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I have done a SHITLOAD of 3mm terrain over the past 15 years. Based on experience, I find that to get a mass effect in an urban area, you don’t need truescale — or even a consistent scale. Here’s a modern city of mine where the buildings vary from true 1/600 scale down to 1/1200 scale. Varying the scales and putting the smaller stuff in the center lets you force perspective and make a more realistic looking urban area:
Bad picture, I know, but it nicely illustrates what I am talking about: note how the suburbs are around 1/600 scale while the inner city is closer to 1/1200.
Now, this will work for players like me who use 3mm for big battles.
Players who use it for Battletech and Adeptus Titanicus will want as close to 1/600 as possible.
Thus my suggestion, Ali: modern and sci fi is basically big concrete forms, anyhow. When you design these, avoid stuff on the main structure that gives the buildings a “fixed” size. Like I said: with the proper greeblies, your 6mm Armored Skyscrapers would work just FINE for 3mm. Give us concrete boxes with interesting shapes and all sorts of multi-sized greeblies that can be either shed doors or vehicle garage doors, depending on how and where they are placed.
Build basic shapes and sell them with a set of multi-purpose greeblies that can be windows, doors, whatever… all of different sizes. And also sell the greeblies SEPERATELY so we 3mm players can adapt your 6mm stuff to our needs.
To me, that would be the best way to maximize sales in this niche market. You can, of course, also do some special buildings in true 1/600 scale. However, let me suggest you do 1/700 scale, as 3mm varies between 1/600 and 1/700 and slightly smaller buildings always look more realistic than larger buildings.
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[email protected]Good show. Useful for “cityscaping” a table, and suitable for moderns and Cold War as well as sci-fi. You wouldn’t happen to have any 3mm figures for a comparison shot, by any chance? Also, do you think this will be an expanding range going forward?
Building’s door is 3mm height 🙂
I’ll have to do some converting, then – for 3mm high figures I want doors at least 4mm high. And that’s just for residential buildings. I’d want them at least 5mm for most commercial entrances.
But don’t worry, I’ll still buy them (only I’ll have to wait until after 31 October, as I’m trying to get as many UK products crossed off the to-buy list as possible before then).
I see these buildings as having quite compact apartments, student accommodation-like. Fortunately (or not), in a gritty, brutalistic future there’s plenty of reason for buildings like these to exist in huge numbers (and not because of high rates of tertiary education
). I’m reminded – not for the first time – of that double episode of Cowboy Bebop with the city on Callisto populated almost entirely by male Russian migrant labourers. Dysfunctional societies like that will likely have much of the population living in almost barracks-like conditions.Really, it bears repeating, this is one type of coolness that 3mm can offer that even 6mm would struggle with.
Challenge eh?
Really, it bears repeating, this is one type of coolness that 3mm can offer that even 6mm would struggle with.
Challenge eh?
As I promised another addition to 3mm buildings, very soon on the website.
Next to previous buildings.
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