Ideas for baggage train vignettes

[pierre the shy]

Who needs Pendraken to mould them? Have we really lost the will to convert the things that are made into the things that we want?

Excuse me, I need to go find some Plasticine and banana oil.

I think that might be a bit of an art lost in the gaming world these days, Mike....a more viable solution currently is purhaps to find/create an .STL file and fire up a 3D printer?  

[Heedless Horseman]

Where there is a Will, there is a Way!
I do not care for vignettes or dioramas... not in 10mm!
But... loads of figures to convert or approximate if of a mind to!

I have at least three 'possible' projects in 10mm Pendraken which would need a lot of work for 'army' size units:
'Varus' Romans... some swords to Pili Pilums Javelins!
'Terminators':Skeletons to 'endoskeletons'.
'Game of Thrones' figures... massive project!
Figures in pile but None are likely to start anytime soon!
Conversion of a few figures for a Vignette is very 'do-abable' with care.
If you want to.
Moulding of figs... no way... Brit tea drinkers apart! LOL!

[FierceKitty]

A lot of my camp scenes are scratchbuilt. It's quite relaxing while waiting for the next shipment of real armies.

[fsn]

Not a fan of vignettes on a table meself, though I can see them as target markers or local colour (aka "obstacles").

Having said that the YouTuber "Napoleonic Wargames" modifies rules because of vignettes. For example, he added a signal station (Perry Port14) to his Portuguese army and allowed generals to appear to be 12" closer (using Black Powder).

[Gwydion]

Many rule sets (principally ancient and medieval, but a few pike and shot as well) require a baggage train/camp in the rear as a lure for breakthrough attackers and 'victory point' objective. Hence the 'vignette' obsession. I blame DBA and Phil Barker

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

I blame DBA and Phil Barker

So do most of us !

[FierceKitty]

One of the few things I give them credit for.

[Orcs]

I think that might be a bit of an art lost in the gaming world these days, Mike....a more viable solution currently is purhaps to find/create an .STL file and fire up a 3D printer?  

Please will people stop suggesting 3d Printers.  I am trying not to buy one.

Reasons not to buy:-

1. I am sure it will take ages to work out how to get good prints from it
2. I will end up printing more stuff to wargame with , which will need painting and storing.
3 I have more pressing things to spend £200 plus on.

Reasons to buy

1 It will be interesting working out how to get good prints
2 I can print all those things I NEED like an armoured train
3 I will soon save the cost of the printer

[Raider4]

Please will people stop suggesting 3d Printers.  I am trying not to buy one.

I know exactly where you're coming from.

So far I've resisted, helped by a comment I saw somewhere: "3D printing is almost a hobby in itself". Thanks, I really don't need another hobby 

[pierre the shy]

Please will people stop suggesting 3d Printers.  I am trying not to buy one.

But you'll get plenty of supports if you do 


Shall I get my coat on? 

[John Cook]

Who needs Pendraken to mould them? Have we really lost the will to convert the things that are made into the things that we want?

Not me.  I've been scratch building, converting and modifying models for more than sixty years.

Almost all my Napoleonic and ACW vehicles are scratch built because few are made in 10mm.
 
I have converted soft skinned WW2 vehicles into obscure specialist types that not even Pithead would consider, such as communications, command, workshop and recovery vehicles. 

Most of my mounted Napoleonic and ACW mounted staff officers are conversions and larger headquarters are represented by mini-dioramas, comprising numerous one-off conversions, for all periods.

I could get by using the same figures over and over again, and vehicles that bear little or no relationship to the originals but I prefer not not.
 
But, one has to recognise that some people don't have the wherewithal, or inclination, to convert, let alone scratch build, anything.

My guess, though, is that vignette type figures which will only be sold singly are simple not commercial propositions.