Little Lead Soldiers, Scruby, Lucky Toys, Giant, Airfix, China, Revell, Zvezda and many others, some of whom I have no idea where they came from.Note the explosions, an idea I've favoured for some time now.
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Old School Imagi-Nations Armies
A real mish mash here of lead and plastic, makers included are Garrison 25mm, 
Little Lead Soldiers, Scruby, Lucky Toys, Giant, Airfix, China, Revell, Zvezda and many others, some of whom I have no idea where they came from.
Note the explosions, an idea I've favoured for some time now.
Little Lead Soldiers, Scruby, Lucky Toys, Giant, Airfix, China, Revell, Zvezda and many others, some of whom I have no idea where they came from.Note the explosions, an idea I've favoured for some time now.
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As impressive as colorful! Hope we'll enjoy a detailed presentation of all these units.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the kind comments! I'll take some more pix of the figures soon, now that I'm in the mood.
DeleteA charming and colourful array, Doug! Definitely 'Old School': making the best use of every figure that you can get hold of! The Airfix figures are easily recognisable (having a few hundred of my own). My own practice has been to organise them in pairs of poses by front and rear rank: Standing firing and loading in my Imperial Army; and kneeling firing/advancing(?) in my Electoral. They look fine in line, bot so much in close columns, though.
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Ion
Hello again! I organize (if you can call it that) or rather paint my figures in groups of 6 bases. 6 bases of infantry - 18 foot figures or 12 figures plus a double base with a mounted commander, a flag bearer, musician, officer on foot and another figure. The horse is just 6 figures. It makes a piecemeal way to build Grantean style units, but it also makes small units for wargames as well. This 6 base per small unit idea comes from the Zvezda Age of Battles sets - the original ones - that had green plastic bases with a flag. As for figures I really favour the Airfix Washington's Army set, and the odd advancing figure. His musket often punches a commrade to his left in the face, so setting them up 3 per bace can be tricky. My bases are wooden dominios that I get from importers or Dollar Stores. The importer gives me a deal of 12 boxes for $9 when he has them in. Each box has 28 dominos so that's 84 infantry or a Charles Grant unit of Cavalry.
ReplyDeleteI noticed the dominoes as bases. I can see that they would have many virtues - the practical one of giving plastics figures a stable base and for the ease of picking up and putting down. It did seem to me an expensive way to go, but!
DeleteI have always rather liked most of the Washington's Army figures, though not so much the prone fellows except as a source of hats for other troops (mainly ESCI or Airfix Napoleonic cuirassiers with their helmets trimmed). The Airfix AWI British Grenadier (fur caps) set has far more 'wargameable' figures (6 each of 6 different poses), plus drummer, flag and 2 mounted officers - a much more economical pack from a wargamer's point of view. Trouble is: you don't need so many grenadiers!
Incidentally, the team riders of the Airfix Napoleonic RHA artillery I've long thought could be used to make up small units of light dragoons with the Tarleton helmet. I never actually made the move to do that - my figures being used for Euroopean Imagi-Nations - but the thing always struck me as feasible, given a supply of horses!
The dominos are readily available, consistent in size and they do give you a more steady base. I started out as most did with simple card bases, but I never really cared for them. I'm not sure whjere I got the idea for dominos from, but I like the look.
DeleteI use Washington's Army prone figures for tricornes,and the bodies as casualty markers. The firing figure is a bit of an oddity though.