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Post by Zach on Jan 13, 2020 17:36:46 GMT
I shared some of your pictures over on the Facebook 2mm page and they got 50+ likes so far. Everyone is really impressed. Great work!
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Post by 6mmfan on Jan 14, 2020 8:10:34 GMT
Thank you. I don't do FB for gaming stuff so share away. I've printed out some of Forward March's Castle walls, towers and an entrance which I plan to use for towns and cities. These are great designs which will look amazing painted up.  I haven't figured how I want to base them with my current thoughts being to create semi modular city sections with walls that line up.  |
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Post by 6mmfan on Jan 14, 2020 8:11:18 GMT
I just saw you post on your blog and Lead Adventure forum. More great work.
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Post by 6mmfan on Feb 2, 2020 9:36:26 GMT
Back onto some buildings. This is my first batch of random FMS buildings and a few other ones I found on thingverse and resized. Every batch will have 1-2 colours to save time, and I went with light grey and yellow. The extreme closeups are not very flattering but from 2ft, they look great.
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Post by 6mmfan on Feb 4, 2020 7:18:21 GMT
Austrian Jaegers
These will end up on some Infantry brigade bases as well as Mixed Brigades Mixed brigades in Grand Armee are a mix of Infantry, cavalry and light infantry. I'm still painting the infantry and cavalry but soon I will have 5 bases of mixed completed.
Tricky to paint and some came out with part of their heads missing, so I had to add some blobs of PVA Glue to increase the height!
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Post by Zach on Feb 4, 2020 9:17:56 GMT
You're definitely in the running to be the World's Greatest 2mm painter at this point.
How many 28mm painters can say that??
Great stuff!
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Post by 6mmfan on Apr 30, 2020 7:14:08 GMT
Hi everyone
Its been a while but I have plans to get this project finished and the move onto an ACW project. I printed out some castle walls earlier and I finally finished painting them.
I'm really happy with the results and my only regret is that I glued the tower to the walls afterwards, so there is a bit of a gap, but only in these closeups.
I used a mix of drybrushing and daubing the walls with paint on a sponge, to create a dappled effect.
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Post by suntzu on Apr 30, 2020 8:33:21 GMT
They look really nice
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Post by Zach on Apr 30, 2020 16:49:55 GMT
Those look great. Are those ink washed? Or dry brushed? They look better than mine!
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Post by 6mmfan on May 2, 2020 7:15:14 GMT
They are drybrushed and then dabbed light grey followed by white, with a sponge. There's 4-5 layers of paint which is probably too many.
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Post by 6mmfan on May 5, 2020 11:50:35 GMT
I've been pretty slack with this project over the last 6 months but I am keen to get to a point where I can put figures on the table and have a game.
I reviewed what I had printed and a lot of the 3D prints from last year had bad warping and probably 1/3 got binned. I think the plastic was too old or I just didn't have the settings right. Also there was a lot of stringing especially between the heads on the figures and a lot of heads came off during cleanup, and trying to glue back on 2mm heads isn't fun! So in the end it was easier to just print as the new bases and the new ones have virtually no stringing, so I didn't spend hours on that, instead of painting the little f*%kers.
So I have started a big push and have prepared
21 French Infantry bases 16 Austrian bases of infantry (grey base coat) 10 bases of heavy cavalry (6 French and 4 Austrian) 24 bases of Austrian Artillery (no limbers yet)
French reinforcements (with flags made from green stuff)
Austrians
Austrian Artillery
Cheers
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Post by 6mmfan on Jun 24, 2020 7:56:14 GMT
Hi everyone.
I was hoping to update this thread sooner but its been a crazy time with the virus thing, and then my work got extremely busy for the last 3 weeks. But I did manage to finish off the Austrian infantry from my last post. This is a large chunk of my army and I am a lot closer to being able to a play a game.
All 16 bases were painted at once (around 2000 figures) and I used a fine tip black and red pen on the flags which I am especially pleased with.
One of the better flags
All of them
Squares (with a splodge of green paint to touch up)
Austrian Masse bases
Another closeup
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Post by Zach on Jun 24, 2020 18:20:00 GMT
You're making me jealous!
These look incredible. I can't wait to see both armies on the table.
Regarding being busy, tell me about it! I've got a half dozen projects I want to get done for FMS and I can't find the time for any of them.
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Post by 6mmfan on Jun 25, 2020 9:18:49 GMT
Thanks, definitely a step up from my earlier Austrians. The medium grey base coat with white over the top worked well.
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Post by korhyl on Jun 25, 2020 16:04:23 GMT
6mmfan,
They are great!!! In just 2 mm so much detail.
And i love the Austrian flags.
Keep us updated.
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