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Similar to my Tiny Air Combat project this is a scaled down more compact version for 3mm ground games.
The lid is used as protective cover for the minis stored on the underside. There’s a height limit of 10mm for miniatures that can be stored but unlike the CD cases these fit in a pocket. Planning to do several dioramas to see if they’ll work better than modular terrain pieces.
I could probably print a small reference sheet and stick it on the lid, laminate it a little for water proofing. I should also make a spacer as a safety measure.
Any ideas and suggestion for improvements is welcome.
These are the lid top and metal bottom from M&S nuts. Although any type would do I have a preference for honey roasted cashews. Around 4″ wide the plastic lid is flexible enough to accept 10mm tall terrain.
Thanks Mike.
@Oldben for the small price of a tasty snack and some sandpaper you can also have one of these. I saw your mini Hoth, Lego are so well suited to making buildings at this scale, so many useful shapes. Are you going to build on it? If you’re looking to replace your infantry I suggest Odzial Osmy or Vanguard 3mm, they both have infantry in trench coat.
@Jack – I do have some air but no deadly modern stuff. My preferred mode of transport these days are flying submarines (got carried away with black wash). I dropped the modern stuff for scifi/steampunk.
I’m hoping to get some gloss varnish soon to paint the water.
Trees are removable but I need to soak them in PVA to make them more rugged.
Pretty happy with how the obstacles came out, my only regret is using the same color for the stream.
I use a light tent, it’s the only way to get enough light where I live. The tent makes too much light, the colors are a little faded.
It’s funny the stone wall and barricade makes me think of the American Civil War.
The game I had in mind was to play the evil side, think steampunk Nazi. Posting the game isn’t a good idea because I’ll be carrying out multiple crimes and evil doing.
Now that most of the assets are done I’m having second thoughts, it might be better played in a fantasy setting. Some stuff feels out of place in a technological setting, like relationship between justification for conflict, industry, resource and population size. Too many dependencies in the industrial age for small population to go all out conquest mode. Agrarian based societies doing that seems more plausible.
This is so much clearer, I need to be taking tighter close up photos.
Thanks Thuseld, what I like about this most is their size, I could make a lot in a week.
The aftermath. Yup I stole the casualties idea from Just Jack. The only reason the 4 man team won was I made the defenders disadvantaged by not knowing where to shoot after leaving the buildings.
Some objective markers and scifi infantry and a crawler. The grey+yellow infantry in the middle set of photos are from Oddzial Osmy.
I should stop resizing photos, lost a lot of sharpness.
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