An Origin Story

How my old 15mm French Rev collection became a new 40mm one.

Really, it was all Rob Dean's fault!  (See his  French Revolution Project blog post). This was back at the 'turn of the century'. Rob had introduced me to homecasting so I naturally went from commercial moulds to making my own masters and moulds. One of the earliest projects were some 'sans culottes' for his Scarlet Pimpernel skirmish games. 

The peasant figures, sculpted, cast, modified, and painted by me some 20 years ago.

Those were very entertaining games with each player having secret missions from smugglers, young officers seeking promotion,  a marching band gaining points for playing La Marseilles (out loud) to as many French units as possible (incidentally preventing that unit  from doing anything that turn), and so on.  Naturally, one player was the Scarlet Pimpernel helping a group of escaping emigres which would be disguised as one of the French or civilian units, while one player was a spymaster trying to identify and arrest the dastardly Englishman. 

Good memories. 

Rob's French band, based on the Meisterzinn moulds.

We started planning to get them out again for a larger Scarlet Pimpernal game at Huzzah in 2020 and I started painting up more figures but COVID struck and then schedules got tangled. 

Well, we'll just have to seek to field him here, or there, or somewhere.