A bit of this, a bit of that...rebasing 2 stands of 1812 US Volunteers, trying to thaw the septic tank inflow....... just a bog standard ice storm day.
You know, sorting through some older, chunky, "pre-elegant shiny toy soldier" figures (18ish years old?), that sort of thing.
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| Danes converted from 40mm S&S ACW c2003. |
For the semi flats, I've decided to be sensible and just do 1 every few weeks so they don't disrupt things.
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Yeah, patriotc peasants, hard to hold 'em back once they been aroused.
An eclectic mix today, Ross. The 40mm S&S ACW figures look just like their smaller cousins in 28mm and they are some of my favorites.
ReplyDeleteA bit more than a decade ago I had one of those revelation/transformation sort of experience which has seen me go from only considering detailed sculps painted with shading and highlighting and maximum accuracy etc to my current simple sculpts simply painted and glossed. No logic involved!
DeleteIn the process of rebasing my 25/28mm War of 1812 collection. And I drew the "oil heater problems" card instead of septic tank. Nothing Danish doing here, but I did have a slice of sweet potato pie for Fat Tuesday. I suppose that counts in some confectionary sense...
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We just ignored it.
DeleteI kinda' like the older, chunky, pre-'elegant shiny toy soldier' look. Those Danes do look...they Danes, they....
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..okay, look. That's one mightily unimpressed look that cat always has over all this at the very top of this blogpage's Header banner.
He liked the simple shiny guys....
DeleteGreat looking figures today and a great variety too. I do like the 1812 volunteers , very interesting figures, can you tell me more about them? The flats semi flats are terrific.
ReplyDeleteA gift from John Bertoloni 9 years ago. Its all here in this 20 Feb 2012 blogpost..
DeleteThe 1812 Volunteers have great character: they look not unlike the troops in the Pollocks toy theatre Battle of Waterloo play and contemporary engravings, oozing period atmosphere in a way that more anatomically and uniformly accurate 'model soldiers' simply don't. I have often thought that wargames really should employ miniature troops in the style of illustrations of the period to recreate the look of the prints of battles that people of the time would have seen. The beauty of that approach for Napoleonics is one doesn't have to do shading or highlighting or be very careful about detail. I plan to follow it when I next raise some troops.
DeleteGood plan. I just say "Toy Soldier!"
DeleteGreat Danes! (Sorry, couldn't help m'self).
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DeleteA great variety today Ross! The allure of the semi-flats is hard to resist as I know too well! They do look great so far!
ReplyDeleteHopefully this will scratch that itch.
DeleteThese look great Ross. I really, really like those Danes—character-filled figures.
ReplyDeleteRegards, James