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Greetings,

I have long been a fan of Successor armies. I also wanted a go at 6mm so why not combine the two into one. I went and purchased the equivalent of two successor armies from baccus in mid-2019 and have finally gotten around to painting them up. I will be basing them on 60mm x 60mm bases. That can normally fit 4 28mm models on 25mm bases onto a 60 x 60 base.



I have never done 6mm before, so here goes. I first watched a bunch of tutorials and was delighted to find out that much of the "painting" is just dabbing color here and there. Heartened, i was will to give it a shot.



I don't necessarily have pre-determined army lists I am building for. Instead, I want a variety of units so I can easily make up two separate forces of Successor armies to play the 7 Wars of the Diadochi. I plan on using some homebrew rules I call Heirs to Empire.

I started with some Archers to get the feel for how this works, and completed 3 bases, so about 90+ figures total, or 32 or so per base.



Some key learnings I had were:

1. You should clip them up before you paint them
2. Paint the ground first
3. Basing is really important on 6mm figures (and hard on brushes)

So, next up I plan on working on some Heavy Cavalry.

I decided to work on the cavalry forces next.

I made two bases of heavy cavalry (Such as Thessalian and other groups), and two of Companion cavalry.



You can see that I have not finished basing them yet. I think I will wait until I have a few units ready to all be based at once.

In the above examples, you can see where pre-clipping helped me get the proper formations of wedge on the Companions, and Rhombus on the Heavy cavalry with the green cloaks. I am going to try and make different formations for the cavalry to make them easier to identify on the battlefield.

Next up is the light cavalry.....

All the pics bar the first are broken for me.

That sucks. I am seeing them, so I will give it a try from a different source.

Any better?

All the Cavalry and three bases of archers are done.

That last pic and the one of the archers now show, wonder if someone else can chime in and let us know if the problem is my end or yours.

Liking the look of things so far! 6mm is such an awesome scale for historical battles and captures the feel much better than 28mm does (unless you spend tens of thousands). Have you tried them out with Men of Bronze yet?

Not yet.

I am hoping to get them done in time for some shots in the Wars of the Roman Republic though!

All of the pictures are broken for me too except the one with the bags, and the archers, in the first post

Yea same here, only a few of the pictures are working.

Thanks. That explains a lot.....