Australian Light Horse

[Wardy64]

Busy evening putting together more Aussie light horse troopers, great little figures but a tad fiddly putting the  torsos on the riders legs. Fingers covered in super glue time. Will spray undercoat them tomorrow, and start painting them at the weekend.

Dave & Ben

[Colonel Kilgore]

Which manufacturer's figures are you using, Dave?

Simon

[Wardy64]

Hi Simon
Have gone for Eureka  figures, good scale to match PP Turks. Have mounted, dismounted and horse holders. The mounted are two part so a little fiddly to put together based on a male/female join, but need drilling out on most torsos.

Dave

[pbeccas (Paul)]

Dave

Don't forget to get yourself a Square Bashing battalion worth of Anzac camel Corp from Eureka.  Sensational.

PB

[John Watson]

Martin, in your copious free time shouldn't you be doing some Gallipoli Anzacs for young Mr Ward?
John

[Wardy64]

Hi Paul

I think that they could be an addition once the LH are complete.

Dave

[Wardy64]

Thank you John, no one has called me young for decades. At home Ben just calls me the old git.

Dave

[martin goddard]

Great idea John!
I will put it in the appropriate drawer.

martin

[Colonel Kilgore]

That would be the circular filing cabinet in the corner of the sculpting studio, Martin...?

Simon

[Wardy64]

Looking at putting the three horsemen per 40x30 base and they are very clustered. Would it really matter if I used a bigger base size? I know I could drop to two per base but would prefer to stick with the three for the aesthetics.

Any views?

Dave & Ben

[Colonel Kilgore]

I guess it depends on how many of the larger bases you will need to be able to fit 3 battalions' worth into a standard 6" x 6" Square Bashing grid square?

To be off-set against the psychological advantage of lots of horsemen occupying a large frontage.

Decisions, decisions...

Simon

[Leslie BT]

Dave, you stick with three to a base, they make the cavalry look very impressive.

I'll have to find some pictures for you.

[martin goddard]

Yes, 3 figures do get a bit crowded but do look good in my opinion.
For my Serbians I used 2 per base and they looked fine.
You could use the cavalry base sideways and out the 3 figures in a row?


martin

[Wardy64]

Have decided to go for three to a base, but after playing around with base templates last night, decided to go for 50x30 bases which give plenty of room to fit the figures onto the bases. I know its outside the rules, but as they will probably only be played with by Ben and myself it doesn't really matter. Have added a couple of Minifigs command sets to the mix so that the standards can be shown. Now to the painting table this weekend.

Dave & Ben

[martin goddard]

Outrageous!


martin