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Offline Freddy

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Re: 6mm Crusades
« Reply #30 on: March 09, 2023, 09:08:08 PM »
Nice little camels, I like how their baggage is not uniform! (arent they supposed to march on some kinda road though?)

Offline Osmoses

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Re: 6mm Crusades
« Reply #31 on: March 09, 2023, 10:00:53 PM »
They're wargames camels. They march from one table edge to another regardless of what's in between.

Offline Osmoses

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Re: 6mm Crusades
« Reply #32 on: March 09, 2023, 10:02:56 PM »
Not only is my mind blown that anyone can paint something so wee so well, both on this thread as well as your Viking Age stuff, but also by the speed in which you seem to be able to knock it out.

That camel train is a wonderfully atmospheric. Lovely stuff.

Thanks. You can probably paint 8 6mm figures in the time it takes to do one 28mm figure. So you produce hundreds rather than dozens.

Offline Pattus Magnus

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Re: 6mm Crusades
« Reply #33 on: March 09, 2023, 10:34:18 PM »
That’s a great addition to your crusades collection!  They really set the scene, and I could see them taking the role of objective markers for games representing raids.

Offline Osmoses

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Re: 6mm Crusades
« Reply #34 on: March 11, 2023, 10:11:30 AM »
First town base done. For some reason I always end up building settlements of some kind for my 6mm projects, but I've also always wanted to make a anc-med Middle-Eastern town. I've also always wanted to do a siege game. 6mm seems like a way to make those two things attainable. This is still rather peripheral to the main project, which is obviously focussed on field battles.

My other building projects have grown organically from a few initial bases with more gradually being added. This one is slightly different as I'm aiming at an end goal of having a lot of buildings. It has proven way too daunting to plan the whole thing however, so I'm going to just gradually add bases in ones and twos like I did with the others.

The initial base has a Byzantine church (Leven) with some of the Lazy Forger 'Medina' buildings. The figures are converted Baccus with a Perfect Six shepherd. Vignettes show 2 pilgrims arriving at the church, and a local giving directions to a traveller. Base is 10cm square.





Lots more buildings to do. Normally, these 'arab-style' buildings are pretty easy to paint, but the Lazy Forger ones have loads of details on them, so are much more time-consuming. Beautiful buildings though.


Offline jon_1066

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Re: 6mm Crusades
« Reply #35 on: March 11, 2023, 02:54:48 PM »
Not only is my mind blown that anyone can paint something so wee so well, both on this thread as well as your Viking Age stuff, but also by the speed in which you seem to be able to knock it out.

That camel train is a wonderfully atmospheric. Lovely stuff.

Check out his Samurai stuff, your head will explode! 

Great looking figures and terrain as usual.

Offline trev

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Re: 6mm Crusades
« Reply #36 on: March 11, 2023, 03:38:32 PM »
Looking good. 6mm is best for the mass effect.  The Japanese stuff is great too!


Offline LouieN

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Re: 6mm Crusades
« Reply #37 on: March 11, 2023, 08:10:19 PM »
That is a huge city.  Good luck

Offline Osmoses

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Re: 6mm Crusades
« Reply #38 on: March 11, 2023, 09:08:52 PM »
Yes, I'll do it in small stages so it will take a while. But so did the Japanese village...


Offline LouieN

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Re: 6mm Crusades
« Reply #39 on: March 11, 2023, 10:00:33 PM »
Wow

Offline DivisMal

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Re: 6mm Crusades
« Reply #40 on: March 12, 2023, 07:01:26 AM »
Awesome! The camel train and that village… I amazed :-*, no I’m in love;)
The scale also gives a pretty good idea about a unit’s real footprint and how artificial all our systems in bigger scale actually are when referring to historical battles.

Offline Atheling

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Re: 6mm Crusades
« Reply #41 on: March 12, 2023, 08:43:05 AM »
I think what is great about your project is, despite the small scale of 6mm, each unit has been lovingly painted and with an eye to making the army look like a real army. Very commendable  8)

Great period too  8)

Offline Osmoses

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Re: 6mm Crusades
« Reply #42 on: March 12, 2023, 10:04:18 AM »
Awesome! The camel train and that village… I amazed :-*, no I’m in love;)
The scale also gives a pretty good idea about a unit’s real footprint and how artificial all our systems in bigger scale actually are when referring to historical battles.

You do get more of a sense of what a unit was, (and therefore how difficult it would have been to 'wheel'  :))

DBA heavy infantry elements represented about 1,500 men iirc. This is 1,500 men:



Or 24 figures at 1:64 scale. 30 figures at 1:50 etc



Offline Freddy

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Re: 6mm Crusades
« Reply #43 on: March 12, 2023, 01:31:08 PM »
Wow, great terrain!

Offline Osmoses

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Re: 6mm Crusades
« Reply #44 on: March 12, 2023, 07:36:51 PM »
Had a go at a game to give the Franks a try in the Shattered Lances rules. I'll hopefully do a full write-up soon.

Ridwan of Aleppo was back and this time allied with Baldwin of Edessa against Ridwan's brother Duqaq of Damascus and his subordinate Tughtekhin. You'd be hard pushed to find anyone more untrustworthy than these 4 in all of Syria around 1100.




 

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