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Miniatures Adventure => Age of the Big Battalions => Topic started by: WFGamers on 15 June 2018, 08:21:04 PM

Title: WSS units at 1:1 ratio
Post by: WFGamers on 15 June 2018, 08:21:04 PM: Here are some shots of something I have been working on, some WSS units at 1:1 ratio.

The units are a Dutch battalion, Vegelin's with red breeches (officers have red coats), of circa 600 men in 3 ranks. Plus two versions of a French battalion, the Normandie regiment (figures in blue are drummers). One is circa 600 men in 4 ranks and the other circa 450 men in 3 ranks.

I used 3d printed figures printed from Forward March Studio's files. The printing cost circa £3.50 - £4 for these figures (the ones used were part of a larger batch I had done. I cut them up and messed around with various bits to produce the units. The flags are taken from the excellent Hall booklets/CD's, resized, printed and glued on.

I am not sure what I will use them for gaming wise but it is good to see what a full unit might look like.
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Post by: WFGamers on 15 June 2018, 08:27:55 PM: More photos
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Post by: robh on 15 June 2018, 10:08:09 PM: Those are lovely, very nicely done.
The FMS strips are addictive little things aren't they
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Post by: Goliad on 16 June 2018, 07:33:35 PM: Great work. Love seeing the 1-1 units based. The bases look good - I am interested in how you did them.
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Post by: fred on 16 June 2018, 09:25:06 PM: Very nice. It is good to see units at their full size. Really shows how long and thin they were.
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Post by: Forwardmarchstudio on 17 June 2018, 05:51:33 AM: Catch the fever!

www.forwardmarchstudios.com (http://www.forwardmarchstudios.com)

BTW Nick, these are looking great!
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Post by: WFGamers on 17 June 2018, 10:49:04 AM: Thanks guys.

Goliad: The bases are 'plaster' to fill up the base - the kind of stuff you use to fill in holes in a wall. Then mostly just paint of various colours/dry brushing. The rest are various products designed for model railways. The 'trees' are sold as foliage to be put on larger model railway trees. Similarly the 'hedges' and other stuff is various model railway material 'reused' as something else. One advantage of this scale is the terrain can be simple to do.
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Post by: Jeff965 on 17 June 2018, 12:22:43 PM: These photos really show these figures at their best, and makes me ask how the heck they moved forward in a straight line and kept their formation let alone some of the fancy footwork I've seen my 28mm units do lol
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Post by: WFGamers on 17 June 2018, 12:40:43 PM: A few more shots I didn't have time to post last time.
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Post by: Khmorg on 17 June 2018, 03:19:39 PM: :o
WoW
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Post by: vodkafan on 19 June 2018, 09:27:30 AM: Not my thing, but it is very interesting to see how a battalion would look on the ground in it's proper formation; I see now why they were called "Line" infantry.
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Post by: von Lucky on 19 June 2018, 01:50:31 PM: Quote from: Jeff965 on 17 June 2018, 12:22:43 PM
These photos really show these figures at their best, and makes me ask how the heck they moved forward in a straight line and kept their formation let alone some of the fancy footwork I've seen my 28mm units do lol

Agree (and yes, they look great in their simplicity). Rules wise you could use DBA-HX (a free fan-based add-on for DBA 3):
http://fanaticus-dba.wikia.com/wiki/DBA-HX_3.0_(1700-1850)_(Robert_Madrigal)
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Post by: AWu on 19 June 2018, 08:34:35 PM: Beautiful!! :o

I am working on Napoleonic 1:1 (But I am stuck after 1 battalion :( but I split mine toi 60 man bases for multiple uses, en masse and based like yours they looks glorious!
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Post by: Ethelred the Almost Ready on 22 June 2018, 11:10:17 AM: Do these miniatures now come only as files for printing ourselves? They were available through Shapeways but I cannot see them there now.
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Post by: robh on 22 June 2018, 12:13:56 PM: Yes, the Shapeways store has been shut down. Compared to the former prices there I saved the $15 cost of the files within the first order I made through a local printer (via the 3dHubs service: https://www.3dhubs.com ) getting 40mm 3 rank infantry strips for 7c (5p) each.

I know nothing about 3dprinting and have no experience with the machinery or software but the 3dHubs website really makes it easy. Use the free sample file Forward March offer to play around with the service.
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Post by: Ethelred the Almost Ready on 22 June 2018, 08:18:27 PM: Thanks for that. Might have to look into this.
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Post by: Forwardmarchstudio on 23 June 2018, 06:59:08 AM: You can also upload the files to Shapeways, print in versatile plastic, and save on my previous $1 profit margin. If you order 15+ models off Shapeways you win!

But 3dHubs might be the better way to go. When I started this project 18 months ago FDM and ABS wasn’t as good; I feel like something shifted in 3d printing tech because its really quite nice now. If I started over now I would have prototyped off of 3dHubs, not Shapeways.