It is often noted that the Six Flags parks are in need of a sprucing up, including general maintenance, paint and modernization of infrastructures. Our American flags are made in the U.S.A. So this unit of American militia stood on my bookcase unfinished for almost a year. Those figures came out earlier this year and so this unit contains a mix of lightly-armed settler types and more heavily equipped militia. This is a unit of militia that consists of Galloping Major F&IW figures. Other scenarios which feature units of loyalist militia are Camden (20 figures) and Hobkirk’s Hill (16 figures). The Perry figures are a mix of “northern” and “southern” packs. It uses a mix of Foundry and Perry figures, together with one figure from one Conquest Miniatures’ “settlers” packs (back row, second from left). There’s also a marching figure that is in another unit I’m just finishing off now. There is no standard bearer in the command packs, but that’s not a problem unless you feel you really must have a standard in every unit – most militia didn’t carry standard or decorative outdoor flags 28 x 40, I suspect. I had some feel for the periods they game together but couldn’t really decide on what to do.
It’s been very popular here in the UK – there’s always a VBCW game at shows, invariably in 25mm, and it’s supported by a mass of figures from various companies, many of which are very inventive (gun-toting clergymen, that sort of thing). The important thing to marketing, is to ensure customers notice you. When Walter Bolliger and Claude Mabillard formed Bolliger & Mabillard Consulting Engineers back in 1988, designing any amusement ride was the furthest thing on their minds. If I’d started work on this unit once all the figures had been released I’d probably have saved some of the kneeling and running figures back and put those on some special skirmish bases. I also had an eye on the Savannah scenario, which I’ve been working at on-and-off over the past couple of years – this requires a 20-figure unit of Tory militia. I painted most of the figures years ago (see here) but saved two back as I thought they would fit into larger militia units rather than act as skirmishers. I mentioned a couple of posts ago that I painted up some figures as presents for my two pals in Tauranga (a city on the east coast of North Island, where my in-laws live), Valleyboy (Kerry) and Chook (Ants).
Otherwise you could find yourself with flags that look good for week or two and then begin to fray or fade. That met my purposes because I wanted another 18-figure unit and the rather “Johny Reb” look of the grey and yellow coats seemed suitable for a Virginia regiment, given that I couldn’t find much information about what uniforms the 10th or 14th might have worn. There’s no doubt that forming your own militia unit and heading off to fight the Black Shirts, Anglican League or even the 1930s British regular army provides plenty of scope for imagination and creativity. So, and I appreciate I keep saying this, there will be more regular blogs posts over the next few weeks. Unless you can do this, your campaigns, along with the thousands of dollars invested in the campaign, will be wasted. I am not yet sure which project will get my attention first. So Let’s get started! It all started when the then historic icon in America started to be an item of popular culture as the years passed. I first started working on it in June last year, having picked up a couple of packs of “skirmishing settlers” at Salute.
They will last for years as you change banners for each season. That is, you have to think about how big you need the flag to be but at the same time consider whether the design you’re thinking off will work well when printed in the size of the flag. When the wind is blowing your flag will be on full display. Fringe can be used for display indoors or during parades. Because of its height, it can be seen easily and quickly by people no matter where you display this pole regardless of place. The pole is cast on and too small for GMB or inded any other commercial flags that I had. Street pole flags are printed vinyl banners that affix to lampposts. It was one of the series of books that featured Inspector George Gently as the main character, and unlike the BBC TV series (which is set in the North East of England) the stories are located in East Anglia (usually Norfolk). The set function takes a single value which is a set of flags and stores it in a global location (actually in the kernel, but good enough). The figures are easy to paint – the surface detail is crisp and accessible and the various straps are clearly set out.
