Sunday, 22 September 2024

1914 BEF in 6mm

Back, last Christmas, when I first got hold of a resin (SLA) 3d printer I decided that I was going to attempt to do a WWI 1914 in 6mm for the Joy Of Six show. I decided to use the excellent range by Henry Turner which had everything I would need. 

Unfortunately other things distracted me from this project and it didn't get too far. It didn't help that I'd decided to use water-washable resin for the minis and this was very brittle and the models broke very easily. 

Roll on to August, and I could get back to the project. I started again with some Sunlu High Toughness Resin, which is really flexible and takes paint well without a primer. This has worked really well and my 1914 BEF force is now ready.

I initially looked at Great War Spearhead II as the rules to use, but these seem overcomplicated for what I need so I've been looking at other systems. Peter Pig's Square Bashing was suggested to me and that looks to be good for fun pick-up games at the club, but really I want to run a scenario game based on the whole or some part of the retreat from Mons. The "Bloody Big Battles" rules set looks promising with the modifications available as a free download and there is a complete retreat from Mons scenario.

So I've tried to be relative rules agnostic and have based my units on 30mm squares (3d printed) with enough to make a Square Bashing army or the army for the BBB Mons scenario.






I'm now on to my Germans... there's loads to do!

 


4 comments:

  1. Looks great. I am, currently painting Turners germans for 1914 to use with Square Bashing. Always nice to get new ideas on basing!

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    1. So am I... as after the BEF, it's the turn of the Germans! Loads of spikey helmets! :)

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  2. Very cool!

    Long time no talk, dunno if you remember me from the ancient days of VtM Redemption modding. Recently was reminded of those days and only remembered your real name randomly, and here we are.

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    1. Hi, that's a long time ago!
      If you want to get in touch in an easier way, I'm on Facebook...

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