Elessar’s Tiny Flames of War
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About the Project
I've just bought a 3D Printer and I can finally do Flames of War in 6mm starting with the Desert
Related Game: Flames of War: The World War II Miniatures Game
Related Genre: Historical
This Project is Active
British Desert Finished
This is a 1:1 Flames of War conversion, eadch bas is a single tank. They're a tiny bit bigger than a tank and the profile is reversed (longer frontage shorter side) but it should work.
Crusaders
Churchills
Recon Universal Carriers. Each base represents a single Carrier but scale wise each base is two sections. This is to make later Infantry easier to manage since each base can carry a platoon (2 bases/2 Squads).
Armoured Car Recce
A Battery of Priests
Close Up
Grants
I decided not to do the Camo Scheme because A) It looks hard. B) I like the plain Sand and C) It's still historical.
The Whole ForceBritish Desert Finished
This is a 1:1 Flames of War conversion, eadch bas is a single tank. They're a tiny bit bigger than a tank and the profile is reversed (longer frontage shorter side) but it should work.
Crusaders
Churchills
Recon Universal Carriers. Each base represents a single Carrier but scale wise each base is two sections. This is to make later Infantry easier to manage since each base can carry a platoon (2 bases/2 Squads).
Armoured Car Recce
A Battery of Priests
Close Up
Grants
I decided not to do the Camo Scheme because A) It looks hard. B) I like the plain Sand and C) It's still historical.
The Whole ForcePainting
After gluing them on the bases I sprayed them with a Black undercoat
Overbrush Desert Yellow over the top.
All vehicles get the same treatment, this is a modification of a 28mm Colour Scheme skipping the wash stage and using the undercoat as a shader.
Drybrush Skeleton Bone. 
I kept the sand off the Bevell to keep that irregular look
I had to change the basing scheme because the way I normally paint desert bases is the way I paint the vehicles, Desert Yellow with Skeleton Bone. I changed it to German Beige WWII and Deck Tan. This is pre drybrush.
Post Drybrush. Next update will be the flocking then the finished army.Bases
Gerry was right. I couldn't find a good source of Large Flames of War Bases. I was in my local cheap shop and saw a pack of MDF so decided to make my own.
2 Artilley/SPG's per base. This means 4 bases equals one Battery. Bases are 65mm x 50mm and cut with a Stanley knife then bevelled.
The Bevell helps make the straight edged bases look a bit more natural. Half the Grant's.
Size comparison
Most of the force. I went with six Carriers per base, this represents two Carrier patrols per base and looks a lot nicer than just three.
Armoured Cars. One Daimler Dingo and Two Daimler Armoured Cars. List – 150 Points
Crusader Armoured Squadron
2x Crusader II
2x Crusader CS
3x Crusader II
3x Crusader II
3x Crusader II
Grant Armoured Squadron
2x Grant
3x Grant
3x Grant
3x Grant
4x 25pdr Priest
3x Churchill
3x Universal Carriers with Boys AT
3x Universal Carriers with Boys AT
2x Daimler Armoured Cars
1x Dingo Armoured Car
Next update will be painting then basing. Everything is finished right nowThe Concept
The Idea
The idea is to take Flames of War and replace the miniatures with 6mm ones while keeping the footprint the same. Infantry Squads become Platoons, Individual Tanks become Tank Troops and Companies become Battalion or Brigades.
A 15mm Tank is about the same size as a Flames of War Large Base so mounting tanks on a Large base shouldn't change anything.
I'll try and base the tanks in their proper Troop size. Imagine the base with texture and some rocks
Granted this is 2/3rds of an Armoured Artillery Brigade. I might cut the artillery down to 2 SPG's per base (Four Bases being one Battery of an Armoured Artillery Brigade). Add some shell piles and other terrain to the base
An example of a Late War idea. Not sure how to manage special guns in units, probably easiest to just designate one base as the "Firefly Base" and when it dies the Firefly firepower gets taken out.
That's over 300 Points of Flames of War without upgrades and not counting the 50 Universal Carriers. Printed in an afternoon for maybe $10.
I was blown away by the detail on the Priests. The helmets are wrong but at 6mm I don't really care.
Grants
