tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740249303160483312024-03-19T07:17:27.958+00:00Unfashionably ShinyThumbing its' nose at black undercoat and matte varnishDChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09872820354048836577noreply@blogger.comBlogger132125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174024930316048331.post-37790542186150375072018-12-23T22:16:00.001+00:002018-12-23T22:16:28.000+00:00Hot Reception<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Christmas is an anxious time if you're Hessian - but this year we're ready for you Mr Washington!DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09872820354048836577noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174024930316048331.post-56341270818634878422018-12-23T19:30:00.000+00:002018-12-23T19:30:14.811+00:00Santa's Little Helper<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09872820354048836577noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174024930316048331.post-62614031467212488032018-08-13T11:17:00.000+01:002018-08-13T11:17:13.732+01:00Injun Country<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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More ingenius conversions by a young Mr Mason (again these must be 30+ years old). I have a war party of 18 of these, all are different, and all conversions of two basic poses (see <a href="http://unfashionablyshiny.blogspot.com/2012/09/injuns.html" target="_blank">an earlier post</a> for the raw material).DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09872820354048836577noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174024930316048331.post-56831378100770720522018-08-05T17:24:00.002+01:002018-08-05T17:24:57.989+01:00Ouch!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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A couple of Doug Mason creations from 30 years ago - classic Mason animation.<br />
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<a href="http://amilitarygentleman.blogspot.com/2018/05/my-favourite-photograph-of-model.html" target="_blank">A recent post by John Ray</a> reminded me that i had meant to post these for ages... <br />
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Pictures of Erich Rohde's collection featured in various issues of Tradition and Miniature Warfare in the early 1970s; I didn't see them for another decade, but they, together with images of Phil Robinson's (mostly Hinchliffe) SYW collection, set the tone for what a SYW game should look like.<br />
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I know almost nothing about Rohde, but Hamburg based maker Uwe Lacina gets a brief mention in Garratt's 'World Encyclopaedia'.DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09872820354048836577noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174024930316048331.post-47193013668855530272018-05-06T17:53:00.001+01:002018-05-06T17:53:37.340+01:00It's Alive!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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So it turns out it wasn't dead - merely sleeping. Elite's SYW range wakes up with a new release of <a href="http://www.eliteminiatures.co.uk/syainfantry.html">Austrian infantry</a>.DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09872820354048836577noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174024930316048331.post-29087868708435831332018-01-27T16:57:00.001+00:002018-01-27T16:57:30.423+00:00The Navy's Here!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'd been meaning to add some naval gunners to my AWI collection since the 1980s and finally got round to it last year - the guns are Hinchliffe, gabions by Ironclad, and the Jack Tars are converted from mostly Hinchliffe bits (but win absolutely nothing if you can spot the interlopers from East Yorks).DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09872820354048836577noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174024930316048331.post-47852918569148367632017-10-24T17:52:00.003+01:002017-10-24T17:52:48.278+01:00Brant's Rangers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Various Hinchliffe conversions make up my version of this mixed loyalist and native unit.DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09872820354048836577noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174024930316048331.post-51167337127758114982016-12-24T23:29:00.000+00:002016-12-24T23:29:04.191+00:00Merry Ditfurth<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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What could say 'Christmas' more than a battalion of Hessians...?<br />
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The von Ditfurth fusilier regiment c. 1776 - standard Hinchliffe castings, originally raised by John Ray back in the early 1980s and repaired, re-flagged and re-based by me earlier this year.DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09872820354048836577noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174024930316048331.post-66381825063704253962016-09-23T16:49:00.000+01:002016-09-23T16:49:20.823+01:00More Mason Magic<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Armand Louis de Gontaut, Duc de Lauzun by the outrageously talented Doug Mason. Lauzun and his trumpeter are radical conversions (the original figure is cut down to a bare torso, and the uniform and details built back up from wire and soldier) of Gilder figures.<br />
