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Photo test to see if I can skip on 6mm buildings. I think I”ll make better buildings, along the same line as the ones done by the guy at WETA. Still half minded as to which scale I will go with I like the sense of scale of 3mm but also like the details 6mm gives me.
Village of Small Peak 10 years later.
Yup, they’re buildings for 3mm and I’m too lazy to build 6mm ones.
I might go with 3D printing the walls and adding other details by hand. It’ll let me do either 3mm or 6mm which ever I decide to go with but hopefully I could do something like 4.5mm that fit with both scales..
Got the 3d printed wall and made 3 copies to test.
In hind sight I should have made the brick pattern on a flat slab or cylinder so I can roll it over surfaces.
Completed house, still waiting for the putty to cure before painting. Don’t really like the roof, looks too broad and they look kind of big for 3mm.
I think adding some thickness to the bottom of the roof might make them look better.
and they look kind of big for 3mm.
At the risk of upsetting you, given the eaves and the brick size and what not, I think they work better as 6mm cottages/hovels.
Done and painted. Originally the stone walls were going to be grey and the roof was going to be the color of the current walls. I’ve come to like the lighter wall and darker roof.
Going back to 3mm because I fully embrace the “miniature” in miniature gaming.
Had always been intimidated by sculpting animals but being 3mm helped.
Left to right first to latest attempt.
Bear was too small at first even though realistically that was probably the average size, fantasy games ruined my perspective. Second attempt is much better in size but the proportion wasn’t as nice as the first.
Need more horses, better wagon and missing a pack of wolves, the most intimidating of all to sculpt.
Update:
Should be everything I need for 3mm. I’m having second thoughts about 6mm again. Will probably do more 6mm next, see if I can build up a similar set, although I could probably buy most animals somewhere.
I’m especially proud of the wolves and deers.
Unfortunately my palette was dusty and only spotted the dust in these photos, it’s all sealed in with varnish now.
Got a heavy dose of inspiration recently from “Conan by Sea” and Strozie’s Conan ships.
I went a different route, looked up the papercraft method and used very thin plastic cards.left to right in order of construction. By the time I got to the third ship I was making very few mistakes and almost everything fit together without a gap, but I still screwed up forgetting to put a magnet in it.
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