Monthly Archives: January 2018

More thoughts on PW Army Packs

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On the subject of Portable Wargame Army Packs…
Assuming these are starter sets, what do you feel is a good SP value to shoot for?
 
My initial thoughts are shooting for about 40 SP
 
Does this seem reasonable?
Too much?
Not enough?

Army Packs for The Portable Wargame

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A duplicate post from HistoriFigs website, for those of you not reading our news page…

Question for fans of Bob Cordery‘s The Portable Wargame… (Amazon link)

I’ve been thinking that our Classic (Scruby) 25mm figures are a very nice size for use with this game. As such, my thoughts have revolved around putting together some [25mm] Army Packs specifically for this game. The obvious choices are:

  • American Civil War
  • Franco-Prussian War
  • Crimean War
  • the African Colonial wars
The idea would be to make new molds (so we get crisp, clean castings) and package the figures in groups appropriate for use with The Portable Wargame. Target price would be as low as we could go and not loose money. For sure we should be able to do something under $40 USD shipped in the US (packs with larger cavalry forces might run slightly more). Even with international postage prices I think we can keep it pretty reasonable.
 
This should be do-able for some themes in 30mm and possibly (a more limited set) in 40mm and 54mm (at a higher price point).
 
What say you?
Amazon Links:

Possibly even some packs to go along with: When Empires Clash (Amazon Link) also by Bob Cordery. Selection not as wide, but some are do-able in 25mm and some in 15mm (Bloodaxe).

Recent Adventures in Painting…

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I just realized it has been a while since I made a Post here, more posts have been to the Facebook group…

Gotta be better about posting here and then pointing posts on Facebook to here.

Late November and most of December were a quiet time in the shop, so I took a bit of time to try and catch up on my painting backlog. Made a bunch of headway, but also started several new projects.

I’ve painted a bit of this and a bit of that. Highlights include:

  • Blasted Planets
    • Pachydon
    • Human Infantry in Greatcoats
    • New, project covering a Swords & Sorcery version of the Blasted Planets universe Blasted Planets 100 …
      • Orc Swordsmen
      • Orc Axe-men
      • Human Swordsmen
      • Dino Beasts
  • Colonial
    • 30mm Scruby Zulu
    • 40mm Scruby (Arabs)
    • 25/28mm Bloodaxe (misc.)
  • 15mm Hawaiians
    These will be re-molded as I go (likely completed in February)
  • Misc. 40K figures
  • 54mm Scruby American Civil War
  • Misc. Terrain pieces

Plenty more on the table right now, just in various stages of incompleteness…

Here are a few pictures (sorry, if they are a bit blurry – still having camera problems)


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