Seans redressing his British figures.

[sukhe_bator (Neil)]

Nice bright targets for the Beja to snipe at!
The Victorian British army were never the quickest to catch on to practical innovations... you have to look to the Navy for that!
I'm with Sean, variety being the Lice of Spife an all...

Neil

[martin goddard]

I think Sean is doing it to cause upset and strife for show attendees?
When Sean did his 15mm Towton (obviously the wrong figure size ) , some chap had to sit down and phone home such was the upset caused.

I suggest Sean has a charity box at the end of his table at shows.

Gamers have to put in 50p each time for the opportunity to bore the players with stating the bleedin' obvious.
A further 50p to give details about their own project which has nothing to do with the game being played?


Should make £30?

martin

[John in York]

One of my wargaming friends is well known for the games he puts on at various shows.
One of his games is a complete Alamo set up.
He told me that someone once complained that the cactii were the wrong type for the area !!!

[martin goddard]

There's 50p in the charity box John.


martin

[Sean Clark]

Martin,

That Towton game will live on in infamy. The £30 would be reinvested in more figures  painted in the wrong colours in the wrong scale 🙂

John,

I painted  some Russian buildings by Hovels for a friend at the club. He used them in a huge Borodino  ge with around 3,000 28mm figures on the table.

Another member of the club wandered over, sniffed a bit and then told us that the thatch on the buildings was the wrong colour 🤣😆

[Smiley Miley 66]

At our big Gold beach game we put on throughout At various shows 2019. Someone said the numbers had to be wrong on the landing craft ? Being in the 2000's was surely wrong ? There couldn't be that many there !
I then pointed out to him this was one of the beaches of Gold beach zone and there was 4 other landing areas. So how many Landing Craft ? Plus the first wave alone on one beach nearly 40 landing craft should've been used times that by5 plus.
Plus we had actually got the numbers from a book and other source's that backed up our numbering system.
Some people !
Miles

[sukhe_bator (Neil)]

In the Railway Modelling fraternity I have heard these kinda folk referred to as 'rivet counters'.
In a WW1 Aerial game I played, someone complained my Albatri had the wrong fin shapes. I replied by showing him a quotation stating that DV's and DVa's often had supply issues so the riggers often slapped DIII rudders on as a quick fix if they got too shot up to be patched. If I recall the reverse was often true and OAW produced DIII Albatri had DV shaped rudder shapes as well.
Same issues with Fokker DVIIs - 'that's the wrong type' someone once said - 'the engine cowling's wrong'. I pointed out that the 'variants' were nothing of the sort, just riggers taking tin openers to the aluminium cowls at different places in an effort to better ventilate them to prevent the incendiary rounds cooking off above the engine housings...

[Leslie BT]

Doing a very quick search on Google you could have any colour Sean.

[Sean Clark]

Cheers Les.

I'm very happy with my choice to change to red coats.

The grey uniform is nice. And of course, I could add in a unit of the Post Office Rifles in blue coats!

[Leman (Andy)]

I have only ever played one Sudan game and the enemy were Egyptians, not British. They were all very old men as they had originally fought in the Crimea in blue uniforms and had been repurposed into white.

My response to wargame show know-alls is, "....and where pray is your display game so that I can check that all your figures etc. are correct..............Oh, you couldn't be bothered to put one on. Well done for your positive contribution to this show!"

[sukhe_bator (Neil)]

The blue uniforms presumably hearkened back to the days of French influence in the region... the grey to Prussian etc. Smaller world armies tended to follow the military fashions of Europe prevalent at the time, the gifts of various military training missions and good old army surplus...
My Qajar army has battalions of new order troops in Green, Blue and Red uniforms from Russian, French and British training missions invited by Abbas Mirza.
I agree with the 'put up or shut up' sentiment...

Neil

[Big Mike]

Plenty of good rebuttals here. I like "were you actually there?.."
Frankly most history is written after the event.
Mike

[Colonel Kilgore]

....
Frankly most history is written after the event.
Mike

Mike,
I'd venture that all history is written after the event 
Simon

[sukhe_bator (Neil)]

Except Prehistory of course - since History hadn't been invented then! 

[Colonel Kilgore]

Neil, you've made my head hurt with that one...

Simon