Re-creating the Battle of Waterloo with 250,000 6mm figures

[Benno]

Fun article and video in the Washington Post from 2 years ago:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyl ... story.html

Incredible work!

[Peter]

So many painted ants!

Great find Benno!

[Beano Boy]

Not for me Benno,
i`d worry myself sick incase one had gone missing. So i would be forever counting them to get anything else done. However that amount of tiny`s is truly awesome! BB

[Peter]

In the video he's talking about 400.000 painted figures (ants )!

[stenfalk]

In the video he's talking about 400.000 painted figures (ants )!

That should not be a problem! You just have to paint ~1000 figures in a day and in a little more than a year you can recreate your own battle of this magnitude.

But seriously, what this man created there is amazing!

[Peter]

It seems that for 500 figures he needs 24 Hrs! Can you imagen that ?

[Wiking]

Let me count.
For one 24mm figure I need one Hr. For 6mm these are four figures in one Hr.
in 24 Hrs then I will paint 96 figures.
He is more then five times faster!

No washing.
No dry brushing.
Figures in a fixed row.
All in the same uniform.
In this case I see a light to compete with him. But the truth is: After two Hrs I lost the interest for modeling.

[Benno]

So many painted ants!

These are 6mm, not 2mm figures. http://folk.uio.no/arnsteio/DBXin6mm/2mm.html

I hope he finds a museum somewhere willing to put this on display. What is shown in the video on the table is only 6%(!) of his total collection.

[Peter]

So many painted ants!

These are 6mm, not 2mm figures. http://folk.uio.no/arnsteio/DBXin6mm/2mm.html

I hope he finds a museum somewhere willing to put this on display. What is shown in the video on the table is only 6%(!) of his total collection.

In America they say that everything is big! So they have big ants!

Serious, I hope it for that guy to, that he can find a museum. It's to impressive to hide it away!