So after yesterday’s balls up with the Romans I went on a different tack today. First off I made a 3mm base in 3D builder and added two cavalry units to it. It printed off reasonably well apart from a weird bowed back, this is hapf a mil out so can be saved down or something. When I brought it in I realised my MDF bases are 2mm. But as it wasa proof of concept then it worked. Uses more resin, but miniatures come pre supported.
I then decided to try and integral base per unit, this was extremely fiddly and was sort of okay when I tested it at a 45 degree angle. I added the infantry units on their rears with supports, to be honest it was a total mess… I am not sure what went on. So back to the drawing board there. I finished the Gauls that I printed yesterday, some seem to be missing bits so are sitting at about 1.5mm. But as you can see from below it doesn’t really show en masses.
I am not sure on how many men these are meant to represent, but it does look like a fair few. So if I said 200 men to a base then this is a unit of 1000 warriors. It kind of looks like it to my untrained eye.
I also did a proof of concept for some woods using a bit of mdf and some clump foliage.
Today I ordered some light cavalry, skirmishers and some chariots. I will still work in the Romans as it is really beginning to bug me now.
Bogenwald 
Can’t beat small scale figures on mass like that.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Cheers Pete
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Those look great en masse and really give the impression of big units of troops:)
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They do look great as said above, the woods look really nice too.
When you say you ordered light cavalry is that a printable file or figs from a manufacturer?
Cheers Roger.
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Cheers Roger… I ordered the files, as the company only does files, plus I might as well do them myself.
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I’m so impressed with the results you have here. I have no experience at all at this scale – how many bases of soldiers would you expect to use in a normal game?
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To be honest it is all new to me too. Nothing is glued down yet as I haven’t decided on base size etc. As for how many bases, I reckon it is down to the battle size…if the Gauls are totalling 1000 then it would be ten times greater number of bases.
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This will be epic when you get all the bases done. Keep on trucking…er…printing!
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Cheers Mark, these Romans are proving problematic to say the least.
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Veni, vidi, oh f**k 😁
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These really come to life once you get them based. Great job on these, mate.
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Many thanks
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