<br />I recommend clicking on the photos to really appreciate the level of detail - the flowing pelisse, flapping sabertache, etc. create a real sense of movement and animation. The painting is pretty sharp too - no one does 'bling' better than DM.<br />
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Now all i need to do is create the Legion hussars - don't hold your breath.... <br />
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<br />DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09872820354048836577noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174024930316048331.post-35473036729998159832016-02-28T21:17:00.000+00:002016-02-28T21:17:05.807+00:00Cornwallis and Gromit<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cornwallis by Steve Hezzlewood, on a Gilder Hinchliffe horse, Gromits by Dixon.</td></tr>
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With the acquisition of a number of units from Frank Hinchliffe's old collection a couple of years ago i needed a few new command stands for the good guys...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Graves Simcoe converted from the Foremost Ney.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An idea shamelessly nicked from Phil Robinson.</td></tr>
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<br />DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09872820354048836577noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174024930316048331.post-27013749830875612492015-07-14T22:17:00.000+01:002015-07-14T22:19:36.482+01:00Zen and the Art of Figure Basing<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Forty year old Gilder 'specials' recently re-based.</td></tr>
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I have been inundated with requests for advice on how to do 'Gilderesque' basing (well..OK, only two, but that's major traffic by the standards of this blog), so, gentlemen - stand by your palette knives. Disclaimer first - a lot of people do this better than me, and you won't find any original ideas herein.<br />
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<b>Ingredients</b><br />
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<li>Sand (you don't want any grit or stones, i sieve mine through a tea strainer).</li>
<li>PVA (the good stuff like UniBond, don't waste your time with watery kids glue or Wilcos own brand).</li>
<li>Filler (either powder or ready mixed).</li>
<li>Paint (doh!).</li>
<li>Grit, small stones, cork chips, etc.</li>
<li>A coir broom head (or a model railway long grass type product if you're feeling flash).</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An all earth base seems to work for these engineers.</td></tr>
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<b><br />The Process</b><br />
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<li>Plant any long grass first. Ahead of time i chop clumps of bristles off the broom head and dunk one end in PVA, left for half an hour you then have a clump of grass ready to stick to your base.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> The wife finds it hilarious when i stick my fingers together, so i try to oblige by attaching the long grass clumps to the base with superglue.</i></span></li>
<li>Apply any patches of bare earth next. If using powder filler i'd recommend mixing your filler with brown paint and PVA, rather than water (less likely to chip, and if it does you won't get an nasty white spot glaring at you). These days i use Wilcos ready mixed 'knot a problem' brown wood filler which comes in a pleasing mid brown, and is dirt cheap. Apply the filler in a thin layer with a palette knife, sculpting tool, or similar, and leave plenty of texture - don't flatten it out.</li>
<li>Next place a few small stones into the filler before it dries; a wash of PVA is also a good idea to make sure they're not going to shift later. For some reason these stones look better on the earth areas than on the grass, but don't take my word for it....</li>
<li>Leave to set. I base coat the earth areas next, although you could leave this til later.</li>
<li>Apply a sand and PVA mix to the rest of the base - this is your (not long) grass. You want a fairly dry mix that resembles damp sand. Apply with your trusty blade and fluff it up a bit if it seems too flat. You may be able to save painting time later by adding a fairly bright grass green to the sand and glue mix.</li>
<li>Paint. Choice of colours is always a personal preference, although i'd always recommend erring on the side of lighter and brighter. For what it's worth my recipe is Humbrol Grass Green (matt 80) dry brushed with Pale Yellow (matt 81) for the sand/grass; a chocolate brown emulsion, drybrushed with Humbrol Sand (matt 63) with a further highlight of sand and white for the earth areas; and then sand, drybrushed with a sand/white mix for any stones. </li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dan Morgan is unimpressed - 'If it's Cowpens then my base should look frosty'.</td></tr>
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It can be hard to define exactly what 'looks right', but odd numbers of stones, clumps of grass, etc. always seem to look better than even (does nature do even numbers?), shorter (knee high?) 'long' grass seems to look better than 'long' long grass, and i wouldn't put areas of bare earth on every base you do....but then you may also want to try a few 'all earth' bases too.<br />
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So there we have it, i've managed to make a very simple process seem far too complicated....<br />
