Too much sanity may be madness - digital world building

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**Wirecat**

Another vote for tilted version - it adds some movement.

**PondaNagura**

Yep! It consumes my time. (good problems?)
I was working on some side projects that reminded me of Sciror conversations, so I started rereading the old posts...Then I saw Ed's announcement on fb.
Not sure where to go with things now, but I guess I'll start a blog here for some stuff.

**Malika2**

PondaNagura wrote:
Yep! It consumes my time. (good problems?)
I was working on some side projects that reminded me of Sciror conversations, so I started rereading the old posts...Then I saw Ed's announcement on fb.
Not sure where to go with things now, but I guess I'll start a blog here for some stuff.

It's a sad announcement indeed, but then again, the Troll Forged forum had been dead for a couple of years now and I haven't really spoken to Ed or Philip in quite a while.

I'm mainly doing design work for Vanguard Miniatures at the moment and am trying to integrate some of the concept from Sciror into their Defeat in Detail universe.

**PondaNagura**

True. I'm surprised the forum is still up, I started backing up some of the past conversations for reference in case it goes down (no point letting old knowledge erode...that's how we get dark ages

)
And that answers my question if you talked with anyone recently.

Vanguard looks like it's kicking butt. I have a few friends talking about exploring 6mm stuff, I'll point them your way.

**Malika2**

You should, and maybe even convert them to 3mm, at that scale stuff gets truly 'epic'. :O

**Malika2**

Started working on a sort of grimdark/gothic version of Tatooine, your thoughts?

**Skinnereal**

Very nice.
Having a platform to land/stand on is good, and it blocks LoS nicely.

My first thought was Naboo, though.

**Malika2**

The Naboo vibe must be those big windows I'd guess.

**Malika2**

Did some oil drums...

Novan Oil Drums (Fuel Dump) - £3.50

Novan oil drums set consists of the following items:

3 x stacks of 9 drums
3 x stacks of 6 drums
3 x stacks of 5 drums
6 x drums in cradles
16 x single drums

6mm infantry figure for size reference only not included.

https://vanguardminiatures.co.uk/shop/novan-oil-drums-fuel-dump/

**Wirecat**

Very nice oil barrels, wouldn't mind them in 1:144 as a scatter for an airfield, actually, looks very versatile!

**Malika2**

Wirecat wrote:
Very nice oil barrels, wouldn't mind them in 1:144 as a scatter for an airfield, actually, looks very versatile!

1:144, how big are infantry models then?

**insaniak**

Malika2 wrote:
The Naboo vibe must be those big windows I'd guess.

That and the clean, sharp lines. Tatoine should be softer and more weatherbeaten.

They look good, though.

**JohnHwangDD**

Wow, I love that you're doing 1/144 scale terrain.

FWIW, I did a cut at near modern papercraft terrain for KOG light:
- http://www.dakkadakka.com/s/i/at/2016/10/KOG_light_terrain_-_20160930-01023423.pdf

**Wirecat**

1:144 would be anything between 10 and 12 mm, depending how You measure figures. Happy New Year and best of luck (and attention to details)!

**Malika2**

My shipping container designs have just been released: https://vanguardminiatures.co.uk/shop/novan-light-shipping-containers/

**Malika2**

Beginning of a possible new project?

**Wirecat**

A bit disturbing... but I am glad to see You trying new things! Good luck with that!

**Malika2**

**Malika2**

**Malika2**

I designed a semi generic bridge kit for Vanguard Miniatures

https://vanguardminiatures.co.uk/shop/single-bridge-span-6mm/

A resin cast generic human bridge span with a slot on the inner faces for insertion of a 2mm thick plastic sheet or MDF (not included) road to whatever width you desire.

Set contains:

2 x bridge spans

4 x optional bridge legs

6 x optional barriers

Span dimensions: 48mm long, 25mm high. Additional legs 20mm high each.

Infantry figure and 50mm square plastic road tile shown for scale purposes only and is not included in this set. Note also that the resin colour may vary.

**Malika2**

**Malika2**

Flamethrower tanks are out!

Skinners Flamethrower Tanks - £10.00

Skinners tanks are often individual designs, unique in appearance, but not to be underestimated.

Each Skinners Flamethrower Tank set contains 4 unique hulls and 4 unique turrets, allowing for 16 possible combinations for increased aesthetic variety.

This set contains:

4 x Tank hulls

4 x Flamethrower turrets

https://vanguardminiatures.co.uk/shop/skinners-flamethrower-tanks/

**Gitsplitta**

They look great!

**Malika2**

Just tossing these smallscale (6-8mm) WIPs here...

**Malika2**

**Malika2**

I feel more and more tempted to perhaps set up a Patreon to release some STL stuff, basically terrain and other bits in mainly "smallscale" (6mm, 8mm, "1/4 of 40k scale") and "fleetscale" (BFG etc). I was wondering if you guys have any experiences on that?

Here a pic of some buildings I might wanna release that way!

**Gitsplitta**

Nice looking buildings! Sorry, no help from me on your question.

**Malika2**

**Malika2**

**Malika2**

One thing I'm kinda missing in the current 6mm scene is converting. Now that everybody has a home printer, they simply print whatever they want. Don't get me wrong, I'm not against 3D printing...why the hell would I otherwise do 3D design work. But I do miss the whole craft of 6mm converting.

So...I was pondering about making my big armoured gun morphing guys modular. Basically 5 bodies and then 10 different arms.