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Since I started looking at my pico armies, I came quickly to the conclusion that I had too little in the way of terrain, so I set to work trying to amend that.
Here’s some things I made recently:
Made big enough to work for 6mm as well, this complex becomes quite large for the 3mm forces. Could be a off-the-books lab complex involved in something illegal, a huge farm or anything else you can imagine.
The local HQ for a corporation involved in minerals, oil and a few other lucrative areas in the colonies.
Another multi-scale piece, useful as both 6mm large bushes and 3mm small woods/forests.
A powerplant. the Solar Bloc tank is to show the scale. I’ve realized I could make something similar to the Hoth shield generators with a few of these, so that might happen..
The last finished piece is a small re-fueling depot. I have a few more things in the works, and I will share as soon as I have something!
http://lasersandbroadswords.blogspot.com My project blog
Nice stuff, man!
I used a credit card, balsa wood, plasticard, beads and an empty deodorant dispenser to make this:
We get slapped around, but we have a good time!
All very cool.
I hear AB may make some 3mm stuff as a tester if he can blag some free 3mm models as scale reference…He would buy them but he is tight!
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AB should consider that he should go a tad smaller than 3mm for a maximum realistic look. I’d suggest modeling based on the vehicles rather than the infantry, because the infantry is usually a tad bigger than 3mm.
I am sure that he knows his 6mm skirmish buildings are just right for a 1 figure = 1 man look, but when it is more a battalion ‘scale’ game then he will make it more suited to that feel.
Prolly.
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Hello AB, if you’re listening… I posted some Oddzial Osmy figures and vehicles to you today, along with one of these
http://www.picoarmor.com/pico-products-detail.cfm?id=226&pid=1657&p=PicoTerrain – Building S6&n=3mm Small Mid-Eastern Dwelling (Pack of 4)&m=6
as another size reference. Think I got it from a now-defunct company (Simply Six??). Possibly quite big for 1/600th, but it’s a good range for pre-20th century gaming.
Careful you don’t drop the figures. There’d have been 1 more strip of infantry in there, but I dropped it on the floor and it literally disappeared
Arrived today.
Thank you!
Ye gads those are small!Half term holiday here but will start work next week on some credit card sized pieces.
It is a lot more cost effective to make one mould that casts a £2.00 model than ten moulds that cast a 20p model.
In terms of silicone, resin, time and sanity.If I had the ability to make metal spin cast moulds myself and to cast them myself then I would do metal loose buildings.
But as I am doing resin casting, credit card pieces are the way to go.But… If these prove popular then a KS for single metal buildings in the future is very much a possibility.
I could do 10 different pieces per mould and sell it as a pack…
But there would be issues around fiddlyness. These pieces would be teeny as you know.Let me have a play next week and I will start a 3mm topic!
(the horror)
Woohoo, AB is making 3mm stuff. I feel this might make me a poor man.. @AB: Thanks for the speedy deliver of my last order BTW, just started to put things together!
@Rules Junkie Jim: Good work mate, have a cookie, you’ve earned it 😉
I have a few more 3mm piece to share, while I wait for reinforcements from Pico Armor:
Groupshot, sans the piece I finished up this morning.
Landing pad, fully equipped with refueling and servicing capabilities.
Grow-domes, making sure the poor colonists have something to eat, regardless of the often inhospitable climate of partially terraformed worlds.
Last piece is a area defence installation. The guns are multi-purpose, being able to take on atmospheric threats as well as smaller orbital vessels. I plan to build a proper anti-ship installation at some point, but these will have to fill in for the moment.
http://lasersandbroadswords.blogspot.com My project blog
Only a single 3mm piece today, but its a big one:
A Hoth-style Shield Generator! One of my Solar Bloc tanks is here to give you an idea of the size.
http://lasersandbroadswords.blogspot.com My project blog
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