For those of you who don't know, these are all Miniature Figurines 5mm blocks from the mid 1970's which came in 2 deep or 3 deep for infantry, a single line of cavalry of various types and an unlimbered gun.
I have posted an AAR on my blog about the fictional Battle of Neustadt in 1813.
Hope you enjoy it.
MickS
Beautiful stuff, particularly the shot of the town of Neustadt with the very clear figures in the foreground.
Very nice!!
I really like the old school feel of this.
Nice report mate!
Thanks chaps. Glad you read it.
QuoteI really like the old school feel of this.
Me too. Reminds me of our Friday evening school wargames club back in the '70s with loads of Minifigs blocks hurtling round a couple of table tennis tables to the rather Anglo-centric homebrew rules that our history teacher had written. Copies not available to pupils - we had to rely on his verbal interpreations, which often developed in line with the game. Just because youd id that in Move 2,doesn't mean to say it's valid for Move 3 :'(
Reminds me of an incident at my school wargames club in the 70s when a pupil ordered his elephants to attack those pike. 'Are you sure?' I asked. 'Yes,' he replied, charging the elephants into his own pike. He is now the secretary of the club I belong to and I now defer to him.
I remember these little chaps well. A mate had loads of them - enough to refight Austerlitz on a fairly large scale. I wonder what happened to them?
Yours look great, Subedai. The little towns are ace, and your French can adopt ordre mixte and actually look the part. :-bd
Why is that everyone's painting is always better than mine? ...... ~X(
Seriously - quite nostalgic and I would imagine very rare. I also used to have these little metal blocks - was it Eagle Miniatures or something (not to be confused with Eagle Figures)? You used to get blocks in 2 ranks or 3, squares, etc. I cannot recall why I stopped buying them - probably because they were turning out to be poor value for money compared to the better looking Heroics & Ros and Irregular Miniatures figures - and that is probably why they are no longer sold. Are the staff figures H&R? I also recall seeing photographs of blocks made with matchsticks and, as one of the commentators alluded to on Subedal's blog, I vaguely recall that there was a certain type of plastic hair curler that served as lines of horse if you chopped it a certain way (quite naff really but worked well enough until you got something better).
Ah yes, the hair roller armies. I think Irregular 2mm did for them.
Thanks all for the comments.
Quote from: Hertsblue on 16 January 2015, 10:11:54 AM
I remember these little chaps well. A mate had loads of them - enough to refight Austerlitz on a fairly large scale. I wonder what happened to them?
Yours look great, Subedai. The little towns are ace, and your French can adopt ordre mixte and actually look the part. :-bd
In our day the five of us had enough to refight every Napoleonic battle at 1:1 except for Leipzig. We even had one chap who had the whole of the French Reserve Cavalry, mostly cuirassiers if memory serves. If that lot started moving it could seriously screw up your day!
The buildings are from cereal packet card with all the detail painted on, a drybrushing on the buff walls and reddish roofs then the lot was sealed with my brown magic wash.
If you see the painting by Simeon Fort of Friedland, he got the idea for his rendition of
l'ordre mixte formation from us. :D :D
Quote from: Westmarcher on 16 January 2015, 04:26:03 PM
Why is that everyone's painting is always better than mine? ...... ~X(
Seriously - quite nostalgic and I would imagine very rare. I also used to have these little metal blocks - was it Eagle Miniatures or something (not to be confused with Eagle Figures)? You used to get blocks in 2 ranks or 3, squares, etc. I cannot recall why I stopped buying them - probably because they were turning out to be poor value for money compared to the better looking Heroics & Ros and Irregular Miniatures figures - and that is probably why they are no longer sold. Are the staff figures H&R? I also recall seeing photographs of blocks made with matchsticks and, as one of the commentators alluded to on Subedal's blog, I vaguely recall that there was a certain type of plastic hair curler that served as lines of horse if you chopped it a certain way (quite naff really but worked well enough until you got something better).
Yes the staff are all H & R.
The chap you are talking about is 'curlerman' and he is still going strong. he is now into 6mm MDF figures which could be the next great 6mm thing.
He has an interesting blog at: http://flownlegions.blogspot.com.es/
Quote from: Subedai on 17 January 2015, 12:53:58 PM
The chap you are talking about is 'curlerman' and he is still going strong. he is now into 6mm MDF figures which could be the next great 6mm thing.
He has an interesting blog at: http://flownlegions.blogspot.com.es/
Fascinating development. Thanks for the "heads up." :)
Couldn't believe those 6mm figures were 3D - there's something wonderfully Trumptonish about them.
Quote from: Dour Puritan on 17 January 2015, 03:47:24 PM
Couldn't believe those 6mm figures were 3D - there's something wonderfully Trumptonish about them.
That's it! You know I was trying to think what they reminded me of.
I think I'll check him out at Vapnartak.
Quote from: Dour Puritan on 17 January 2015, 03:47:24 PM
Couldn't believe those 6mm figures were 3D - there's something wonderfully Trumptonish about them.
They remind me of the flats that were used back at the dawn of modern wargaming (er, sometime in the sixties, I think).
Derek Guyler - had amazing Ancient flats for wargaming.