The Loose Association of Wargamers

Decided to take a break from the 18th Century Jacobites - and instead get some light relief by painting 56 x 18th Century rebellious colonists and some 18th Century civilians. and for some reason, I purchased some plastic 28mm ACW and ordered some Perry AWI stuff.

As a kid I had 54mm ACW Britains and Herald figures and I still have them after over 50 years together with some later Britains Detail figures.

Yesterday afternoon I spent a few hours putting as many figures together from the bits and pieces I have and realized I have enough for two ACW armies for Neil Thomas One Hour Wargame. Each army consists of 6 units and I will be using 6 infantry, 3 cavalry figures per unit. I also have 3 Britains 12Lb Napoleons plus gun crew.

I have made a cardboard base 6 inches by 2 1/2 and painted it green to go with the old toy soldier style and put together my first unit.



I am missing a few muskets and will make some replacements from plasticard.

My few old Herald figures date from the mid 60s and will need some re painting to make serviceable. The Britains Swoppits are in pretty good condition.

Fantastic! I've done something similar with my Deetail ACW. Swoppets were before my time sadly, they are much better figures. Those are in great condition, dont normally see them that good. When Britains re-released the Deetail range in the early 2000's I bought a few counter boxes full from my local model shop. Must get them out again soon. Love the idea of basing up x6 as a Neil Thomas rules unit.

I have now assembled my two 54mm ACW armies for Neil Thomas OHW using my old childhood figures.





The figures are a mixture of Britains Swoppet and Deetail together with a few Herald ones. The union cavalry are Deetail 7th cavalry figures. I have made the movement strays from artist board painted a suitable green and used white tack to hold the figures in place.

I plan to play a game tomorrow. Take the High Ground looks a good scenario to start with.

Wonderful looking figures, iconic, takes me back to the 70's.
Now wish I had bought several boxes of those when I saw them in a toy shop Ipswich at the start of the 1970's.


Willz.

First attempt at posting an image on here.....so here goes!! Haha

The current layout of my Early Imperial Roman force/Imaginations Ramonatatti, on a 2'x3' set of gaming boards

Some close-ups

Just finishing off another Legionary unit this evening and then a further 3 units and an Auxiliary unit, then that's the main Infantry force done for now.

Next onto finishing the cavalry and more Auxiliary archers....should be ready for Ayton in November

Fab work Jamie !