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And if in any doubt have a look at examples by someone who really knows what they are doing, such as <a href="http://amilitarygentleman.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">John Ray</a> , <a href="http://dougmasonfigures.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Doug Mason</a> or <a href="http://unfashionablyshiny.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Robinson" target="_blank">Phil Robinson</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I like consistency - so trees, buildings, etc. all get the same basing as the figures.</td></tr>
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<br />DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09872820354048836577noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174024930316048331.post-51763892322513376852015-07-04T20:45:00.000+01:002015-07-04T20:45:14.069+01:00Happy 4th July<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hearing that Benedict Arnold has opened a bar tab, the 2nd NH make a break for their local Wetherspoons.<br />
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The 17th Foot (originally in Frank Hinchliffe's collection) advance to enforce the licensing laws.<br /><br />
<br />DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09872820354048836577noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174024930316048331.post-7943305185713258502015-04-05T12:45:00.002+01:002015-04-05T12:45:43.919+01:00Stearns at HinchliffeFrom Mil Mod February 1973 the legendary Phil Stearns (the OSS, Penthouse and Mil Mod - beat that for a CV) pays a visit to Hinchliffe Models.<br />
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For a little more on Stearns see Shep Paine's <a href="http://www.boxdioramas.com/Stearns%20Gallery/" target="_blank">tribute.</a>DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09872820354048836577noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174024930316048331.post-5069331310574765982015-01-03T18:58:00.001+00:002015-01-03T18:58:50.262+00:00Bernard Lyall on Battleground NormandyBernard Lyall (son of Gavin, co-author of WW2 wargaming classic 'Operation Warboard', and participant - vs his father - in the Normandy episode of Battleground) has been in touch:
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<i>After the book was published </i>['Operation Warboard' A&C Black 1976] <i>, there was a certain amount of media interest, probably including much I'd have missed. My dad's career was going well and his minor fame would have provided an obvious hook for print, radio and TV producers. We did one other TV event, a slot on (I think) Pebble Mill at One, after Battleground, where we played a game in the background of the studio (using our own kit) and at some point the presenter wandered over for a five-minute interview. I remember being surprised at the hours of effort on our part - travelling there, setting up, playing at least some of a game - which went into such a small amount of airtime. After 30 years in TV, I'm much less surprised now. </i><br />
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<i> The book has recently been republished, by a chap called John Curry, who's reprinting a whole series of classic books on the subject - see link below. I re-shot the cover, based on the original hardback design, and wrote a foreword for it. </i><br />
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<i> <a href="http://www.wargaming.co/recreation/details/glwarboard.htm">http://www.wargaming.co/recreation/details/glwarboard.htm</a> </i><br />
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<i>Of the Battleground episode, I recall that the figures, vehicles and board had all been prepared for us </i>[by Peter Gilder of course]<i>, to a much higher standard than our own stuff. Our equipment (which is in the photos inside the book, and some of which still survives) was much simpler - two green-painted chipboard 4'x3' sheets, green painted polystyrene hills, and trees of green foam on cocktail-sticks. But then ours had to be widely adaptable for each new scenario. The rules were ours, of course (that would been much of the point of doing it, and besides I'd have been baffled by any others) as were the tools (graphs, dividers etc.) that we used. I turned up in a stripy shirt which I had to change, as the lines on it produced that curious 'moire' effect on the studio cameras. And it was all very hot and bright in our little pool of light, surrounded by mysterious figures and cameras moving around in the dark. </i><br />
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<i> I don't remember much about the game. We played a lot of generic, post D-Day, northern France scenarios. I think we were both more interested in grasping tactics than recreating specific events - and in any case, since our forces were only really at battalion level, we'd only have managed a small portion of a significant engagement. </i><br />
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<i>We weren't given any recording of the show, and wouldn't have been able to play it if we had.</i>
DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09872820354048836577noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174024930316048331.post-18941170600939455302014-12-28T11:56:00.001+00:002014-12-28T11:56:41.432+00:00Battleground on YouTubeSsssshhhhhhh....let's just keep <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po1pVjSOW2Q&list=PLdAPAly2sNIUdymRCXrz3gImY388My00J">this</a> to ourselves, OK?
