What's on your workbench?

[Essex Boy]

They look splendid.

Is that one big base?

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[RMD]

They look great, did you say those were Old Glory? Love the Grenadier moustaches.

Ta! Yes, they're Old Glory 15s. Available from Timecast in the UK these days. These are the Austrian infantry models, which I think are the best of their SYW range.

[RMD]

They look splendid.

Is that one big base?

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Ta!

Yes, we realised many years ago, after playing numerous historical refights and a massive campaign, that there was little point in basing them on small bases when everybody spends their entre time fighting in line*... My late friend Doug then started basing all his units on single bases and played through the rest of the campaign like that and it worked a dream, speeding up play enormously.

* Yes, there were notable exceptions, such as Prussian grenadiers forming columns on the flanks to turn two lines into a huge 'square', so not everything is based on single bases.

[Essex Boy]

They look splendid.

Is that one big base?

E

Ta!

Yes, we realised many years ago, after playing numerous historical refights and a massive campaign, that there was little point in basing them on small bases when everybody spends their entre time fighting in line*... My late friend Doug then started basing all his units on single bases and played through the rest of the campaign like that and it worked a dream, speeding up play enormously.

* Yes, there were notable exceptions, such as Prussian grenadiers forming columns on the flanks to turn two lines into a huge 'square', so not everything is based on single bases.

Many thanks.

I like the idea and can see no 'down side', other than something like you describe. I look forward to the day my basing OCD will let me go down that road.

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[grizzlymc]

Just finishe priming 'urricanes and 'einkels for our Christmas game.

[Shahbahraz]

Adding PVA sand and undercoat to 1745 Jacobites, barricades, and wagons. This is going to be a challenging build. Loads of detail and loads of plaid.

[Buff Orpington]

Today will be minor corrections and painting bases on a dozen Westwind dwarves.

I initially wrote touching up dwarves but thought better of it.

[grizzlymc]

Buff, if touching up dwarves is part of your identity, there is no need to stay in the closet.

[Shahbahraz]

Rubicon 1/56 Comet. Just dry fitted at the moment, and doing some detailing work. Still stowage, tarps, tow-ropes, etc to be added, but coming along nicely. The white stuff is plastic putty, which I'm trying to use to get a roughcast texture on the armour and do the weld seams.





I'm planning to do it as 2nd Fife & Forfar Yeomanry, 29th Armoured Brigade February 1945. Just hunting down suitable decals and wondering how to model fir tree branches in this scale.

[Impecunious Hero]

Having a bash at 10mm figures; starting with that beginners’ favourite . . . Napoleonic Cavalry!