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[WeeWars]

Very nice work.

I image you've got quite a list of projects, any chance some Roman and/or Celt type buildings might be on there?

Definitely Roman – they loved their straight lines! I went to a lecture on Vindolanda on Monday and was reminded that the Roman soldiers got into trouble for growing their veg on the rampart mounds of the fort. Now, that is worth modelling!

Celts, more of a problem. They did like their round houses. But last week I saw some 3D modelling of the latest research into the Northern Picts. The dwellings did look decidedly square. I am following that up.

Cheers, Michael

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

The Romans did encourage the growth of blackberries on the ramparts too, the excavated ramparts often have bramble roots all over them.
Late summer harvest?

[barbarian]

I think my inspiration could be that (its 1/285) :
https://arkiegamer.wordpress.com/2014/05/19/turning-point-stalingrad-better-than-cats/

So...

-Residential one floor buildings
-Residential 5-6 stoors buildings
-Factory
-Maybe the Grain Silo
-Maybe oil tank (tricky as they are cylinder sections.)

And one ton of rubble.


My bases for my minis are 25mm x 50mm, I need at least 30mm x 60mm buildings, since I want them to fit in there.

OR, I could do them smaller, and make some big bases (at least 100mm x 100mm but surely biggers too) to accomodate the bases of minis and "respect" the rules of BKC II



For the residential one floor, I could use a variation of the houses you made for the Napoleonic era.

I'll need to design the tall buildings.

[WeeWars]

As your blog, it's an impressive work. I would be interested by Napoleonic period 1/600 to 1/1 000 scale footprint buildings to add to my maps. I will follow the evolution of your project.

Look! A 3mm Village!

Le Manchou, Is this the sort of thing you were thinking of?





The doors are 3mm high.

The church is based on Plancenoit Church. And there's a gate house. I experimented, also, with chimneys and walls. Chimneys, I think, should only be included on the bigger houses, otherwise they look a tad too big.

I have attempted to keep the gluing of the model pieces as simple as possible. I think it helps that all the buildings are solid, making it easier to press them together. I could do the roofs in less sections with a thicker material but I purposefully used the material I did to break up the roof surfaces. I prefer the uneven result.

Any thoughts?

Cheers, Michael

[Leman]

I think they would go great with 6mm, although would prefer terracotta roofing colour.

[WeeWars]

I think they would go great with 6mm, although would prefer terracotta roofing colour.

The colour is up to you. 

[WeeWars]

To give a sense of scale, here's a pic of the 3mm buildings with a 10mm mini.

[getagrip]

Dear Lord they're small.

Amazes me what people can do with las-cutters.

[Techno]

Good grief !! 
Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Cripes!

[Leman]

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

[paulr]

Marvellous Michael as always

[toxicpixie]

Very tasty!

Impressed

[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.

[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

[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.

[getagrip]

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.

[WeeWars]

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

Cheers,Michael

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

 

[getagrip]

Oh wow,  that's brilliant