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<p>The above are a sample of the British Legion dragoons Doug Mason created for me last year. Despite there being only 2 castings in the Hinchliffe range (an officer and trooper) Doug has created a unit of 24 figures where each is different. Of all the conversions i think the trooper with pistol and dangling sword is my favourite, and something of a Mason trademark. </p> <p>All in all another great example of what is possible with fairly basic raw material, if you have the imagination (and a soldering iron).</p>DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09872820354048836577noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174024930316048331.post-17974144004757563082014-04-20T11:54:00.000+01:002014-04-20T18:29:30.483+01:00Jager von Mason<br />
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<p>AWI Hessian Jager by Doug Mason. If you're familiar with the Hinchliffe range then you'll know that the Jager (AW31) is only available in a single pose (the rather static 'cocking rifle' pose as seen above in the lower picture, third figure from the right), so all of the variation you see above is the result of Doug's imagination and soldering iron. Great stuff!</p>DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09872820354048836577noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174024930316048331.post-27513314941223622502014-03-23T16:18:00.002+00:002014-03-23T16:20:41.092+00:00Gilder and Waterloo 1501965 was a big year for Napoleonic enthusiasts, none more so than a young Peter Gilder who proved to be a pivotal figure in two of our hobby's major commemorative events - the British Model Soldier Society Waterloo Convention, and Wargamers Newsletter's Military Festival. <br />
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First up two reports, from the BMSS periodical 'THE BULLETIN' (No 6 December 1965), on the Waterloo Convention (staged at the Rembrandt Hotel, London on 18th June), where PG starred in the final of the BMSS national Napoleonic wargame competition:<br />
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Next, also from THE BULLETIN (this time No 3 June 1965), Donald Featherstone's report on his Military Festival (staged on the 20th March at Chelsea Barracks), where PG contributed to a demonstration wargame of Waterloo itself:<br />
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It strikes me how quickly (within a couple of years of discovering the hobby) Gilder had become a major figure in British wargaming. Of course the hobby was much smaller then, but it is testament to his great enthusiasm and talent nevertheless (and getting on with Don Featherstone would have helped too!).DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09872820354048836577noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174024930316048331.post-71396563817135892372013-10-16T20:30:00.001+01:002013-10-16T20:30:27.782+01:00Battleground in the TV Times<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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An article from the TV Times previewing Battleground. Thanks to <a href="http://themetalmountain.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Roy Lowson</a> for sending it in.DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09872820354048836577noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174024930316048331.post-22483028226401797392013-10-14T16:57:00.000+01:002014-05-04T21:07:59.868+01:00My Hero 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Every chap of good taste wants his own miniature Banastre Tarleton, and i am no exception. Luckily the legend of paint brush and soldering iron that is <a href="http://dougmasonfigures.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Doug Mason</a> kindly agreed to create one for me. The basic figure is the Suren British Legion officer (armed with trademark pin sabre) mounted on a Hinchliffe horse (my favourite of the 'dramatic' Gilder horses) that he controls via wire reins (another Mason trademark).<br />
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Every sensible scouser turns up to a fight mob-handed, and our future MP for Liverpool is no exception - the British Legion cavalry are hot on his heels. These, and other DM creations, will feature as soon as i've based them up.<br />
<br />DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09872820354048836577noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174024930316048331.post-9147866989390567722013-10-08T11:50:00.002+01:002013-10-08T17:02:44.151+01:00'A Military Gentleman' now on general sale<br />
<a href="http://amilitarygentleman.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">John Ray's masterpiece</a> is now available to anyone who missed the pre-launch offer. In short: if you can afford it then buy it, you will not be disappointed.<br />
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The hobby has not seen the like of this book before, and won't again (unless perhaps John does another). John and his team have taken the journal of an officer who served in Europe and America, dramatised his story, and illustrated it with literally hundreds of plates, sketches and photographs of John's vast collection of 30mm bespoke figures, buildings, ships and terrain. You get land and naval battles, sieges, vignettes and civilian scenes. Every element of this work is superb, no corners have been cut. It's even physically impressive: a solid 'Troiani sized' (approx 12" by 9") hardback of over 300 pages. <br />
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The nearest comparison that comes to mind is Curt Johnson's 'Battles of the American Revolution' but it's a poor comparison - 'A Military Gentleman' blows Johnson out of the water and into the outer atmosphere.<br />
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