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Panzergrau was a bluish-grey. I’d look at Vallejo 70.943 and go from there.
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Not Connard SageParticipant- <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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Not Connard SageParticipantThere 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as new information comes to light – Funckens used to be the ne plus ultra of uniform books, now they’re hopelessly outdated.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’ ๐
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Not Connard SageParticipantWell that’s OK then. I don’t mind waiting, I’ve got loads of ships from the 1980s to strip and repaint. ๐
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Not Connard SageParticipantHope so. I sent an order this week…
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Not Connard SageParticipantThe 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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20/03/2024 at 19:29 in reply to: War if the Spanish Succession Uniform Guide – Best Single Volume work #196290Not Connard SageParticipantThe 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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Not Connard SageParticipantYou and I are probably considered a very bad influence on TWW
Why limit your sphere of influence to just here ๐
Banned everywhere else ๐
In fact, I’m banned from the Wargamers Forum without ever having been a member ๐
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Not Connard SageParticipantI thought it had been agreed he wasnt THAT short.
You and I are probably considered a very bad influence on TWW ๐
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Not Connard SageParticipantIt keeps me awake at night.
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19/03/2024 at 08:01 in reply to: War if the Spanish Succession Uniform Guide – Best Single Volume work #196188Not Connard SageParticipantA 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 ๐
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18/03/2024 at 17:27 in reply to: War if the Spanish Succession Uniform Guide – Best Single Volume work #196179Not Connard SageParticipantThere 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.
Let’s not get started on the flags…
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Not Connard SageParticipantA 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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Not Connard SageParticipantde Gaulle threw his teddy out of the pram.
ย He did a lot of that…
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Not Connard SageParticipantThe 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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Not Connard SageParticipantHmm. Interesting.
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Not Connard SageParticipantThanks 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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Not Connard SageParticipantBut, but, but.
As there are so many WWII and ‘Modern’ rules out there, with loads of overlap, why would you want to? ๐
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Not Connard SageParticipantFeel free to delete/bollock me/send me to hell.
Not high enough level to send you to hellโฆ
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Not Connard SageParticipantNope.
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. ๐
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Not Connard SageParticipantThere 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 ๐
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Not Connard SageParticipantGods save us from religion.
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Not Connard SageParticipantThat’s Game Color, not Model Color ๐
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Not Connard SageParticipantCoat dโArms
I bought a load of Coat d’Arms at Alumwell in the early 90s. They were mostly shite, terrible opacity ๐
I bought a load of Chariot Miniatures Burmese at the same show. They’re still around, unpainted, somewhere.
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Not Connard SageParticipantYeah, I know.
Strange isn’t it? Someone’s misinformed, but who?
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Not Connard SageParticipantAccording 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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Not Connard SageParticipantI 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 ๐
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Egyptian_pyramidia
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Not Connard SageParticipantAn 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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Not Connard SageParticipantOne down, loads to goโฆ
Keep us posted on your progress. ๐
Easy enough to run off two batches of 12, I just have to get motivated to paint the buggers ๐
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Not Connard SageParticipantThe first Mrs Sage would love these sort of threads. ๐คฃ
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Not Connard SageParticipantNice โ inkwashed white it is. Suffering as always from โThey are Niceโ while shopping โ what did Hungarian uniforms look like? ๐ Blue Trousies?
Don’t forget the fancy knots at the top ๐
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Not Connard SageParticipantwho 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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Not Connard SageParticipantI am starting to think Austriansโฆโฆ 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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Not Connard SageParticipantPrussians 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 wouldnโt get to where I wanted.
As long as he doesn’t paint them Prussian blue ๐
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Not Connard SageParticipantTalking of which โ are Austrian uniforms really white or light grey? Discuss, argue, fight, repeat. Just saying!
Neither, they were bleached wool.ย ๐
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Not Connard SageParticipantI 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 itโs just one tiny little army, it wonโt hurt.
Ha! That’s what I thought.
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Not Connard SageParticipantGreatcoats and shako covers are your friends.
Ah! Certainly easy to paint. I like your thinking! If youโre not too fussy about details they can be The Great All-Purpose Army. ๐
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 ๐
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Not Connard SageParticipantGreatcoats and shako covers are your friends.
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Not Connard SageParticipant11C 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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Not Connard SageParticipantOne down, loads to go…
It’s a test print ๐
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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>
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