Tag: 15mm wargaming

skirmish games, Workbench

15mm Wargaming: Heartbreak and Starting Over

That’s a really dramatic headline…

The heartbreak in question isn’t anything bigger than the STL provider I was grooving on deciding to move on without finishing up the 15mm Mordheim-style minis they were designing. I loved the minis, but don’t see any point in carrying on in hopes of finding something that matches the aesthetic they were pulling off so beatifully!

The last figs of theirs I have painted pretty much finish up my undead warband at that scale, and I’ll be holding on to them because they are fundamentally cool.

That being said, I’ll be moving on to a fresh start with 28mm figs for my fantasy skirmish minis. Maybe even 32 in some cases, my eyes just aren’t that great at 56 but I’m sure as hell not stopping the painting!

There’s some great stuff coming out of Corvus Belli that has me pretty fired up, I’ll be posting the first of that and some goals for 2026 later in the week!

Miniatures, Workbench

15mm Wargaming: To the Stars!

I’ve been trying to shake my latest bout of Tiny Miniature Madness, but it’s just not happening. On top of my Freakishly Small Fantasy Fever and Marvel Micro-Mini Mayhem, I’ve developed a horrible case of Spaaaaaace Maaaaaaadness. Yes, it’s time for tiny little spacemans.

Dammit. REALLY TINY SPACEMANS. These first two figs are (I think) from Khurasan Miniatures, and I really dig them a lot. I wish I had put them on smaller washers in hindsight, but live and learn, I guess.

15mm is great because there’s still a bunch of detail, but they take up a lot less space. This also means that a game of Stargrave or Five Parsecs from Home can be played on a 1′ x 1′ or 2′ x 2′ board pretty easily, and the terrain is pretty easy to make. Hell, it’s even pretty inexpensive to have printed if you don’t have your own printer!

The two figures on the right are scaled-down STL files I had printed up, but they are really fragile compared to the pewter figs on the left. I’m not sure if I’ll have more printed up, or just keep plowing on with the pewter minis. At about a buck a pop, it’s hard to justify the hassle of scaling the larger figures down and dealing with the resin!

This doesn’t mean I’m done with larger scale skirmish games by any means, though! I’ve been experimenting with Infinity miniatures for my other space games, and that’s just too cool a site to just walk away from!