Highland Miniatures create some beautiful looking Mounted Questing Knights
https://www.myminifactory.com/users/Highlandsminis
The horses have plenty of decoration for painting different types of heraldry and the knights look nice and easy to paint (I'm thinking black, drybrushed silver, edge highlights in bright silver and a few little spot details would be enough to call them done!).
I hollowed and printed a couple of knights to try thing out.
My default process for printing pretty much any miniature is to take the Ryan Ford character from Titan Forge (before they created their sci-fi spin-off division, Cyber Forge) and scale everything to him.
I find the Cyber Forge miniatures to be just the right size for me - small enough to still qualify as 32mm "heroic" but large enough to be able to paint tiny details like eyes and facial details.
My default process for printing pretty much any miniature is to take the Ryan Ford character from Titan Forge (before they created their sci-fi spin-off division, Cyber Forge) and scale everything to him.
I find the Cyber Forge miniatures to be just the right size for me - small enough to still qualify as 32mm "heroic" but large enough to be able to paint tiny details like eyes and facial details.
So I scaled these knights to match my preferred scale and set them running around the jousting track
Disaster!
While the horses travel the track just how we want them to (facing the right way, turning around the bar at the end of each run etc) just watching the whole performance makes it look like the bar is only about five feet wide!
One of the constraints we're having to work with, is the size of the closed-loop belt we're using (we tried making our own belt and it failed under tension) and the largest size belt I've got it 610mm. We might be able to go a little bit bigger - but the other constraint we have is the size of the laser cutter we're using (which can only take sheet materials up to about 300m wide).
While the horses travel the track just how we want them to (facing the right way, turning around the bar at the end of each run etc) just watching the whole performance makes it look like the bar is only about five feet wide!
One of the constraints we're having to work with, is the size of the closed-loop belt we're using (we tried making our own belt and it failed under tension) and the largest size belt I've got it 610mm. We might be able to go a little bit bigger - but the other constraint we have is the size of the laser cutter we're using (which can only take sheet materials up to about 300m wide).
So even if we had a larger belt, we're not able to cut a large base for it to run along (without making our playing surface out of multiple sections and joining them together). So the obvious thing is to try to make our miniatures.... well.... more miniature.
We'll try scaling our minis down in 10% increments until we find a size we're happy with.
Anything smaller than 80% or so, and we'll just have to give up on trying to paint eyes and any similar tiny little details - but that might be no bad thing either; we can just stick to knights with full-face, closed helmets!
Anything smaller than 80% or so, and we'll just have to give up on trying to paint eyes and any similar tiny little details - but that might be no bad thing either; we can just stick to knights with full-face, closed helmets!
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