"1mm plastics" Topic

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What a rumour! Very exciting news.

Get out of town! Well, lots of stuff I'd like to see the Twins do before those, but they should be interesting. Likely the only way Id ever play Austerlitz!

Uesugi,

Perhaps we need to remember today's date?!

Mollinary

What date?

Sadly the initial releases are only for the 100 days campaign. Anyone expecting correct facings and shako covers for the earlier period will be sadly dissapointed :shake: An opportunity missed IMO.

I suspect coarse sand grains will be cheaper…..

Hah! They'll never replace unfurled plastic hair rollers!

Ah, the Battle of the Pinheads. Is there a point?

As aye,

Captain D'Ewell

unfurled plastic hair rollers!

I know what you mean, I remember the article – Military Modelling magazine from many yesterdays?

An article of mythic/heroic proportions – in Wargames Illustrated, perhaps? And was it by Andy Callan, by any chance – because if it was, he's still at it with a lovely wee article in the new WI about making your own 1/3000th Napoleonic fleets out of balsa and corrugated cardboard. i'd never have the time or patience to do any of these things, but I do admire the ingenuity.

1mm is only half the size of the 2mm stuff I'm doing at the moment.

I suspect it will be harder to paint the hands on 1mm figs but otherwise the same techniques will work. They will need basing with finer flock though.

1mm sounds promising, but I'd like a multi-part, poseable mini, please.

Perhaps a 500/0 brush too?

I can already anticipate the scale creep where you have traditional 1mm and then 'big' 1mm akin to 28mm evolving out of 25mm.

(Assuming this isn't an April 1st joke…)

These are some plastics I got from a manufacturer… the ones on the far right might be close to 1mm maybe? Consider that the guys behind them are 10mm Minifigs… whatever, they have some good detail, so maybe the Perry ones would too?

Some other photos (because the one I put here isn't displaying…)

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Will they also be releasing 1 mm metal ranges to complement these?

Rice is cheaper and easier to paint….

The command figures will be metal as will the head swaps.

Just think of those poor bayonet points…

I can't wait to star painting them, I promise every button will be correct this time!

@Lord Asram: where did you get the tiny ones? Who makes them?

I've seen these. The French are wearing the wrong coat for Waterloo and the British have the Stovepipe shako.

I knew a girl who did this all for free. Her eyesight was amazing and such skill with a scalple. Only SYW though.

Oh Maggie, if you're still out there . . . the rest is history

Lord Ash, HistoryPHd, those are copyrighted prototypes of my 1:500 scale figures. The originals stand just under 4mm tall although they were much too fragile to cast in metal unfortunately.

I'm still working on getting them to market, albeit a re-worked version. The ones you have pictured most assuredly should not be sold by anyone..and also should not have been reproduced without my permission by this fellow. No worries as they were an evolutionary dead-end, so to speak, and I am appreciative of the attention, but Lord Ash please be sure to let this fellow know that these figures are copyrighted.

Cheers,
Bob

Inkbiz: When this line makes it's commercial debut, please do let us all know!!

They are?! How nuts! They were given to me many years back by someone who knew I painted toy soldiers and thought I'd like them… what a small world! Are you sure it is the same thing? If you'd like, shoot me a PM, or email me at grenadierguardscampaigns AT yahoo.com No fears; the fellow who have them to me had no intentions of selling them to me or anything; was just a "Hey, you love this sort of thing, right?" friendly gesture!

Man, what a small world!

Well 1mm were made for real about 25 years ago … and sank without trace … until today.

Lord Ash, yup, I'll have to dig up some pics, or just do a search for Inkbiz 4mm on google.. Here's one of my first tries..

Still wondering if there's a place for these wee little fellows, vs a 1:200 (about 9mm tall) line. That's what's been holding me back a little..

Cheers,
Bob

Hah! That is crazy! What a small damned world! :)

Inkbiz: I'd definitely line up to buy!

Ahhhhh yes. April
…sigh.

1mm plastics? Aren't those called bases?

Inkbiz-
You do realize that there IS a market for those and theres plenty of people waiting around for Oddzial Ozmy to release their Napoleonics in 3mm, right? Ive already bought 7000 of their ACW figs and plan on buying up at least 20k of their Nap range the very first year its out? There are people who want mega-armies in the smaller scales so they can do more realistic representations of units. I want to do giant convention games, for instance, as near to 1:1 as I can. I just likethe lookand the idea of it. I could never figure out why you've been sitting on those figs for several years now and never pushed the project through. I mean at that scale how many codescwould you really need to do? Not to be critical- maybe you had other stuff going on- but you could have picked up some pocket change at least if youd put them out!

Inkbiz

Those sculpts are great. I've never seen sub 15mm figures with such proportional anatomy. Most really small figures are grotesqueries.

OK i'm buying.

I tend to agree; the smaller they are, the better they would sell:)

Sub-6mm presently translates to "vaguely human shaped sliver/blob". A truely high-quality, well-sculpted, micro scale line (2/3/4mm) with an extensive number of different figures available would sell like hot cakes!!

Inkbiz, I think the figures are great. As soon as either the 1:200 or the 1:500 are released, I will buy many.

… Anyway as I was saying on 1st April in the morning the Perry's are doing plastics in 1mm …

Really?

I'd rather play with nicely painted cardboard markers!

Amen!