- Painting my remaining plastic Seven Years War Spencer Smith figures with the aim of playing a few games from the book "Scenarios for Wargames".
- Painting my old Minifig Samurai figures and recent secondhand Minifig purchases (S Range I believe, but not sure).
The advantage of the SYW project is I will be adding to existing units from my French Indian War units and the troops will get to the tabletop quicker for a game. My aim is to create units with two stands of 10 figures and a command stand with a mounted officer, foot officer and flag bearer (something like the photo below). The existing French Indian War units are single bases of 10 figures.
Before painting my old Minifig Samurai I will have to strip off the old paint first and clean them up. I also have to figure out how to deal with the slight difference in the Minifig ranges. Both are 25mm, but one has a much more bulkier look.
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| Old figures and recent second hand purchase. |
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| Both ranges are 25mm |
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| One figure is much more bulky |
Right now on the painting table are a couple of Hinchliffe ECW hand-drawn powder carts.
Lovely to see these old samurai figures. I had them many moons ago and played with them using LWS Samurai rules. I look forward to seeing your painting of them.
ReplyDeleteI am looking forward to organising and painting them.
DeleteNice choices, SYW might give you the fastest route to a completed project.
ReplyDeleteI am leaning towards SYW.
DeleteI'd go the SYW route, as it's the quickest project to complete. Love the hand drawn powder carts, which I've never seen before.
ReplyDeleteI plan in incorporate the powder cards into the ECW rules. They are a nice set of figures.
DeleteI seem to also be getting into 'vintage' figures these days - just put the first coat of varnish on three 40-man ECW Hinchliffe foot units.
ReplyDeleteI find the level of detail on the older miniature ranges suit my preferred painting style.
DeleteI remember someone (possibly Donald Featherstone) suggested using slightly larger figures for elites / Guard Units.
ReplyDeleteThe hand-drawn carts are unusual and nice.
An interesting way of using larger figures.
DeleteOne of the guys I game with uses larger figures for commanders in both his Napoleonic and MAW armies. It looks a little to me but he enjoys it.
DeleteYou've already got a 7YW game to play with your FIW collection. I'd go with the Samurai, and get something new on the table. Just keep the bigger figures to their own bases, and it shouldn't be too much of a suspension of disbelief.
ReplyDeleteKeeping the figures seperate seems like the way to go. I am leaning towards the SYW, but do need to paint up a test group (or two) of Samurai.
DeleteSounds great. I like the sound of the Spencer Smiths always fancied having a go at painting some of them.
ReplyDeleteI find it a nice change not having to paint heaps of detail with Spencer Smiths.
DeleteHi Peter- Your going great guns on your Projects. I'd be tempted to go with your Spencer Smith figures with a view to finishing the Project before moving onto something else- just an idea...the Regiments look superb- well done. Regards. KEV.
ReplyDeleteThanks KEV. A quick project may be the way to go.
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