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theCrowe

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One-Hex-Wonders (post your own)
« on: 28 June 2014, 17:08:35 »
i've been making little single hex sized scenario/objective pieces to use in classic battletech hex map games.

As I understand it the map isnt in scale with the miniatures and the position of each mini is considered to represent the fact that that mech is in that area. With this in mind I wanted to keep all my pieces to a single hex sized item so they would make sense on the map. But making them at Z scale meant that they couldn't be much bigger than a radio shack or a small supply yard or the like.

so here's the first two of what i'm calling my One-Hex-Wonders

first up is Laid-Back Eddy's Peace-Time-Radio Shack

 followed by a sadly Generic and nameless stationary weapon platform with a crew of two.
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Re: One-Hex-Wonders
« Reply #1 on: 28 June 2014, 17:33:32 »
next up it's a little supply yard in the woods

and little concrete bunker.

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Re: One-Hex-Wonders
« Reply #2 on: 28 June 2014, 17:53:38 »
Really nice work. My units would be proud to claim any of those objectives.  I especially like the weapon platform, great internal detail.

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Re: One-Hex-Wonders
« Reply #3 on: 28 June 2014, 19:45:35 »
Dude!  Those are great!!!  O0  Did you make the small figures too?

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Re: One-Hex-Wonders
« Reply #4 on: 28 June 2014, 20:21:39 »
thanks,

the small figures are just little z scale folks i bought on ebay. they came pre painted in a bag of 100.
they're the same ones I used for my researchers and civilians/prisoners bases.

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Re: One-Hex-Wonders
« Reply #5 on: 28 June 2014, 20:51:00 »
Very nice work!   O0

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Re: One-Hex-Wonders
« Reply #6 on: 28 June 2014, 22:09:43 »
thanks,

the small figures are just little z scale folks i bought on ebay. they came pre painted in a bag of 100.
they're the same ones I used for my researchers and civilians/prisoners bases.

Thanks for the info.  Gonna have to get some of those.   :D

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Re: One-Hex-Wonders
« Reply #7 on: 29 June 2014, 14:52:19 »
Really nice work. My units would be proud to claim any of those objectives.  I especially like the weapon platform, great internal detail.

thanks,

the weapon platform is just an Ikea screw grabber with a spare mech weapon (from the Marauder pictured) jammed in the gap. It was just the right size and shape to fit those little guys inside so i just added an earphone part for a lid and  a little hinged side panel and painted it up inside all nice and homely-like and popped the little guys on in.
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Re: One-Hex-Wonders
« Reply #8 on: 30 June 2014, 19:33:20 »
Absolutely fantastic!

I look forward to seeing more!

Just a note on the scale of the figures. These are sold as 1:300 architectural scale. Z scale is 1:220 and they would be too big.


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Re: One-Hex-Wonders
« Reply #9 on: 01 July 2014, 14:54:56 »
Absolutely fantastic!

I look forward to seeing more!

Just a note on the scale of the figures. These are sold as 1:300 architectural scale. Z scale is 1:220 and they would be too big.

Ok, so are the little people Z scale or 1:300? i know they're a little bigger than would exactly match most mechs but then most mechs don't exactly match each other. well, as far i'm concerned its all close enough for rock and roll. thanks for your comments. I look forward to showing more soon. i have the ubiquitous coms tower, a mine field and a missile silo in the making.

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Re: One-Hex-Wonders
« Reply #10 on: 01 July 2014, 16:15:07 »
Actually, You got me confused so I made a small comparison.

You're right about the scale. It is 8mm, not 6mm, but for Mech's it really does not matter.

I use the same sets of civilians, hence my interest - no intention of nailing Your beautiful work.

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Re: One-Hex-Wonders
« Reply #11 on: 01 July 2014, 16:47:45 »
 :D

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Re: One-Hex-Wonders
« Reply #12 on: 14 July 2014, 13:52:22 »
my most recent offering in this little series of one hex terrain/objective pieces comes as follows,

three mine field hexes

the ubiquitous coms tower

missile silo B5 (our last best hope for total thermonuclear destruction)

and I liked my first little bunker so much that I made another one. Bunker 2 (the original now has a yellow 1 on the door.)

thanks again folks for all your kind comments

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Re: One-Hex-Wonders
« Reply #13 on: 14 July 2014, 20:57:56 »
What did you use to make the bunker. Nice work on all your pieces.
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Re: One-Hex-Wonders
« Reply #14 on: 23 July 2014, 04:17:52 »
The bunkers are just plastic caps off kids juice bottles. Robinson's Fruit Shoots if they sell those where you're at.

