The standard two-decker on the right and my filed version on the left. The plastic is very hard so it took a lot of careful wok to get the hull reduced and more importantly, level!
I took delivery this morning of a whole pile of generic 18mm-ish hard plastic Napoleonic types - infantry, cavalry, artillery, a warship and two sizes of building - to add to the pile I picked up from Bob Cordery a few years back along with the ships from Mark Cordone. These are the same figures used in the Worthington Games Napoleon’s War series along with a US game called Viktory II (that is how it spelled for game purposes).
For the moment it is the ships that I am particularly interested in as I have an age of sail itch that is becoming more and more insistent. As mentioned in a previous blog entry the model is a stylised two-decker in full sail but minus a ‘spanker’ - the big sawn-off triangle sail at the rear of the ship. Well, I have a cunning plan to rectify this involving a certain well-known naval rules author and a willing 3D printer!
I was able to fashion a single deck warship by filing the lower hull - the plastic is very hard so it took some work - but am unsure about three-deckers. I will give that some thought.
Some suitably generic buildings - I have a dozen of each size which will give me enough for a couple of small towns/villages. They are easy enough to ‘pimp’ with the addition of walls etc.
The buildings are suitably generic and ‘Monopoly-esque’ and again, in that hard plastic. They will be very useful for a few ideas I have as I wanted something smaller than my old standby ‘Town in a Bag’ wooden buildings.
Horse, foot and guns. They are rather elegant models and again, suitably generic. The infantry are around 18mm tall.
The figures themselves are perfectly usable as they are and certainly for imagi-nations they are ideal, as Mark Cordone with his wonderful armies has shown. Something else to think about then (again!).
No comments:
Post a Comment