I know what you’re thinking:
“Say WHAAAAAAAAAT!?” I am, if nothing else, a sucker for a good deal… Woodrow’s War Store
had a sale last summer and these – and all the other Hät 28mm plastics were on
for crazy low prices… I think they were $7 a box… I convinced Amanda to pick me
up a bunch for my birthday (this year!) and that’s why I’s at 724 28mm Figures
Acquired this year already – 12 boxes of 32 plastic figures… French… Prussians…
Bavarians…
I’d originally intended these
for Napoleonic
Wargaming by Neil Thomas – and that is still the plan, for the most
part – but I have also since picked up Song
of Drums and Shakos and so I thought I’d paint a handful of these up
to try that out. I have a few individually based British
Riflemen and Highlanders (though the latter need to be painted
still…)
(Remember: click on the pictures
for a bigger version):
28mm plastic French Napoleonic
Chasseurs from Hät.
There is so much wrong with
that… plastic… Napoleonic… at least it isn’t 15mm!
Here’s one of them with two
other 28mm Napoleonic infantrymen I have painted up – on the left is a figure
from Wargames Foundry,
and the on the right is an old Minifigs rifleman. The Hät figures are definitely a bit on the slighter side...
I have enough for a skirmish
now!
Finished up eight, a hundred
more arrive… Woodrow’s War
Store is actually having another blow out sale – so I ordered a shedload
of Mantic Games
fantasy stuff for the kids and… well.. since I was ordering stuff for them… I
picked up a few packs of Warlord games stuff (which also is on sale – much of
it 50% off – and a pack of French Napoleonic Voltiguers – I got the Chasseurs
and Carabiniers in the last order, but they were out of the volitguers at the
time… that pack along is 48 figures!?)
Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:
Back to our regularly scheduled programming of A
Song of Blades and Heroes fantasy miniature skirmishing! (though at
some point I might have a go at Song
of Drums and Shakos - if I can find anyone I can convince to play!?)
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Tim - your painting skills really make those HaT guys look good. On the gaming table, I think they look fine next to the Foundry guys. Amazing amount you've amassed too!
ReplyDeleteCheers Dean!
DeleteThose are my my feelings, exactly - when you hold two figures up to one another and inspect them closely you can see all sorts of differences... but when there's a couple dozen (or better yet, a couple HUNDRED) mixed together on the tabletop - no one will notice the difference (especially if the basing is reasonably well done and consistent!)