Outdoor Gaming - Painted or Unpainted?

Ok I'll bite. I have 6 of these roughly 40mm factory painted plastic knights. (English made like most of my soldiers, Charbens's maybe? one of the 'C' companies I found out a few years ago and have forgotten again.) Anyway.....  5 belonged to my brother, 1 was mine, a Christmas present c1960. They drifted off to be played with by various kids then nephew then into storage and eventually back to me!  When I started building early 16thC wargame armies around the turn of the century, they were just about perfect for gensdarmes, maybe a shade smaller than my light cavalry but they certainly had experience.

I converted one of them into my French general and another into his standard bearer and they have served well these past 20 years, even being part of the participation wargame that won Rob Dean and I a "Best Event in Convention" award at Cold Wars 2005!  Now that is Heroic Service!



and his last appearance in battle: August 2001 leading the French against an Imperial force durin the early 16thC.