Quite simple, which is how I like it.
Starting now, any order placed at either of my sites will have the chance of being refunded!!
Place your order(s) as normal, and at the start of next month I will pick one of the orders at random and refund the cost of the order, minus the postage.
(Unless the order is for over £50.00 in which case I will refund the postage too.)
Total Refund!
Waterloo 1815 – Dan Hodgson.
Dan has staged some wonderful games at the Joy of Six over the years. His contribution of not one, but two spectacular Star Wars games was a highlight of the show, but this time round he has decided to come back to Earth with a large historical bump! Over to Dan…
‘Dusting off the numerous box files it is long overdue for the Waterloo Project to finally see the light of day! Nine years in the making and almost ten years in storage, this is a project, "The Battle of Waterloo", which has been an obsession with me since the age of five when I got my first box of Airfix soldiers!
Back in the day when the concept of doing the battle at 1:10 was first dreamt of, the only real choice was 6mm and at the time Adler Miniatures had a comprehensive range to faithfully represent the many and varied Allied troops alongside the more uniform Prussian and French forces. Years of research and hours of painting time meant that at last the dream of representing every battalion, cavalry squadron and artillery company/battery was realised.
After one or two false starts the battlefield was then constructed, Kallistras's Hexon Scenics was the final choice and a 14ft x 6ft battlefield slowly emerged. With Total Battle Miniatures Bicentenary range of buildings for the Hundred Days Campaign released a couple of years ago in 6mm the old 10mm buildings were sold off and the Project was complete! Then it was promptly packed away and shelved, space, or lack of it being the major obstacle.
With Peter’s invite to bring it to the Joy of Six show later this year it gives me the opportunity to display the whole thing at long last and even get to play a game with all those 10,000 figs I so painstakingly painted 😊, but what rules to use? Being a painter and not really a gamer Peter again came to the rescue, we would try out the new Polemos app! Thankfully when I re-based all the figures some years ago I used the, now-standard, 60mm x 30mm and 60mm x 60mm bases that the Polemos rules employ. Having never played a game I am looking forward to going through the mechanics of it under an expert guide. If you want to join in on the day and take control of a corps or division or brigade or just a battalion you will be most welcome.
For hundreds more pics see my Facebook page - Daniel Hodgson Reveille Studios’
Dan will be ably assisted on the day by Chris Grice, the author of the Polemos Napoleonic rules. See you there!
Due to unavoidable personal reasons Perfect Six has been offline for a while.
Very sorry for those that have been unable to get their 6mm fix.
But it is now back up and running and ready to help you part with your hard earned cash.
YAY!
Check out the shop HERE.
It’s taken a little longer than anticipated, but I am delighted to be able to announce the release of the first batch of our new ECW/TYW range.
The old ECW range has now been retired. It has done valiant service for many years, but times have moved on and we’re taking the opportunity to do something a little different with its replacement. Firstly, there is a change in title. The new range is the ‘War of the European Crisis, 1618 -1660’. This covers the English Civil War and that other series of fisticuffs going on over the Channel.
In order to this subject justice, the new range will be more comprehensive than its predecessor. Whereas you used to have a single code for musketeers, you now get them in both shouldered and firing/loading poses with a choice of Monmouth cap, Montero cap, brimmed hat or helmet.
We’ve also taken the opportunity to completely redesign all the old ECW flags and replace them with much sharper and cleaner versions.
You can see all the details if you click here.
Work is already well underway on the rest of the range, with the Horse and Cuirassiers coming next. Watch this page for more updates.
Now I could end this piece here, but a few of you out there may know that the ECW is a period very close to my heart. So…
If you are at all familiar with our Polemos basing you will know that the ‘standard’ base size for a battalia of ECW Foot is 60mm x 30mm. This gives you units that look very much like these:
The truth is that you can actually use any size base for armies provided it maintains a 2:1 size ratio. This does mean, that you ‘can’ use
40mm x 20mm or go more adventurous perhaps move up to an 80mm x 40mm. Well, I go to thinking and decided to go a wee bit larger…
What you have here is 200mm by 100mm Polemos base housing a Battlia of ECW foot. The unit is drawn up in six ranks at a 2:1 ratio of pike to shot.
There are 120 musketeers, 56 pikemen, 4 Ensigns, 4 drummers, 2 Officers and 6 Sergeants.
The Musketeers are drawn up in 4 divisions and are in the process of giving fire by ranks. All of the musicians, NCOs etc are in their correct places. Ensigns in the second rank of the pike and drummers dispersed to the corners of the central pike division. None of this standing in front of the battalia waiting to shot of kebabbed in the back!
Try doing that in the bigger scales….
But these new figures are not all about the wonderful big pictures that you can create. They are all about getting the details right.
Here’s a close up picture of a single pikeman. Not many wargamers will know this but the drill postures for pikemen are all based with the right foot placed in advance of the left. This is the reverse for musketeers. Our pikemen not only have their feet placed correctly, but if you look at the right arm you will see that is holding the pike correctly with a bent arm wrapped round the pikestaff and cupping the butt of the pike with knuckles facing forward. These are two fundamentals that are inaccurately portrayed time and time again being in much larger castings. We get the small stuff right so that the big picture is built on firm foundations.
And here is the musketeer. Far from being the featureless ‘blob’ that some still seem to regard as the norm for 6mm figures, you will see that is a beautifully sculpted and finely detailed individual. Bandoliers, priming flask and even a coil of match are all there to be seen and painted.
We’ve been promising ‘something special’ for this range – I hope you’ll agree with us that we’ve given you just that.
