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Offline lord marcus

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Host of The Silver City, a small scale blog (6MM)
« on: November 17, 2017, 02:27:00 AM »
Greetings, my fellows.

I normally work in 20, 25, and 28mm scales. This week I started my first, and long wished for, 6mm project. An army of elves.

I've always been a fan of large scale battles, and I see 6mm as a way to recreate that. I've also never been a fan of "elves as a dying race."

So I'm making a legion of them. Nominally to play in kings of war small scale, but mostly because I want to. I will be using a mix of manufacturers. So far I have irregular, with some baccus on the way. I am open to suggestions

I've painted 52 6mm figures so far, and the pictures of progress are below.







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Re: Host of The Silver City, a small scale blog (6MM)
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2017, 09:32:37 AM »
Cool! 8)

Massed ranks of these guys will look great on the table once you get them done I reckon.

Personally, I've been charmed by 10mm some time ago, and I found it good fun to paint, although the pupils in the eyes were a pain to do! Just kidding  ;D ; I actually found the neccesarily suggestive/impressionist style of painting when doing these scales refreshing, and I really liked the experience.

I'm curious to see where you'll be taking these squeekies. Will you be doing an opposing force as well?

Miniatures you say? Well I too, like to live dangerously...
Find a Way, or make one!

Offline lord marcus

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Re: Host of The Silver City, a small scale blog (6MM)
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2017, 01:55:42 PM »
Yes. I am planning either a force of demons or a force of ratmen. Leaning towards demons for availability. Eventually.

Progress shot. Nothing glued down yet.

« Last Edit: November 17, 2017, 02:03:50 PM by lord marcus »

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Re: Host of The Silver City, a small scale blog (6MM)
« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2017, 02:43:31 PM »
Good stuff. Thats a good big base of figures. Will it be a Horde in KoW?

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Re: Host of The Silver City, a small scale blog (6MM)
« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2017, 02:48:44 PM »
Good stuff. Thats a good big base of figures. Will it be a Horde in KoW?

That is correct.

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Re: Host of The Silver City, a small scale blog (6MM)
« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2017, 05:37:08 PM »
Great start, they will be an impressive site when all done, that's the great thing about small scales. :)

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Re: Host of The Silver City, a small scale blog (6MM)
« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2017, 05:49:56 PM »
Great start, they will be an impressive site when all done, that's the great thing about small scales. :)

Thanks Jambo. I think so too. It's the reason I wanted a small scale project. The plus side is getting to play huge battles of kings of war.

Offline lord marcus

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Re: Host of The Silver City, a small scale blog (6MM)
« Reply #7 on: November 18, 2017, 01:07:37 PM »
Got 60 swordsmen done last night. Mocked up a horde of seaguard. at this stage it's mostly about seeing how I want the units to look. Thoughts?






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Re: Host of The Silver City, a small scale blog (6MM)
« Reply #8 on: November 18, 2017, 04:09:47 PM »
Looking good. I think I would spread the ranks of troops out more evenly rather than having a gap between the spears and bows. What might look good but might me a lot of work is to have the bow men snipped into singles and spread irregularly behind the spears??

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Re: Host of The Silver City, a small scale blog (6MM)
« Reply #9 on: November 18, 2017, 05:11:20 PM »
Looking good. I think I would spread the ranks of troops out more evenly rather than having a gap between the spears and bows. What might look good but might me a lot of work is to have the bow men snipped into singles and spread irregularly behind the spears??

I wanted to keep the regimented look because they are regular elf archers. I was going to have gladestakers in lose/ open order. You may have  good idea there though

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Re: Host of The Silver City, a small scale blog (6MM)
« Reply #10 on: November 18, 2017, 08:14:58 PM »
The other thing to consider with KoW basing is whether you really want to base stuff up as hordes. You might be better basing as Regiments, then you can always position two regiment bases together to represent a horde. If you base troops as hordes, then they can only be used as hordes.

It does depend a bit on your playing style, but I found you didn't want too many hordes in your army as you could become flanked fairly easily (this was KoW1 rather than KoW2).
« Last Edit: November 18, 2017, 10:17:58 PM by fred »

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Re: Host of The Silver City, a small scale blog (6MM)
« Reply #11 on: November 18, 2017, 09:26:56 PM »
Thats a good point. To avoid confusion I normally make hordes seperatley from regiments. I completely understand and agree with that idea though. It's especially great if you are trying to have tactical options while saving money

Offline lord marcus

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Re: Host of The Silver City, a small scale blog (6MM)
« Reply #12 on: November 19, 2017, 04:40:37 AM »
Filled in the empty space with a rank of archers. How does this look?


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Re: Host of The Silver City, a small scale blog (6MM)
« Reply #13 on: November 19, 2017, 07:24:56 AM »
That looks imposing!

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Re: Host of The Silver City, a small scale blog (6MM)
« Reply #14 on: November 19, 2017, 09:13:51 AM »
Super stuff!!! :)

 

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