Some light Osprey books reading as autumn arrives amid painting days, big and small:
Blog Crossposted from my Man Of TIN Blog Two:
Who doesn’t love a nice Star Fort? Huzzah!
Tag: 15mm figures
Flock of Ages, cleft by me …
A bit of 80s ‘flocking and basing’ or some ballast and flock nostalgia finds a new use …
ECW 15mm … Star Forts … Cavalry … Minifigs … Epic Battles Pike and Shotte ECW
https://manoftinblogtwo.wordpress.com/2023/08/25/flock-of-ages-cleft-by-me/
Crossposted from my Illustrated Man Of TIN Blog Two post, 25 August 2023
Loose ballast and flock donated by these unfinished Minifigs 15mm ECW Cavalry
For those about to flock, we salute you …
Sarissa Star Fort in 15mm, bag of flock … and cannons. Fire!
https://manoftinblogtwo.wordpress.com/2023/08/06/for-those-about-to-flock-we-salute-you/
Crossposted from my fully colour illustrated Man Of TIN Blog Two, 6 August 2023
Star Fort Designs Old and New
From French Troops in modern Mali to 17th and 20th century Ireland …
https://manoftinblogtwo.wordpress.com/2023/08/05/star-fort-designs-old-and-newk/
Crossposted from my Man Of TIN Two blog
Well Flock My Ravelins!
Four Ravelin gun emplacements by Sarissa put together and flocked, a quiet weekend.
Crossposted with images from my Man Of TIN Blog Two site at:
https://manoftinblogtwo.wordpress.com/2023/07/30/well-flock-my-ravelins/
Huzzah!
Work in Progress – All part of building up 15mm Warlord Games Pike and Shotte Epic Battles forces for the Civil War and extending them up to the Dutch Wars and 1690s.
Blog posted by Mark Man Of TIN, 29/30 July 2023
More 15mm ECW Warlord Games Pike and Shotte Epic Battles ten figure strips for 1667 and all that
First Redcoat pikemen figure strips painted
First Dutch Marines 1667 individual musketeer figures finished
https://manoftinblogtwo.wordpress.com/2023/06/11/dutch-blue-infantry-and-marines-1667-and-all-that/
First Dutch Marines musketeers and Redcoat musketeers ten figure strips finished
Slowly painting my way through this Push Of Pike Starter Set …
Links crossposted from my Man Of TIN Blog Two site, 17 June 2023
First ten figure strips painted Warlord Games Epic Battles ECW Pike and Shotte
First ten figure strips pike blocks and individual pikemen painted of these ECW 13mm to 15mm Epic Battles Pike and Shotte plastic figures from Warlord Games
More pictures here – Cross posted from my Man Of TIN Blog Two
Dutch Marines 1667 from Warlord Games Epic Battles Pike and Shotte 15mm ECW figures
Dutch Wars, anyone? Dutch landings at Sheerness?
Blue Jackets and Redcoats with big floppy hats?
https://manoftinblogtwo.wordpress.com/2023/06/11/dutch-blue-infantry-and-marines-1667-and-all-that/
I already have 15mm Peter Laing ECW figures, here compared, so what should I do with these individual musket armed figures from the Warlord Games Epic Battles Pike and Shotte ECW box?
Can I extend their redcoat use into the Interregnum and Restoration through to the Dutch Wars?
How they started out …
See the first Redcoats to be finished at:
I now have some clues or ideas on how to paint the Dutch Blue jacket forces or Marines in strips.
Buildings from ‘The Push Of Pike’ Starter Set
https://manoftinblogtwo.wordpress.com/2023/05/27/sarissa-15mm-ecw-buildings-finished
Crossposted from my Man Of TIN Blog Two, 3 June 2023
50th Anniversary of the first 15mm figures advertised by Peter Laing November 1972
Military Modelling November 1972
Read more about the birth of 15mm and Peter Laing figures here:
Blog cross-posted by Mark Man Of TIN blog, 1 November 2022
The benefits of 15mm scale explained to the ’little woman’ in your life? Some early Peter Laing adverts in Wargamers Newsletter 1970s
I have spent a blustery wet day today inside in the dry and warm, reading through the superb website of scanned Donald Featherstone’s Wargamers Newsletters.
I have been searching for Peter Laing adverts and reviews from the early 70s, looking at how the new scale and ranges of 15mm figures by the “industrious” Peter Laing rapidly emerged.
https://collectingpeterlaing15mmfigures.wordpress.com/some-peter-laing-adverts/
One of the oddest Peter Laing adverts so far was December 1973 typed advert (above) about the benefits of 15mm and the first six figure series or ranges totalling 100s of items that Peter Laing produced in his first year!
“If she * (the little woman – Mum – the Wife – the Girl Friend – or the better half!) complains that your army or collection is taking up too much room (or you are spending too much money) then Peter Laing’s figures could be the answer …”
Peter Laing 15mm Colonial figures (including bagpiper) – the unusual route to marital bliss?
I wonder what Mrs Laing – Wife – Better Half – etc thought of the advert?
These “Little Women” in Peter Laing’s life didn’t emerge for a few more years in the Late Victorian Parade Range (and probably ACW and Indian Mutiny Series).
By Christmas 1973, interest was growing in the new smaller scales of 15mm and 5 or 6mm. Minifigs has also by then launched a 15mm and 5mm Range.
In December 1973 I was still literally cutting my teeth at “Floor Games” level on larger plastic Airfix figures. Ten years later c. 1982/83 I would be buying my first Peter Laing ECW figures with my pocket money and paper round earnings.
This cataloguing and celebrating my Peter Laing figures (all now sadly out of production) is one of my ongoing 2022 projects and New Gaming Year’s Irresolutions, counting down towards the 50th anniversary of the first figures in October / November 2022.
Why do this? Pertly it’s because Peter Laing never produced an illustrated catalogue before the range vanished in the late 80s / early 90s when he retired. Now the moulds have sadly vanished.
Fellow Peter Laing collectors from the MeWe Peter Laing collectors circle have already started to contribute photos of figures or ranges I don’t have and sometimes figures I have never seen.
https://collectingpeterlaing15mmfigures.wordpress.com
The first advert October / November 1972 Military Modelling (Ian Dury collection)
Blog posted by Mark Man of TIN blog, 8th January 2022
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