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Carca  00:55:28 Fri Jun 11 2004 Offline 704 posts
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I was thinking about making my own chess set. I want to have identical peices on both sides. Obviously one will have a white type paint motif and the other will be, you guessed it, black paint motif. I want to use metal models and preferably from GW (Fantasy, 40k or LOTR). I don't have really any idea were to start. Any suggestion about what model to use for which chess piece would be useful. Obviously, some converting might be needed, and I am fine with that.
Here are the peices I need: 2 King 2 Queen 4 Rook (or Tower) 4 Knights 4 Bishops 16 Pawns ( I like to call them pions hehe) Oh and the paint scheme doesn't necessairly need to be black and white if anyone has a better idea, but personnaly, I like the classical look. Some limitations are that I need to base them all on 1' bases. I don't know how I will pull that off with the Knights. Anywho, all suggestions welcome. Dave
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QuietiManes 02:02:12 Fri Jun 11 2004 Offline 1114 posts GM8 - Dead Last Reply |
First thing I'd suggest is upping the base sizes to 2". A 16" chessboard isnt unreasonable, especially for something you're going to put as much effort into as something like this. 8" really seems too small. I'd prolly put the pawns on 1" bases still though. Which would look fine, most chess sets dont have an equal base anyway.
As for what models to use, whoa, there's so many to choose from. You may want to come up with a theme first, the galactic struggle between good and evil in the 41'st milenium, a fanciful strole through times of chivalrous knights and damsels etc. Could use all the Bret models for that. But it'd look odd if you had a knight on horseback for the knight piece and a space marine in power armor for the king or bishop or pawn etc.
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Giguerem 02:34:41 Fri Jun 11 2004 Offline 1140 posts
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You might want to try Space Marine versus Chaos Marine.
White = Space Marine. (Or whatever Chapter colour you want). Black = Chaos (or whatever legion colour you want) Use the Special characters for the rear file and normal tactical marines for the pawns. For example, the emperor's Champion could be The Queen The Chapter master (or equivalent) could be the king. Assault marines could be the Bishops Terminators could be the Rooks. Knights...hmmm...scouts? There are devastator squads, Librairian, Chaplains etc etc Should be able to come up with something. If you play Marines yourself, use you chapter so that you make intuitive choices for the pieces. Hope this inspires..  |
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Dead 02:38:15 Fri Jun 11 2004 Offline 4330 posts
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make it even easier, chaos vs imperials. so pawns are mutants and guardsmen and the rest should write itself. don't restrict yourself to scale and for rooks and such you can use titans or landraiders from epic. though a obliterator as a rook would be sweet! imperial knights as landspeeders oi this is so cool!!! lots of ideas cause i don't have to do anything else!!
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Aarhus 06:22:58 Fri Jun 11 2004 Offline 2017 posts Lord of Forgetting
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Knights
Marines: Bikers Chaos: Daemonettes on Steeds Tyranid: Raveners Necron: Wraiths Rooks Marines: (GK?)Terminators Chaos: Terminators/Oblits Tyranid: Zoanthrope Necron: Destroyers Bishops Marines: Inquistor/Chaplain Chaos: Sorceror Tyranid: Lictors Necron: Flayed Ones Queen Marines: Librarian on Jump Pack. Chaos: Daemonvessel Tyranid: Warrior Necron: Immortals King Marines: Force Commander in Power Armour, Iron Halo preferred Chaos: Lord/Daemon Prince preferrably no stature (too big) Tyranid: Tyrant Necron: Lord Pawn Marines: Marines Chaos: Marines/whatever flavour daemons. Tyranid: any flavour of Gaunt Necron: Warriors Hope I helped. I'll do more for other races some time later. Cheers, Lawrence. |
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Suicide_King 12:31:19 Fri Jun 11 2004 Offline 5415 posts
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For Fantasy:
King Empire: Emperor/Elector Count Bretonian: Duke Chaos: Chaos Lord Elf: Elf Prince Queen Empire: Tzarina Bretonian: The Fay Enchantress Chaos: Daemonette Elf: Everqueen Knight Empire: Knight Bretonian: Knight Chaos: Knight Elf: Knight Bishop Empire: Wizard or warrior priest Bretonian: Damsel Chaos: Sorcereror Elf: Wizzard Rook Empire: Cannon Bretonian: Tebushet Chaos: Hell Cannon/monstrous creature Elf: Repeater Bolt Thrower Pawn Empire: Any foot soldier Bretonian: peasant Chaos: Maurauder Elf: Any elf infantry
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Carca 19:06:20 Fri Jun 11 2004 Offline 704 posts
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Wow, nice input guys. I like the idea of a landraider epic style, but the fantasy figs SK mentioned seem a little more , ummm, traditional. I like that. 2 inch base isn't unreasonable either. I'll definitly look into that.
