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  • in reply to: How to paint 6mm early German armour? #196534
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    Panzergrau was a bluish-grey. I’d look at Vallejo 70.943 and go from there.

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    in reply to: Uniform Books – Best Ones #196527
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    • <p style=”text-align: left;”>Some Funckens are better than others. The two Napoleonic books are 50 years old. I have copies, but there’s far more reliable stuff around these days.</p>
      The other volumes I don’t have. The Lace Wars are reputed to be OK for British and French, but as they cover all the major wars from c1725 to 1785 I’m sceptical. There’s a separate volume that covers the AWI.

    The Blandford Press volumes are hardly comprehensive, and also getting on for their half century.

    A comprehensive single book is C E Franklin’s ‘British Napoleonic Uniforms’, but it’s not cheap. Nicely illustrated though.

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    in reply to: Uniform Books – Best Ones #196491
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    There aren’t any. Uniformology is too large (and contentious) a subject to be covered in a couple of books. Also, they need to be revised as new information comes to light – Funckens used to be the ne plus ultra of uniform books, now they’re hopelessly outdated.

    Of course, it all depends on your definition of ‘accuracy’ ๐Ÿ™‚

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    in reply to: Navwar – any recent news ? #196383
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    Well that’s OK then. I don’t mind waiting, I’ve got loads of ships from the 1980s to strip and repaint. ๐Ÿ™‚

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    in reply to: Navwar – any recent news ? #196380
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    Hope so. I sent an order this week…

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    in reply to: 1980’s French Scenarios? #196302
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    The Russians have always excelled at (someone else’s) self sacrifice. I don’t know why the Ukrainians bothered with counterattacks. Just dig in deep, create defence in depth and throw ordnance at the Russians until the populace begin to notice that there are fewer young blokes around.

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    The problem is that there is more information for Louis XIV’s earlier wars.

    Why that is so is moot, but much of the uniform and unit standards is extrapolated forward to the WSS. If the information isn’t there it’s the best that can be done.

    There are probably more accurate descriptions in various continental archives waiting to be discovered. Then again, there may not. British uniform colours are patchy, and one may presume that Anglophone researchers have trawled what’s available already.

     

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    You and I are probably considered a very bad influence on TWW

    Why limit your sphere of influence to just here ๐Ÿ˜€

    Banned everywhere else ๐Ÿ˜€

    In fact, I’m banned from the Wargamers Forum without ever having been a member ๐Ÿ™‚

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    I thought it had been agreed he wasnt THAT short.

    You and I are probably considered a very bad influence on TWW ๐Ÿ™‚

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    in reply to: Another Wiffle… #196231
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    It keeps me awake at night.

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    A lot of the stuff from the last century was supposition, or just made up. Newer research is a little more accurate, probably.

    The problem is that they all seem to use the same sources…

    If you can give me some specifics, I can let you have what I’ve got, but I’m not saying that’s ‘better’ than others.

    As it goes, Front Rank WSS are lovely IMO ๐Ÿ™‚

     

     

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    There isn’t one. Trust me on this, I’ve looked.

    Most uniform information isn’t 100% reliable (or even 75%) anyway. However, Kronoskaf has a WSS site that’s quite useful. It’s a work in progress though, and may never be complete.

    http://kronoskaf.com/wss/index.php?title=Main_Page

    Other than that there are various Pike & Shot Society publications, but they ain’t cheap.

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    Let’s not get started on the flags…

     

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    in reply to: 1980’s French Scenarios? #196094
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    A problem with wargame TO&E and Orbats is that they’re often designed around the rules rather than reality.

    Isby and Kamp’s “Armies of NATO’s Central Front” is pretty accurateย  for the first half of the decade. It’s also out of print, and rather expensive if you can find a copy.

    Bruce Rea Taylor’s “Ultra Modern Army Lists and Organizations” is also useful.

    However, neither should be treated as the last word on the subject. French lower level unit organisations were all over the place in the 80s.

