6mm WFB

[Mr. Average]

All the work on old 3rd Edition WFB has inspired me, although 10mm added to the lead pile just before the holidays seems inappropriate. So I’m trying out, instead, something a little different, with my already-owned 6mm fantasy armies. I’m starting with Microworld Ratkin, who will be a Skaven army, something I wanted to do since I was a kid!

I spent the last day of my vacation prepping them for priming. The thought I have is to base them in fours on 3/4” bases. Then I can use them for Warmaster (in pairs) or set them out for WFB at 1:4 where one larger figure would become a base of four smaller ones. I got some movement bases ready for this eventuality.

Hard to see now with the metal all shiny and the lighting terrible but these are my Clanrats, Stormvermin, Characters, Gutter Runners, Jezzailachis, Warpfire Throwers, and Poisoned Wind Globadiers all ranked out for priming. My Skaven Levies are already primed but need to be counted out for painting.

 

[Mike]

Very nice yes yes, but base them singly you need to yes yess.

[Mr. Average]

I tried that in an earlier iteration of the project but found myself dissatisfied with the results.

It wasn’t possible to get a really nice, tight formation of units, and this is kind of my attempt at the same from a slightly different tack.

[Mike]

Ah, bases too big on the old ones maybe?

[Mr. Average]

Yes, they were. But they were about as small as I could make them – 10mm per side. Smaller than that and they were (if you can believe Mr. 3mm Scale saying this) too fiddly. Although I’ve done 6mm skirmish with 10mm round bases and they work famously. So I guess it’s mostly the square shape that does it. To wit:

[Wouter Wolput]

For mass combat I actually prefer multi-basing and never understood why GW decided to do single based models for WFB.

That being said (and slightly of topic), I am wondering what you are using as a base for your 6mm sci-fi models. Is it just MDF?

[Mr. Average]

It’s 1/16” laser cut birch plywood with a 1/8” hole for a magnet to hold them in their boxes – I use steel flip-top boxes for storage.

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