/hwg/ - Historical Wargames General

what's wrong with 1/72 scale that /hwg/ hates it?

Nothing is wrong with it and /hwg/ isn't hating it.

All scales are as valid. No scale is objectivly better than another one.

Except for 6mm, the god scale

6mm and 28mm, friend. 6mm and 28mm. And 3mm. And a naval scale - 1:1200 or 1:3000. And, well, certain periods of massed armies look best in 10mm or 15mm, and there is something to be said for the toy soldier style in 40mm or 54mm - generalpettygree.blogspot.co.nz/2016/07/54mm-battle-of-tokar.html for instance. 54mm from AIP is pretty cheap too, and let's not forget about the glories of 20mm in plastic and metal. Rapid Fire is built for it, and I've had some wonderful club games with that.
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Any tips for painting batches of irregular/militia troops?

Uniformed troops are easy enough where you go through and paint everyone's boots black, webbing brown et cetera but what's the best procedure for painting a dozen or so irregulars at a time?

>ny tips for painting batches of irregular/militia troops?

Where and when, user? For modern stuff you'd probably be best off consulting photos of them, and making your little dudes the same.

Paint them in groups. Say you've got 40 dudes - split them into a few groups, paint each group's shirts a different colour. Then put them back and split them into different groups, and paint their trousers a different shade. Different groups, paint their belts and accessories, different groups, boots, hair, skin tones, etc.

You end up with a bit of a mish-mash but there's still some coherence.

well you use a few different colours and still batch it. like say a quarter of the unit have beige webbing, another quarter brown etc.

So that there is variation but it still looks cohesive and isn't much more strenuous to paint.

I like it. cheap scale with a large variety in the WW2 period. Also napoleonics are decently represented. Even some modern stuff around.

Main problem is its a bit big for modern battles, even a bit big for WW2 on a 6' X 4' table, but fuck it, I like the size of the tanks and they feel good when you move them around. any small just feels hokey

28mm isn't a scale, at least everything else can claim to be, like 6mm and its 1:285 or 1:300 scales.

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Seriously though I don't give a fuck

Batch paint colours but rotate through different locations; red shirt for one guy, red shoes another, red hair for some other person and so on.

Same goes for lot of pre-modern troops, except you might want some kind of uniform colour turning up in jackets or hats to at least group peoples together.