The Supreme Littleness Designs website is launched!

Started by WeeWars, 09 March 2015, 03:01:33 PM

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Leman

They really would look good with 6mm. Just the job for BBB.
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paulr

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Le Manchou

They are great but too small. My problem, as with many of you I suppose, is to get an accurate footprint as I wargame on detailed maps. In the Magenta game, Pascal did for me the perfect balance where one building represents several buildings but small enough to get the impression of a village and not a hamlet. When it comes to individual buildings, the problem gets bigger. For example, the château of Hougoumont is roughly a 7cm per 4 rectangle at a 1/1000 scale.
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WeeWars

Sebastien

I'm a little confused. Do you mean that they are too big rather than too small? They are to-scale for 3mm figures. If you need a smaller scale or models for a particular footprint, you'll have to arm me more detail of your requirements.

Personally the compromise I might go for if I was doing a similar project would be to go for 50mm-base elements for built-up areas/farms with buildings in the same scale as the miniatures. Game wise, these can simply be for eye-candy/terrain reference. Where building models take up more space than their mapped area, simply shunt their base around when troops need to stand there.

Cheers, Michael
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Le Manchou

Well, it's not simple anyway. For particular buildings, like the granary of Essling or Hougoumont, it might be a solution to distort their height (make them taller but keeping the acurate footprint) to make them more compatible with 10mm miniatures.
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getagrip

Quote from: Le Manchou on 14 March 2015, 01:50:25 PM
Well, it's not simple anyway. For particular buildings, like the granary of Essling or Hougoumont, it might be a solution to distort their height (make them taller but keeping the acurate footprint) to make them more compatible with 10mm miniatures.

For me it's not the size that matters particularly; it's the effect.  We all know how significant Hougoumont was so, if you want an area to be that important, keep it to scale but mod the rules to recreate it's effect.
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WeeWars

I've been experimenting some more with 3mm buildings and the beginnings of a La Haye Sainte.

Cheers,Michael


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getagrip

Buy plenty of Matron's sculpts now!

If he keeps using the chainsaw, the value of his work will soon go up.

Ken


Maenoferren

Flipping heck that is rather fab.
Sometimes I wonder - why is that frisbee geting bigger - and then it hits me!

paulr

 :-bd =D> :-bd =D> :-bd

Marvellously marvolous Michael   =D> =D> =D>
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Techno

For goodness sake !!  :o
Brilliant !
Cheers - Phil

Le Manchou

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