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Finished these the other week, Hinchcliffe officer and Tradition under officer of the Erbprinz regiment.
Dragoon drummer, Elite miniature with head swap on a Willie figure horse.
Elite Miniatures French artillery firing captured British cannon.
Cheers for your ramble Norm, I like PSC their products are evocative of Airfix and that’s how Will Townsend planned the marketing of his products.
Evocative of Airfix? Pffff. Airfix never listened to their customers the way PSC does, nor provided the variety of options in each kit, nor produced a well-thought out range of the kinds of vehicles wargamers need to have. All the best, John.
John what Will was on about was the clear plastic window on the back of his packets, which for me as a young boy was a joy to try and see the kit inside
.Its a game for fun, if you start having to record and remember whether you have loaded the gun or turned the turret each turn and on each tank the game stops being fun. Not having played this set of rules I do not know what movement time scale is based on, I for one would one would play the rules on the assumption that you could turn your turret and fire once a turn. If you want more complicated than that, build a full scale cardboard mock up of a tank turret and see how that works
.Excellent find, several new periods that I am going to have to try not and buy any figures for
. They are wonderful prints.1/72 or 1/76 or 20mm figures have their advantages and disadvantages just like their 3mm, 6mm, 10mm, 15mm, 18mm, 25mm, 30mm, 32mm, 40mm, 54mm brethren or sisters. In the late sixties when I started playing with my toy soldiers generally all that was available was Airfix, Matchbox (70’s) and Britain’s / Timpo, lead wargaming figures were out of the price range for most of the people I knew who pushed their toys across the table or garden.
Plastic 1/72 or 1/76 or 20mm figures or whatever ever you call was and still is cheap and you get a shed load of figures for your cash, I learned and improved my painting and modelling skills on hacking, chopping, head swapping on Airfix figures, there is a whole host of headless, legless and body-less plastic figures in my bits boxes. I still worry that the ghosts of the plastic pieces will haunt me
. As I earned money I was able to afford metal wargame figures but I always have a fondness for plastic 1/72 or 1/76 or 20mm figures and the choice of plastic figures available today is astounding.Airfix and similar on show at Exeter May 2017 (sorry don’t know who’s game) but an excellent 1/72 or 1/76 or 20mm wargame.
My Zvezda Swedish based for HOW
WWII various Plastic 1/72 or 1/76 or 20mm manufactures.
Airfix, Revell, mountain troops.
Your have to love the 1/72 or 1/76 or 20mm plastic.
All I do is select photo for email post (this compresses it) put that into a post folder and uploaded the photo to the forum.
Erbprinz senior officer and sergeant, Hinchcliffe and Tradition figure.
Worked for me Mike.
Does a stray grenade “scatter” or “deviate” ?
No it just causes “panic” as it’s been drooped in the wrong place.
I have often wondered that one myself John, either smaller less metal / plastic used cheaper? to produce. Or if its your own scale collectors have to buy your range of figures? As an open and diverse hobby we have not one set of wargame rules for each period (and nor should we), what hope do we have of getting figures the same scale or size
As different sculptors are used I expect that also has an impact on the figure size, also what the figure manufacturer wants form his / her figure has to be thrown into the pot.I use constructive basing to solve the height issues, smaller figures are place on thin card increasing height.
Here are some comparison shots of Willie figures.
With Elite Miniatures.
With RSM figures.
With Warrior Miniatures.
With Crann Tara miniatures.
