"3mm Figs, 2mm terrain" Topic

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Just for the heck of it, I decided to develop a proof-of-concept piece a bit more than I planned today, and managed to problem solve myself to a decent-ish looking 2mm set-up. Not my cup of tea, but for the 2mm aficionados out there, I hope you'll get some use out of my easy-as-pie method of knocking out 2mm buildings. I was pleasantly surprised how good it looked, and I'll keep the tricks in mind for the future. They might work well with my brigade based figures actually. The project this was a proof for is a 10' x 6' battle mat for 10:1 scale, battalion level Napoleonic madness. Gonna get started on it as soon as I fix the washer's leaking water hose (or else I'll get in trouble with the Boss)…

So the mat is a styrofoam board? I was just looking today at a similar idea. I had thought to print a mat (I could get a 4x8 vinyl mat for about $50 USD) for "skyship" games but I wanted the same kind of look – lots and lots of fields like that.

Hi Mark,

The picture on my blog is a styrofoam board, but the big version I'm going to do next will be cloth, so I can get hills and such, and will work with the buildings and tree pins already on my blog. I'm going to try painting it first, and depending how it looks will either follow through with that or try to use different colored flocks. We'll see how it goes…

I'm with you. I've ever been a fan of sub-scale buildings. I know many like the effect, but to me it just looks…well…ridiculous. I'll stick with 3mm buildings for my 3mm troops.

For me building scale depends on ground scale. If I'm doing a skirmish game I want figs and buildings to match. But if I'm doing Gettysburg having a whole town represented by two houses and a chicken coop looks wrong. I'd rather have a 6mm village of 8 buildings with my 15mm troops

Speaking of ground scale, I just added a second post where I trot out the one I'll be working with on my new project. Seems promising. I'm still not entirely certain about painting the mat, but we'll see how it goes. It worked for Bruce Weigel so I don't see why it can't work for me!

I like the feline!

Whats his name?

That would be Murray, Destroyer of Worlds.

Hmmm, perhaps you should've called him Vishnu

With sub scale buildings the trick is to ensure that they are taller than the figures, they look fine then.