Miniatures for War Gaming with DBA or FoG Rules
Description
The most current version of these rules can be downloaded from the developers website (http://www.wrg.me.uk/) in the "History of WRG" section. They are planning to release a new version for sale later this year.
These rules are sol as rules only, leaving it to the players to acquire figures from whatever vendor in whatever scale they choose. So why not just print your own!
I settled on 10 mm scale after trying 15 mm and 6 mm. At 15 mm, the resolution limitations of the printer are rather obvious. At 6 mm... well, I just wouldn't want to paint 40 little men for one element of troops... 10 mm is a nice compromise and it give a good impression of massed troops.
So far I've uploaded 4 of the 16 element types in the game. I hope to design the rest and upload them soon. There are a few additional elements in HotT such as dragons and Behemoths that I may or may not tackle, but I encourage anyone interested to jump in and supply their interpretation of these units!
Instructions
You'll want to use the highest resolution you can. With my 0.4 mm tip I used a 0.2 mm carve with reasonably good success.
Oh, and I cheated a little making the cavalry - the riders intersect their mounts. Skeinforge noted the issue but turned out working gcode anyways, as usual.
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Great Design. Take a look at the following video at 2:22 there are some nice palm tree designs which would go well with your figures. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
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Oh, and thanks for the compliments!
It's been years since I was good at painting minis, and I've never painted anything this small before. It's very different than painted cast minis too, since you have to add detail instead of just bringing the detail that's there. If you wash or dry brush, you just bring out the layer lines...
Fancy! Nice paint job.
It's not "games workshop" quality yet. But guess you'll need to make some tradeoffs for ease of printing. And I think the scale is different then for warhammer, which are 20mm or 25mm.
I'm working on some DnD prop models. But I only have my printer for a few days, so no uploads yet till I get a w
orking print.
Looking goooooood. I think I much prefer when you stop doing the thick cut out thing. 3D printers are capable of so much more than laser cut pieces. I wonder how much detail we could get out of them. Hmmm....
I've ordered parts to switch to a 0.25mm extruder tip, and I plan to explore just that. I'm thinking that with some more care modelling, 15 mm could look quite good.
The biggest issue is overhangs, you don't want to be trying to cut support material off all of those little men...
License
I cannot find a link to a downloadable version of the DBA rules; the only I can see on the page you refer to is from before 1995 ie nearly 20 years old...