It's been a while since my last post as it has been a while since I got anything painted (due to summer and being outside more) but with the end of the month looming it was time to get something finished. This is a test piece for a project I have been thinking of for at least the last year or two (maybe more), that is doing Kings of War (or Warhammer Fantasy Battle) in a smaller scale to get the right look and feel of massed troop combat.
Sorry for the slightly glossy nature of the building, I ran out of dullcote clear cote so had to use a satin until I get more dull and it shows a bit glossy on flat surfaces. I will go over it again later to dull it down!
I wanted to do a smaller scale as I always hated WFB due to having to take models off, and like KOW because you don't have to, but felt both lack a little in the looks department as they are meant to represent mass combat but at 28mm scale you really do not get that look with 20 guys in a unit. I always felt it would look better in a smaller scale.
This then is the first test unit for doing just that, taking KOW down to 10mm scale where I plan on using the same size bases as 28mm KOW but using smaller figures. I am still working out if I want to actually use the same size bases and just scale down the terrain but still play on a 6x4 table or potentially going to 1/2 size bases and playing on a 3x2 table, but this will help give me an idea of how it will look.
The first army I am doing is the Undead, featuring skeletons, vampires, ghouls, ghosts, hounds, and more... But I am likely to do a second army as well over the winter as I like having 2 factions for every game I play so that I can
sucker in additional victims to my hobby teach friends how to play!
Another huge upside for going to a smaller figure size is painting time! Painting even a 20 man unit is 28mm scale is at least a weeks work (probably a couple hours every night for a total of 12-30 hours total), where as I painted both the unit and the tower in less than 3 hours. Painting small figures is more about the impression of the whole unit rather than each figure having to be well done. In fact, these were printed yesterday during the day, then primed and painted last night! Because, you know I don't have enough unpainted figures already, I have to print more...
Also both the unit and the terrain is 3d printed! The figures are from The Forest Dragon and printed out amazingly well and once you own the files cost less than $0.50 per stand of 6 guys to print! The building is a scaled down building from a kickstarter that I backed called Hagglethorn Hollow that had an amazing set of buildings meant to print at larger scale but that work amazing printed smaller.
Now to convince Mike and Steve and others to join in on the fun and get some additional armies done up locally! I already have my friend Curt convinced to join in from Regina and you can follow his blog Analogue Hobbies for his posts there.
