The Loose Association of Wargamers

A petard, in 28mm.
Painted or unpainted, I don’t mind. Cash or trade, whatever.

A colleague of mine is leaving - the phrase “hoist with his own petard” is one of his particular favourite aphorisms - and I’d like to make him a little diorama.

Isn’t that nice?
Given that I’m usually such a git, and all.

Foundry do one with crew at 12 quid

https://www.wargamesfoundry.com/product ... etard-crew

Damn, I thought you were going to tell us his name was Pete Hard.

As well as the Foundry one, which is from an old range (and thus "true 25mm"), Warlord do one for £15, which is genuine 28mm and has 10 figures.

https://store.warlordgames.com/collecti ... ith-petard

Or there is this one from Redoubt, which is much less dramatic (no "knees bent, running about" types, just "English bedwetters"):-

http://www.redoubtenterprises.com/product/cwx-45/

The TAG, Bicorne, Perry and Empress ranges don't have petard teams (yet), and the Hinchliffe and Renegade ranges never did.

I'm sure I've read the correct word for a petard going off was "fart". Which may or may not be appropriate. Being farted on by your own petard would convey the tragicomic futility of war quite well, you'd think.

Foundry - very nice, bit small, only 3 figures in the pack that look like they’re actually accompanying the petard (the carriers and the flinching officer)

Redoubt - nice figures, better size for display, and you do get a full pack of guys who are going to set a petard, with fuzes and baulks and whatnot.
Thing is, Grubby own Redoubt now, and I haven’t had any response from them as to whether they’ve got the ECW range back in production yet.

Warlord - big, clean, detailed figures, but you only get the guys carrying the petard, all the rest in the pack are fighty chaps. Also, the petard carriers are... well, prancing.

Old Glory - small and underwhelming. And experience has shown that availability of the more ‘niche’ OG packs is unreliable.

If somebody just had one in the lead pile, I wouldn’t have had to weigh the pros and cons!

Stop making me look at ECW figures. This is my next project and I need to hold it off whilst I get some more SYW Russians knocked out.

Norm's the sort who turns up to an AA meeting with a good bottle of scotch.

That's empty.....

Redoubt set ordered... might get it once they go through the lock-up, unpack the crates, catalogue the molds, find the right one, and get round to casting it up.