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Post by robh on May 24, 2019 11:54:43 GMT
Has anyone found a source of (or made) individual 2/3mm scale trees or small copses?
I can sort entire woods/forests using the pin and top canopy method but need individual tree models for command bases and building bases.
I have tried flocking round head nails and pins but, while it is OK'ish' I would prefer something with more variety than this method produces.
Irregular metals are too small but would work if they were bigger.
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Post by Zach on May 24, 2019 20:24:00 GMT
These should be very easy to make; there must be something out there?
I can't jump on it just now, but there should be something. I've been meaning to create something like this for awhile. I think the best look would be little wire trees that you can add flock to. I've seen 3D printed foliaged trees and didn't care for the final result.
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Post by 6mmfan on May 26, 2019 3:18:51 GMT
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Post by robh on May 27, 2019 18:25:27 GMT
I've seen 3D printed foliaged trees and didn't care for the final result. I have seen some in 1:1000 for architectural models but they just basic round or tapered cylinder shapes and effectively no different than the various pins and such that I have tried flocking. I have not seen any 3d deciduous trees in suitable tiny scale. Asking around people doubt the ability of 28mm scale models to reduce down far enough for 2mm and still print as anything usable. Thanks, I had not seen the MM ones. Pipecleaners I use for my 6mm figures but my experiments with them for 2mm were not very pretty as the pipecleaners were actually for crafting and too thick really. I am on the hunt for some thinner pipecleaners |
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Post by Zach on May 28, 2019 17:28:30 GMT
The MM ones do look pretty good. I see where there's a gap in what's available. Just personally, I would use a small piece of foliage standing by itself. Although it lacks a trunk, from most angles the trunk is not visible. That said, I know people are trying to create realistic looking 2mm models now. I'll see about modeling something. I do think you could get them to print up, but there might be some compromises needed to get them to print.
Flocking nails and pins is a nightmare. I made something like 200 or 300 trees like that one time.... and only one time. I'm not sure if I kept them around, as I only use one terrain technique nowadays.
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Post by robh on May 29, 2019 23:10:51 GMT
2 or 3 HUNDRED!!!!
I managed about a dozen before deciding there has to be a better way....
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Post by Zach on May 30, 2019 16:52:00 GMT
This is back in the day when I was working on 3mm figures and using a drop cloth for the terrain base. I had already figured out the dropped clump-foliage trick, but I hadn't put it together with the plexiglas panels yet. So, I needed a way to attached the drop cloth to the underlying terrain pieces. Each tree was a thumb tack, the kind with a plastic nub on the end. I used a hot glue gun to the nub while spinning the pin...
I much prefer my new plexiglas terrain.
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Post by robh on Jun 6, 2019 21:28:38 GMT
I "found" your old blog entries about that terrain earlier on while I was hunting images of 2/3mm terrain layouts. Some great stuff on there, wonderful mini painting.
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Post by Zach on Jun 10, 2019 17:40:52 GMT
Thanks! My 3mm phase. I did a huge painting project for O8 at one point a few years back (like five or six years at this point). I still have over 20k 3mm figures after getting paid partially in store credit from 08. About half of which are unpainted. But that means I have about 10k painted 3mm.
What I've used those for in the past are to base them up for specific OOBs. I use laminated paper for the bases, and print the OOB information right onto the base. But I only use them with maps. I actually got the germ of the idea to do hybrid maps from trying to figure out a way to do 3mm armies. A lot of what I do now is a reflection of the ideas I came up with trying to make 3mm figures work.
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