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biker500
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Another 2mm gamer :-) Jan 18, 2020 15:30:28 GMT

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Post by biker500 on Jan 18, 2020 15:30:28 GMT

Hi All,

I recently found the 2mm printable figures library whilst browsing for 2mm stuff, and this led me to this forum!

I have played various figure scales, but always seemed to gravitate towards the smaller stuff, 10, 6, and 2mm. I guess this was partly because of limited table space, and partly because my preference is for grand tactical games. I always thought there was something not right about a napoleonic game with say a dozen battalions on table and one of those battalions was a guard unit. Napoleons Guard troops just weren't distributed piecemeal into other divisions like that!

Games I have played include DBA (in 2mm and 6mm), Warmaster (I have a 2000 point Undead army), Strategos by Phil Sabin in 2mm (latest incarnation is his book Lost Battles), Corps d'Armee by Goeffrey Wooton (many years ago, I had a 6mm French army for this, great Command and control system), Future War Commander in 6mm (I have an army based on Warhammer Epic space Orcs), as well as lots of other games I have briefly played.

I seem t have amassed a lot of unfinished projects too, as well as barely started ones (ie bought the figures but didn't do anything with them!) 6mm napoleonics and ancients, 2mm WWII and moderns, Volley and Bayonet in 2mm, lots of 2mm Irregular stuff, some of which I actually used! LOL, Warhammer knights and elves, and bits and pieces of all sorts of stuff.

My latest project is to do a Wagram game, using the Polemos Marschal d'Empire rules, in 2mm, using cm for inches, so a 3" square infantry base becomes 30mm. This makes the battle of Wagram doable on a 4ft by 4ft table! My plan is to do the terrain on 4 x 2ft square boards, for ease of transport and storage. I'll probably play this as a solo game, as due to ill health I don't get out that often to meet up with other wargaming friends.

Other interests include motorbikes, model engineering, computer gaming, R/C and free flight model aircraft flying, R/C model boats, 3D printing (I now have 2 printers, a Creality CR10 Mini, and an ELEGOO MARS) and anything else I find interesting. It has been said of me that my hobby is collecting hobbies!

Cheers

Biker500

Zach
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Another 2mm gamer :-) Jan 21, 2020 6:36:54 GMT

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Post by Zach on Jan 21, 2020 6:36:54 GMT

Biker500-
Glad to have you here in the 2mm club! We’ll all be looking forward to seeing your project develop. And it’s always good to have a 3D printing hobbyist join. I don’t actually own my own printer; never have. I designed the figs to print in SLS initially, and then when I switched my focus to FDM I kept things simple so that they’d pring with minimum difficulty on most printers. So far it’s worked. I’ve never had a complaint about printing problems that wasn’t quickly resolved with some minor tweaks to the settings. I may be picking up a printer though sooner than later - I want to greatly expand my personal collection (especially of buildings), and owning my own printer might be the best way.

Anyways, Wagram on a 4’ x 4’ will be a great project. I’ve done it on a 2’ x 1.5 foot map myself, and I’m working on a giant 9’ x 6’ map-based game at the moment (I need to finish that up, actually...).

Here’s the mini-Wagram: forwardmarchminiatures.blogspot.com/2017/08/wagram-for-apartment-dwellers-on-budget.html?m=1

Designer and owner of Forward March Studios: The World's first comprehensive range of 3D printed historic miniatures.

6mmfan
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Another 2mm gamer :-) Jan 21, 2020 7:54:31 GMT

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Post by 6mmfan on Jan 21, 2020 7:54:31 GMT

Welcome and you have a couple of nice printers there. I know what you mean about 3D printing as a hobby. I brought one for printing gaming stuff but it became a separate hobby with all the upgrades and tweaks. The FM stuff prints out well and I get good results on a heavily modified Anet A8 - I go for high quality settings 0.2mm nozzle and 0.08 layer height, so there is less cleanup time afterwards.

I went for 40mm bases just because the Epic range is on 40mm wide bases so its nice and easy.

colinf
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Another 2mm gamer :-) Jan 21, 2020 9:31:07 GMT

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Post by colinf on Jan 21, 2020 9:31:07 GMT

Welcome!

I see you share some of my other hobbies too, I fly RC craft (mostly multirotors) too!

Nice set of printers you've got there. I would love a resin, but as I already own a Creality Ender 3x that I print out on, I can't go for it just yet. Plus my printer lives at work due to space at home being a little tight.

Last Edit: Jan 21, 2020 9:32:05 GMT by colinf