Sometimes we get into a project because everyone else is doing it. We fully intend to complete the project, but circumstances get in the way and by the time they are sorted, everyone's pretty much moved on from the project. This type of thing is quite common in wargaming because there are so many worthwhile games, so many eclectic interests, and little time to do them all. Some projects never even get to gather dust on the shelf.
Quite a few of my local gaming group decided to do Regimental Fire & Fury (American Civil War)* using British maker Pendraken's excellent 10mm miniatures. While various people got full armies (brigades, really, at this scale), I thought I'd just try out the game and provide a bit of support with a single large infantry regiment. Although I really enjoyed painting the miniatures (10mm is a 'sweet-spot' between sculpting detail, scale and overall unit appearance at tabletop distance), the colour palette I chose did not seem right. So I stripped the minis with Dettol and re-undercoated them in preparation for a repainting. After many unrelated issues, time went by and the gaming group moved on. So I've decided to let the regiment go to a good owner.
*On later consideration too, I realised Fire & Fury is the wrong ruleset for my plan of just joining in as a junior team member of one side with a single unit: the shooting for instance is resolved by grouping the firepower of all units shooting at an enemy. Therefore I'd rarely have got the opportunity to roll the shooting dice myself, unless my single regiment was off alone on a flank or something.
But before they go, just a few last photos of the regiment's command elements (which I did not repaint).
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| Leading the charge (Pendraken miniatures). |
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| The regiment's Colonel. |
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