3mm Terrain

[Alexander Wasberg]

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

[Thaddeus Blanchette]

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!

[Mike]

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!

😀

[Rules Junkie Jim]

I’ll be bunging a few 3mm minis to AB on Tuesday, some Vietcong and Israeli figs and odds n ends of vehicles I have lying about.

Those tower blocks are excellent!

[Thaddeus Blanchette]

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.

We get slapped around, but we have a good time!

[Thaddeus Blanchette]

Talk to Javelin98 about casting his Shapeways modular SF habs in resin. I’d buy them, but they are too expensive on Shapeways.

http://www.shapeways.com/product/HPC8R5HZG/3mm-pod-housing-hex-pattern?li=user-profile&optionId=55974305

Also, your own stuff in 3mm would sell very well, I think.

We get slapped around, but we have a good time!

[Mike]

Thaddeus Blanchette wrote:

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.

😀

[Thaddeus Blanchette]

Don’t do entire pieces: do buildings a lá Brigade Model’s stuff and let us muck about with it, please.

We get slapped around, but we have a good time!

[Alexander Wasberg]

@Thaddeus Blanchette: Thanks Thaddeus, I’m a fan of your work, you have so much 3mm goodness on your blog! I agree with the single building idea, then we can by bags of the stuff and still have it all look different and interesting.

 

@editor mike: I have hear the same thing, I really hope that AB makes something like his 6mm stuff, that would be exellent! Thank you for the kind words 🙂

 

Rules Junkie Jim: I thank you both for the kind words and the sacrifice of some spare minis, hopefully AB will put them to good use!

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[Thaddeus Blanchette]

Man, but my freedom fighters need a junker shanty town!

We get slapped around, but we have a good time!

[Alexander Wasberg]

I hear you, a 3mm Shanty town would be very nice 🙂

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[Rules Junkie Jim]

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

 

[Angel Barracks]

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.

[Thaddeus Blanchette]

Aw… Just do buildings, man. Seriously. You can knock up a dozen over the weekend. If they are loose, we can move them about and they become a lot more useful! OK, I’ll buy them anyhow, but I’ll buy a lot more if they are loose.

We get slapped around, but we have a good time!

[Angel Barracks]

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.

[Thaddeus Blanchette]

But with 3mm, can’t you just make ten pieces per mold? I mean, I do that when I’m copying pieces for kit bashes. I glue them to a plate of glass, form a Lego barrier around them, then pour in the rubber. When I pour in the resin, later, I have the mold flipped on its back. I then take a big, flat bread knife and just slide it across the top of the mold, as if I were taking the head off a glass of beer.

Seems to work fine, with negligible flash.

I would definitely kick in to a metal kickstarter.

We get slapped around, but we have a good time!

[Angel Barracks]

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)

[Mr. Average]

Personally, I would find little ready-made “settlements” very useful. But I favor a 3mm scale line from the AB source no matter what its final shape. Like TB, I heartily endorse any such event or product!

[Rules Junkie Jim]

Alexander’s thread sidetracked.

Angel Barracks railroaded into doing 3mm.

My work here is done!

[Alexander Wasberg]

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.

 

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[Rhoderic]

This stuff is brilliant. Showcases what to me is the most attractive aspect of 3mm.

[Thaddeus Blanchette]

Beautiful use of the resin terrain! I am waiting for mine to finally arrive. Customs is taking forever on this order….

We get slapped around, but we have a good time!

[Alexander Wasberg]

Thanks Rhoderic, the finer scales do allow for lost of cool terrain without breaking the bank!

 

@Thaddeus: These Firestorm terrain bits are really great, You can get so much out of a box!

I hope the postal service get cracking so you can have yours soon, also, thank you for the kind words 🙂

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[Alexander Wasberg]

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.

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[Earther]

Loving the grow-domes! So verdant and domey. 

[Alexander Wasberg]

Thanks 🙂

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[Nathaniel Weber]

I am more and more tempted to buy up some 3mm stuff.

Great terrain pieces!

[Alexander Wasberg]

It’s a great scale to play around with, and cheap enough that you can try it without breaking the bank 🙂

 

Thank you for the kind words!

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