Off to a good home

Turned out someone in my Book Club collects model kits.  I have a stockpile I thought I would be doing in my retirement, but that doesn't seem to hold the interest it once did. I want to be able to game with them I think is my issue.

You can see by the price on the Beaufighter and ME109 double how long I have had these.

I have never made an Academy kit.  It looked enticing, but I resisted. On or rather out it goes.

More Stuff Gone

This is actually a supplementary "passing on" of additional material to that which was let go as recorded in this post: 

https://onesidedminiaturewargamingdiscourse.blogspot.com/2024/03/letting-go.html

A few things, including the wonderful Airfix RHA set.

Can't remember the manufacturer.

It will come to me.

Airfix Washington's Army

Airfix Napoleonic cavalry

Airfix French Infantry

Note the odd experimental conversion.

Airfix French Artillery

Some Airfix British infantry and a few rogues

The orange wheelbarrow from the Airfix Waterloo farm Set.

Mamelukes that I tried to get my daughter interested in painting

Airfix Prussian Landwher

Airfix Old Guard

Scots Grey by... Esci?  Could be HAT or Revel maybe...

A simple Internet search confirms that the manufacturer was Esci.

I'm going to say that applies to the other unattributed figures.

Letting More Stuff Go

When someone said they were doing some WW1 in 1/72nd scale I knew I had a home for these chaps.

My attempt to convert some of the "new" Airfix French Foreign Legion to be Belgium's.

Same set used for early war French.

Some proper French infantry,

but oh dear, brittleness has struck!

My attempt to convert some Matchbox WW2 Germans to be WW1 late war

Airfix Germans.

The grenade thrower was one of my favourites.

Airfix British

plus a flipped German to show I even painted the underneath of the figures.

US Infantry.

The base on the left was for the rules I was using which have since been well and truly forgotten. 

WW1 French painted up for WW2, but I am sure they can be used for late WW1

if they don't crumble to bits in the meantime.

Left over Foreign Legion

Classic

These two where for my WW2 Alpini project since aborted in favour of 15mm for WW2.

A few more leftovers now going to a good home.

Letting Go

Two sayings spring to mind:

• Too much is not enough.
• SABLE - Stuff Accumulated Beyond Life Expectancy.

After religiously following the first bit of advice I am now trying to deal with the second bit.

It is hard to do, but by doing so I earn all important Brownie points with my partner: I've got to learn to let things go, well, a few things.

My Napoleonic focus is clearly 15mm (although I do have some 6mm).  The 6mm came from James and so it was excellent to be able to pass on to him this accumulation of 1/72nd Napoleonic figures, some of which I've had for decades, others only a few years.  Of course I can't just let things go, I had to photograph them and post them here.

But most importantly I had to find them a good home, and in a bit of serendipity I was sitting next to James Fisher in the movie theatre (The Three Musketeers - Milady) and was chatting beforehand.  He had been to Tactics and bought some 1/72nd figures and in the belief that more is better, I offered him some surplus figures I had.  Better still I was able to find them when I got home and drop them to him at the club that evening.  My partner even provided the bag to put them all in, thereby earning me an extra Brownie point (as it was a lovely Koko Black carry bag, not needed, but too nice to just throw out - plus the boxes fitted perfectly!)

C'est magnifique!

But they weren't ever going to be painted and based, 

never mind see the top of a table.

A dream.

Had ideas for some skirmish action,

as well as just much needed support units 

for those Napoleonic campaigns I was going to do in this scale.

This pack is really old.  

I found it in a toy shop and was amazed as it was just what I needed...

But obviously not.

Beautiful for the box art alone.

These were for the Quatre Bras scenario that I thought I would reproduce

 in 1/72nd having already done it already in 15mm (with plans underway for 6mm as well).

Again, for Quatre Bras.

I think I had two packs as they came as a mix of hussars and dragoons,

and I did complete one 12 figure unit.

Better still here is a blog post on them.

Officers were always in short supply, so this pack was a God send.

Excess.

But at least I had plenty of fun with them as can be seen 

here, here and here.

A mixed bag.

And a surprise.

Ye Olde Parthians

As mentioned in my previous post, once upon a time, back in the prehistoric 1970s, I commenced building a Parthian army.  Turns out I got as far as three cataphracts (Minifigs - all with repaired lances if my memory serves me well - paper clips providing the replacement) and four  horse archers (constructed from Airfix figures - top half Ancient Briton bowman, legs from US cavalry and horse from Napoleonic Cuirassiers).

My first attempt

Trying a different style.

I actually rather like these guys.

A lot of the tunic would be from plasticine!

In all cases I was going for the ultra flat basing style.

Ancient Britons for Basic Impetus

 So a friend has just reclaimed his teenage 25mm Ancients army and asked if I had anything to match it.  Simple answer was no, but then I thought, could my Airfix DBA army rise up to the occasion?

Well, not if it required full size bases.

But if I was to use single bases, I already had prepared for painting the two bases I was short.

DONE!

All I need to do is make up some movement sticks where 1H is 3cm.

Even better, I now see I can cover all options for Ancient Britons list.

But what about the Romans?