The little known British version of the American Camp Fire Girls (1925 British handbook photo)
Another enjoyable research ‘rabbit hole’ for my Scouting Wide Games for the Tabletop Project, in hobby terms let’s call it obscure uniform research and gaming scenarios for my DMZ demilitarised Project:
Crossposted from my Tabletop Scouting Wide Games Blog:
https://tabletopscoutingwidegames.wordpress.com/2022/04/19/british-camp-fire-girls-in-the-press-1920syy/
This will eventually make it onto the tabletop or garden in the form of gaming figure conversions to match my Girl Scouts, Guides, Boy Scouts Figures.
Blog crossposted by Mark Man Of TIN, 1970s Cub Scout (Bronze Arrow, retired) on 23 April 2022 – Shakespeare’s Birthday and St George’s Day. Be nice to Dragons!
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Hello I'm Mark Mr MIN, Man of TIN. Based in S.W. Britain, I'm a lifelong collector of "tiny men" and old toy soldiers, whether tin, lead or childhood vintage 1960s and 1970s plastic figures.
I randomly collect all scales and periods and "imagi-nations" as well as lead civilians, farm and zoo animals. I enjoy the paint possibilities of cheap poundstore plastic figures as much as the patina of vintage metal figures.
Befuddled by the maths of complex boardgames and wargames, I prefer the small scale skirmish simplicity of very early Donald Featherstone rules.
To relax, I usually play solo games, often using hex boards. Gaming takes second place to making or convert my own gaming figures from polymer clay (Fimo), home-cast metal figures of many scales or plastic paint conversions. I also collect and game with vintage Peter Laing 15mm metal figures, wishing like many others that I had bought more in the 1980s ...
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Great post. You have quite an in-depth knowledge base on the scouting/guide movement.
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Thanks. Each time I think this Scouting and Guiding lark is a weird tangent of a rabbit hole to go down, I then think that if this was obscure battlefield, regimental or uniform research, nobody would blink an eyelid. It’s good to get into “the feel” of the period gamed, especially if we pursue the personalised RPG side as well more in future.
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It also fits with my DMZ Demilitarised mood, thanks to three months of real and nasty Khaki Grunge warfare in Europe. No criticism implied of what anyone else is doing, that is their choice and how they spend their hobby / leisure time. I was working on Scouting Wide Games and Snowball fights, Splafiti, Splattack and Suffrafiti projects anyway.
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