The 4th Foot as Airfix made them.
28th Foot as I converted the headgear.
These two units date from the late 1970s. In my collection these units have the codes F06 and F03. My notes reminded me that I have actually visited the 28th Foot's museum (that would have been in 1996) and also that I did the 4th Foot's light company in 2000. I really should take some more photos (and use them in a game or two).
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Nicely presented troops. I have found that Airfix figures do reward the effort spent on their presentation.
ReplyDeleteVery cool, classic figures, nicely painted too
ReplyDeleteI second the vote of confidence in the Facebook Group
ReplyDeleteGood to see these fellows again
Ian
Thanks for the comments everyone, much appreciated.
ReplyDeleteThese look great. Thank you for sharing. I'm in the process of painting my 1/72 (20mm) Airfix too. I'm having some difficulty in understanding the preferred basing sizes. Can you please tell me what rules you use? From what I can tell from gleeming internet forums, which isn't very clear, people either use 60mm x 20mm with a single line of four infantry figures or 40mm x 40mm with two lines of 2+2 figures. This makes it very tight income cases depending on the pose and little room for the stands in some case. I may have to go with 45mm wide. To get the true effect of line infantry some people reduce the base to 15 mm deep, Bruce Barry suggest 10mm per future but this is very cramped. Cavalry is 40 x 20mm per single mounted figure and either 40 or 60mm per artillery. Any recommendations would be most welcome.
ReplyDeleteThe foot are based on 30mm by 40mm and were used with Napoleon's Battles rules. However I am now just focussing on 15mm for that ruleset (and dabbling in 6mm). My 1/72nd scale figures I use for Shako or skirmish and have started basing them singles (15mm x 20mm), but it is very rare that I game with them. They are more likely to see action in skirmish games (Songs of Drums and Shakos) and being singles helps.
ReplyDeleteLately I've been looking at Snappy Nappy but using 1/72nd for those rules is just a fleeting thought.
I prefer figures closer together and find 1/72nd scale needs to be a bit tighter to look good although them some poses are a bit to active.
Use the Labels on my blog to look at Shako games and also HAT to see what I have done more recently with that brand of figures.
All the best.