2mm zombies

I wanted some 2mm zombies for my undead army but my previous experiment with chopping individuals off blocks didn't look that great and seemed a bit fiddly for a unit that I might need a lot of. So I had a fish around in the 2mm spares box to see what I had that I could use. The best candidate was the barbarian infantry from the ancients range.

As you can see I have splodged on a trail of blood and gore behind them. This helps indicate what direction they are facing as well as making them easy to spot on the table.

2mm might not be everyone's cup of tea but for the lazy painter there's something to be said for a scale where you can get five new warbands painted while drinking a cup of the aforementioned.

2mm knights, peasants and the new barbarians

For fantasy and medieval gaming I put together some bases of knights to see how that would look. The cavalry blocks definitely look better from a distance where their silver bodies stand out quite well. This is a block I am definitely going to come back to and repaint at some point but here they are for now.

Here's a little experiment using a different block. This one is from the horse and musket range and is supposed to represent peasants. I chose it because they have no shields and the block is quite small compared to the others. As you can see I made a start on texturing the base to make them easy to identify. An agricultural theme seemed appropriate for these tiny peasants.

I liked how they came out so I went back to my barbarians and tried to make the flesh more visible with some careful lines and dots here and there. I think a couple of minutes work on the flesh and a tiny bit of highlighting was worth doing as they were a bit too dark to see before.

 

When I come to do my Gauls I'm going to be a bit bolder with the colours and try out different coloured hair too. It might look like a mutli-coloured blobfest or it might just work.

2mm Undead - zombie dragon

I painted a few more bits and pieces for my undead army. Here's my second attempt at painting some skeleton warriors and riders. I also did a zombie dragon to go with them.

2mm victorian science fiction drill

The Vorkuta Land Driller by Spartan Games. I'm planning on using it as a hollow earth exploration drill or something like that. I couldn't resist.Spartan have some really good miniatures and scenery, if you're playing 2mm Victorian science fiction then you will definitely find a long shopping list of wants. I thought £10 was just about fair for this very nice model.

A base of British colonial infantry that I painted up quickly to see how they looked in terms of scale. 

2mm earth elemental and glue top fort

I finished off the 2mm earth elemental that I made with a quick paint and drybrush. He has no real head but I painted a round bit of rock as a red eye. Crude though he is I think he has a certain rocky charm. Dipping him in grit and seeing how he came out was quite fun. The grit gives better shapes than I could carve so I will definitely be using that again for some more rocky monsters.

A fortress in boulder strewn scrubland. The fort is the top from some superglue. I tried to make it look abandoned by adding some vines (wire) to the side. The tree was another experiment, it's a dead paintbrush splayed and firmed up with glue. I still have some details to add to this like some arrow slits in the fort and perhaps some dark foliage here and there. The door is 3mm high.

2mm cold war Russians

Here's the start of my 2mm cold war Russian forces. I painted them a dark green and then drybrushed it. I tried to paint the base a neutral colour so that they would look ok in the widest possible range of environments from green fields to desert, jungle, urban and wherever else a soviet invasion might be fun. A bit of a tall order but of the colours I tried this was the best for contrast and fitting in with the scenery tiles I have made so far.

Everything is based on 1p pieces which are just over 20mm wide. I forgot to put the dice in for scale this time.

BMP with commanders stopped to check their maps. The HQ (IK4) has four men seated with a map. It's an interesting miniature that I'm sure to find lots of uses for but I think I'll find a different way to indicate a command base. Perhaps just a flag and a single vehicle.

The BTR APC looks like it's a BTR-70 but could stand in for any of the BTR series making it useful from the 60's to the present day.

T54/55/60 tanks. I had a go at giving them a red blob to represent a star on the sides. If you're trying out a little bit of simple detail like this I'd recommend doing one and then placing it about two feet away on the table and seeing how it looks. Also put them next to some of the enemies they are fighting to see if it makes them more or less distinct.

T64/72/80 Main battletank. All the modern MBT's are based singly, I would have liked to get two on the base but it looked too crammed together. The one on the right pulling a wheelie is going to have some scenery added to make it appear as though it is climbing over a wrecked bus that I'm making from the large truck block IKV8.

Next I'll be finishing off my infantry and support weapons. I still have the aircraft and helicopters to do as well as trucks and various bits of artillery.

2mm dwarf army

I wanted a dwarf army in 2mm scale but unfortunately Irregular don't do a dwarf block so I had to improvise. One candidate is the hobbits block as they are noticeably smaller than their lofty 2mm adversaries. I decided against them as they are in rabble formation and look rather weedy. Instead I used the skirmish infantry BG3 from the horse and musket range. These guys are mostly kneeling or otherwise hunkered down making them about the right size.

After painting them silver I painted their faces black and then put a dab of flesh in the middle of the black as their face. The idea being to make them look like they have beards. At 1mm I think that's probably the best I can do!  Please ignore the disturbing naked blob on the front block, that's the first blob of what will hopefully end up looking slightly like a general on a bear. Or a rock if I fudge it up.

Irregular do some nice bombards (RBG30) that might go nicely with these dwarfs. Some converted siege engines (ABG25) might be in order too.

I like the idea of an army of dwarfs supplemented by some elementals so here's my first attempt at a stone elemental. He's on a 1p piece so as you can probably tell he's big in 2mm scale. I made the basic shape out of green stuff and then covered it in glue and dipped it into some basing grit.

I haven't decided whether to finish him off as some kind of rock and mud creation or paint him up as lava.

Talking of lava here's an unintentionally camp (I think) looking fire elemental which I also made from green stuff.