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Signalman
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An adaptation of 'Shako', which is a Napoleonic set. It included 18th Century rules, but I didn't like them, so adapted my own. We initially used it to quickly do large games for a campaign I was running and it turned into a very good set of rules for doing large historical refights. Shako is specifically designed for big battles with lots of figures and fast gameplay. Oddly enough, I prefer other rules for Napoleonics.
I haven't played it for over 20 years and was due to have a game tonight, but that got binned, so I'm hoping to have a game this side of Christmas and see if it works as well as I remember. There is also now a 2nd edition of Shako.
Stone the bloody crows!!! I assume that it’s a plastic kit, you’ll need shares in Wicks just to pay for the amount of paint you’ll need!
Me and I suspect a few others, would be very interested in seeing the kit as purchased. I’m struggling to imagine where you’d build it, you could always throw the car out of the garage I suppose!
Someone decided to pump the hydragas to eleven for that pic.
I once spent a long evening with a young lady and her female instructor re-re-hanging the exhaust on one of those between beers. The lady could bunny hop for England but I don't think she ever got a licence.
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SkippedOnce
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An adaptation of 'Shako', which is a Napoleonic set. It included 18th Century rules, but I didn't like them, so adapted my own. We initially used it to quickly do large games for a campaign I was running and it turned into a very good set of rules for doing large historical refights. Shako is specifically designed for big battles with lots of figures and fast gameplay. Oddly enough, I prefer other rules for Napoleonics.
I haven't played it for over 20 years and was due to have a game tonight, but that got binned, so I'm hoping to have a game this side of Christmas and see if it works as well as I remember. There is also now a 2nd edition of Shako.
Used 'Shako' which I thought had some pretty good mechanics, but the mob I played Napoleonics with were Empire. I've still not found a set of 7YW rules I'm happy with, so am in the long and laborious process of writing my own (seems a life-long project). Still, you can't beat 7YW for uniforms, which has always been part of the appeal of the period.
Simmerit
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I think it’s glass fibre - it’s in the shed at the minute. I’ll take some snaps tomorrow
Signalman
LE
Yeah, I was churning through my Napoleonic mountain during the first half of the year, but hit 'painter's block'. Then I had a game of Shako 2nd Edition with a mate (in between lockdowns), which was the Battle of Medellin 1809, where the Spanish army basically fought very much as an 18th Century army. Somewhat hilariously, as Cuesta I gave the Frogs a comprehensive shoeing...
It just reminded me of the cracking 18th Century games we had back in the 90s.So, for a break from all the tedious bold colours, facings, buttons, lace and shakos of Napoleonics, I decided to crack on with painting the ENTIRELY different bold colours, facings, buttons, lace and tricorns of the SYW...
This was one of mine from the 90s - the Battle of Lobositz 1756 (the bad photo quality is because it was scanned from a 1998 issue of Wargames Illustrated):
What? He's a fan of big heavy things. Stand fast @Scaley Albereto .
No doubt you'd be mentally figuring out the scrap value and how you'll get it home!
CrashTestDummy
MIA
I've gone all nautical and ordered a few ships. This morning the HMSQE got delivered to go with the Type 45 and Type 23 to make up the Strike Group.
Ahoy, shipmates!
Ahoy, shipmates!
SPROCKET321
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very nice, very modern. Why not start a page on it under builds so it doesn't get buried in here, this is such a fast turnaround page it'll be hard to keep up on your progress.
Salve nautis!
CrashTestDummy
MIA
That's my intention mate. The QE build won't take long, it's a resin kit with a bit of white metal and PE.
LARD
LE
OOoo my timbers have never ben so shivered -looking forward to the build.
This has just been posted on FB totally amazing.
flippin eck
SkippedOnce
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Kirkz
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Funny that as someone posted it on the internet links thread either yesterday or the day before.
I quit looking on there, just couldn’t keep up with the thread.
SkippedOnce
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It seems to be 'viral' in the social media sense of the word; showed the post above to Mrs S.O. a couple of minutes ago, to the response of "M'eh, saw that in my FB feed". Are we all unwittingly contributing to the
'I Love Woodworking' social media profile?
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