Edit: Necrons could be cool too. I am surprise no one mentioned LOTR. They must have very suitable models. I'll look into that.
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praetorias_last_hope 01:23:47 Sat Jun 12 2004 Offline 751 posts Reply |
i think for the traditional look the best would be bretonia
knights for well knights peasants for pawns i think there is a king model and a damsel for a queen is good the for bishops your could use those friar/champion guys as for rooks i dont know what would be that good wups just read sk's post i guess he posted these first |
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For_Chaos 12:57:25 Sat Jun 12 2004 Offline 282 posts  Reply |
Cool idea! I'd been thinking about something similar in the past, though it never got past that...
I would suggest that you have the struggle between good and evil be between the (surprise surprise!) Brets and Chaos troops! Now since you'd want to be using bases of the same size (I figure), the use of cavalry would require a lot of converting (to make it fit on an infantry base, the horse would have to be rearing or something...), so you might want an alternative for the knights. I don't think you could get it to fit on a 1 inch base anyways. Pawns, of course, would be infantry. The king and queen would be tough, I don't know how you could pull it off with brets... for the king I suggest converting a knight on foot with Leoncoeur's head or something like that, and for the queen I would think about using a sorceress' body with the Fay Enchantress' head (or the old Morgana's head if you can find it...). The bishops could be two damsels on foot (since men aren't raised to be sorcerers in Bretonnia) and for the knights you could use knights on foot (they look good and fit on the infantry base nicely). The rooks would be even trickier - trebuchets are much too big... I was thinking standard bearers would be cool, either as knights on foot or peasants (I'd rather use knights myself)... Onto Chaos now, the best for a king would have been a Daemon Prince, but since he won't fit on a 1 inch base, maybe use the new limited edition Archeon on foot model, or just any champ foot converted to look like a king (Crom the Conqueror would do the job nicely I find)... The queen should be a sorceress, I saw someone suggest a daemonette but I feel that would be too 'weak' for a queen, you need a character to fit the role! Maybe something along the lines of a dark elf sorceress... Bishops would be chaos sorcerers, and for knights you could use chaos warriors (the new models look especially good!) To follow the same concept as the brets, you could use standard bearers as rooks here too, but if you want something different you could use a variety of monsters (ogres, trolls, minotaurs, etc) if you could fit them onto the base. The pawns could be either marauders or gors, whatever you prefer! Now, if you don't want to do an elaborate paint job and use a simple colour scheme, maybe you could use some of the following to vary from the old black and white... after all, black would kind of hide the details of your cool models... Here are some colour schemes that I've seen in the past: Red (B) and Gold (W), Green (B) and Silver (W), Red (B) and Blue (W), Dark Silver (boltgun metal) (B) and Ivory (bleached bone) (W), etc. Best of luck with your project, and once you finish maybe you could post a few pics for everyone to see!  |
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Aron_Figaro 22:25:28 Sun Jun 13 2004 Offline 965 posts Reply |
My favourite idea would definitely be the 40k idea!
The classic: Orks vs. Imperial Guard Kings: Gazghull and Commissar Yarrick Queens: Skarboyz Nob and Stormtrooper Officer? Bishops: Weirdboyz and Priests Knights: Speed Freekz bikers and Rough Riders Rooks: You could go Epic and use tanks or titans here to taste, or go with 40k scale, using Killa Cans and Sentinels. Pawns: Slugga/Shoota Boyz and Guardsmen. The queens are the only thing that needs questioned here. |
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