org/index.php/figure/view/RussianArmoedRailCruiserI shall report back on how this turns out........
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Post by lvmenes on Oct 16, 2014 7:24:32 GMT -9
Today I built a bunch of LVMENES Romans and Celts at reduced scale, to play some games of Brink of Battle: 1cm square bases, the figures are around 12mm tall. Nice! I hadn't seen this post before. Great job in assemblying them at so small scale!
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Post by whiteknight06604 on Oct 16, 2014 9:27:58 GMT -9
That's pretty cool, makes me want to make a tiny version of WWG's "Maiden" sailing ship. I have been building the 1/900 scale ships from War Artisan. they are great. www.warartisan.com/Attachments:
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Post by squirmydad on Oct 16, 2014 10:42:19 GMT -9
That's pretty cool, makes me want to make a tiny version of WWG's "Maiden" sailing ship. I have been building the 1/900 scale ships from War Artisan. they are great. www.warartisan.com/WOW! I love those.
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Post by whiteknight06604 on Oct 16, 2014 15:11:50 GMT -9
me too. I'm cross eyed from making them lol so far I have about 18-20 finished of various sizes and 4 or 5 more in different stages of completion. I have rescaled a couple of the 1/300 scale ships to 1/900 but after making one it just drove me nuts. it was a little under an inch long when finished.
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