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03/12/2017 at 02:43 #77630Ivan SorensenParticipant
So I have a bunch of 2mm blocks from Irregular and the intention is to paint some up in various bright colors, then have them basically stand in for whatever army looks remotely like that.
F.x. “The Blue Army” could be American civil war Union one day and Danish 1864 troops the next.
Probably Napoleonic French too, if need be.So here’s where I turn to you lot for help:
How many armies from the black powder period could fit each color?White: Napoleonic Austrians.
Green: Napoleonic Russians.
Red: Napoleonic British.
Blue: Napoleonic French. ACW Union. 1864 Danes.
Grey: ACW Confederates. 1914 Austro-Hungarians?
Anything else you can think of?
03/12/2017 at 04:18 #77633WhirlwindParticipantBlue: Prussians
But since they will often be fighting French, then you may want to use a really dark blue, or even black.
Also blue – Portuguese
White: Napoleonic Spanish (although you could use brown and/or blue too)
03/12/2017 at 09:17 #77647MartinRParticipantBlue, Prussians. Danes.
Grey, 1866 Austrians. Russians in greatcoats.
Tbh, Blue and Grey covers an awful lot of stuff. Do some in lighter shades of blue and grey (aka “white”), an you’ll cover lots of bases.
I shamelessly use my 2mm WSS stuff for everything from early TYW to Napoleonics. If I didn’t have lots of Nineteenth Century stuff in bigger scales I’d use it for that too. Just don’t look to closely at the flags.
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03/12/2017 at 09:17 #77648Not Connard SageParticipantWhite or blue coats can cover a multitude from the WSS to the end of the H&M period. The problem starts when armies start wearing fancy coloured trousers instead of white 🙂
Red can be British along a similar timeline.
Blue: Prussians But since they will often be fighting French, then you may want to use a really dark blue, or even black. Also blue – Portuguese White: Napoleonic Spanish (although you could use brown and/or blue too)
Dark Prussian blue is waaaaaaaaay too dark for 2mm. I’d argue that it’s too dark for 6, 10 and very possibly 15mm as well. You can just about get away with it in 28mm with good highlighting.
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03/12/2017 at 09:58 #77652SteelonsandParticipantBurn the Heretic! -Burn him! – I agree with Connard Sage that ironically it is the trousers rather than the coat colour that might be the limiting factor; once white goes out of fashion post Napoloeonic (or even during, for some) then you need to see the differences….. that said, how many of us worry about the smallest visible part of a 1/900th figure? Well, some of us maniacs do….. anyway, they’re your little men, so just go for it – throw in some blue coated red trousered zouave types and you have French up to 1915, as well as many others – add some khaki blocks for later 19th, early 20th century, etc, etc…..
03/12/2017 at 10:49 #77658warwellParticipantBlue – American Revolution Continental Army (US)
White – pre-Revolutionary French
03/12/2017 at 17:07 #77705Ivan SorensenParticipantAnyone else in green?
Did anyone else do the very dark blue Prussian style? I am pondering if black with some white drybrush might work but I’ll try it on one stand first.
Good call on the pants being a concern, though I can probably fudge that. The blocks are small enough you can barely see the legs in any event 🙂
03/12/2017 at 17:21 #77707MikeKeymaster03/12/2017 at 17:22 #77708Ivan SorensenParticipantThat’s a great idea actually.
Maybe something can be rigged to the back of the stand, so you could attach a flag or something.
03/12/2017 at 17:41 #77714Not Connard SageParticipantWhat about interchangeable flags to help denote what army the blue guys are today? Even it if it is a simple as a flag on a teeny coin that is next to the base? >Not what you asked, just popped into my head.. sorry.
15mm round base
2mm brass tube
Steel pike/spear/flagpole
Tell me I don’t have to provide a link to those 😉
A flag
http://www.maverick-models.com/flags.htm
Drill the base, glue an appropriate length (oooer!) of brass tube in, attach flag to wire spear etc. , and insert into tube.
Voila!
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03/12/2017 at 19:14 #77723Ivan SorensenParticipantThat’s pretty shrewd, thanks!
I suppose it’ll look a bit wacky since the flag will be bigger than the troop stands but thems the breaks in 2mm 🙂
03/12/2017 at 19:31 #77728Not Connard SageParticipantThat’s pretty shrewd, thanks! I suppose it’ll look a bit wacky since the flag will be bigger than the troop stands but thems the breaks in 2mm 🙂
It needn’t be that large.
Make the brass tube as short as practicable (10mm, including the part that goes through the base?), use a 6mm flag, and disguise/hide the tube and base with some shrubbery 😉
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04/12/2017 at 15:52 #77809vtsaogamesParticipantThat’s so shrewd it might get me to go that route… no, no, must finish current projects.
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04/01/2018 at 06:09 #80716Chris JohnsonParticipantWhite: Austrians 1848 and 1859; Russians 1905, Egyptians 1885 (fezzes might be a problem!)
Red: Napoleonic Danes and Hanoverians
Light Blue: Bavarians throughout, Austrians 1914
Grey: WSS Dutch
Many armies were composed of units which wore a plethora of uniform colors: AWI and 1812 Americans, 1846 Mexicans, GNW Russians, all ECW and TYW armies.
04/01/2018 at 10:19 #80739warwellParticipantHere is another idea for an interchangeable flag (similar to Not Connard Sage’s post) – http://www.tinytintroops.co.uk/Res/2mm/2mm_general_diagram.htm
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