Periods you always wanted to do.....

[ochoin]

....but probably never will.

I guess like many of you, I have several. There are all sorts of reasons, I suspect: non-availability of figures, finances, painting skill needed (Samurai!!).

For me, a stand-out one is the Spanish Civil War. Never attempted because I already do WW2 & it just seems too close to give up storage space & gaming time for.

What makes this decision hard is posts like this:

http://bennosfiguresforum.com/viewtopic ... 27#p252527

All 20mm, my scale, too.

Your "lost" period?

donald

[levied troop]

Zulu Wars.
Obviously like everyone else I have formative memories of Zulu! and always fancied doing it. Actually bought some figures but it was around the time we were doing the Mad Mahdi and I’d done enough wild native types. Sold ‘em. Now I can’t really face painting 500 Zulus - and they’d have to be 28mm.

Threads like this really don’t help though:
https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=120639.0

[grizzlymc]

Zulu wars
Allenby and Mesopotamia
Boer War
Crimea
Egypt with the Corsican upstart
Ottomans V Persians
Both Afghan Wars
Mutiny
18th C India
The Great Franco Italian war of 1930
And the ones of 1935 and 1938
18th C Naval
Gran Chaco - land and air
Burma Wars
Both Sudans
Malaya and Burma 1941-2
WWI Naval, all the ships
The America-Japan wars of 1920, 1925, 1930, 1935
The German America war in the Philippines at the beginning of the 20th C
Great War 1880.

[FreddBloggs]

Bonepart in Italy and Massena in Switzerland.

1809 campaigns.

Crecy to Poitiers.

Italian wars of the 1500s

France vs spain in the tyw.

The world aflame 1868.

Romes vs gauls, britons, germans, carthage, sassanids, parthians

Siege of rhodes and malta with the knights of St John

Austria vs Ottomans 1680 to 1730.

[grizzlymc]

See, once you do Ottomans and Persians, some Austrians and Russians give you all sorts of interesting permutations.

[Purple]

28mm pointy sticks

20mm Romans vs Gaul

28mm ECW

To be fair I'd enjoy most periods if I could just be given all the stuff and then it was taken away again when if finished with it.
Like a wargames project library

[grizzlymc]

All you need is a 100 room palace and a dozen scantily clad Cambodian ladies to paint the figures.

I think that all Cambodian girls are born with the nack of the perfect blow job.

[Count Belisarius]

Great Northern War....

[grizzlymc]

Cambodian girls aren't good at snow.

[goat major]

28mm pointy sticks

but you are doing 28mm pointy sticks !