The Ottoman army for the Napoleonic era, but that can partially be used for the pike and shot era.
The idea is to do a wargame campaign with this army against the Russians.
My long term project is the English Civil War/ 30Years War,pike&shot wargames.
When I started with the project, no ECW cavalry existed, so I made my own figures/conversions, also for making a Covenant army. Played a first test game a few months ago
Short term projects depend on Napoleonic Hat figures releases.
WWII is another project. Still have some Airfix figures from my youth.
Lack of room will restrict my project to this list, as those 54mm armies do take a lot of room in my garage.
So, what are your projects?
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@Dirk, thanks for your post. I think your 1/32 wargames are the first I ever saw in that scale. Those massive figures (compared to 1/72) are amazing looking in battle, I think they are most suitable for museum dioramas!
I have been doing 18 century . Got a nice Jacobite vs Brits(hanover) army going. Keen for the HaT Prussians and making my own German states and Austrians.
Thinking of India and have figures ready to convert.
There is aways someting on my table happenings .
Some examples on http://54mmmen.blogspot.com/
Hi
1/32nd Waterloo - keep trying to find figures in true 1/32nd - there is lot of variation though which can be irritating
Dave
1/32 WW2 skirmish, using - so far - vintahe Airfix figures and vintage Monogram tanks and vehicles.
I'd go for something else in 1/32 as long as it was easy to paint. Zulu Wars actually sounds quite interesting. The complex figures would be the Europeans but there would be few of them to do.
Hi Hatblogger,
Well in my point of view, 1/72 seems more suitable for big dioramas for museum, to create a more or less 1/1 view of a battlefield ;-)
No, it' true there aren't many 54mm wargamers, but know of a club(s) in Britain.
Most reactions are 54mm isn't suitable for wargames, but as I prove over and over again isn't based on any good reason.
@Dirk, that is true, except that the 1/72 figures are too small behind a glass case for details.
Now, a 1/32 dio would be a real eye-opener because the details would be so clear! Imagine a 1/32 Waterloo!
In The Toy Museum of Mechelen is a big Waterloo diorama in 1/72. 1/32 is suitable for detailed diorama's 10-20 figures, a particular scene.
What I like about wargames compared to a diorama is once the diorama is made, nothing happens any more, while with wargames, your nice painted figures come into action, over and over again, and that's a great feeling.
I started out with 1/32 guys so for me there is a certain sentimental attachment to that scale. I do enjoy the ability to set up literally thousands of troops on a table space that 1/72 scale affords me. For me, collecting both scales gives me the best of both worlds.
My wargame projects:
54mm ACW for use with Terrible Sharp Sword and 61-65 (8 man units)
1/35 ww2 skirmish games i.e. operation squad and Nuts!
One day napoleonic collection will be complete and need painting up - waiting on those HaT British Line and French Cuirassiers!!!!
Alex
Finishing Nap Prussians, awaiting landwehr. When do we think Bavarian Command might be released?
I have been painting up every army conceivable from 1760-1815, and plan on using them for Napoleonic battles ... but also for shifting alliance games. By that, I mean Austrians and various Germans versus Ottoman, with the possibility of using Scottish, English Russian or even French as mercenaries. I have no problem using Seven Years War mitre-cap infantry as grenadiers for almost any army east of the Rhine.
I am also making landscape and scenery and have been introduced to HirstArts blocks which have been a revelation. I plan on taking three companies (12 men each) of British soldiers and progressing them from skirmish to regimental battle to brigade or divional battle and then back to skirmish. The idea is to number each man and follow him through the sequence using the Toy Soldier Company's Harold's Rangers rules to determine if he is hit in the hand, arm, leg, etc. Soldiers will be given opportunities to do heroic deeds and win medals or die (in the skirmish phases). They will be wounded or killed or not in the larger battles by "lot," or by dicing to see who has been hit and how badly. The objective is to take them through the scenery and take pictures and write an account of it all, perhaps narrated from a farm fireside chat 30 years after.
I am using the Victrix Brits for the individual soldiers and will use HaT French as enemies.
In the Ottoman versus Central European project, I found that HaT Civil War Zouaves make very good Balkan or Algerian troops. I also am using AIP Zouaves and AIP fez-hatted Egyptians. Finding suitable Janissaries is impossible without conversion beyond my skills. AIP Arabs can also be pressed into service. I would love to hear how you are tackling that issue.
Oh ... and I am doing all of this in 1:32 scale. I had an army of ACW Airfix 20 mm once, but I refuse to paint anything that small again. The landscape I am building is in two foot panels that can be changed to a degree. I just have to lay out a number of them on my patio and move them to get at the soldiers. I am married to 1:32 scale for the duration and have purchased hundreds of Italieri and HaT soldiers to paint over the next decade. I use large regiments of 72 men (4 companies fusiliers, one light, i1 grenadier, 12 men each) plus officers, or about 85-90 figures.
One of my friends/war-gaming buddies uses real-size regiments of 1:32 scale ... 800 Cold Stream Guards is an impressive and majestic sight. He has 600,000 toy soldiers and has a professional painter on duty for 25 years, so his armies are truly majestic ... .
For my Ottomans I use 60mm figures (don't know which firm made them) the zouaves and of Hät and AIP, Reamsa Moors, Italeri Saracens, modified ACTA ECW artillery.
I use standard units(batalions) of 8 infantry figures, 4 for mounted. Part of the army is on ETS.
http://www.hat.com/Othr8/Donvil63P.html
http://www.hat.com/Othr8/Donvil64P.html
For the wargames, I use my own ruleset, which should be published soon by Caliverbooks.
With about 10 to 25 units on each side, we can play on a tabletennis table.
Where I do 1/80to 1/100 ratio, your frien seems to use 1/1 which must be indeed really impressive but not suitable for wargames.
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