"Boki 6mm Testproject" Topic

Like this?

This is russian cannon, the wheels are 10 inch smaller than French ones.

any test casting yet??

No. Today I finish dolls and tomorrow begin to make one middle mould before the final one.
If all goes well, then in beginning of November there will be on sale the whole 6mm Russian line for Borodino and second 18mm russian generals set together with new infantry in overcoats.

Very impressive

Absolutely incredible detail for 6mm.

Would LOVE to see these in production.

I am blown away by the very good body proportions and the amount of detail that you are able to put into these figs are unbelievable.

Please continue and also PLEASE make them commercially available.

You are an artist of rare talent…

Frank

Actually I am bookkeeper.. ;-)
But thanks! :-)

First full 6mm army will be commercially available on beginning of November, after 2-3 weeks. If all goes well..

Freshly casted masters for production mould.

Command group takes shape..

the casts look good so far.

Progress..

…

lovely – inspirational

I love the Revolutionary period Austrian. Please, please, please do some 18mm figures for this period – French, Austrian, Russian, any other country. I would buy lots of them.

Colin

This is possible. I finish my current projects and will seek the next ones.
Definitely the Revolutionary period will be covered in 6mm.
In 18mm there von Winterfeldt already inform me about missing troops in AB Austrian revolutionary line.

Last items for Borodino Russian army..
I lost 2 moulds because the air bubbles and therefore I'm a whole week behind schedule, but small infantry mould is ready and if next two small moulds will be successfully maked, the whole bunch will be on sale in next week.

Superb! And great progress! Looking forward to seeing some painted after they are released!

Thanks!
French new main figure for grenadiers and voltigeurs (with simple plume conversion for other legeres and middle guards too) are ready..

Lets mouldmaking begins..

The middle of the mouldmaking..

Sadly the main cavalry, the dragoons, failed in four moulds and may stay away from first production, if last attempt will be unsuccessful too.

Little moulds for infantry, generals and cavalry are ready. Last, artillery and infantry command mould must be done next.

And dragoons don't work out, only some castings come out satisfactory. Here the notorious dragoon himself stand..

.. and some teasers from next lines.. early austrians and french grenadier/voltigeur. And russian casualties.

A pity for the Dragoons, a must for any Russian Army, maybe you can ask a master caster why particularily this mould is not running well.

Not "particulary this mould".. but all 5 different moulds with this dragoon. This dragoon is cursed. More complicated but similar hussar figure comes out with no problem.

I suspect, that my horse is too big too. Heavy cavalry horse.
May be I must sculpt lesser horses for light cavalry.
Anyway the artillery draft horse (in correct size) looks like a pony near my cavalry horse.

I sent all these figs to Richard "Perfectsix" for reviewing and comparing.

Unfinished cavalry on painting table.
Clear to see, that light cavalry need smaller horses.

the cavalry makes a good impression

"Interesting artefact! What is this?"

Try to sculpt the better wheels for artillery and wagons.
On left Russian and on right French size.

Generals..

.. and painted by Paulalba
napoleonicsinminiature.blogspot.com/2014/12/boki-russian-command-wip.html

.. and by Richard "Perfectsix"
perfectsixps.proboards.com/thread/207/boki-6mm-comparison-mounted-generals

Lovely!

maybe the size of the bearskin cap is a bit over the top

Hi

Although I like Ros & Heroics for their accurate proportions I also like other styles – in particular Adler's earlier castings.

Yes, the bearskin is massive, but at this scale I like carricature.

IMO if anything needs to be looked at it is the legs!

This is the problem of mm scale.
You can't rise the figure when you portrait higher man, he must stay 6mm as others, but you may rise his hat.

These are very cute!

First big production mould is ready at last.
But I have some problems with flash.
boki.ee/Military_Uniforms/Uniforms_0022/Military.htm

I find myself cleaning off flash from all the figures I paint either OG or AB, as long as it's fine flash and is easy to remove I can't see there being much of a problem Sho? Perhaps with them being 6mm it may make it more difficult to clean them but if the figures are nice enough then the effort should be worth it.

Maybe some of the guys that paint 6mm figs regularly can give a better insight?

Hip-hip-hurreigh!!!
Problem solved.

Contrary to all manuals, instructions and knowledge.. who all says, that tiny details need more spinning speed and pressure.. the flash disappears when 6mm figures mould rotation speed and pressure are lowered down to only half of 18mm figures mould speed and pressure.
Quality of figures remain the same.
Only artillery pieces needed new mould. I put these in cavalry mould. But infantry casted satisfactory.

Now I cast and pack, cast and pack..

That's good to hear Sho!
All the best with your 6mm stuff!

Thanks Paul. I probably do all powers for myself anyway, even if they don't have selling success.

Almost ready for selling.
Very limited edition of 30 sets (as on picture, but unpainted). Packed and ready, but some background works must be done before.

Very nice Sho.

Hi Sho,
Will the artillery be part of the set or will they be sold separately and will you be including limbers, caissons for the artillery sets?

Can you put me down for 1 set?

I also would really like a foot plus horse battery to see how they look painted up next to their big brothers.

What frontage are those battalions on? Those looks great!

3-man stands have frontage – 1cm or less.
So 8 stands are approximately 8cm wide, and with officer, flagbearer and drummer markers it is 9cm.
Rounding up for base – 10cm or 4 inch.

For EMPEROR rules there are two game units with four 4-stands bases of troops ( 2x1 cm ) per unit and separate markers.

@Paul
Artillery equipment casted badly with this mould, too many flash. New mould needed.
So only infantry will be in first sets. Btw, there are casualty markers too in set, not showed on picture.

I cleaned some artillery pieces up for myself..

Ok Sho,
It's a fine looking set, hard to believe they are 6mm

Oooohh.. at last I finish flagsheet for first battalions of all 6mm Borodino 1812 russian infantry regiments, the background task for 6mm project.

At first I completed this work in February, following the illustrated book "La Moskova, la bataille des redoutes". But after finishing I checked some flags from russian sources and discover, that only few flags are correct. So I started all work again.