The Loose Association of Wargamers

Jeremy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 27, 2020 7:33 am Gareth is very talented. His Japanese stuff is brilliant.

Yes and thankfully his departure into 6mm means that we can now tell our collections apart! His painting-style was always almost identical to mine. Funnily enough, he also built the Japanese castles I was talking about earlier (and painted a massive 15mm Samurai army for Doug)

Shahbahraz wrote: ↑Mon Oct 26, 2020 11:29 pm I know about the figures. I bought a whole load of their Goths to do Middle Frankish ages ago, and en masse, they can look pretty good. Individually, they have some pretty ropey moulds, and sometimes weak ankles, but at that price, you can toss a few casts away.

Those look ace! Quantity certainly does have a quality of its own.

And (whisper it.. prize-winning..) Under the inspired leadership of Saint Guntram, the combination of a bunch of hairy nutters on foot, plus a whole bunch of hairy nutters on horses (also presumed to be hairy) placed at a small competition at a convention back in Oz. http://aleadodyssey.blogspot.com/2015/0 ... -2015.html (Do not look if bothered by horrible tournament terrain.. ugghh!)

The strategy of piling forward at top speed, rolling high and leaving the slightly less hairy Gallo-Roman Provencal allies to look after a flank seemed to work. Not for the faint-hearted, but plenty of time to go shopping after each game.

I also tried shortcutting the painting effort by grabbing cheap enamel spray paint and doing all the figures in a variety of undercoats, reddish-brown, ochre, coffee, black and white. It worked well for bulk painting.

Shahbahraz wrote: ↑Tue Oct 27, 2020 11:11 am The strategy of piling forward at top speed,rolling high and leaving the slightly less hairy Gallo-Roman Provencal allies to look after a flank seemed to work.

I think I may have just found what, in my case, would be a pretty fundamental flaw in that plan......

I said that was the strategy, but all strategies have flaws...

and now I'm calling these guys finished.. another few deployment points and civilians and spares. More on the blog. They were nearly finished before, but to a standard I wasn't happy with, so I put them away, and only took them out and did lace etc today.

Nice work - a lot of people don't realise that blue-faced regiments were the exception to the reversed-colours rule and give them blue coats with red facings.

Very nice indeed!

BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: ↑Tue Oct 27, 2020 9:09 pm Nice work - a lot of people don't realise that blue-faced regiments were the exception to the reversed-colours rule and give them blue coats with red facings.

There were some curious exceptions, however. There are surviving blue drummers' coats for the KGL and Carmarthenshire Militia.

They’re very nice !