Just about three weeks work on these lovely 2mm figure blocks by Irregular Miniatures and I have enough for a game of DBN! Now I begin to see the attraction of the scale and the huge potential for terrain building.
I must be honest you have an awesome channel,but I still can't get my head round 2mm wargaming I thought 6mm was rough to see but wow,keep up the great work
Thank you, I appreciate that. I enjoy the challenge of painting the small scales especially as I spend my days painting the larger scales on commission!
I feel there is potential with 2mm figures but first i want to find a way to make my 6mm figures look good first. I have tried a number of different basing systems and still can't make my mind up. 2mm is even harder. My gut feel is 2mm is idea for small playing area games. I am not certain if DBN is the best rules for it, a boardgame conversion into figures gaming may be a better set of rules to try for 2mm. I do like the holist view of the armies which make it look like a real battle.
These look great! I have 2mm ACW for Altar of Freedom rules. You could paint the rear edge of the base different colours to designate different units. All the best!🙂👍
@@williamsworkshopuk Hi William and thanks for the comment. I'm in kent these days and have been for much of my adult life :) Re the thoughts on 2mm v 6mm you might care to visit my blog as I have painted plenty of both scales! The figures in the video were sold to Geoff Barker who commented above and I have since painted a couple of nice 2mm DBA armies for him. Cheers, Lee. napoleonictherapy.blogspot.com/
Hi Andrew and thanks for watching the video and commenting. Yes you can get 2mm 'Ancients' from Irregular Miniatures. I painted a couple of DBA armies for a friend recently, scaled down on 20mm bases, 24 elements that fitted in a small cigar tin! You can see them here: napoleonictherapy.blogspot.com/2022/07/cigar-box-dba-armies-and-epic-dbn.html Not Greeks though :) Worth looking at another friends clever idea for making blocks of tiny hoplites, certainly impressed me: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lL3O8SwkIZw.html Hope this helps Lee.
I can see the beenfits for vehicles (and ships) also huge armies like the Napoleon era. Is it not hard to pain them without a fully lit special painting area?
no special additional effort required. Clearly different techniques involved for a small scale, but easy to achieve the results you're looking for using the same space you'd normally use. same goes for lighting.
Very quick to paint these bases but I try to get as much details as possible, highlights to the horses etc helps make them pop a bit as does adding tiny dots to represent French pom poms!
