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Post by pelo on Dec 22, 2021 20:29:29 GMT
Hi everybody,
Here are pictures, a bit blurry I'm afraid, of some WW1 Armies in Plastic miniatures painted. After putting aside an half baked Franco-Prussian War skirmish project, I started to paint with no clear goals some of the figures from the remaining pile of plastic, musing with a ACW project - I will post later on some pictures too - or a WW1 one. Two German landser, One "demoiselle au pompon rouge" a French fusilier-marin and two Russian soldiers.
The no availability of AIP boxes within the E.U and others distractions have put an end to it ... or maybe not (I've got quite a few collected in 1/35 but AIP are giants compared to them).
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Post by JohnY on Dec 22, 2021 21:45:34 GMT
Fantastic! And I had the same issue with AiP and 1/35. The 1/35 figures I purchased looked like toddler next to them!
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Post by pelo on Dec 22, 2021 22:10:12 GMT
Hi JohnY I totally agree!
Sadly the difficulties to get AIP boxes here in Spain made me switch to 1/35, it's more fiddly and fragile but easy to get.
And you can find some interesting stuff, machine guns, equipment, trucks tanks etc..
I've got already the two scales for Ww2 with the same issue and sometimes I keep on thinking this is
redundant... bargains get the best of my compulsive hoarding.
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Post by spiritofethandune on Dec 22, 2021 22:22:06 GMT
Alberto,
I intend to do WW1 at some point. I will use the Great War board game (from the Command and Colours stable) on an expanded hex mat. Units are 4-5 figures each which means a few boxes of AIP or similar will suffice.
Cheers
Anthony
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pelo
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Post by pelo on Dec 22, 2021 22:34:38 GMT
Anthony,
That's an interesting option! Thanks for sharing it.
I've the game but not the minis and I thought to use 1/72 plastic soldiers
But you give some food for thought.
Cheers
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Post by spiritofethandune on Dec 23, 2021 9:44:45 GMT
Alberto,
One of the joys of grid-based wargaming is that 54mm figures no longer look too large for a small playing area. I like to use Memoir 44 as an example, in which the tanks, infantry and artillery are all out of scale but no one minds because it's a boardgame and we make allowances for the aesthetics. I find that once you throw down a gridded mat on the table the same thing happens-large figures suddenly look right (even with smaller scale vehicles and buildings) because the brain (well, my brain anyway!) sees it as a particularly grand version of a boardgame (whatever rules one is using).
Best wishes
Anthony
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Post by gonefishing on Dec 23, 2021 15:44:53 GMT
Those turned out really well, Pelo. And I completely agree with what Anthony says above: the eye (or my eye) quickly adjusts to the scale problem and gets on with enjoying how lovely the figures and table looks; after all, a lot of successful games like Risk, etc., have figures straddling peninsulas or whole nations and no one seems to mind. Keep up the great work!
Daryl
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pelo
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Post by pelo on Dec 24, 2021 15:15:00 GMT
Many thanks to all for your nice comments.
Interesting inputs,both are right, I guess that if the game development is dynamic and catch you the scale isn't so important.
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Post by aducknamedjoe on Dec 26, 2021 6:54:24 GMT
Hi JohnY I totally agree! Sadly the difficulties to get AIP boxes here in Spain made me switch to 1/35, it's more fiddly and fragile but easy to get. And you can find some interesting stuff, machine guns, equipment, trucks tanks etc.. I've got already the two scales for Ww2 with the same issue and sometimes I keep on thinking this is redundant... bargains get the best of my compulsive hoarding. I didn't realize AIP was hard to get in the Eurozone. Sounds like a business opportunity for any enterprising forum members... |
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