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Nifara posted:I've just picked up the Perry's ACW battle box to split with a friend to play Sharp Practice with. I'm going to be playing as the union, and I'm wondering about how to paint them up. Dark skin tones can be easily painted by applying a regular flesh tone base coat and then applying a couple of dark brown washes over that until you're happy with the result. I've used Citadel Colour washes, specifically their Devlan Mud or Agrax Earthshade washes to accomplish this. It works really well, and as you're using washes the coats will dry darker in the recesses of the face, creating natural low and highlights as the light undercoat shows through. The officers are a matter of personal choice, but I don't think painting them to reflect the actual makeup of a regiment like the 54th Mass. is a terrible sin that you need to feel bad about-- that's the way the actual regiments were staffed. It's not like you're perpetuating the Lost Cause myth. Fearless fucked around with this message at 10:50 on Jan 18, 2018 |
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Endman posted:Cloth dyeing was an imprecise art before very recent times, so even if the red was cheap, I can’t imagine it would have ever been very consistent. This. Also, there was significant variation in muskets at the time too-- the British Army was supplied by a shitload of small contractors building arms, and this is well before the standardization of parts so you can see some pretty wild differences from gun to gun even within the same model. This is a pretty big point of contention in re-enacting circles too.
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JcDent posted:I'd be worried about losing the flint, yeah. Or it continually getting caught on things, tearing clothes and skin. Class Warcraft posted:I've never handled a muzzle loader before but I imagine you would never load it except immediately before firing since once you've packed everything down the barrel you wouldn't have any way of retrieving it except discharging your musket. Black powder and its fouling is hygroscopic, meaning it tends to absorb moisture from the air. This translates to increasing unreliability in high humidity and rust as well. This can be cleared by discharging the firearm (if the powder and priming charge are still dry enough to do so) but it can also be dealt with by using a bullet puller on a ramrod (essentially, a screw that digs into a musket ball and extracts it) to remove the bullet or ball from the barrel and then dump out the powder and proceed with cleaning out any powder residue.
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Nov 18, 2019 02:23
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I've drilled into a finger more times than I can count with a pin vise, but never once with a rotary tool. I think it is because I tend to exercise caution with powered tools, rather than modelling with wild abandon.
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Nov 20, 2019 22:50
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Precisely how Murat sat on a horse with balls as huge as his were is a fact that has been lost to history.
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JcDent posted:Did the French Chauchat use the open magazine? I thought it was one of the things that made the US version such a shitshow. The US version was also greatly complicated by the fact that the ergonomics of the gun were poorly suited to the significantly more powerful .30-06 cartridge, plus the conversion itself being badly executed as memory serves. There's a video series on YouTube that has side-by-side comparisons of most of the "common" Great War LMGs or equivalents, and two versions of the Chauchat are put through their paces. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVgkwQTo2n4 (The Lewis Gun kicks all kinds of rear end) Fearless fucked around with this message at 13:10 on Jan 14, 2020 |
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Jan 14, 2020 13:06
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Reminds me of an old-school Warhammer infantry tar pit. Big blocks of troops are lovely to see, but a right bastard to paint.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I'm the opposite, I loving love the Perry Zulu War brits, but in their Home Service look Fort Henry, I presume? Regardless, Sniders are fun on a bun: 
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(and full disclosure, I got paid to prance around as one of these guys in that exact kit for tourists, just with a shako instead of a helmet and carrying a Snider-Enfield, so I have a special fondness for them)
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I recently won a big job lot of miniatures in a local auction that included what appears to be most of a 15mm Napoleonic French army. I'd guess the age of the miniatures as probably being from the late 70s or early 80s based off of all the old GW and Ral Partha historicals that were included (I have over a hundred of the early Perry sculpted Dark Ages and Medieval GW miniatures from the same auction). The way they are based is not readily familiar to me and I was wondering if it stands out to anyone else? I am by no means a historical wargames expert, so I make no great claims to knowledge here.  There are several boxes like the ones pictured, different types of infantry, artillery, cavalry and even what appear to be allied Danish and Bavarian detachments as well. Also mixed in are what appear to be a ton of 6mm ACW minis and other armies, including a solid lead cavalry fort. Pics if folks want to see 'em. Fearless fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Apr 30, 2022 |
