Army battalions "heading" out

The Hordesman · Post by **The Hordesman** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 11:39 am

When you make armies, how do you choose heads? For me, I try to make them individuals, with atleast one standard smilie for each soldier type. Some people like having the same head for a certain soldier type, but I think it looks strange and cloned... How do you do your armies?

TheOrk · Post by **TheOrk** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 2:46 pm

Interesting question. I just try to make them unique. Like all those pawns in the chess set, I made each group of have four or five different styles of heads. As for my "Special" minifigs, I try to give them all different heads to clear up confusion.

Post by **JoshWedin** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 2:51 pm

I make sure that each soldier in a faction has a unique head, and I use any heads that are suitable for a castle theme. So if you put two of my factions together, there would be duplicate heads, but not in any one faction. I have also started using custom heads, i.e. heads that had some sort of tech thingie on them and I erased it...

I, too, don't like the look when someone uses the same heads for an entire army. I realize that it would be impossible for the giant army builders to use unique heads on each soldier...I just don't like how it looks. So, I don't do that.

That is also why I try to keep my factions around 25-30 figs each. Any more than that and it gets difficult to provide unique heads.

Great topic!
Josh

PS. I need to post new pics of my factions. I noticed I don't have most of them in my Brickshelf gallery and the Black Falcons that are in there all have smilie heads...

Modesty · Post by **Modesty** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 5:05 pm

It depends on the scale...if I'm making 10 or under guys, usually I use different heads. If I have more than ten, then the characters can't be very important in terms of personality, so I use generic smileys.

I ALWAYS use special heads for characters though.

MaxiVisVires · Post by **MaxiVisVires** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 6:56 pm

I agree with Modesty. My Black Falcon army that's over 600 pretty much uses the same head. Only the officers have unique heads. Now if I am making a small force of soldiers, I'll try to make each head unique.

Brickboy · Post by **Brickboy** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 4:07 am

I agree with Modesty. My Black Falcon army that's over 600 pretty much uses the same head. Only the officers have unique heads

Same with me. I use teh same head for companies and unique heads for officers and heroes.

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Graynar · Post by **Graynar** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 4:13 am

I prefer normal smily heads because when you don't have a big collection, and not many differen't heads, smilies are the way to go!

I guess it just depends on the person, wether you give each figure a personality, or a cloned face.

Agreed, good topic Hordesman.

MaxiVisVires · Post by **MaxiVisVires** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 6:56 am

This is my minifig head of choice for my normal soldiers. The head makes them all look mad, serious, sadistic, worried, bored, or all of the above.

Though my wife says, "If they ever come to life, we're in for one crazy scary movie".

JPinoy · Post by **JPinoy** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 7:35 am

I use certain heads for a certain group. Because of that, they look like an army of "cloned" warriors.

Tanotrooper · Post by **Tanotrooper** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 11:01 am

i use different heads, but for clone troopers, they all have the first luke face, and they look cloned

TT

Moroder · Post by **Moroder** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 4:07 pm

For the generic soldiers, I use the smiley head. 'Lieutenants' and any other mid-rank men have a different face (bearded or with moustache, like the Black Knight's Red moustache head); high officers have special faces (batlord's, Vladek's, Danju's heads). That makes the 'unique' characters really unique; soldiers, IMHO, are not that unique, unless one of them have a special spot in my story.

E of Alshire · Post by **E of Alshire** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 7:56 pm

Modesty wrote:It depends on the scale...if I'm making 10 or under guys, usually I use different heads. If I have more than ten, then the characters can't be very important in terms of personality, so I use generic smileys.

I ALWAYS use special heads for characters though.

Agreed!

Lord Nev · Post by **Lord Nev** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 5:50 pm

Well, as long as they look castley and don't have space gizmos on them I use 'em!

Rubberchickenknight · Post by **Rubberchickenknight** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 9:57 pm

I base my heads on what race they are. For example, for Elves, I use smilies, Lukes, and other beardless faces. For Dwarves however, I use the faces with the biggest beards. It also depends on faction. Forestmen, thieves, etc. get heads that have stubble, bandanas, etc. Nobles have clean shaven or trimmed beards, etc.

Lord Mikal · Post by **Lord Mikal** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 1:34 am

What battalions?
I actually try my best to only use the heads that originally came with the figure (as dumb as that sounds), but they get changed so often that I had to vote 'random'. As with everyone else, my special figures usually get special faces, though it doesn't really matter since they never change their clothes.

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Army battalions "heading" out

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