"My First Lace Wars "Big" Battalion" Topic
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 ColCampbell  | 29 Nov 2007 3:52 p.m. PST |
I've organized my first "big" battalion (only 24 figures, but it's a start). There are several pictures posted on Col Campbell's Barracks: link The battalion belongs to one of my Imagi-nations. Jim |
| Sysiphus | 29 Nov 2007 4:16 p.m. PST |
Nice Work…I prefer my dip a bit darker, though, for more definition. |
 Der Alte Fritz  | 29 Nov 2007 6:27 p.m. PST |
Looking good Colonel. Keep it going with a second battalion of 24. Then if you want, you can push two 24s together for bigger games. That's how I started. |
| John the OFM | 29 Nov 2007 6:54 p.m. PST |
Now, Fritz, leave him alone. It's still better than a 12 man unit. |
| WarDepotDavid | 29 Nov 2007 8:27 p.m. PST |
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| blucher | 30 Nov 2007 7:20 a.m. PST |
why bases so far apart? These guys arms actually overlapped sometimes! also closer they are together means less table space. nice figs though |
| ColCampbell | 30 Nov 2007 7:39 a.m. PST |
Ogden – the "dipped" figure was a test. It actually looks darker "in person" than in the picture. The full battalion worth of figures is darker but still not like I want them. I'll continue to refine my technique in the quest for better definition and shading. Fritz – Yes, that is my plan when I go (hopefully) to the Big Battalion game in Austin next November. John – I used to have 12-man units, with 3 figures per stand. You can see them on an earlier post on my blog. But I was seduced by your's and Fritz's (among others) big battalions and am slowly headed that way. Blucher – That's because I only had 3/4" individual bases. The movement stand follows some guidelines in BAR and for the Nov 2008 Texas Big Battalions game at which I am planning to attend. But you are right they would look better closer together which I will probably do for my own gaming. I use scrap card stock from work and business card size magnetic sheet from Office Depot. I can make a batch of these movement stands in very short order. I rebased my second 24-man Russian (Courlander) battalion the other night and will start on the Prussians (Carpanians) this weekend. Then I can do some field testing on the BAR rules. Jim |
| abdul666lw | 30 Nov 2007 8:40 a.m. PST |
I systematically used the dipping technique in the hight of my wargaming days -from pure laziness.
First a fellow gamer (I was totally novice then) told me that to save time he dipped the painted, finished minis in the pot of (colorless) protective varnish.
Then I remembered the 40mm & 70mm Elastolins, their appearance and 'realism' (by oppostion to 'toy soldiers') greatly enhanced by some inking.
Thus I dipped my minis in 'light oak' wood varnisH. Rough & dirty, but efficient & sufficient (to my uneducated taste, at least) for 25mm minis seen 'en masse' and from a distance on the tabletop.
Anyway I had neither time nor patience nor skill -nor any temptation- to come back 10 times to each figurine to highlight the reliefs and darken the hollows…. |
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