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Alright. You asked for it... First up are the very much non-historicals, some GW Warmaster Carrion and GW Battlefleet Gothic Ork escorts:    And now the historicals: 28mm Natal Native Infantry (another lot that I did not win presumably had more British soldiers in it from the second Anglo-Zulu War):  28mm Mahdist War British:  28mm Egyptian Infantry:  28mm carts, cannons and draft animals (yes, these are metal and pretty hefty):  What I suspect are some 1/72 metal 18th century gun crews-- I found more elsewhere later on and combined them in this box with four cannons that seem to match them as well:  A mix of 28mm Victorian French, British and African people on camels:  More of the aforementioned gun crews:  A mix of miniatures here in a mix of scales. 28mm British Victorian troops, a 28mm Ral Partha Byzantine general minus his horse, and some smaller scale German marines.  This one was full of 1/72 and smaller scale artillery (including a gatling minus its carriage, the four larger guns seem to be the same scale as those gunners so they live with them now), a mix of 6mm ACW infantry and cavalry and other odds and ends:  This was a fun box. It is full of a bunch of very old Citadel historicals, some of which might be some of the earliest professional sculpts from the Perry Twins, some Ral Partha Greeks, Japanese and a bunch of barbarians from an unknown maker. Some of the Ral Partha Greeks are sculpted with tiny little 1/72 scale peckers:  Leonidas the Two-Speared Spartan NWS:  This box was labelled "10 horses," and let me tell you folks, it absolutely delivered. My thinking is that most of them are associated with artillery or perhaps the cartage from earlier:  These are some old RAFM Seven Years War Indigenous American/Canadian warriors:  A box of 1/72 "plastic people" that look to me like the kinds of bulk, low detailed humans that you use for adding people to architectural models (I used to build these years ago), or for detailing a model railroad layout. This is one of two boxes that had plastic in it, literally everything else was metal.  This box was labelled "Muslims" but I suspect they're actually Afghan tribesmen that were probably meant to be matched with some of the British soldiers in the various boxes.  Here is a box of four different models in substantial numbers, all of which are early Perry sculpts for Citadel:  The aforementioned four:  And a broader photo of the variety of all the Citadel stuff that I have detected. In all, I have probably just north of 110 different vintage Citadel 28mm historicals:  The lead fort, seems to be 6mm and probably goes with the ACW figures and the terrain included elsewhere. There are wall sections, towers, a gate house and interior buildings too:  Some distinctly WW2 looking bunkers, but also a bunch of lead hills and barricades:  More 6mm terrain, mostly little tents and barricades/gabions:  And some 28mm Ral Partha Varangian Guards:  And now the Napoleonics:          So it looks to me like I have a functional 15mm Napoleonic French army, right down to Napoleon himself and a generic Marshal (but I am going to imagine it's Davout).
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Aside from the GW stuff, which is only from the late 90s, everything in there was from the late 70s or very early 80s. And yes, when I found them, I did remark that there is lead in them thar hills.
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:is it actually lead or is it pewter? lead seems insane, even for the 70s lol It is way, way too soft to be pewter or white metal. I wouldn't be shocked if there is some tin or antimony in the metal to improve flow-out in the moulds, but almost all of these are extremely soft.
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Don't forget the horses pulling guns and the other horses pulling guns, but slower.
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Guest2553 posted:I did a term's worth of postgrad assignments with a sleeping newborn strapped to my chest, you can probably do some nerd stuff under the guide of "bonding" and "giving your wife a break". My best friend did a bunch of painting with his newborn son strapped to his chest. It's certainly doable though he recommends a splash guard of some sort to protect wee heads from errant paint and glue.
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Tias posted:The only battle of rour I have the issue of white dwarf with that battle report from when i was a kid. One of the best I can remember reading.
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Cessna's splendid in depth posts on the miseries and inefficiencies of German uniforms are routinely some of the most fascinating posts in the milhist thread and are always worth a read.
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So when do we see the triarii disappear or absorbed? It seems to me that they're gone before the augustan period
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The breech mechanisms on a variety of artillery systems will devour fingers or even entire hands or arms of unwary gunners as well. Training can help mitigate this, but all it takes is a moment of laxity...
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For historical ships, I'd be tempted to seal the model in a transparent resin to protect the rigging and other delicate bits but I recognize doing this probably just creates a bunch of other problems with having to sand and polish the resin blocks your miniatures are in for maximum transparency, and also creating some kind of vacuum system to pull air bubbles out of the resin ahead of each pour so as to not get bubbles caught in the rigging.
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Cessna posted:Yeah. "Well you see when I got started it was this or heroin..."
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Cessna posted:I think it's going to depend on where you are talking about. If you're looking at that era in North America forts are probably going to look like this: A lot of forts are even just going to be blockhouses without the perimeter wall-- the outskirts of Halifax during a similar period would have been a collection of blockhouses, and British defences elsewhere in Nova Scotia (and elsewhere besides) are going to be similar unless it's a very established and strategic settlement.
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StashAugustine posted:Now I just need to figure out how many jomsvikings I'm gonna need for Saga. Wish they had a few more daneaxe guys Probably at least double what you intended initially
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