This is just one of those weeks when I can't seem to get charged up to work or to game so, I decided to paint. I love these Scuby ACW cavalry, and especially so when they formed my 2 Dragoon units for the Aroostock War Whatif game which appeared at Huzzah 2012.
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| A shot from my blog battle report of a test game of my 2012 Huzzah! convention scenario. In the foreground are the stars of this post in their 1840's glory days. |
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| And a shot of the redesigned game as played from my Huzzah 2012 blog post. (Blue Dragoons being off camera somewhere) |
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| Another view of the Huzzah game, stolen from Normans's Junkyard Planet blog which also has some pics of our joint Ango-French 16thC game. (and yes that hermit with the involuntary tonsure is me.) |
However, all things must end and the what-if Arroostock and Oregon Wars faded away and the Dragoons kept trying to keep up with the times as the games slipped into the 1870's and then to 1914. I was contemplating reviving their 1840's look but while they mulled around the back of my desk, it suddenly occured to me that with a headswap to a Tarleton helmet, and a repaint, they were perfect for the French Revolution. Out came razor saw, drill, glue and paints......
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| Scruby ACW cavalry in their 3rd role (apart from the trumpeter who is a new Merten plastic recruit). |
A squadron of the 11th Light Dragoons should be ready for Flanders in 1793-5 by the weekend.
Summer re-runs? Your lt.dragoons in tarleton will be perfect for Flanders.
ReplyDeleteYup, the programming goes to pot in the summer.
DeleteDoes feel a bit odd to be recruiting veterans of the US cavalry to serve in the British cavalry, the opposite was more common....
Ah, "involuntary tonsure" - I kind of like that description; unfortunately, I'm there, too.
ReplyDeleteI remember your R boats from other posts.
A friend of mine used to say that it was a sign that his brain was too busy fir hair to grow on it.
DeleteGood looking figures , I do like seeing old gaming photos of yore .
ReplyDeleteI agree with Tony on both counts.
DeleteAlan Tradgardland
>Out came razor saw, drill, glue and paints.....
ReplyDelete...It was at this precise moment that the easy-going, jaunty, carefree airiness of the horsemen's swagger came to an abrupt & sudden halt.
>A squadron of the 11th Light Dragoons should be ready for Flanders in 1793-5 by the weekend.
"Excellent show!" This reminds me that I defin'ly must get back to the Fr Rev, myself, which has been sadly neglected by me these, lo, 5+ years now(!).
Tabletop photos look great, btw.
"Vive les Ceramcoats!"
That drop-cloth has seen a lot of service as a table-cloth since its debut that year.
Delete"out came the razorsaw..." "Off with their heads" - it seems such an appropriate conversion...
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