How to customize your army?
Customizing an army for a wargame is a pretty vast subject. There are many factors here that can alter this process. A type of a game, a climate of setting, and your personal preferences are just examples. Nonetheless, in nine out of ten instances it’s totally worth any effort. Having a complete, finished army for your favorite wargame is an amazing feeling by itself. Having a customized army, full of unique ideas and small things that make it more “yours” is on a completely different level.
Customizing your army for Wargaming: techniques and tips
Many reasons may lead you to customization of an army. Whether it’s an uncommon sympathy for one of many factions within one system, or just a way to express yourself and test your modeling skills, it’s always an awesome (and sometimes pretty challenging) thing to do. But the reasons behind the desire to customize a wargaming army aren’t the only divided collection. The same can be spoken about methods to achieve that.
The most common way to make a customized army is to paint and convert your miniatures in some specific way that you have previously imagined. It doesn’t necessarily need to be a coloring scheme, but there is no doubt that it’s a highly visible feature that - at the very first sight - helps anyone conclude that they’re looking at customized force.
Wargaming Customization: painting and modeling
Besides painting, there is another great thing that you can do to customize your army, that we have mentioned before. It’s a bit more subtle solution, and requires a different set of skills. The modeling is what we have in mind. Thanks to the rich cafeteria of modeling and basing products at Kromlech, you can convert your entire army in several different ways. It might be just a unification of your miniatures’ bases, but it can also be an addition of such effects like clump foliage on your models, when you’re building - for example - an army of swamp-emerged undead.
Dwarven Boyars make a characteristic army
Of course, painting and modeling might co-exist. By merging these two activities you can achieve wonders - an army consisting of miniatures painted in a unified coloring scheme and with additional accessories that match each other, is a peak of what we call a customized army.
Creating a unique Wargaming Army: painting, converting, and customizing your models
The task you’re facing might sound like a hard-to-achieve goal - especially, if we imagine some examples of customized armies. Hellish Daemons on the volcanic bases, Orcs as cavemen, or Dwarves with golden armours, weapons, and equipment.
Finishing an army might be a long process which will require constant engagement. Doing so while remaining loyal to the one, previously-picked style at the same time, sometimes may even feel a little annoying. But maybe because of that - not only because of the significant portion of painting and modeling - maybe because of dedication and willpower it requires, it’s so highly seen among the wargaming players. And the satisfaction you’ll feel at the end of this journey is worth - at least - trying.
Once more - there are different ways of customizing your whole army. If you wish to do that, but you don’t want to do much work (or you simply don’t have enough time), you can always figure out some less-troubling way. Maybe it isn’t the same, but even gathering gaming accessories in one, unified style (that fits your army) might help. It might help you feel like it’s your own, customized force. Or - if you’re from those who always crave for more - treat it like a cherry on the top. Once you finish your army, get yourself some accessories we wrote about - with the addition of these there will be nothing left that could make your collection of models feel more “customized!”
