A 6mm Fantasy Army - Trees!

[Sangennaru]

Cheers everyone!
While working on my 6mm Scifi project (https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=112094) I started experimenti a bit with fantasy troops as well, and I ended up making a lot of those.

As a result, here I am making a new branch project, on the proper section of the forum:
I started with spearmen. I modelled a body blank in Blender, and added few details to make it look more armoured. I kept the detail count low enough to make it easy to paint and to recognize: it won't look great in render, but it will make it a better finished piece!



Posing in Blender can be done in several ways. It's fairly fun and quick to do, and while the mesh usually needs a refinement, for 6mm that's not necessary.
The first try had VERY THIN spears, which looked cool but felt a bit fragile:





And i assembled them just for a test:











The second iteration looked better. Eight poses and less supports for printing needed.



I didn't take pictures of the intermediate progress, so here it is the completed unit of 96 troops!










C&C welcome, any idea on further pieces is appreciated!
Cheers
Jack

[Melnibonean]

Fantastic. I'm a fan of 6mm and they look really great but wouldn't it make painting easier if you printed them in ranks?

[Sangennaru]

Fantastic. I'm a fan of 6mm and they look really great but wouldn't it make painting easier if you printed them in ranks?

Ranks are imho a bit limiting for medieval warriors, and since i printed them individually i used their own supports as a paint holder - it took me a couple of hours to paint all of the above!

[Chimpfoot]

Wow those guys look like ants from up here
Great work too small for me though
Love to see more

[Roo]

WOW love them great job

[Sangennaru]

Wow those guys look like ants from up here
Great work too small for me though
Love to see more

Well, i've got my Red Box Games collection for detailed characters, this one works well to feel the battle charges!

Will do more! Doing more as  we speak, in fact.

[Ethelred the Almost Ready]

Wow.  those are fantastic.   

[AKULA]

Cracking work - very effective painted en masse

 

[Sangennaru]

Thanks! Working on some pikes, while painting swordsmen in the evening after work:

[Sangennaru]

Swordsmen done!



Next to the spearmen, we're talking about already 250 men. That's proving to be MUCH QUICKER than expected!





Cheers,
Jack

[fred]

Wow, they look super effective. The paint job really works too, and the basing.

One thought, can you print them so that you don't need to cut them off the printing base? Might be harder to get the varied nature of the ranks, but could save a lot of effort in removing the figures from the printing sprues and then basing them up.

What rules are you going for, is each base a unit, or is it several of them together? Whichever its going to be a big battle!

[Sangennaru]

Wow, they look super effective. The paint job really works too, and the basing.

One thought, can you print them so that you don't need to cut them off the printing base? Might be harder to get the varied nature of the ranks, but could save a lot of effort in removing the figures from the printing sprues and then basing them up.

What rules are you going for, is each base a unit, or is it several of them together? Whichever its going to be a big battle!

Thank you! They're SO easy to paint I'm stunned. I did the last six bases tonight in about another two hours. Tomorrow I've the pikemen to paint, and they don't have shields... that should make the painting even quicker!

Regarding the sprues: removing them is a simple snap, and they glue well on any base. This way i can make them move AROUND the terrain on their bases, more in general allowing dynamism.
Moreover, the supports for the spears would otherwise start from the base, and removing them would be problematic.

I am basing them on 4x4 cm squares which are pretty standard for a lot of rulesets. I'm gonna try MAYHEM to begin with, as soon as the apocalypse ends.

Cheers
Jack

[ZeroTwentythree]

Those look amazing! I'd love to get back into smaller scales. (No 3d printer, though...)

[Knight-Captain Tyr]

These are stunning! 

My first thought was "I have to paint some of these" they're that good haha. Your paintwork and basing really brought them to life, the group shots look like stills from big budget fantasy!

Any chance you'd put the STLs up for market?

[Steam Flunky]

Fantastic!! Very impressed.