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« Reply #15 on: 23 July 2014, 12:29:21 »
thanks
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Re: One-Hex-Wonders
« Reply #16 on: 28 July 2014, 12:45:25 »
Wow! These are really great. Love this stuff, and this work in particular.

Keep it coming! Giving me some good ideas. Appreciate the inspiration.

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Re: One-Hex-Wonders
« Reply #17 on: 31 August 2014, 17:32:35 »
First off, thanks to everyone again for your encouraging comments, I've enjoyed making so many of these little pieces but its even better to be able to share them with y'all.

Next in the series is a forest camouflaged watchtower (complete with one joker and one thief.)

Not neglecting all those lovely water features on our hex maps I made a little Marina.

and then, with perhaps one of my favorite pics so far, inspired by the Dragoon-Ryuken raid on Dr Banzai's research prototypes in Wolves on the Border it's my little mech sized swag crates. Each with logos of Inner Sphere weapons and research companys including team banzai themselves.


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Re: One-Hex-Wonders
« Reply #18 on: 31 August 2014, 17:40:04 »
And the final installment to the series comes in the form of an ejector seat and pilot. The seat can be placed in the hex of choice for the game and the pilot may be detached to hide nearby or escape depending if it's enemy or friendly mechs who home in on the rescue beacon in the seat first.

thanks again to everyone who has viewed and commented and kept my enthusiasm up for this project.
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Re: One-Hex-Wonders
« Reply #19 on: 31 August 2014, 22:35:04 »
These are amazing displays of how to do small but evocative terrain bits.  Just goes to show you don't need to do a huge board.
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Re: One-Hex-Wonders
« Reply #20 on: 01 September 2014, 09:55:30 »
Absolutely stunning!

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Re: One-Hex-Wonders
« Reply #21 on: 02 September 2014, 21:16:25 »
I like the ejection seat. I've made a MechWarrior ejecting and even pilots. Just not a landed seat.  I will have to try that one.  What did you use for the parachute?

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Re: One-Hex-Wonders
« Reply #22 on: 03 September 2014, 02:52:27 »
All these are... Just beautiful.... Wow


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Re: One-Hex-Wonders
« Reply #23 on: 04 September 2014, 16:23:06 »
Outstanding! O0
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Re: One-Hex-Wonders
« Reply #24 on: 04 September 2014, 22:22:18 »
I like the ejection seat. I've made a MechWarrior ejecting and even pilots. Just not a landed seat.  I will have to try that one.  What did you use for the parachute?

The parachute is made from a small circle of greaseproof paper. All crumpled up it gets soft enough to shape convincingly.once you have it suitably wrinkly give it a very light coat of paint and then shape it and glue it into place.

The seat came out of a toy car.it was a little big so I cut it down a bit and added some detail with thin plasticard. The pilot is another z scale dude but this time with some green stuff addeded to model in a helmet, backpack and carryall.y`know cause every crashed pilot has to have some valuable maguffin to fight over.

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Re: One-Hex-Wonders
« Reply #25 on: 05 September 2014, 13:12:11 »
I really like that kind of stuff. Great ideas to pimp any board. O0

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Re: One-Hex-Wonders
« Reply #26 on: 10 September 2014, 20:46:36 »
greaseproof paper.

Is that the same as wax paper?

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Re: One-Hex-Wonders
« Reply #27 on: 12 September 2014, 18:56:18 »
I guess... it's the stuff you might use in the kitchen for stopping food sticking to a pan in the oven.

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Re: One-Hex-Wonders
« Reply #28 on: 02 October 2014, 13:59:23 »
Pretty cool idea and thanks for sharing it.

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Re: One-Hex-Wonders
« Reply #29 on: 20 November 2014, 11:54:47 »
Some really cool stuff in here!

 

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