Posts Tagged ‘ancients’

6mm Spartans Rebased using Baccus Basing System

I had introduced my 6mm Spartan hoplites a while ago.
Now, I’ve always known that Baccus (my 6mm manufacturer of choice) sells this basing pack called the “Baccus Basing System”, which includes fine sand and short static grass that are specially selected to be compatible with 6mm miniatures.

But being the cheapskate that I am, I didn’t [...]

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Experiment in Creating 6mm Terrain

After taking a look at Michael’s fantastic tutorial for creating modular terrain tiles, I just had to give it a try.
Since this was my first ever attempt at creating terrain, I thought it best to experiment on something expendable. What more expendable than those ubiquitous CDs? I grabbed hold of a couple of obscure ones [...]

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First Attempt at 6mm: Spartan Hoplites!

Here’s my first attempt at painting 6mm miniatures.
It’s actually been quite a number of months since I’ve bought this army of 6mm Ancient Greeks from Baccus, but only recently shrugged off my lethargy enough to get two units of them painted and based.
Once I set my mind to it, I was surprised at how easily [...]

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