This is a cautionary tale familiar to most of you.
At Partizan several years ago I was admiring a war of Spanish Succession demo game. This was focused on the English attack across the stream at the battle of Ramillies, nice 28mm figures, good terrain, and a quiz question I knew the answer to! So I duly entered and went off round the rest of the show.
Come the afternoon, I went back to see if I'd got the answer right (the year of the battle - 1706) and was surprised to find I'd won the raffle for the prize, a battle pack of Front Rank figures.
Great, just what I needed, 24 28mm WSS figures when I've already got between 2000 - 3000 6mm figures of that period!
On asking the nice people on the Front Rank stand if I could have different pack and they allowed me to pick any battle pack. So, knowing my mate David had FIW figures in 28mm, I chose their British in campaign dress pack.
The next time I met up with David I offered him the figures, but the sneaky b****r said no, that I was to keep them so he'd have someone to play against when we found the right set of rules!!
They have spent the last few years forgotten in that embarrassing pile of lead we all hide from the wife.
Last year saw the release of Muskets and Tomahawks from Studio Tomahawks which seemed our kind of game. A few test skirmishes later and we were hooked, and the Brits were needed for the big multi player game we had planned for January. Queue frantic painting.....
The figures are typical Front Rank; chunky, well detailed with not much flash/ seams. Painted up well and I'm pleased with them.They are very versatile figures useable as regulars or light infantry.
So why the cautionary tale? Well you can't have an army of 24 figures can you? So the "free" figures have now cost me over 60 Indians, 21 Rangers, 36 French 80-100 trees, 2 buildings and plans for more. Hope you enjoyed the pictures, and yes I have rushed the varnishing, (anyone got some hints on tidying it up?).
Tim
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