6mm Viking Age

[Usagitsuki]

The start of a 6mm project for the Viking Age. The distant goal for the project is going to be Brunanburh, but the short term objective is to put together a 9-10th century Viking force and a matching Saxon one. I wanted to have a ‘shieldwall’ with a decent mass effect, which is obviously more achievable in 6mm.

Bases are 40mm square with 5-6 ranks of men. I think eventually I’ll add some other bases at the back with stragglers showing the whole formation tailing off and making it look a bit more irregular.

This project is likely to take a fair bit of time given the number of figures involved, but here are the first 10 bases. All Baccus figures:

 

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[Steelonsand]

Holy Heck – you’re a painting machine ! – don’t know where you find the time – some lovely looking shields there – would be nice to see a Svinfylking too:

https://bavipower.com/blogs/bavipower-viking-blog/viking-war-tactics-svinfylking-the-boar-formation

 

[ian pillay]

Wow that is very impressive! Now that looks like a Viking army…. Not like a saga army….

steelonsand – that’s a great link!

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[Guy Farrish]

Depending whose numbers you believe that could be The Great Heathen Army at 1:1 right there!

Lovely. (the models, not the Great Heathen Army).

[Darkest Star Games]

Great looking mob you have there.  You are indeed a painting machine!

Now you just need to base a couple individually to use for skirmishes…. 😀

"I saw this in a cartoon once, but I'm pretty sure I can do it..."

[Usagitsuki]

There’s 500 figures there. Doing some rough calculations, ultimately Brunanburh should need about 2,000 a side, so probably getting close to actual Viking Age army sizes.

 

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[Mike Headden]

Lovely looking figures. Very neatly shows off the effectiveness of a mass of 6mm figures.

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[Konstantinos Travlos]

This looks great, and I think what is the most important thing is that the array looks proportionally right to me. Thin and long.

[6Mil Phil]

Very nicely done. Reminds me of this scene from Vikings, 😉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9QwcOwhbGM

[Usagitsuki]

Village base. 10cm square. Leven buildings, Perfect Six extra bits

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[Usagitsuki]

And 2 more village bases.

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[Mike]

Very nice. Though for a minute I thought “that’s not very Japanese…”

 

I reckon a few more posts until I adjust..  🙂

[Usagitsuki]

The Japanese village does have a very similar washing line.

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[Usagitsuki]

Saxon shieldwall to match the Viking one

And the two shieldwalls together. About 500 figures per side on a 40cm frontage.

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[6Mil Phil]

Lovely, as I’ve said elsewhere.

If you get any more Anglo Saxon buildings, would you consider getting some from 2d6 Wargaming?

I made them, but I’m not trying to hard-sell you, just I’d really like to see some painted up well. 😉

[Darkest Star Games]

Amazing work!  That is a lot of dudes to paint, and the effect is stunning.

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[Mike]

Darkest Star Games wrote:

Amazing work!  That is a lot of dudes to paint, and the effect is stunning

For sure.

[Usagitsuki]

I’ve just ordered a load of buildings from Leven unfortunately. Which will probably be enough to do all the bases I need. I keep meaning to get some of the remodelled Mura miniatures Japanese buildings, but I also realise that I don’t actually need any…..

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[Mike]

In what way re-modelled?

 

[hammurabi70]

Impressive; made a choice of rules?

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[6Mil Phil]

Usagitsuki wrote:

I’ve just ordered a load of buildings from Leven unfortunately. Which will probably be enough to do all the bases I need. I keep meaning to get some of the remodelled Mura miniatures Japanese buildings, but I also realise that I don’t actually need any…

I live in hope eternal. 🙂

Mike wrote:

In what way re-modelled?

I worked on these for 2d6. A lot of the masters needed repair, so microscopic changes there, but despite being great models they weren’t highly suitable for casting. Some were hollow and were filled with rubber, so they were made solid, and many had problematic overhangs, so those were tidied. All minor and barely noticeable on the finished cast, but now they’re bubble free and easier to cast. The Swedish (?) fella who made these must have a hell of a time casting the originals.

[Usagitsuki]

hammurabi70 wrote:

Impressive; made a choice of rules?

No, not yet. I’ll probably start to try some out when I’ve got some more figures done.

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[Usagitsuki]

Some more village bases done.

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[Mike]

Very nice. Especially like the forge area.

[ian pillay]

That looks amazing. The details are fantastic.

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[Usagitsuki]

Thanks. There’s a lot more stuff around these days for 6mm to add detail to bases. Perfect Six have a load of useful things.

 

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[6Mil Phil]

Brill, as usual. Perfect 6 have some great pieces.

[Usagitsuki]

Bit more added to the shieldwall

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[Mike]

Holy Carp. How many is that?

[mark leslie]

Mike wrote:

Holy Carp. How many is that?

How many Heroes in Valhalla?

Fossilizing nicely.

[Usagitsuki]

There’s about 1,500 figures in total there. Also finished the village bases.

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[Darkest Star Games]

Really fantastic.  Still the best static grass installer I’ve ever seen.

So, is that just one faction’s shieldwall, or is that to be divided in half for 2 sides?  That’s a heck of a lot of dude, you’ve got way more dedication in that one line than just about anyone else has had for the last 5 years!

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[Usagitsuki]

Thanks. This is two sides, Viking and Saxon, 750-ish figures each. I want to ultimately do Brunanburh, with a goal of 2,000 figures a side. But that’ll involve a lot of repetitive painting now, so I’m not sure when it will get to that stage.

I’d been under the misapprehension that all 9v static grass machines were the same, but actually the one I was using seems to have been more powerful than the Flockbox I kept recommending to people. I’ve now got an RTS Greenkeeper 35kv, which is an absolute beast. It’ll do grass up to 10mm, though is rather pricey. 10mm grass with 28mm figure:

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[Mike]

OUTSTANDING.

Makes me yearn for my 6mm days.

[Darkest Star Games]

2,000 is a heck of a lot of figure to paint, even if you’ve already knocked out 75% of them!

I may have to get the same model you use.  I have 2 “highly reviewed” applicators and both give fairish results.  I would LOVE to be able to do 10mm grass like yours!

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[Thomaston]

4000 minis painted in variety of colors and shield designs is crazy to me. I envy you.

Tired is enough.

[Usagitsuki]

Oh, don’t get envious yet, there’s a load more still to be done. The figures are basically painted in batches of similar colours, then mixed up at the basing stage.

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