My 3mm Fantasy Project (First Orcs)

[Macunaima]

Slightly better photos of the Celtic ghost warriors, with the green dimmed down a tad.

[fred]

I like those. I think that shade works better, looks more ghostly than shrubbery

[Macunaima]

The Green Council, the White Council and the Blue Council, along with the Elf general and army standard and two subgenerals/heroes.

All figures from Microworld’s fantasy line or O8’s Gallic line.

The Green Council’s trees are made from loofa sponge fibers while the Blue Council has a tree made with a wire armature covered in glue and durapox. Rocks are either kitty litter or durepox.

For the Army standard, I cannibalized an artillery ammo dump and attached the flag to a unicorn-mounted sorceress. Again, these figures are standing on a 15cm x 15cm tile.

[Macunaima]

I have to admit that, at first, I wasn’t too enthused with these chariots, particularly with the “caisson” arrangement of the teams. However, they paint up a treat! Not only that, they are big and the chariots themselves have enough space for two or three other figures.

On the flagged chariot, I have added two swordsmen and I think they really improve the look! The other chariots will be getting figures as I paint them.

Because Microworld uses a softer, more traditional, alloy than O8’s hyper hard, but brittle material, it’s quick and easy to take the bases off of individual figures with an exacto knife and a needle file.

I really like these, now! I see them as mobile archery platforms AND battle taxis that can also shock-charge shaken infantry.

[Macunaima]

Here are some initial shots of the almost completed army. There are still some heroes, warmachines, and a couple archer regiments to paint, plus a lot of basing to do, but it is 90% on the table and more than 50% finished!

[Roo]

WOW now that looks an army....not just coloured blobs...got me thinking now...wonderful job...love them

[fred]

Looking proper hoard like now!

Is that an 18” frontage for the whole army, deployed in depth?

[YPU]

I keep telling myself I don't need another scale to work in, but 3mm moderns look so dinky for Kaiju games, and then you and others are making those microworld 3mm's look so good...

[Brummie]

  Amazing stuff! Never really gave 3mm much thought but this is making me take a  second look.

[Macunaima]

Looking proper hoard like now!

Is that an 18” frontage for the whole army, deployed in depth?

Less, actually. Closer to 15”.

[Macunaima]

I keep telling myself I don't need another scale to work in, but 3mm moderns look so dinky for Kaiju games, and then you and others are making those microworld 3mm's look so good...

Again, it is a freebie scale. That whole elven army cost around 50 USD, including postage and if I were to paint it to a tabletop standard, I would finish it in a weekend. And it can be stored in a cigar box.

So why don’t you need another scale again? It certainly can’t be time, money, or storage issues.

Think of 3mm as a scale where you get to experiment with armies and periods you would normally not do, or rules which you don’t want to rebase armies for, or simply for HUGE battles or ultraportable ones. I can stick a DBA setup, with everything, in a lunchbox.

[YPU]

You overestimate the speed at which I paint armies, even to a tabletop standard  Mostly its scenery though, however I've been talking with a friend about the options of doing a fantasy version of the perry brothers travel battles using these figures already so I'm sure I'll budge to temptation soon enough.

[Macunaima]

I did a 7YW Travel Battle in 3mm.

[Macunaima]

I made some 1 1/8th x 7/8th inch metal sabots to take two of my unit stands for game systems like Mayhem.

[Mallo]

These are fantastic, they look great painted up en masse.

I'd love to have a go with 3mm fantasy, but between being too heavily into 6mm already and microworld being difficult to obtain easily (at least not being hit with obscene import tax) I don't think I'll ever pick these up. Shame, as I'd love to see what could be done at this scale.