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Deciding to switch to 6mm for my next/continuation RPG campaign. I need to remake everything from figures to trees.
Starting with figure so I can use them later for scaling buildings and trees. First up are civilians, because I find them more interesting than combatants and hopefully by the time I get to combatants my sculpting would have improved.
Plans are for 5 different minis for each main groups, buildings/houses, women, men, bandits/mercenaries, soldiers, beastmen and characters. 3 Chocobos when I’m good enough to sculpt animals (if ever) and 7-10 goblins.
Working at a rate of 3 minis every 2 weeks should take about a year to get everything done.
But, who knows if I need money maybe I will.
Pretty sure that making 6mm civilians will not get you much money. 😉
These were V.3 trees using FIMO and sand, before I decided to use 3D printing. A pain to make and has some weight to them.
Unpainted huts I made before I decided to go with 6mm. They’re basically cubic shapes with a lump of FIMO on top with texture put on. The 3mm project was intended for this tobacco tin, as a travel set.
Scale creep taking effect. The guy carrying the sack is 10mm tall.
Wanted them to be generic but the woodcutter looks more like a character and the drunk isn’t going to be usable in most games.
How do you do 6mm sculpting, do you use an armature underneath or just use blobs of green stuff and build them up in stages?
Yes, step by steps/how to’s are always appreciated
Cheers,
Stroezie.
New look for towns. I think the largest buildings could work but the square one where most of the figures are might be too small. The tree is definitely too small.
Solving the tree problem. Giving them height using spacers, non spaced trees could be bushes. I like the shadow they’re casting.
I love to cheat.
Sculpting 6mm
Tools – I use 2 tools rubber tip scuplting tool (trianglular shaped) for most things. The other tool is only used for fine details, made using a free disposable chopstick, used x-acto blade and a pin (regular sculpting tool works fine I only made this to work on 3mm).
Hole punch some plastic for the base, packaging plastic is good enough.
I hold the sprues in place using the putty, if I have left over putty I might sculpt shoes on as well. Also kind of important to sculpt in the height and what would be the neck of the mini. Putty hold together much better if they’re still sticky otherwise there’s a weak point between old and new putty. The other miniature is used to scale the sculpts, it’s an unfinished sculpt I gave up on.
Deciding on pose and building up the miniatures. I work from the legs up (reason why some miniatures are over scaled) so that there’s a stiff foundation when I work on the face and other details. I’ll also add the arms and neck at this stage so it’ll cure with the torso for more durable miniatures.
These took maybe 2-3 days, mostly waiting for putty to cure. The sample miniature took closer to a week to get to the condition seen.
Probably 2 more steps left, faces, beard and other details and finally hair.
The details are not all the impressive, pretty tame compared to commercially available miniatures. I’m hoping by the time I get to characters and beasts I’ll be at commercial standard.
Civilians done, must quicker than I expected. 5-6 bandits/mercenaries next.
My sculpts height includes the base and would be scrawny compared to 10mm miniatures. The fix was pretty quick, less than an hour I think. I left out 4 of the shorter sculpts they’re only half a mm taller than these. The only one I felt a little bad about the fix was the woodcutter, he was well proportioned originally.
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