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    in reply to: 1980’s French Scenarios? #196054
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    de Gaulle threw his teddy out of the pram.

    ย  He did a lot of that…

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    in reply to: 1980’s French Scenarios? #196039
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    The EBR was phased out during the 1980s, being replaced by AMX-10, and the countries comprising NATO had their own camouflage schemes. Standard MERDC was almost uniquely American.

    Anyway, paint colours and history.

    https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/coldwar/france/

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    in reply to: Free app-driven minatures games #195992
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    Hmm. Interesting.

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    in reply to: Prinz Eugen/Admiral Hipper. #195987
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    Thanks Admiral.

    Actually, the Hipper, when compared to the HMS Exeter isn’t too far off. At least it looks like a cruiser, and not an erstwhile ‘pocket battleship’.

    I’ve got a Davco Tirpitz, but as she spent most of the war skulking in fjords I couldn’t be bothered to return her to service. Must compare and contrast. The thing about the Bismark class is that they do look a little truncated, to me at least, the proportions of beam/length look out of whack. It’s especially noticeable on the Tamiya 1/350 kits.

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    in reply to: How late would you use a WW2 rule set? #195977
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    But, but, but.

     

    As there are so many WWII and ‘Modern’ rules out there, with loads of overlap, why would you want to? ๐Ÿ™‚

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    in reply to: I have a problem, need help! #195944
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    Feel free to delete/bollock me/send me to hell.

    Not high enough level to send you to hellโ€ฆ

     

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    in reply to: I have a problem, need help! #195940
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    Nope.

    Think the ‘GW Hobby’, and ‘Devil Worship’.

    https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/425688/christianity-and-games-workshop-unusual-interestin/page/5

    …I’m sorry if this crosses a line Mike, but it needs mentioning. It’s untrue, and it’s pernicious, and it casts the whole hobby in a bad light. Feel free to delete/bollock me/send me to hell. ๐Ÿ™‚

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    in reply to: Vallejo #195920
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    There has been some grumbling on the interwebs about the new Game Color, as it happens.

    As far as Model Color goes, I have a sampling of…er…one. Which means bugger all really.

    We shall see ๐Ÿ™‚

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    in reply to: I have a problem, need help! #195916
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    Gods save us from religion.

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    in reply to: Vallejo #195911
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    That’s Game Color, not Model Color ๐Ÿ˜‰

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    in reply to: Vallejo #195863
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    Coat dโ€™Arms

    I bought a load of Coat d’Arms at Alumwell in the early 90s. They were mostly shite, terrible opacity ๐Ÿ™‚

    I bought a load of Chariot Miniatures Burmese at the same show. They’re still around, unpainted, somewhere.

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    in reply to: Merchant ships WWII #195360
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    Yeah, I know.

    Strange isn’t it? Someone’s misinformed, but who?

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    in reply to: Merchant ships WWII #195339
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    According to David Manley, who seems to have deserted TWW recently, Navwar is NOT closing. Tony is looking to sell the business as a going concern, until then he’s still taking orders.

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    in reply to: Egyptian Pyramids #195335
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    I thought the gold top was urban/rural myth. I know plenty of people thought/suggested it, but is/was there any evidence of that?

    The top has a name – pyramidon. Most of them seem to have been sandstone or limestone. The Great Pyramid was reputed to have a pyramidon of electrum, a naturally occurring alloy of silver and gold.

    The Louvre has quite a collection. I’ve seen them, and one of the curators told me, in French, all about them. I think I understood some of it ๐Ÿ™‚

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Egyptian_pyramidia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrum

     

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    in reply to: Merchant ships WWII #195157
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    An update from the flyer received from NAVWAR with my order today. Ill-health is forcing closure and the business is now selling off existing stock.

    Inevitable, I suppose, Tony must be in his 80s.

    End of an era. I hope someone picks up the business.

