Saturday, May 29, 2021

A Quick Look Back

My first 54mm wargame collection was for the War of 1812, my second started as  1st Afghan War, but due to the difficulty of finding affordable 54mm Afghans in the mid 90's, drifted off into my first venture into "Imagi-Nations" set in the 1850's/60's on a large island with Zulu-like natives and colonies of British and Arab/Turkish types. The figures are a mix of  various homecast figures, mostly converted, inc Dutkin's Arabs and Sepoys, Castings Highlanders,  Mtd Guards officer and Zouaves,  PA Mamlukes and various  plastic figures, and some 90's Britain's. Buildings are foamcore inspired by The MajorGeneral's old website.Here's some of them in action on a small make shift table after I lost my wargames room for a few years.

Note the fellows in green, a mix of Britain's Napier's Rifles and Lil Army sepoys.
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
(Homecast from Castings moulds. )


Napier's again, seeing off some Albanian mercenaries



A shot of my old games room, probably in '99 or 2000.

Meanwhile, back on the painting desk, an Englishman and a Scottish Highlander are nearly dressed for Tel el Kebir.



6 comments:

  1. I do like looking at old wargames photos - so many good memories .

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  2. To my eternal regret I haven't got a single photo of my early games. It's a nice thing to look back on.

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    1. I have a score or so from the 20thC, usually rather grainy, but then that allows me to imagine the rest as truly grandiose and magnificent.

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  3. What company is meant by 'castings'?

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    1. Its a line of moulds that used to be sold by Reb Castings but now one of the ranges being being by The Dunken Company
      https://www.dunken.com/

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