| warhawkwind | 08 Jun 2012 12:14 p.m. PST |
Frankly, I see no need personaly to go bigger than 10mm.
I like Micro Armor because I can have two or three villages on the table, each being fought over at the same time. The results of one battle affecting the situation for the next village over…
Big,detailed Figs are fine, but hard to play much more than a large skirmish without "overpopulation" of armor in the table space available.
As far as painting "fiddly" Micro infantry, I just use die-cut counters and weapons counters from my old Squad Leader game. |
| WWIICentral | 08 Jun 2012 10:04 p.m. PST |
Grossman, I don't use blue board personally. I have nothing against it, but with Micro Armor I can use something much smaller. For example, a thin board of 2' x 4' from Home Depot works nicely – and is enough for a good sized game. I've also used 1' x 2' Woodland scenics foam sheets (the 1 inch thick variety). I appreciate the feedback guys and I have some additional Micro Armor photos (and other scales) on my blog. You can just select the "1/285th" label on the left side. wwiicentral.blogspot.com |
| Wartopia | 09 Jun 2012 5:00 a.m. PST |
There's nothing like microarmor for that epic combined arms look. My favorite microarmor scale is one stand/model = one platoon with a battalion+ per side. Having on-board battalion level mortars and some helo support looks right in 6mm while 15mm helos don'y quite look right. |
| GNREP8 | 09 Jun 2012 9:00 a.m. PST |
personally i think GHQ models are little gems and hard to tell in pics that they are not 15mm or larger |
LeonAdler  | 09 Jun 2012 9:34 a.m. PST |
WWIICentral,
Very nice job puts most of the 15mm paint jobs to shame.
L |
| Fred Cartwright | 10 Jun 2012 12:45 a.m. PST |
But does anyone make stuff in 2mm (other than armour) – I ask because presumably your comment re having 10,000s is not to do with WW2/Moderns unless you are fielding a country's entire tank production on one table which would seem a bit odd – and actually aside from Napoleonics and some other periods a lot of battles are not that big. Well there is the infantry that Irregular and Oddzial Osmy do. Apart from Napoleonics, ACW, a lot of Ancient battles, 18th Century European, Renaisance no I guess not a lot of periods that need 10,000's of figures. Also bear in mind that even a fairly modest army of 10,000 infantry will cost you around £500.00 GBP in 6mm. |
| Bellbottom | 10 Jun 2012 2:50 a.m. PST |
Anyone looking for 1/300 infantry should check out Mainline Miniatures available from Magister Miletum. Come in ready made groups, in mostly prone positions (sensibly), and are easy to paint. |
| Gecoren | 13 Jun 2012 4:48 a.m. PST |
As an editor of one of those magazines (ours isn't glossy tho!) I'd have to be the first one to say 'Mea Culpa'. We want to get more different scales in our magazine. We've been adding more non 28mm content such as Steve Jones' Aspern-Essling in 6mm (WS&S 58) and Mark Backhouse's Small Soldiers from WS&S 60 to name but a few. Joe's article in WS&S 61 is another part of our attempt to redress the balance. |
| Gecoren | 13 Jun 2012 4:51 a.m. PST |
Naturally we need more articles and especially good pictures of other scales. I've an excellent 6mm Arab Israeli article which has stalled because all we needed was a few good pictures to go with it. Please contact me at:
editor at wssmagazine dot com We'd love to have more scales in the magazine. So put pen to paper or start photographing and drop me a line! :-) |
 Legion 4  | 13 Jun 2012 10:10 a.m. PST |
Great pics Altius !!! All I do is 6mm … |