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    in reply to: Merchant ships WWII #195156
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    One down, loads to goโ€ฆ

    Keep us posted on your progress. ๐Ÿ™‚

    Easy enough to run off two batches of 12, I just have to get motivated to paint the buggers ๐Ÿ™‚

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    in reply to: Total Newbie needs Easy army #195060
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    The first Mrs Sage would love these sort of threads. ๐Ÿคฃ

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    in reply to: Total Newbie needs Easy army #195018
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    Nice โ€“ inkwashed white it is. Suffering as always from โ€˜They are Niceโ€™ while shopping โ€“ what did Hungarian uniforms look like? ๐Ÿ™‚ Blue Trousies?

    Don’t forget the fancy knots at the top ๐Ÿ˜‰

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    in reply to: Total Newbie needs Easy army #195015
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    who stocks them in the UK? The website seems to be upside down. EDIT Eureka, nice. Ordered half the army, they do look very nice.

    Talking of which โ€“ are Austrian uniforms really white or light grey? Discuss, argue, fight, repeat. Just saying!

    Seriously, would I be better highlighting to white from a grey undercoat ? I was planning a white undercoat washed down with a thinned Heavy Ink Brown and highlighting from there?

    The cloth was bleached (supposedly) wool. How well it was cleaned before being carded and woven is also open to discussion. It would be more brownish white than whitish grey.

    This is a raw fleece (from a Texel sheep)

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    in reply to: Total Newbie needs Easy army #195008
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    I am starting to think Austriansโ€ฆโ€ฆ Shakos not helmets. Suggested Manufacturers?

    AB figures if you’re feeling flush.

    Bear in mind that you’ll probably need both Hungarian and German troops.

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    in reply to: Total Newbie needs Easy army #194979
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    Prussians might be easiest to paint, scale is your biggest problem, anything 1 =60 or smaller rules helps cut down figures. 1 =20 look nice but even for the little bit of gaming not following Empire scale I did before going back, I knew that I wouldnโ€™t get to where I wanted.

    As long as he doesn’t paint them Prussian blue ๐Ÿ™‚

     

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    in reply to: Total Newbie needs Easy army #194977
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    Talking of which โ€“ are Austrian uniforms really white or light grey? Discuss, argue, fight, repeat. Just saying!

    Neither, they were bleached wool.ย  ๐Ÿ™‚

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    in reply to: Total Newbie needs Easy army #194973
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    I have refused until now to come with a mile of Napoleonics, it seems to attract more than its fair share of people who were thrown out of the Pedantic Arguments Association for being pedantic and argumentative. But itโ€™s just one tiny little army, it wonโ€™t hurt.

     

    Ha! That’s what I thought.

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    in reply to: Total Newbie needs Easy army #194968
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    Greatcoats and shako covers are your friends.

    Ah! Certainly easy to paint. I like your thinking! If youโ€™re not too fussy about details they can be The Great All-Purpose Army. ๐Ÿ™‚

    I have a lot of Napoleonics – 28, 25, 15, 6 and 2mm. All in their fancy dress uniforms.

    I hate to think how much time I’ve spent since 1970 ‘researching,’ all the fiddly little details and then applying them to tiny lead soldiers.

    I’ve finally realised life’s too bloody short ๐Ÿ™‚

     

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    in reply to: Total Newbie needs Easy army #194954
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    Greatcoats and shako covers are your friends.

     

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    in reply to: C11 Southern Italian Armies #194841
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    11C knights, archers, poorly armed peasants and better armed peasants for town militia?

     

    I suppose Baccus Norman cavalry and archers. If you have a 3D printer, MMF have some revolting peasants that would do for the poorly armed cannon fodder. Militia, lightly/un-armoured spearmen with a round shield?

    https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-6mm-revolting-peasants-235670

    I’ll have a look through Ian Heath’s Armies and Enemies books later.

     

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    in reply to: Merchant ships WWII #194815
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    One down, loads to go…

    It’s a test print ๐Ÿ™‚

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