What about me?

In the "no man left behind" tradition, this chap was missing from the previous post.

He's Minifigs PN9 Prussian Line Infantry Officer painted by me before time began when I was also obsessed with ultra flat basing.

Two skellies in the garden

Not something you really want to find and definitely not The Flowerpot Men.

I now have five of these buggers, sadly I don't know the brand.  I like their attitude.

Two Persians More

These two figures I gifted with the Persians that had come into my possession.

They date from the 1970s when all I could afford (and all that seemed available in Adelaide) were single metal figures.  This was also during my ultra thin basing phase and I painstakingly carved the figures off their bases.  What was I thinking?

Anyway, they are off to a good home now.

PB25 on A2

PB19

The Persians

I was going to title this post The Persian Gift or Off To A Good Home, but couldn't decide so I went with simple. 

This army was received from Peter Linacre as an add on to a purchase of an army that I am saving till Xmas. It just needs some spears straightened, a bit of touching up chipped paint and some minor repairs to a few figures and it's good to go.  

Best of all a good home has been found for them and they are off to York.

Potential Repurposing Of Some Old Figures

Before I got into 15mm Napoleonics and Napoleon's Battles I dabbled with 6mm and Empire, but before that it was 20mm Airix and a few 25mm metals that I first used for the Bruce Quarrie rules.  That collection of 20/25mm figures has been added to, but apart from a few outings for Shako and Songs of Blades and Heroes they have largely languished, based for Napoleon's Battles, but unlikely to ever take the field.

When I was setting up my latest Napoleon's Battles game for Corunna, Darren mentioned "Had I seen the Snappy Nappy rules?"  Putting thoughts of card games aside I said no.  Subsequently doing some research (and thanks to James from the ANF for his help in this) I found enough information to get interested.  Basically what I am after is a set of rules to give a quick simple, but high level, game of Napoleonics on a club night.

I borrowed Darren's copy of the rules (they seem very hard to find) and a read through had me inspired enough to look at figure requirements.  My 15mm collection could be used, but the Napoleon's Battles basing is quiet at odds with Snappy Nappy, particularly in relation to base depth.  With a bit of experience this might not be an issue.  However my 20/25mm collection, especially some figures I had based for Shako and Songs of Blades and Heroes, might just be perfect.

In going through my figures I found this unit:

 12BrLN in NB speak and in my collection as F22.

 They are actually castings from Prince August (503 is the mould) 

and there are three Minifigs: BN21 (standard bearer), BN 72 (officer) and BN74 (sergeant),
in there as well.

 A day later and they have been rebased to provide four stands for Snappy Nappy.

Which provides for two units, in column on the left and in line on the right.

As a stand is 2,000 men so a bit of suspension of disbelief is required,

but it means a large army can easily be provided from minimal figures.

Next is to try a practice game.